TV Guide 2024-04-27

It's back! Last year's most heartwarming programme The Piano returns (C4, Sun). Scotland's Home of the Year returns (BBC1 Scotland, Mon). Interior Design Masters reaches its conclusion (BBC1, Tue).

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Schedules are accurate at the time of publication; check against EPG for late changes.

Saturday 27 April

Runaround (Talking Pictures, 8.30am) Repeated from 1980.
Fighting Talk (Radio 5, 11am)
Interior Design Masters (BBC2, 1pm) Repeat from last week.
Four in a Bed (C4, 1.50) Five episodes.
Ninja Warrior (ITV, 4.30) A classic episode.
Celebrity Bake Off (C4, 5.25) Repeat from last Sunday.

Primetime

Stephen Mulhern's In for a Penny (ITV, 6pm) Stephen manages to be in six places at once.
In With a Shout (ITV, 6.30) Boyle family from Middlesbrough play the Kelly family from Wales. Repeated on ITV2 at 2pm tomorrow afternoon.
Blankety Blank (BBC1, 7pm) A repeat with Jason Watkins, Layton Williams, Anthea Turner, Rob Beckett, Nadia Jae, and Jill Scott.
Got Talent (VM1 and ITV, 7.30) Another round of the constructed reality show. Repeated on ITV2 at 12.40 tomorrow afternoon.
Pointless Celebrities (BBC1, 7.35) New ep, with Gavin Ramjaun, Sally Magnusson, Pete Wicks, Vicky Pattison, Jay Rayner, Thomasina Miers, Remel London, and London Hughes. Repeated late on Tuesday night.
Our Dream Farm (C4, 7.50) This week, the farmers host a group of schoolchildren. Matt Baker, who has worked with children and animals, tries not to chortle.
The 1% Club (ITV, 8.55) Now that is great drama: enmity, character development, and an awkward resolution. Repeated late on Monday evening.

Sunday 28 April

Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15).
Round the Islands Quiz (Radio 4, 4.30) Scotland against Northern Ireland. Repeated next Saturday at 11.30pm.
The Chase Celebrity Special (ITV, 5.30) Repeat, with Amanda Byram, Adam Thomas, Brendan Cole, Naga Munchetty.
Race Across the World (BBC2, 6pm) Repeat from last week.
Y Talwrn (Radio Cymru, 7pm).
Deal or No Deal (ITV, 7pm; not HTV Wales) Twenty two sealed boxes, a tenth of a million pounds, and no questions - except one. Would you care to stop taking penalties in the hope foundry?!
Côr Cymru (S4C, 8pm) Equal voice choirs: Bechgyn Bro Taf, Risca Male Choir, Côr Glanaethwy, Côr Meibion Machynlleth. May be delayed if the football runs very long.
Celebrity Bake Off (C4, 8pm) Repeat, with David Schwimmer, Jesy Nelson, Rose Matafeo, Tom Davis.
The Piano (C4, 9pm) To start the new series, Claudia takes her fringe to Manchester Piccadilly station.
The 1% Club (VM1, 9pm) First seen on ITV last year.

Weekday Daytimes

Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15) New eps on Monday and Friday.
Riddiculous (ITV, 2pm; not Mon, Fri) Repeats.
Countdown (C4, 2.10) John Virgo gets all the best lines from the host. Repeated about 6am one-and-a-half working days later.
Winning Combination (ITV, 3pm; not Fri) Repeats.
Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm; not Fri) Repeats.
Bridge of Lies (BBC1, 4.30) Repeats from last year's series.
The Chase (ITV, 5pm) Repeats.
Pointless (BBC1, 5.15) New episodes, with Anita Rani and Gabby Logan.
House of Games (BBC2, 6pm) A classic champions' week with Tim Key, Jamie Laing, Sunetra Sarker, Laura Whitmore. Subject to delays if the snooker runs very long, but this is rare.
Love Island Games (ITVB, 10pm) Also available on the ITV Hub and previously shown on VM2.

Monday 29 April

Just a Minute (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Classic episodes. This one's from 2008, with Gyles Brandreth, Janey Godley, Tony Hawks, Kit Hesketh-Harvey.
Scotland's Home of the Year (BBC1, 8.30) North East and the Northern Isles: Inverurie, Banchory, South Aberdeenshire.
The Bidding Room (BBC1, 8.30; England and NI only) Compilation.
Have I Got a Bit More News for You (BBC1, 10.40; Wales 11.35, NI 11.40) Extended repeat from Friday, with Martin Lewis, Ignacio Lopez, Steph McGovern.
Glow Up (BBC1, 11.25; Wales 12.20am, NI 12.30am) Repeated from BBC3.

Bonus feature

Miriam: Death of a Reality Star (C4, 9pm) That's Miriam Rivera from There's Something About Miriam. "The absence of forethought and aftercare are astounding, with damaging stereotypes reinforced," says the Radio Times. Continues Tue, Wed.

Tuesday 30 April

Hidden Treasures (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) The antiques quiz from 1998.
Interior Design Masters (BBC1, 8pm) The grand final in Blenheim Palace.
Aldi's Next Big Thing (C4, 8pm) International dishes.
Masterchef (BBC1, 9pm; Wales: on BBC2) Redemption Week (© House of Games 2022).
QI XL (BBC2, 9pm; not Wales) Ulex XL, with Bridget Christie, Rosie Jones, and Cariad Lloyd.
Love Triangle (E4, 9.05) The one that got away.
Hell's Kitchen (ITV2, 9pm) Grill Ing.
Unforgivable (Dave, 10pm) Jamie Laing, Fern Brady, and Jordan Stephens. Last in the series.

Wednesday 1 May

Say the Word (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Frank Delaney's language quiz from 2001.
Glow Up (BBC3, 8pm) Casualty, prosthetics, and skinny brows.
Race Across the World (BBC1, 9pm) From Phnom Penh a trip to Mae Sariang on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Love Triangle (E4, 9pm) The final angles form.
Hell's Kitchen (ITV2, 9pm) The losing team sift through trash. Only way they'll find their script.

Thursday 2 May

Dragons' Den (BBC1, 8pm) Repeat.
Masterchef (BBC1, 9pm) Learning from past mistakes.
Taskmaster (C4, 9pm) "A three-ring man".
Love Triangle (E4, 9pm) The original matches make a "surprise" return. What, exactly, is the geometry of an eight-member polycule? Repeated on Channel 4 at 11.05.

Friday 3 May

The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected (Radio Scotland, 1.30) New series.
The 3rd Degree (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) UCL, first heard in summer 2022.
Masterchef (BBC1, 7.30) New chow fusion.
Have I Got News for You (BBC1, 9pm) Host is Anna Passing-Sleb, with guests Lyse Doucet and Chloe Petts.
Beat the Chasers (ITV, 9pm) Repeat of a celebrity edition from 2023, with Zoe Williams, Kaye Adams, Matt Allwright, and Gyles Brandreth.
QI (BBC2, 10pm) Cut-down version of Tuesday's show.

Sign language interpretation

Couples Come Dine with Me (C4, 2.40am Sun).
Next Level Chef (Usa) (ITV, 3am Sun).
Masterchef (BBC2, 8am Mon, Tue, 8.30am Wed)
Taskmaster (C4, 1.05am Wed).
Interior Design Masters (BBC2, 2.05am Wed).
Love Triangle (E4, 3.05am Wed, 3.10am Thu, 2.55am Fri)
Wheel of Fortune (ITV, 5.05am Wed) First shown in March.
The Piano (C4, 11.15pm Wed).
Dragons' Den (BBC2, 2.35am Thu).

Challenge

Saturday

7am The Chase 9am Bruce's Price is Right 10am Supermarket Sweep 11am Famous Family Fortunes 1pm Cash Trapped 3pm Tenable 6pm The Chase 11pm Bullseye 4am The Chase

Sunday

7am Scrapheap Challenge 10am The Crystal Maze 11am Play Your Cards Right 12 noon Dickinson's Real Deal 1pm Blankety Blank 3pm Cash Trapped 5pm Tenable 7pm The Chase

Monday - Friday

7am The Chase 10am Bridge of Lies 11am Pointless Celebrities 12 noon Cash Trapped 1pm Tenable 2pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 3pm Catchphrase 4pm Blockbusters 5pm Bullseye 6pm Bridge of Lies 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