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The Real Hustle

Factual entertainment series about scams and cons

Factual entertainment series about scams and cons focusing on how easy it is to be scammed and conned in everyday life

The Real Hustle: Series 1

The Real Hustle: Series 1: Episode 7

Episode 7

Series 1

BBC Three - The Real Hustle, Series 1, Episode 7

The team show an identity theft scam where hustlers use items found in the rubbish.

Factual entertainment series about scams and cons. The team show an identity theft scam where hustlers use items found in the rubbish to obtain credit cards in a victim's name.

Factual entertainment series about scams and cons. The team show an identity theft scam where hustlers use items found in the rubbish to obtain credit cards in a victim's name. They also use some convincing sob stories to relieve punters of their spare change and demonstrate how a hustler can confuse a shopkeepers into giving them far too much change.

The participants featured in The Real Hustle have either been set up by their family and friends or believe that they are participating in another television programme. After they have been hustled for real any monies or property taken during the hustle are returned to them and their consent for the item to be broadcast is obtained so that viewers can avoid being ripped off by the same scam.

A multi-platform service for 16-34s, featuring comedy, entertainment and factual content.

The BBC’s multi-platform service for 16 to 34s, innovating with breakthrough comedy, stand-out entertainment, brave documentary and intellectual factual content.

The swindlers demonstrate how items found in rubbish can be used to obtain credit cards in a victim's name.  
7.30 How to avoid being conned by bogus psychics.

The Real Hustle: Series 1: Episode 8

Episode 8

BBC Three - The Real Hustle, Series 1, Episode 8

How a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers.

Factual entertainment series about scams and cons. How a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers, a demonstration of rigged dice game, a sneaky bar bet and a pool hustle.

Factual entertainment series about scams and cons. How a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers, a demonstration of rigged dice game, a sneaky bar bet, a pool hustle and a look back at what has been learned throughout the series.

The participants featured in The Real Hustle have either been set up by their family and friends or believe that they are participating in another television programme. After they have been hustled for real any monies or property taken during the hustle are returned to them and their consent for the item to be broadcast is obtained so that viewers can avoid being ripped off by the same scam.

Driving Mum and Dad Mad

02/09/2008

BBC Three - Driving Mum and Dad Mad

Two teenagers compete in a learning-to-drive competition with the help of their parents.

Documentary looking the volatile relationship between 17-year-olds Verity Abrahams and Joe Pritchard and their parents as the two teenagers learn to drive.

Documentary which looks at the volatile relationship between 17-year-olds Verity Abrahams and Joe Pritchard and their parents as the two teenagers learn to drive, reflecting the pivotal moment when the child is ready to fly the nest while their parent is still trying to exert control. 

To pile the pressure on even more, this is a competition - Verity and Joe have just three weeks to learn to drive, neither has ever sat behind the wheel of a car and they can only be taught by their mum and dad in their mum and dad's car.

At the end of three weeks Verity and Joe take their DVLA driving test. Whoever passes wins a perfect second-hand car which is taxed and insured for a year. If both pass, the one with the fewest faults wins. If both fail, there's no second chance and no-one wins the car.

New. Two 17-year-olds are challenged to pass their driving tests in three weeks, with only the help of their parents. The person who passes first wins a second-hand car. See panel.

Don't Tell the Bride

Series in which the groom must choose every detail of his wedding.

Series in which the groom must choose every detail of his wedding, from venue to cake to wedding dress.

Don't Tell the Bride: Series 2

Don't Tell the Bride: Series 2: Episode 2: Paula and Rodney

Episode 2

Episode 2: Paula and Rodney

Series 2

Paula and Rodney

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Can Rodney get things together in time for his wedding to childhood sweetheart Paula?

Series in which weddings are planned by the groom alone in return for cash to make their big day special. Can Rodney get things together for his marriage to Paula?

Rodney and Paula are truly, madly, deeply in love. They have been going out since they were teenagers and Paula knew straight away that this was the man she wanted to marry. Thirteen years later, Rodney has finally decided to make an honest woman of her.

However, the couple are strapped for cash so they are given £12,000 towards their big day. But there's a catch - they have agreed, in the presence of a lawyer, that Rodney will organise the wedding alone. They will have absolutely no contact and the bride won't have a clue about the wedding plans until the big day in three weeks time.

Can Rodney find the perfect venue? Will he ever make a decision, or will making his mind up tip his bride over the edge? Can this man give his woman a day she will never forget?

Series in which the groom must choose every detail of his wedding

New. 2/6; series two. Groom-to-be 
Rodney waited 13 years before popping the question to his childhood sweetheart Paula. Now he has E12,000 and three weeks to give Paula the wedding of her dreams, but seems unable to make a decision and struggles to find the right venue.

EastEnders 2008 - 2012

Classic years in the Square. Relive the dramas of Whitney's teen years, Janine's scheming, Kat and Alfie's return, Roxy and Ronnie's fights and goodbye to Peggy and Pat.

EastEnders

EastEnders 2008 - 2012: 2008: 02/09/2008

2008

BBC One - EastEnders 2008 - 2012, 2008, 02/09/2008

Billy fights to save his marriage while Phil comes under mounting pressure from Suzy.

Billy fights to save his marriage while Phil comes under mounting pressure from Suzy. Max stumbles upon some incriminating evidence.

EastEnders 2008 - 2012: 2008

BBC One

It's a classic year in the Square with new arrival Whitney making a splash, sibling rivalry between Ronnie and Roxy, and the knives out for Max.

Billy struggles to save his marriage. 
Shown at 7.30pm on BBC1

How Not To Live Your Life

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts

How Not To Live Your Life: Series 1

How Not To Live Your Life: Series 1: Episode 4: The Young Ones

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Young Ones

The Young Ones

BBC Three - How Not To Live Your Life, Series 1, The Young Ones

Don feels his age when he hangs out with a girl who is nine years younger than him.

Sitcom about a 20-something loser. Don meets a younger woman and, after hanging out with her friends, realises he's not the hip young dude he once thought he was.

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts, whose overactive imagination is always in full flow in the form of quick-fire fantasy sequences as he imagines what he would really like to say. 

Don meets a girl who is nine years younger than him while working as a charity street collector. He hangs out with her and her friends, but soon realises he's not the hip young dude he once thought he was.

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts.

How Not to Live Your Life

New. 4/6; seris one. Don meets a girl nine years his junior while working as a street collector for charity. He hangs out with her and her friends, but discovers he isn't the hip youngster he thought he was.

Family Guy

Subversive animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of the Griffins

Subversive animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of the Griffin household

Family Guy: Series 3

Family Guy: Series 3: Episode 21: Viewer Mail No 1

Episode 21

Episode 21: Viewer Mail No 1

Series 3

Viewer Mail No 1

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Peter loses his bones, the Griffins gain superpowers and Peter appears as Little Rascals.

Animated comedy. Three stories inspired by viewers' letters: Peter loses his bones, the Griffins gain superpowers, and Peter and friends appear as Little Rascals.

Three stories inspired by viewers' letters: Peter loses his bones, the Griffins gain superpowers, and Peter and his friends appear as Little Rascals.

More subversive animated comedy from the Griffin family

Subversive animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of the Griffin family

Series three. Three stories inspired by viewers' mail: Peter loses his bones; the Griffins gain super powers; and Peter appears as a Little Rascal.  
11.25 A Jewish accountant helps the family with their money, prompting Peter to try and convert Chris to 
Judaism.

Family Guy: Series 3: Episode 22: When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

Episode 22

Episode 22: When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

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Peter attempts to convert Chris to Judaism to help him perform better at school.

Animated comedy series about the everyday tribulations of family life. Peter tries to convert Chris to Judaism to help him perform better at school.

Animated comedy series about the everyday trials and tribulations of family life. After a Jewish accountant helps him get back some money he was conned out of by Jim Kaplan, Peter attempts to convert Chris to Judaism to help him perform better at school.

As 7.00/7.30

As 10.30pm

Mischief

Series of films that take a witty and mischievous approach to serious issues

Mischief: Series 3

Mischief: Series 3: Episode 3: Fame Junkies

Episode 3

Episode 3: Fame Junkies

Fame Junkies

BBC Three - Mischief, Series 3, Fame Junkies

A barman embarks on an experiment to infiltrate the so-called 'celebrity machine'.

Barman Garron Mitchell embarks on an experiment to infiltrate the so-called 'celebrity machine' and find out if he has what it takes to compete with the likes of Britney Spears.

Inspired by a survey which suggests that as many as four in five of school-leavers aspire to becoming a celebrity, 29-year-old London barman Garron Mitchell embarks on an experiment to infiltrate the so-called 'celebrity machine' and find out if he has what it takes to compete with the likes of Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse. 

His findings are a warning to all wannabes that fame can seriously damage your health.

Provocative and entertaining documentary series

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