Prime Time TV Guide

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18:00

News

With Trevor McDonald

18:00

Outer Space

Cult sci-fi drama repeated from the 1970s after persistent demands from crazed obsessive fans all over the globe. Many of whom cannot receive Channel 2.

 18:00

Hope Street

Double-bill of the Australian soap set in and around a small town hospital.

Guest star Jimmy from crusty rock band The Levellers.

18:00

Cute Animals in Dangerous Situations

A lost kitten has found its way into a chemical factory.

18:30

Local News

With Trevor McDonald

18:30

Exhibitionists

A group of extrovert twentysomethings are trapped in the insects exhibition of the Natural History Museum for two months in this new social experiment.

18:50

Condensed Milk

Various members of the public discuss the best methods for storing milk, in this ten-minute short film.

18:55

Weather

In tonight's forecast, rain and cloud is expected throughout the country.

19:00

Estate

In today’s episode of the Slough-based soap, health inspector "grimy" Gary threatens to close the local café.

19:00

Culinary Delights

Celebrity chefs prepare a meal entirely from leftovers found in their fridges and dustbins.

19:00

Limericks For Lolly

Contestants attempt various tongue twisters to win cash prizes.

19:00

News

With Trevor McDonald

19.30

Gimme Money!

New style game show in which a bag of money is placed in front of two contestants, who are left to fight over who takes it home. Unsuitable for younger children.

19:30

Cooking With Beans

Student chefs give tips on the best meals to make with baked beans. Part one of eight.

19:30

Residents

Another episode of the ridiculously long running soap.

19:55

Cultural Interlude

A token element of culture in an otherwise cultureless schedule.

20:00

Walking With Apes

Following from the phenomenally successful Walking With Dinosaurs, this new series imagines what it might be like if we lived on the Planet of the Apes.

20:00

Mollusc World

Documentary. This week looking at the molecular structure and life cycle of snails.

20:00

Fancy Footwork

Docusoap following the workers at a chiropodists clinic in Guildford. In tonight's installment, Clara is called out to investigate a particularly nasty case of gout.

20:00

A Brief History of Time

In the most tuned in to, least watched programme in TV history, Stephen Hawking reads another chapter from his best-selling book.

21.00

News

With Trevor McDonald

21:00

Good Cop, Bad Cop

New series. A pillar-of-the-community rural policeman is relocated to the suburbs, and finds himself at loggerheads with his antagonistic new superior. Stars Nick Berry as PC Aingel and Alan Rickman as Inspector Slyme.

21:00

Grotesque Medical Drama

‘Fleas’

Narcolepsy-suffering med. student Ben performs open heart surgery and Dr Harris struggles with his inner demons. Meanwhile, an outbreak of fleas threatens the hospital with closure.

21:03

News

With Trevor McDonald

21.30

Before/After They Were Famous

‘Flipping Burgers’

Tracing the lives of Britain’s stars from their humble beginnings to the height of fame - and back again. Featuring among others Shane from Boyzone the third one out of Bros.

21:30

News Extra

With Trevor McDonald

21:55

Weather

With Trevor McDonald

22:00

Mmmm! Jazz.

Obscure jazz artists play a one hour jam.

Tonight's guest not yet confirmed.

22:00

International Curling Championships

Coverage of this exciting event in the sporting calendar. Live from Grimsby.

 

Including:

01:00 News Update

Without Trevor McDonald

22:00

Modern Romance

Transsexual Ron falls for his transvestite brother’s hermaphrodite girlfriend Susan.

22:30

Film: Corporation

Action thriller. Nic Cage plays a sensitive yet aggressive family man fighting to protect his family from an evil multinational company trying to sell them Ikea furniture.

Contains strobe lighting.

23:00

Politics Nightly

With guest speakers Matt from Dodgy and Chris Tarrant.

23:00

LateNiteShite

A compilation of programmes and nausea inducing graphics, made on the cheap under the (correct) assumption that no-one watches them.

Including:

23:10 The Alan and Jim Show

Transmitted live from the irreverent pair’s wardrobe.

02:30 Cartooon!

Irreverent animation about a glue-sniffing porcupine.

00:00

Teletext

For viewers without the teletext feature on their televisions, an opportunity to read the four pages shown repeatedly over a period of six hours, all accompanied by a user-friendly high pitched beep.

00:30

News Loop

The day's least informative stories played on a loop to gently lull viewers to sleep/infuriate night shift workers who want to find out what's actually going on in the world.

With Trevor McDonald.

02:00

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*This guide is valid indefinitely, on the assumption that the TV schedules will not be different enough to warrant the publication of a new guide. Oh, and it's all made up. Natch.

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