With Dermot Murnaghan and Natasha Kaplinsky.
Including 6.00, 7.00, 8.00 news with Moira Stuart (Mon-Wed), Kate Sanderson (Thu. Fri); 6.15, 6.45, 7.50 business news; 6.25, 6.53, 7.15, 7.53, 8.15, 8.55 weather with Helen Willetts ; 6.27,6.55, 7.28, 7.55, 8.28, 8.55 regional news, travel; 6.35, 7.35, 8.35 sport.
Then The National Lottery Daily Play
Studio discussion. Followed by News; Weather
New series First of five visits this week to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire where presenters Nicki Chapman and John Craven celebrate the countryside and also look at wider rural issues. Director Stephen Potter ; Editor
Carla-Maria Lawson Followed by News; Weather
Featuring two properties in Leicestershire. (SMW)
A group of students have their digs put in order. Followed by News; Weather
Postmen take on clubbers at a Newark fair.
Weather
Followed by Telling Lives
Steph wants her lump tested.
Repeated at 5.35pm
Time on Your Hands. Jude solves a medical mystery.
Written by Michael Chappell and Richard Stevens More cast Fri
Murder, Plain and Simple. Jessica visits an Amish community and becomes involved in murder.
First shown on ITV
Regional News
Ends 3.45.
Boo!
Boo and his friends explore the planets.
(S) (W)
3.35 Bob the Builder
Molly wants to hold a fashion show.
(Repeated tomorrow 10.40am on BBC2) (S) (W)
Ends 5.35.
Arthur
Arthur and the big riddle, plus the double dare.
4.10 Metalheads
The Metalheads skip school.
4.25 Eureka TV
Why lions can't purr and domestic cats roar.
4.40 The Jackie Chan Adventures
Jade astral-projects.
5.00 Blue Peter
Including a report from Brazil on one of the world's biggest and richest ecosystems.
(Repeated tomorrow 8.05am on BBC2)
5.25 Newsround
Shown at 1.40pm
With George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth. Including a weather summary. www.bbc.co.uk/news
New series Craig Doyle reports from St Tropez in the south of France, Jennifer Cox explores Cambodia and a family embark on the first leg of an ambitious gap year abroad.
Producer John Comerford : Series producer Gary Broadhurst Travel tips for the week: p38; Join RT for the trip of a lifetime: p44
New series As homeowners spend record sums improving their properties, Fiona Bruce meets those who found that adding extra space to their house was not straightforward in this new run of the current affairs magazine.
Series producer Mike Lewis ; Editor Dave Stanford
Ash confronts Gavin. Will Little Mo's doubts be confirmed? Written by Julia Honour Cast Thursday Repeated 10pm on BBC3 Leslie Grantham is a guest on The Kumars at No 42 at 9.30pm on BBC2 Soap & Flannel with Alison Graham : page 40
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen fears the worst in Chessington, Surrey, as Gordon Whistance loses track of time. Meanwhile, is Anna Ryder Richardson 's revamped lounge a bit tame? Producer Bob Marsden ; Executive producer Linda Clifford
Dramatised reconstruction, starring Tim Pigott-Smith and Jim Carter , that uses full-scale special effects to re-enact one of the most destructive volcanic eruptions in history. Two thousand years ago, in under 24 hours, the Roman city of Pompeii and at least 5,000 of its people were obliterated by the molten lava spewing forth from Mount Vesuvius.
Written by Edward Canfor-Dumas ; Producer Ailsa Orr ; Director Peter Nicholson Repeated next Sunday on BBC3 www.bbc.co.uk/history BBC BOOK: Pompeii - the Last Day, available from 16 October, price £16.99 What you can watch together: page 36
Face of the week-Tim Pigott-Smith: page 61
With Huw Edwards. 10.25 Regional News
Followed by Weather with Peter Gibbs.
Bob Monkhouse looks at the driving forces behind some of our greatest comedians, including Morecambe and Wise, Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers , in the last of this two-part special. Producer Ashtar Alkhirsan ; Executive producer Karen Steyn
Comedy starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams. Shop steward Vic Spanner leads the workers at a factory of toilet nakers out on strike. Widescreen. Review page 55.
Director Gerald Thomas (1971, PG)
Followed by Weatherview
Clearing a boating lake.
Auctioneer Michael Hogben peruses the contents of a country house.
Revamping a community garden.
