TV Guide 2024-03-30

Awooga! It's the grand final of Gladiators (BBC1, Sat). Contenders, ready! It's also the grand final of Mastermind (BBC2, Mon). Round the Island Quiz takes up a new spot on Radio 4, now at teatime on Sunday.

Great cooks unite on Masterchef Goes Large (BBC1, from Mon), and Aldi's Next Big Thing (C4, Tue). Have I Got News for You returns (BBC1, Fri).

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Contents 1 Saturday 30 March 1.1 Primetime 1.2 Bonus feature 2 Sunday 31 March - Easter Sunday 3 Weekday Daytimes 4 Monday 1 April - Easter Monday 5 Tuesday 2 April 6 Wednesday 3 April 7 Thursday 4 April 8 Friday 5 April 9 Sign language interpretation 10 Challenge 10.1 Saturday 10.2 Sunday 10.3 Monday 10.4 Tuesday - Wednesday 10.5 Thursday 10.6 Friday

Saturday 30 March

• Runaround (Talking Pictures, 8.30am) Repeated from 1978.
• Interior Design Masters (BBC2, 11am) Repeat from last week.
• Fighting Talk (Radio 5, 11am)
• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 1.15; not Wales).
• Four in a Bed (C4, 1.15) Five episodes.
• The Chase The Bloopers (ITV, 4.30); Celebrity Bake Off (C4, 4.45) Repeats from last Sunday.

Primetime

• Gladiators (BBC1, 5.50) The grand final. Last in the present series. Repeated on BBC3 at 7pm Sunday.
• Stephen Mulhern's Celebrity Catchphrase (ITV, 6pm) Stephen Mulhern is joined by Fiona Bruce, Josie Gibson, and Scott Mills for this repeat.
• The Weakest Link (BBC1, 6.50) Stacey Dooley, Adrian Chiles, Josie Gibson, Rufus Hound, GK Barry, Guz Khan, Sophie Duker, Mark Lane.
• Saturday Night Takeaway (VM1 and ITV, 7pm) Blue Man Group perform, JLS sing, Home Run returns, and Stephen Mulhern brings back In for a Penny. Repeated on ITV2 at 12.50 tomorrow afternoon.
• The 1% Club (ITV, 8.30) Your researcher was lucky to get through 90% last week, then took the pass to 5%. Them's the breaks. Repeated 5.30 tomorrow teatime.
• Love Island Games (VM2, 10.20) More torture for Irish viewers.

Bonus feature

• The University Challenge Boat Races (BBC1, 2pm; not Scotland) Live coverage of the quiz-athletic event, this year between Poltowan University and the University of Lunn - great to see a former polytechnic making the final. Questions are asked by Clare Slightly-Receeding and Amol Tiktok.

Sunday 31 March - Easter Sunday

Please adjust your clocks: summer time starts overnight, and we lose an hour of sleep

• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.30; not Wales).
• Round the Islands Quiz (Radio 4, 4.30) Northern Ireland play Wales. Radio 4's controller has moved the schedules about, and the Monday lunchtime brainbox quiz now goes out at Sunday teatime. Repeated next Saturday in a slightly later slot, at 11.30pm.
• Lego Masters Aotearoa (E4, 5.05) Semi-final: storybook.
• Y Talwrn (Radio Cymru, 7pm).
• The Great Celebrity Bake Off (C4, 7.40) Oti Mabuse, Gabby Logan, David O'Doherty, Suzi Ruffell.
• Hunted (C4, 9pm) One of the contenders is going solo, much to the Hunters' annoyance.
• Love Island Games (VM2, 9pm) Every islander questions their connections, not least with their agent.

Weekday Daytimes

• Masterchef South Africa (W, 7am) New episodes.
• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15).
• !mpossible (BBC2, 1pm); The Edge (BBC2, 1.45); Best Home Cook (BBC2, 3.45) Repeats.
• Riddiculous (ITV, 2pm; not Mon) Repeats.
• Countdown (C4, 2.10) Pam Ayres. Repeated about 6am one-and-a-half working days later.
• Winning Combination (ITV, 3pm; not Mon) Repeats.
• The Bidding Room (BBC1, 3.45) New episodes on Wednesday and Thursday.
• Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm; not Mon) Repeats.
• Bridge of Lies (BBC1, 4.30) New episodes. Repeated on BBC2 at 7.15am the next weekday.
• The Chase (ITV, 5pm; not Mon) Repeats.
• Pointless (BBC1, 5.15) New episodes, with Vick Hope and Hugh Dennis.
• House of Games (BBC2, 6pm; Fri 6.15) Repeats from September 2022 with Eddie Kadi, Natasha Raskin Sharp, Charlie Stayt, Faye Tozer.
• Masterchef Down Under (W, 6pm) New.
• Love Island Games (VM2, 9pm) New episodes.
• Spring Baking Championship (Food Network, 11pm) New series.

Monday 1 April - Easter Monday

A holiday for most. We cannot be bothered to insert an April Fool's listing.

• Tipping Point Lucky Stars All Day (W, 8am) Last episode's at 5pm.
• Bake Off All Day (Food Network, 9am) The 2014 series in full, concluding with the final at 6pm.
• Dickinson's Real Deal (ITV, 1.40).
• Many a Slip (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Lots of errors, some of them deliberate. Like the schedules on this station, which have to accommodate An Act of Worship at 9.45am and The Bleather Forecast displaced from The Today Show.
• Tipping Point Best Ever Finals (ITV, 5.30).
• Masterchef (Radio 4, 6.30) Gnocchi gnocchi, who's there? Gregg and John with a new series.
• Mastermind (BBC2, 7pm) The grand final, where we learn about Wimbledon singles championships 2000-2023, Francis Bacon the artist, Sappho the poet, the Mercury music prize, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Clara Schumann.
• Only Connect (BBC2, 8pm) An old Championship of Champions match: Dicers vs Data Wizards. Previously shown on BBC2 in 2022.
• Kids Baking Championship (Food Network, 8pm) Series 12, according to the planner.
• University Challenge (BBC2, 8.30) Semi-final 2.
• The Underdog Colon Josh Must Win (E4, 9pm) A social divide forms in the mansion.
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) The chasers decide to team up. Hijinks ensue.
• Out of Order (2) (Comedy Central, 9pm) Series highlights.
• Quizzy Mondays (9.15, youtube.com/allthingsquiz) Post-match chat about the Mastermind final.

Tuesday 2 April

• Hidden Treasures (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) The antiques quiz from 1998.
• Interior Design Masters (BBC1, 8pm) Alan Carr tries to improve cafes in Swansea. "Move them to Tenby" may not be an option.
• Aldi's Next Big Thing (C4, 8pm) Dinner time, with a multicoloured burger.
• Home of the Year (RTÉ1, 8.30) Wicklow, Dublin, Louth.
• QI XL (BBC2, 9pm; NI 11.15) Underthings with Maisie Adam, Daliso Chaponda, and Jack Dee.
• The Underdog Colon Josh Must Win (E4, 9pm) Confidence is a preference for what the habitual voyeur would call...
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) The days of wine and gusto.
• Unforgivable (Dave, 10pm) Rafe Spall, Carol Vorderman, Dan Tiernan.

Wednesday 3 April

• Scotland's Greatest Escape (BBC Scotland, 8pm) Adventure.
• Masterchef (BBC1, 9pm; Wales, 9pm on BBC2) A trout to fillet.
• The Underdog Colon Josh Must Win (E4, 9pm) When in doubt, a reality series will bring in Gemma Collins.
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) A superyacht to Kefalonia.
• Survivor (TG4, 11.35) "I'm the bandit", so who is the Twix? Repeated on Saturday. Ireland only.

Thursday 4 April

• Rob Beckett's Smart Tv (Sky Max, 2am) Guests are Joe Thomas, Gregg Wallace, Alan Davies, Ruth Madeley. Repeated on The Satellite Channel at 9pm.
• Dragons' Den (BBC1, 8pm) Last in the series.
• Taskmaster (C4, 9pm) Sock.
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) One final safehouse opens.

Friday 5 April

• Breaking the News (Radio Scotland, 1.30).
• Whispers (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Up-to-the-minute gossip from 2005.
• Masterchef (BBC1, 7.30; Wales: BBC2 at 7.30) School dinners, done better.
• Have I Got News for You (BBC1, 9pm; Wales: 9.30.) The establishment chat show with a vague nod to a quiz returns. Host is Clive Myrie, with guests Jon Richardson and Marianna Spring.
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) The grand final. Last in the present series.
• QI (BBC2, 10pm; not Wales) Cut-down version of Tuesday's show.

Sign language interpretation

• Gladiators (BBC2, 2.15am Sat)
• RuPaul's Drag Race (BBC3, 2.45am Sat).
• Lego Masters Aotearoa (E4, 6.10am Sat).
• Am Dro! (S4C, 12.25pm Sat).
• Celebrity Bake Off (E4, 10.35am Sun).
• Eat the Town (BBC Scotland, 2.30 Mon)
• The Underdog Colon Josh Must Win (E4, 2.55am Tue, 2.55am Wed, 3am Thu).
• Next Level Chef (ITV, 3am Tue).
• Interior Design Masters (BBC2, 1.10am Wed).
• Taskmaster (C4, 1.25am Wed).
• The Piano (C4, 3.15am Wed) First shown in 2023.
• Hunted (C4, 1.05am Thu).
• Bring the Drama (BBC2, 1.30am Thu).
• Dragons' Den (BBC2, 1.15am Fri).

Challenge

Saturday

7am The Chase 9am The Chase Celebrity Special 11pm Bullseye 5am The Chase

Sunday

7am Scrapheap Challenge 9am The Chase Celebrity Special 11pm The Chase

Monday

7am The Crystal Maze 8am The Chase 10am Dickinson's Real Deal 11am Bullseye 4pm Blockbusters 5pm Bullseye 6pm The Crystal Maze 7pm Cash Trapped 8pm The Chase 10pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire 11pm Bullseye 12 midnight Blockbusters 1am Cash Trapped 2am The Chase 4am Who Wants to be a Millionaire 5am Bullseye

Tuesday - Wednesday

7am The Crystal Maze 8am The Chase 10am Dickinson's Real Deal 11am Pointless Celebrities 12 noon Cash Trapped 1pm Tenable 2pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 3pm Dickinson's Real Deal 4pm Blockbusters 5pm Bullseye 6pm The Crystal Maze 7pm Cash Trapped 8pm The Chase 10pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire 11pm Bullseye 12 midnight Blockbusters 1am Cash Trapped 2am The Chase 4am Who Wants to be a Millionaire 5am Bullseye

Thursday

As Tue-Wednesday, except 7am The Chase 10am Dickinson's Real Deal

Friday

As Thursday, except 6pm 5 Gold Rings 7pm Cash Trapped