TV Guide Last Week

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A guide to game shows broadcast in the UK and Ireland for the seven days beginning 23 February 2008

Schedules are subject to change.

Highlights this week:

Eurosong 2008 (RTE1, 7pm and 9.40 Saturday)

Ray D'Arcy hosts the show from University Concert Hall Limerick. Results at 9.40, when we'll find out if turkeys really do vote for Ireland.

Happy Birthday, Brucie (BBC1, 6.35 Sunday)

An 80th birthday celebration for Bruce Forsyth, hosted by Tess Daly. We would give more details, but the BBC Press Office is keeping mum about the show.

Brain-Jitsu (BBC2, 7.30am weekdays)

Hei! Trainee compete in brain challenge to access Table of Supreme Focus. There, trainee move ball using only power of mind! Hei! Who move ball first?! Bet bet bet!!!

Wipeout (Challenge, 11am and 2pm weekdays)

Ah! The return of Paul Daniels.

Brainbox Challenge (BBC2, 6.30pm weekdays)

Clive Anderson hosts a brain training quiz in which contestants battle to prove themselves in games of memory, language, visual, numerical, and spatial skills. Who will have the night's highest Krypton Fac... oh.

Masterchef (BBC2, 8.30 Monday and Tuesday, 8pm Wednesday and Thursday)

The final week.

Bingolotto: A Commercial Presentation (Virgin1 and Challenge, 7pm Friday)

Joe Pasquale and Suzanne Shaw offer prizes, bargains, and cheap guests in an hour of bingo-based entertainment. Or: it's all balls. Take your pick.

Can i Gymru (S4C, 8.00 and 10.05 Friday and BBC Radio Cymru, 8pm Friday)

The annual St. David's Day contest is put forward a day. Full live coverage from Port Talbot on S4C with commentary from Magi Dodd and guests on Radio Cymru's C2.

Saturday 23 February

0410VIR1 Takeshi's Castle x2Also 1000.
0515 C4 Countdown
0600VIR1 The Krypton Factor x2
0700VIR1 Fort Boyard
0800VIR1 Gladiators
0900VIR1 Bullseye x2
0940DAVE A Question of Sport x2Also 1940.
0945ITV Dancing on IceLast week's edition.
0945TG4 Survivor - The Cook Islands New!
1030CBBC Clutter NuttersAlso 1400.
1050BBC2 Best of FriendsAlso CBBC at 1130.
1100Rad5 Fighting Talk
1200DAVE Whose Line Is It Anyway? x2
1228Rad4 The News Quiz
1300 C4 Age of Love
1300CBBC Raven
1330CBBC Suspect
1333RWal Extra Time Quiz New!
1335BBC2 EggheadsScotland only.
1500C5US Whose Line Is It Anyway? x2Also 1700, 1800.
1529TV5M Questions pour un Champion
1530CITV Eliminator New!Also 1700.
1600CITV Jungle Run New!Also 1730.
1610 C4 Deal or No Deal
1630TV3 Pop Idle US
1715S4C Deal or No Deal x2
1725RTE1 You're a Star Plus
1800ITV Harry Hill's TV Burp
18005LIF World's Strongest Man Super Series x3 New!
1900RTE1 Eurosong 2008 Special
1930ITV Saturday Night TakeawayAlso TV3.
2000TKSP The Talksport Football Quiz
2010RTE1 Winning Streak
2020DAVE School's Out
2035S4C Codi CanuAlso S4CD.
2045ITV Duel
2100BBC2 Have I Got Old News For YouAlistair McGowan, Fren Britton, Alan Duncan.
2100DAVE QI Night Special
2240TV5M Pékin Express
2300Rad4 The Garden Quiz

Sunday 24

0410VIR1 Takeshi's Castle x2Also 1000.
0515 C4 Countdown
0600VIR1 The Krypton Factor x2
0700VIR1 Fort Boyard
0740DAVE A Question of Sport x2
0800VIR1 Gladiators
0830BBC2 Raven
0900BBC2 Hider in the House
0900TOON SkatoonyAlso 1930.
0900VIR1 Bullseye x2
0930Mor4 Scrapheap Challenge x3
1204Rad4 Just a Minute
1235 E4 Big Brother USAThe hint's in the title.
1250 C4 Vanity LairThis one's crept up on us: it's a contest to find the most attractive applicant, and hosted by Alexa Chung.
1300CBBC Raven
1330CBBC Suspect
1400S4CD Pen Campau x2
14005LIF World's Strongest Man x6 SpecialThe entire series in an afternoon.
1500C5US Whose Line is it Anyway? x2
1500CITV Jungle Run New!Also 1630.
1525Mor4 Come Dine With Me x5
1530CITV Eliminator New!Also 1700.
1825ITV Dancing on IceAlso 2030 and TV3.
1830RTE1 You're a StarAlso 2030.
1835BBC1 Happy Birthday, Brucie Special
1900LIV So You Think You Can Dance
1900STYL Bargain Hunt x2
1930S4C Codi CanuAlso S4CD.
1930BBC4 Going For a Song Special1970s antiques quiz presented by Max Robertson from Breamore House in Hampshire, with experts Arthur Negus and Ian Harris, and guests Julian Bream and Caroline Stacey.
2000DAVE Whose Line Is It Anyway? x2
2030TG4 Glas Vegas
2100DAVE QI Night Special
2200BBC7 The News Quiz
2220BBC4 The Story of Light Entertainment SpecialAll-round entertainers, such as Brucie.

Weekdays

0410VIR1 Takeshi's Castle x2Also 0700.
0600VIR1 MillionaireAlso 1200, 1700.
0730BBC2 Brain-Jitsu New!Hei! Trainee compete in brain challenge to access Table of Supreme Focus. There, trainee move ball using only power of mind! Hei! Who move ball first?! Bet bet bet!!!
0800VIR1 Take It or Leave It
0900Mor4 Deal or No DealAlso lunchtime, 1805.
0930CBBC Best of Friends
0945TV5M Des Chiffres et des Lettres
0955CBBC Clutter Nutters New!
1015TV5M Tout le Monde Veut Prendre sa Place
1100CBBC Beat the Boss
1100DAVE Whose Line Is It Anyway? x2Also 1500.
1200GOLD Celebrity Master Chef New!
1215BBC1 Bargain Hunt
1300C5US Whose Line Is It Anyway? x2
1325S4C Deal or No Deal
1410S4C Countdown
1455 C4 Come Dine With Me
1525 C4 CountdownJohn Inverdale (Mo-Tu); Rick Wakeman (We-Fr). Also More4 after midnight, and early mornings Mo, Th, Fr.
1529TV5M Questions pour un Champion
1530BBC1 RavenAs seen in the CBBC channel last month, and reviewed in the next Week.
1615 C4 Deal or No DealAlso More4 1805.
1625TG4 Bog StopA table game for children.
1630BBC2 Ready Steady Cook
1700ITV Golden BallsUTV 1500 (yep, pushed back by the remarkable appeal of Alan Titchmarsh), STV 1630.
1715BBC1 The Weakest Link
1730CITV Jungle Run
1800BBC2 EggheadsScotland: not Th.
1830BBC2 Brainbox New!
2030BBC2 MasterchefFinal week. We, Th 2000; not Fr.

Monday 25

1330Rad4 The Garden Quiz(8/11)
1635CBBC Beat the Boss
1830Rad4 Just a Minute(9/12) This show's billings seem to bear no resemblence to who actually turns up, so let's say this is Kenneth Williams, Willie Rushton, Bob Monkhouse, and Hattie Jacques.
1900BBC3 Dragons' DenInventions this week include a ball in the loo, an online bingo game, and a device for removing irritating pink stains from the corner of television broadcasts.
1930BBC2 Mastermind(27/31) Bobby Charlton, Roman Republic to 43BC, Wilfrid Owen, The Day Today.
2000BBC2 University Challenge(30/31) SF2: Magdalen Oxford v Sheffield.
2000STV Postcode Challenge
2100DAVE HIGNFY
2140DAVE QI
2200S4CD Codi Canu
2220DAVE Mock the Week
2300DAVE Buzzcocks
2300Rad4 Quote... Unquote

Tuesday 26

1610BBC1 Best of Friends
1635CBBC Trapped!
1830S4C Pen CampauAlso Digidol.
2000ITV Millionaire
2000 E4 Big Brother US
2200BBC2 Mock the Week AgainNot NI, 2W.
2300DAVE They Think It's All Over

Wednesday 27

1330Rad4 Quote... Unquote
1715CBBC Stake Out
1729TV5M Pékin Express
2000BBC2 MasterchefMoving half-an-hour earlier for the penultimate show.
2000LIV So You Think You Can Dance
2000ESPT Strongest Man
2000TG4 Glas Vegas
2300DAVE QI

Thursday 28

1605BBC1 Best of Friends
1830S4C Pen CampauAlso Digidol.
2000BBC2 MasterchefThe Final.
2000ITV2 Pop Idle US
2000 E4 Big Brother US x2
2100BBC2 That Mitchell and Webb Look
2100DAVE Dragons' Den
2230BBC7 Radio Active SpecialThe Gigantaquiz, an alarmingly accurate take-off of Ultra Quiz.
2250DAVE HIGNFY

Friday 29

1230BBC7 Nobody Expects the Spanish InquisitionAlso 1930.
1540BBC1 Basil's Game Show
1715CBBC Stake Out
1830Rad4 The News Quiz(8/8) Justin Edwards, Mark Steel, Andy Hamilton, Phill Jupitus.
1900VIR1 Bingolotto: A Commercial Presentation New!
2000S4C Can i Gymru 2008 Special Commentary on Radio Cymru's C2 starts at the same time.
2030BBC1 A Question of Sport
2100ITV2 Pop Idle US
2200BBC2 QIEngland and Wales (analogue) only.
2205S4C Can i Gymru 2008 Special Further coverage on S4C. Radio Cymru continues its coverage throughout the evening.
2200 C4 Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding DongS4C 2335.
2300DAVE Mock the Week

Challenge?

Saturday

0000Fear Factor
0100Gambling
0300Take Your Pick x2
0400Family Fortunes x2
0500Family CatchphraseTo 0530.
0700Don't Try This at Home
0800Gladiators
0900The Crystal Maze
1000Wheel of Fortune x3
1130Supermarket Sweep
1300Millionaire x2
1500Take Your Pick x3
1630Catchphrase x3
1800Bullseye x3 New!
1930Family Fortunes x3
2100Distraction x2
2200Fear Factor
2300Takeshi Extreme x2

Sunday

0000Millionaire
0100Gambling
0300Catchphrase x2
0400Take Your Pick x3To 0530.

Then as Saturday.

Monday

0000Millionaire
0100Gambling
0300Catchphrase x2
0400Take Your Pick x3To 0530.
0700Fort Boyard
0800The Crystal Maze
0900Wheel of Fortune x2
1000Take Your Pick x2
1100Wipeout x2 New!Paul Daniels
1200Family Fortunes x2
1300Britain's Worst Driver x2 New!
1400Wipeout x2 New!
1500Catchphrase x2
1600Wheel of Fortune x2
1700Takeshi x2
1800The Crystal Maze
1900Britain's Worst Driver x2
2000Family Fortunes x2
2100Millionaire New!
2200Celeb Millionaire
23008 out of 10 Cats
2330Shooting Stars

Tuesday - Wednesday

0000Fear Factor
0100Gambling
0300Take Your Pick x2
0400Family Fortunes x2
0500Family CatchphraseTo 0530.

Then as Monday.

Thursday

As Tuesday except:

1300Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver x2Also 1900

Friday

As Tuesday except:

1300Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver
1900Bingolotto: A Commercial PresentationAs Virgin1.

Channel abbreviations

BBC1BBC1 (Network unless otherwise noted)
BBC2BBC2 (Network unless otherwise noted)
2W BBC2 Wales digital service
BBC3BBC3
BBC4BBC4
BBC7BBC7 (Radio)
BOOMBoomerang
BRVOBravo
C5 Five
CBBCCBBC
CBBSCbeebies
CLASClassic FM (Radio)
DAVEDave
DISCDiscovery
DISNDisney Channel
DRAMUKTV Drama
DRT Discovery Real Time
DSCIDiscovery Science
ESPTEurosport
ESP2Eurosport 2
GOLDUKTV Gold
HLMKHallmark
ITV ITV (Network unless otherwise noted)
ITV2ITV2
ITV3ITV3
ITV4ITV4
LIV UK Living TV
LIV2UK Living TV 2
MOR4More 4
NICKNickelodeon
PCM1Paramount Comedy 1
PCM2Paramount Comedy 2
Rad1BBC Radio 1
Rad2BBC Radio 2
Rad3BBC Radio 3
Rad4BBC Radio 4
Rad5BBC Radio 5
RSctBBC Radio Scotland
RUlsBBC Radio Ulster
RWalBBC Radio Wales
RTE1RTE1 (Irish)
RTE2RTE2 (Irish)
RTR1RTE Radio 1 (Irish)
S4C S4C (analogue)
S4CDS4C Digidol
SCI Sci-Fi
SKY3Sky Thrcc
STV STV, and Border Scotland (ITV in Scotland)
TLKSTalk Sport (radio)
TV3 TV3 (Irish)
TV5MTV5 Monde (Europe)
TG4 TG 4 (Irish)
UTV Ulster Television (ITV in Northern Ireland)
VIR1Virgin 1
VIRGVirgin Radio

See also

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