TV Guide This Week

A guide to game shows broadcast in the UK and Ireland for the seven days beginning 10 March 2007

Schedules are subject to change.

New and notable

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (ITV, 8.20 Saturday)

Remember when this was event television?

Castaway (BBC1, 9pm Sunday; also BBC3 all week)

More people stranded on an island in the South Pacific.

The Write Stuff (Radio 4, 6.30 Monday)

Hey, it's not Quote... Unquote.

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

The grand final moves properly into prime-time.

The Apprentice (BBC1, 9pm Wednesday)

Another outing for the Comic Relief does, who also appear on Star Academy all week.

Comic Relief (BBC1, 7pm Friday)

The biennial charity-and-politics-and-laughter fundraiser.

Saturday 10 March

0900	BBC2	Our House
1000	CBBC	Crush
1100	Rad5	Fighting Talk	Also Radio Scotland
1200	LIV	The Amazing Race	Kwai. Also Living 2, 2100.
1305	S4C	Beauty and the Geek	As seen on C4 a few weeks ago.
1330	CBBC	Get Your Own Back New!
1340	ITV	Pop Idle US
1500	CITV	Jungle Run
1529	TV5M	Questions pour un Champion
1540	BBC2	Eggheads New!	For viewers in Scotland only.
1700	C4	Deal or No Deal Classic
1740	S4C	Deal or No Deal
1750	ITV	Harry Hill's TV Burp
1800	FTN	Bullseye x2
1820	ITV	Celebrity Dancing On Ice (also TV3)	Continues 2120.
1900	FTN	The Krypton Factor x2
1900	TV3	Pop Idle US
1940	BBC1	Star Academy	Continues 2150.
2010	RTE1	Winning Streak
2020	ITV	Who Wants to be a Millionaire? New!
2100	BBC2	Old News	Joan Collins, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Winner.
2216	TV5M	Fort Boyard
2245	BBC2	Buzzcocks
2345	S4CD	Tipit

Sunday 11

Don't forget, clocks in the UK will remain unaltered this week. As has been traditional for the last couple of decades, Summer Time will begin at 0100 GMT on the last Sunday of the month, 25 March. More on summer time

0930	Mor4	Scrapheap Challenge x3
1000	CBBC	Crush
1204	Rad4	Just a Minute
1230	Mor4	Codex
1235	ITV	Pop Idle US
1330	CBBC	Get Your Own Back
1350	C4	Beauty and the Geek
1435	ITV	Dancing on Ice	As seen yesterday.
1500	CITV	Jungle Run
1650	C4	Deal or No Deal	Also 1805 on More4.
1800	LIV	Top Chef
1800	FTN	Bullseye x2
1830	RTE1	You're a Star	Also 2030.
1835	C4	Shipwrecked 2007	As reviewed in the next Week.
1900	FTN	The Krypton Factor x2
2000	BBC1	Star Academy	Continues 2215, and on BBC3.
2100	BBC1	Castaway New!
2100	Mor4	The Secret Millionaire

Weekdays

0100	Mor4	Countdown (not Mo)	Well, they kept that quiet (1). Channel 4 has received nine letters complaining about the removal of Countdown from More4. People thinks it's SLOBLOCKS. Here it is, back in a very viewer-friendly slot, and a simple repeat of the episode seen on C4 that day, and repeated two days and five hours later.
0700	STYL	Bargain Hunt x2
0900	Mor4	Deal or No Deal	Also approx. 1300.
1001	TV5M	Tele la Question	Also 1915.
1018	TV5M	La Cible
1215	BBC1	Bargain Hunt
1230	TV5M	Des Chiffres et des Lettres
1435	TV3	The Price is Right	Tue - Thu only.
1515	BBC2	Sudo-Q	We, Th: Scot 1530.
1529	TV5M	Questions pour un Champion
1600	ITV	Dancing on Ice Exclusive
1600	CITV	Jungle Run
1615	C4	Deal or No Deal	Also 1805 on More4. Unlike last year, this show won't move for the Cheltenham festival.
1630	BBC1	Star Academy	Also CBBC 1830.
1630	BBC2	Ready Steady Cook
1700	CBBC	Raven	Well, they kept that quiet (2). The Sixth Tournament began, er, last week. Such has been the lack of promotion for the new series, and the way CBBC has been running Raven every day, that we completely missed it.
1700	DSCI	Scrapheap Challenge
1715	BBC2	Weakest Link
1730	ITV	Dale's Supermarket Sweep
1740	G2	Head Jam
1800	BBC2	Eggheads	Th: Not Scotland.
1800	FTN	Takeshi's Castle x2
1900	BBC1	Star Academy	And 2100 (Mo) 2030 (Tu-Th). Not Fr. Continues on BBC3.
1900	FTN	The Crystal Maze
2100	BBC3	Castaway: The Last 24 Hours New!	Danny Wallace is the king of Lovely.

Monday 12

1230	BBC7	I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue	Repeated 1930.
1425	S4C	Deal or No Deal	By Friday night, they'll be four shows behind the rest of the UK.
1510	S4C	Countdown
1530	C4	Countdown	This week's Smart Aleck is Ann Widdecombe, who only has to do one show because the rest are cancelled for horse-racing. Repeat at 0510 Thursday morning, though there are More4 repeats through the week. This makes no sense.
1630	BBC1	50/50
1830	Rad4	The Write Stuff New!	(1/6) William Shakespeare
2000	C5US	Whose Line Is It Anyway? x2	The US version.
2000	BBC2	University Challenge	QF (2/4) Durham -v- Edinburgh
2200	TG4	Paisean Faisean	A dating show.
2300	ITV	WAGs's Boutique

Tuesday 13

1230	BBC7	The News Quiz	Repeated 1930.
1630	BBC1	50/50
1825	S4C	Tipit	Also S4C Digidol.
2000	C5US	Whose Line Is It Anyway?	The US version.
2030	BBC4	Never Mind the Full Stops	Sid Wadell, and Eve Pollard.
2030	BBC2	Masterchef Goes Large	The final, part one.
2100	ITV2	WAGs's Boutique
2100	G2	QI x2 New!
2100	TG4	Paisean Faisean
2220	G2	Buzzcocks New!
2300	G2	HIGNFY New!

Wednesday 14

1230	BBC7	My Music	Repeated 1930.
1735	TV5	Fort Boyard
2000	BBC2	Masterchef Goes Large	The final, parts 2 and 3.
2000	ITV2	Australian Princess
2200	BBC2	Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Thursday 15

1230	BBC7	Just a Minute	Repeated 1930.
2000	BBC2	Masterchef Goes Large	The final, final.
2100	BBC1	The Apprentice New!	Another outing for the Comic Relief does.
2130	BBC2	Dead Ringers
2300	Rad4	The Personality Test New!	John Sergeant, repeated.

Friday 16

1230	BBC7	Whispers
1730	CBBC	Bamzooki
1830	BBC2	Eggheads	For viewers in Scotland only.
1900	BBC1	Comic Relief Special	Including the Star Academy final (half-hours from 1930 and 2100), Vorderman and Ball play Numberwang (from 2130), The Apprentices (from 2235), Armando Iannucci's Comic Relief Quiz (from 2330).
2025	S4C	Tipit	Also S4C Digidol.
2030	ITV2	Pop Idle US
2125	TG4	Euromillions
2220	GOLD	Euromillions	Something's not quite right here.
2305	C4	Balls of Steel

Challenge?

Saturday

0700	Don't Try This at Home!
0800	Takeshi
0900	The Crystal Maze
1000	Price is Right x3
1130	Catchphrase x3
1300	Take It or Leave It x2
1500	Play Your Cards Right x3
1630	Strike it Rich x3
1800	Family Fortunes x3
1930	Bullseye x3
2100	Fear Factor x2
2300	Gambling

Sunday

As Saturday except

0700	The Moment of Truth
1800	Fear Factor x5

Monday - Friday

0700	Knightmare
0730	Catchphrase
0800	The Crystal Maze
0900	Going for Gold x2
1000	Cash Cab x2
1100	Strike It Rich x2
1200	Family Fortunes x2
1300	Millionaire
1400	Take It or Leave It
1500	Eggheads x2
1600	Mastermind x2
1700	The Amazing Race
1800	Crystal Maze
1900	Stars In Their Eyes
2000	So You Think You Can Dance
2100	Fear Factor
2200	Millionaire
2300	Showbiz Darts (Fri: Gambling)

Channel abbreviations:

BBC1	BBC1 (Network unless otherwise noted)
BBC2	BBC2 (Network unless otherwise noted)
2W	BBC2 Wales digital service
BBC3	BBC3
BBC4	BBC4
BBC7	BBC7 (Radio)
C5	Five
CBBC	CBBC
CBBS	Cbeebies
CNBC	CNBC
FTN	FTN
G2	UKTV G2
GOLD	UKTV Gold
ITV	ITV (Network unless otherwise noted)
ITV2	ITV2
ITV3	ITV3
ITV4	ITV4
LIV	UK Living TV
LIV2	UK Living TV 2
MOR4	More 4
Rad1	BBC Radio 1
Rad2	BBC Radio 2
Rad4	BBC Radio 4
RSct	BBC Radio Scotland
RUls	BBC Radio Ulster
RWal	BBC Radio Wales
RTE1	RTE1 (Irish)
RTR1	RTE Radio 1 (Irish)
S4C	S4C (analogue)
S4CD	S4C Digidol
SCOT	Scottish / Grampian (ITV in Scotland)
SKY1	Sky Onc
SKY3	Sky Thrcc
TOON	Cartoon Network
TV3	TV3 (Irish)
TV5M	TV5 Monde (Europe)
UTV	Ulster Television (ITV in Northern Ireland)