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. |
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18:50 Condensed Milk Various members of the public discuss the best methods for storing milk, in this ten-minute short film. |
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18:55 Weather In tonight's forecast, rain and cloud is expected throughout the country. |
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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. |
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19:55 Cultural Interlude A token element of culture in an otherwise cultureless schedule. |
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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. |
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21:03 News With Trevor McDonald |
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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 |
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21:55 Weather With Trevor McDonald |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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02:00 Close No more programmes. Go to bed now. |
*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.