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9.00 The Basil Brush Show
Dave is roped into playing for the school football team.

9.25 Serious Desert
5/6: The young venturers go in search of elusive white rhinos.

9.50 Serious Desert
6/6: The final leg of the journey includes an arduous trek across a dune belt.

10.15 Looney Tunes
Bugs plays a piano concerto.

10.25 Blue Peter
Review of the Year - The team look back at the year's highlights, including rock climbing in the Grand Canyon and trekking with llamas.

Animated adventure spin-off from Anastasia, featuring the voices of Hank Azaria and Kelsey Grammer. Bartok the bat calls upon the services of witch Baba Yaga to help in his Mission to rescue a kidnapped Prince. Review page 80.
Directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (1999, U)

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Drama based on a true story, starring Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin. Amy finds life difficult with her eccentric father, but they are forced to overcome their differences when she rescues a clutch of goose eggs from a building site, then takes responsibility for teaching the birds to fly. Review page 80.
Director Carroll Ballard (1996. U)

Comedy starring Joe Pesci , Danny Glover and Rosanna Arquette. A fishing trip to the Everglades sets off a typical train of disasters for accident-Prone pals Joe and Gus. After retrieving their car from a conman, the boys find a map to some hidden loot, but trouble is just around the comer. Review page 83.
Director Christopher Cain (1997, PG)

Comedy starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. A research scientist loses funding for his work on a fertility drug. Keen to prove that his treatment works, he steals some frozen human eggs and mixes them with a colleague's sperm, with ground-breaking results. Review page 83.
Director Ivan Reitman (1994, PG)

With Sian Williams. Includes weather and sport.

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Followed by Weather with Michael Fish.

Darren Campbell , Dennis Taylor , Gary Pallister and Bryan Redpathjoin regulars Frankie Dettori , Ally McCoist and Sue Barker for good-natured banter and sporting conundrums. Producer Ade Rawcliffe ; Series producer Caroline Roberts

Who was the real-life inspiration for Jennifer Saunders 's neurotic PR exec Edina Monsoon ? And why did
Joanna Lumley consider turning down the part of past-it party girl Patsy? These and other pressing questions are answered in a look back at the origins of the irreverent sitcom, with outrageous out-takes and gossip from behind the scenes. Producer Samantha Peters ; Executive producer Caroline Wright Birth of the monsters: page 13

With Fiona Bruce. Regional News
Weather with Michael Fish.

Comedy starring Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley.
When geeky office worker Elliott Richards says he'd do anything to go out with colleague Alison, he doesn't bank on the Devil appearing as a beautiful woman and offering to help him out. So what's the catch? Review page 83.
Director Harold Ramis (2000, 12)

Comedy starring Adam Sandler. When his father announces that he's relinquishing control of the family's hotel chain, spoilt rich kid Billy Madison faces an ultimatum - repeat his school grades or lose the business. Review page 83. Director Tamra Davis (1995. PG)
Followed by Weatherview

Comedy starring Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson.
Sparks are bound to fly when a trigger-happy cop and a by-the-book, retiring detective meet on a case involving cocaine-laced cookies.
Review page 83.
(1993, PG)