Week 35 Highlights

17 August 2011

35 is the minimum age of candidates for election to the United States Presidency.

In 1935, the Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica were joined together as Libya. What could possibly go wrong?

In 1935, Italy and France concluded an agreement in which each power agreed not to oppose the other's colonial claims. What could possibly go wrong?

And in 1935 Adolf Hitler announced German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty. What could po... you get the idea. Still, it was also the year John Inman and Rod Hull were born so, karmically, it all balances out in the end.

Anyway, here are the results from the Finnish jury:

 

Saturday, 27/08/2011
10:30am
Athletics: IAAF World Championships 2011
Channel 4 presents a week of live and exclusive coverage of the IAAF World Athletics Championships from Daegu in South Korea, with presenters Ortis Deley, Michael Johnson, Iwan Thomas, Katharine Merry and Dean Macey. As well as the opening ceremony, highlights from the first day include Britain's Olympic gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu in the 400 metres heat, the women's marathon and 10,000 metres and the preliminary rounds of the men's Decathlon.

 

Sunday, 28/08/2011
9pm
Rush Hour 3
Network Premiere of Brett Ratner's martial arts/ action-comedy sequel, starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. When the Chinese Ambassador to the US (Tzi Ma) is shot while in the act of divulging the whereabouts of a major Triad leader, the American authorities once more send Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) and Detective James Carter (Tucker) into the fray, with the trail soon leading them to Paris.

 

Monday, 29/08/2011
5pm
Coach Trip
Grab your passport and get ready for a brand new Coach Trip adventure, as international tour guide Brendan returns for another Europe-wide cultural extravaganza. With 30 days on the road ahead of him, Brendan's eager to meet his new tourists and the first day is spent in London, where they take a ride on the Thames and try a pole-dancing lesson. Later, the fun and games end when there's a shock early departure for one unlucky couple.

 

Monday, 29/08/2011
5:30pm
Come Dine with Me
The culinary competition begins a new series, starting in Leeds with Catherine Williams, who makes her own dresses out of duvets, South African Garth Kirsten-Landman, thrice-married Louise Emmerson, football-loving banker Sam Appleby and affluent property developer Diane Jones. On the first night, pescetarian Catherine's guests are confused when she admits she's partial to a bacon sandwich, and Garth tells Sam he should be ashamed to work as a banker.

 

Monday, 29/08/2011
8pm
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
Comedian, actor and gadget aficionado Stephen Fry presents his 100 all-time favourite gadgets. In a three-hour countdown, Stephen demonstrates his personal favourite devices and contraptions, all of which have revolutionised our individual and collective lives in some way. From the hi-tech to the historical, and the practical to the downright dumb, this countdown lifts the lid on some of mankind's most brilliant and wacky gadgets that we can no longer live without.

 

Tuesday 30/08/2011
8pm
Inside Nature's Giants 1/4: Camel
The BAFTA-winning Inside Nature's Giants team returns for a new series, heading deep into the Australian Outback to explore the ultimate desert survivor: the camel. Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg uncover the secret of the camel's hump and investigate how its elastic legs, stretchy lips and pedestal (a strange bump on its chest) are among the many surprising adaptations that enable the camel to thrive in such a dry and hostile environment.

 

Tuesday 30/08/2011
10pm
Shameless 14/22
Shameless returns for the second half of series eight. It's a black day on Chatsworth when Paddy Maguire is returned in a coffin. Meanwhile, Karen sets up a kids' entertainment business, but when a catfight with a sexy rival is popular with the dads, she discovers a new way to make some extra cash behind Jamie's back.

 

Wednesday 31/08/2011
8pm
Location, Location, Location
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are back with a brand new series of Location, Location, Location, going back to basics to help house hunters find their dream homes right across the country, in a property market that's as tough as it's ever been. Their first challenge is a double header that's all about postcodes - and pickiness.

 

Wednesday 31/08/2011
9pm
9/11: The Firemen's Story
Channel 4 explores the dramatic stories of individual firemen on September 11: the stories of those who died, those who survived and those who still bear the scars. Of the 2752 people who died on 9/11, 343 were New York's firemen: by far the greatest loss of life by any emergency service in the world in a single day. Only now, 10 years on, are many of the firemen and their families able to speak about this for the first time.

 

Thursday, 01/09/2011
9pm
The Killing
The thriller continues. Bennet clings to life in hospital after receiving a vicious beating from Stan and Belko. With Bennet now seemingly cleared for Rosie's murder, the police are left scrambling to find a new suspect.

 

Friday, 02/09/2011
9pm
The Million Pound Drop Live 1/12
The ground-breaking multiplatform hit The Million Pound Drop Live returns with host Davina McCall. Only eight questions stand between the contestants and this life-changing sum of money. Viewers at home once again have the opportunity to play alongside the contestants with a virtual million pounds via the hugely successful play-along online game. There will also be a number of celebrity pairs playing for charity.

 

Friday, 02/09/2011
10:30pm
Comedy Showcase: Chickens
Comedy Showcase, in which rising stars from the UK comedy scene showcase their talents in 30-minute specials, returns for a new series, starting with a quirky period British comedy written by and starring Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Jonny Sweet. It's the First World War. Our nation's heroes are fighting the good fight on foreign soil, but in one sleepy English village three young men remain: George (Joe Thomas) is a conscientious objector, Cecil (Simon Bird) has flat feet (apparently) and Bert (Jonny Sweet) really is a coward, unfortunately. In the eyes of their neighbours they're all chickens. So in a world of (quite sexy) women, children and the infirm, these twenty-something chaps have only each other for company and nothing else in common.

 

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