Week 43 highlights 2012

10 October 2012

Saturday 20/10/2012

7pm

Comedy World Cup 6/7

The second of the semi-finals hosted by David Tennant. The cream of Britain's finest comedy talent strut their stuff in this show when Jason Manford, Paul Chowdhry and Nicholas Parson face off against Omid Djalili, Daniel Sloss and Joe Pasquale to find out who will go through to the final and the chance to be crowned overall winner of the Comedy World Cup 2012.

 

Saturday 20/10/2012

8pm

The Million Pound Drop 11/12

The penultimate episode in the current series with Davina McCall at the helm. New pairs take on the Drop in an attempt to win big. With only eight questions standing between the players and one million pounds, they stand to take home a fortune. However, one wrong move could see thousands of pounds drop through the floor.

 

Saturday 20/10/2012

9:15pm

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

(2009) Network premiere of the late Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 thriller, starring John Travolta and Denzel Washington. It's a day that the passengers on a New York subway train are unlikely to forget. And it's one that could rescue the professional life of subway employee Walter Garber (Washington), whose glittering career has been derailed by allegations of corruption. Garber is languishing on duty as a train dispatcher when all hell breaks loose after one of the Lexington Avenue line trains is hijacked by a gang led by the supremely self-assured, calmly ruthless Ryder (Travolta). Ryder issues a demand for $10m and makes it clear that he won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in his way.

 

Sunday, 21/10/2012

8pm

How Britain Worked 1/6

In this new six-part series, third generation lorry mechanic, motorcycle racer and engineering enthusiast Guy Martin celebrates the workers of the Industrial Revolution by getting stuck into six of the country's biggest restoration projects, bringing some of the 19th Century's most impressive engineering achievements back to life. Each episode focuses on the jobs of the Industrial Revolution's unsung heroes - the ordinary men, women and children who worked 14 hour days for little pay to create extraordinary things that changed the country forever. Guy will find out about their way of life, the dangers they faced and the skills they possessed which were the envy of the world. Guy's project in this opening episode is to help overhaul a tank engine - a steam locomotive with the designation "5164", which is currently used on the popular Severn Valley Railway, a 16-mile stretch of track in Shropshire preserved to look just as it did in the 19th century.

 

Sunday, 21/10/2012

9pm

Homeland 3/12: State of Independence

Feeling restless after her adventures in Beirut, Carrie convinces herself that a triumphant return to the CIA may be on the cards. When Brody finds out that the Gettysburg bomb-maker is on a terrorist watch list and in danger of imminent discovery, he makes a last-minute attempt to extract him from the situation. Meanwhile, Jessica steps into the political limelight, taking risks of her own.

 

Sunday, 21/10/2012

10:00pm

Friday Night Dinner 3/6: The Loft

To get out of cleaning the loft with Dad and Adam, Jonny claims to have dislocated his shoulder. But when Adam discovers he's lying, he threatens to tell mum immediately. "Fine," says Jonny, '"Then I'll just tell her all the grotty details of what you got up to with Hayley Posner". Adam is horrified. Hayley was Adam's blind date, who he slept with and then never called back, "because she smelt like mum". Mum mustn't find this out, so Adam has to let Jonny get away with his pretend bad shoulder. Meanwhile mum and dad are not on speaking terms. There's been a terrible argument. Dad tells the boys that the reason - much to their horror - is 'sexual'.

 

Monday, 22/10/2012

5pm

Jamie's 15 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver returns with a brand-new cookery series that pushes the concept of fast, everyday food to the next level. Building on the success of Jamie's 30 Minute Meals, this new series of 40 programmes squeezes the cooking process even further, with each half hour episode featuring two delicious, nutritious, super-fast family meals back-to-back. Today, Jamie is cooking chilli con carne meatballs, plus sticky kicking chicken, watermelon radish salad and crunchy noodles.

 

Monday, 22/10/2012

8pm

Do You Know Your Partner's Past? Channel 4 Dispatches

Earlier this year Tina Nash's boyfriend was jailed for life after gouging her eyes out. In this film, with exclusive access to the police, Tina investigates 'Claire's Law', a new controversial pilot scheme in which men and women are warned by the authorities about their partners' history of violence. Tina wants to know if it will make a difference for other victims of domestic abuse. She meets supporters and opponents to find out whether it is an effective way of pre-empting domestic violence or simply an invasion of privacy.

 

Tuesday 23/10/2012

8pm

George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 1/6

In this new series, architect George Clarke shows how such big dreams can be achieved in small and affordable places. George delves into the extraordinary world of small builds to meet the highly creative people who are taking tiny, unpromising spaces and creating the most incredible places to live and work and play. There are homes made out of shipping containers, horseboxes, and old buses. Others are building tiny huts or incredible treehouses in the middle of the woods. George has a small-build property project of his own, buying a dilapidated caravan for just three hundred pounds with the aim of transforming it into a stunning second home for his growing family. In the first episode, George meets the couple who have invested their life savings in the hope of converting a wreck of a bus into a holiday let.

 

Tuesday 23/10/2012

9pm

Jewish Mum of the Year 3/4

For this third task in the contest to be named Jewish Mum of the Year, the four remaining mums split into pairs with each group organising a memorable day out to Southend-on-Sea for 22 outspoken Jewish OAPs. The first pair opt for a disco theme and a simple packed lunch for their day-trippers, while their rivals go for a more sophisticated buffet and a 1940/50s movie theme. But neither outing goes entirely to plan, with one OAP opting to get the train home, and it seems this challenge may have driven the mums to the limit.

 

Tuesday 23/10/2012

10pm

Fresh Meat 3/8

A geology careers fair sets the boys against each other as they battle for lucrative internships. Oregon is thrown together with Tony again, as she attempts to secure funding for her new magazine.

 

Wednesday 24/10/2012

10pm

Shameless 8/10

When Dom receives a cryptic text from an ex in desperation it prompts a crisis of faith and he turns to Frank for some major help. Lillian bids farewell to another happy old man at the brothel, but he turns out to be the local magistrate who's been claiming the visits on expenses. Now in hot water, Lillian must convince a judge that she's actually a life coach. And the pressure is on for Letitia to lose her V plates, but she wants her first time to be special, so who will be the lucky recipient?

 

Thursday, 25/10/2012

9pm

The Town That Caught Tourette's

In October 2011 in the tiny town of Le Roy, New York, a handful of teenage girls from the same high school suddenly developed symptoms that looked like Tourette's syndrome: facial twitching, violent limb gestures and uncontrollable verbal outbursts. Some doctors believed they were victims of conversion disorder, where real physical symptoms - in this case tics - are triggered not by a physical cause, but by psychological trauma. However within a few months, the stunned community watched up to 18 students get sick and the diagnosis became 'mass hysteria,' formally known as 'mass psychogenic illness', where symptoms spread among vulnerable people in close proximity. As a cry for help, the girls went on national TV and their story caused a global media frenzy. This one-off documentary has secured exclusive access to the people at the heart of this outbreak, including the girls who have recovered, as well as those who are still suffering. Using archive footage, it also tells how this bizarre situation began and how the individuals and their families not only dealt with the symptoms, but how they reacted to the media frenzy surrounding their small American town.

 

Thursday, 25/10/2012

10pm

Freaky Sleepers

Freaky Sleepers looks at the new wave of extraordinary stress related sleep disorders, following sufferers as they attempt to find a solution to their sleeping problems. Tom, 23, from Torquay suffers from extreme night terrors and has now twice jumped out of a window while still asleep. On the last occasion he fell over 30 feet splitting open his leg and head and had severe bruising all over his body. Dave, 29, from St Helens attacked his wife in his sleep and as a result, they have decided to put their plans to start a family on hold. He regularly starts having sex with his partner during his sleep, putting great strain on their relationship. In the UK, sleep clinics are being inundated with patients trying to seek help, however with sleep medicine in its infancy and most treatments being a matter of trial and error prescriptions, will doctors ever be able to provide an effective cure and allow these sleep sufferers to have a decent night's kip?

 

Friday, 26/10/2012

9pm

Derren Brown: Apocalypse 1/2

After his award-winning success with The Experiments, Derren Brown is back. His four specials for 2012 feature his customary inventive, intelligent mix of thought-provoking, compelling entertainment, stunts and suggestion, combined with tried and tested psychological tricks and experiments. In Derren Brown: Apocalypse, the first two shows in the series shown across two weeks, Derren unleashes his most audacious plan yet: to convince one person that the planet has been devastated by a catastrophic meteorite strike; that the lethal infected now roam the land and he is one of a mere handful of survivors.

 

Friday, 26/10/2012

10pm

Alan Carr: Chatty Man 6/14

In this show, comedy actor Chris O'Dowd joins Alan to discuss his new film, The Sapphires. Plus JLS will be chatting and performing their latest single, Hottest Girl in the World.