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Merlin

Fantasy drama based on the legend of King Arthur and Merlin.

Merlin: Series 2

Merlin: Series 2: Episode 2: The Once and Future Queen

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Once and Future Queen

Series 2

The Once and Future Queen

BBC One - Merlin, Series 2, The Once and Future Queen

Merlin helps Arthur disguise his identity to enter a jousting tournament.

Fantasy drama. Merlin helps Arthur disguise his identity to enter a jousting tournament, little knowing that a deadly assassin has arrived in Camelot.

Arthur is determined to win Camelot's jousting tournament on his own merit, so with Merlin and Gwen's help he goes undercover as an ordinary man. But Arthur's in for a shock when Gwen challenges him to give up his spoilt, lofty ways. Will Arthur be able to shake the habits of a lifetime as easily as he did his princely robes? And why does he care so much what Gwen thinks anyway?

While Arthur is distracted, the bounty hunter Myror arrives in Camelot, intent on killing him. Can Merlin save the prince from the most deadly assassin in the land?

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Fantasy-drama based on Arthurian Legend - you can't escape destiny.

2/13; series two. Arthur is determined to win Camelot's jousting tournament on merit.   
7.45 3/13. Morgana wonders whether she too has magic powers. See choice, p46. Shown on Saturday at 6.15pm on BBC1 Repeated Friday at 8pm For cast see page 4S  PHOTO GALLERIES: radiotimes.com/merlin

Merlin: Series 2: Episode 3: The Nightmare Begins

Episode 3

Episode 3: The Nightmare Begins

The Nightmare Begins

BBC One - Merlin, Series 2, The Nightmare Begins

Morgana becomes terrified that she has magical powers. Merlin knows she needs the truth.

Fantasy drama. Morgana's nightmares spill into waking hours and she becomes terrified that she has the power of magic. Merlin knows she needs the truth.

When Morgana's nightmares spill into waking hours, she becomes terrified that she has magical powers. Gaius is determined to keep her in the dark for her own good but Merlin won't stand by and watch his friend suffer. He knows exactly what she's going through and he knows she needs the truth. Is Merlin about to reveal his secret at last?

Wilfully disobeying Gaius, Merlin risks everything to help Morgana, not knowing what the far-reaching consequences might be. Lives are put in danger, loyalties are tested, and Morgana is reunited with the strange young druid boy Mordred, who the dragon predicted would one day kill Arthur.

Clever v Stupid

Clever v Stupid: Episode 5: DJs

Episode 5

Episode 5: DJs

BBC Three - Clever v Stupid, DJsSearch BBC

A team of DJs take on a team of boffins in a series of mental and physical challenges.

New game show in which a team of four DJs take on a team of four young boffins in a series of mental and physical games and challenges designed to test who is really smart.

Matt Edmondson presents a provocative and funny studio game show, which uses unusual tasks and surprising games to challenge the way we look at intelligence.
 
In each show a team of academically brilliant young people, the 'Clevers' take on a team who some might think are a little bit 'Stupid'. The two teams face quirky challenges that test all different areas of their intelligence, rather than simply measuring IQ and conventional intelligence. With the help of psychologists, the games have been designed to level the playing field between the two teams, making it a fair fight.

Using games based on psychological research the show tests the teams' creativity, their emotional intelligence, their physical dexterity and practical skills.

The winner is decided in a dramatic final round called The Ultimate Mind Game that uses state of the art equipment to test the contestants' brainpower and focus.

A team of four disc jockeys go up against a musical prodigy, a mathematical genius, a quiz mistress and a quantum physicist, with the DJs out to prove they are not just late night layabouts with a permanent hangover.

Among the games - the teams have to get creative and invent a children's story on the spot; use their practical skills to change a tyre; show physical dexterity when they make an ice cream sundae while wearing goggles that turn the world upside down; and use emotional intelligence when interviewing naked gardeners.

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.

Matt Edmondson presents a game show using games based on psychological research

Matt Edmondson presents a game show using games based on psychological research. The show tests the teams' creativity, emotional intelligence, physical dexterity and practical skills

New. 5/7. A team of disc jockeys takes on a musical prodigy, a maths genius, a quiz mistress and a quantum physicist. 
Repeated on Wednesday at 2.25am

Gavin & Stacey

Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love.

Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love, bringing their friends, family and baggage with them. The slow-burn hit that became the nation's favourite.

Gavin & Stacey: Series 2: Episode 3

BBC One - Gavin & Stacey, Series 2, Episode 3

Stacey's getting used to being an Essex wife, but it's not as exciting as she'd hoped.

Comedy series. Stacey is getting used to being an Essex wife, but it is not as exciting as she had hoped. Smithy goes with Nessa for the first scan and they glimpse their baby.

Comedy series based around the relationship between Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey and their friends. Stacey's getting used to being an Essex wife, but it's not as exciting as she'd hoped. She bucks up at the weekend, when it's time for a home visit to Barry. Smithy goes with Nessa for the first scan and they get the first glimpse of their baby.

Gavin & Stacey: Series 2

The romance between Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey begins to hit trouble

The romance between Essex boy Gavin and Welsh lass Stacey begins to hit trouble, and life is rocky for their best friends as well. Starring Matthew Horne and Joanna Page

3/7; series two. Stacey is already bored of being an Essex wife.

Lunch Monkeys

Office slackers flirting, fighting and dodging work in BBC Three sitcom

Sitcom in which admin workers at a law firm spend their time flirting, fighting and dodging work

Lunch Monkeys: Series 1

Lunch Monkeys: Series 1: Episode 4: Fire

Episode 4

Episode 4: Fire

Series 1

Fire

BBC Three - Lunch Monkeys, Series 1, Fire

Tania gets annoyed at Lee Ann's constant flirting with her fella, so she starts a fire.

Comedy series set in a law firm. Darrel is appointed fire marshal for the safety officer's visit, but becomes a little over-zealous and tries to stop Mike from keeping warm.

Darrel is appointed fire marshal in time for the safety officer's visit, but becomes a little over-zealous and tries to stop Mike from keeping warm.  

Shelley brings her convict boyfriend Swanny into the office for some free soup and then loses him, with Kenny getting roped into the search. Asif becomes stressed while on his own in the post room. 

Tania does some proper law work for Lee Ann, but is annoyed by her constant flirting with her fella Charlie, so she starts a fire, but finds out that his intentions are surprisingly honourable.

Sitcom in which slack admin workers at a law firm cause havoc

4/6. Darrel takes his new role of fire marshal to extremes. 
Showing on the BBC HD channel at 11pm 
Shown last Thursday

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: 2009: 05/10/2009

05/10/2009

2009

BBC One - EastEnders 2008 - 2012, 2009, 05/10/2009

Syed has the opportunity to come clean, but will he take it? Stacey's condition worsens.

Syed has the opportunity to come clean, but will he take it? Stacey's condition worsens, while Max sinks deeper into his pit of deception. Roxy stops worrying about Ronnie.

Syed has the opportunity to come clean, but will he take it? Stacey's condition worsens, while Max sinks deeper into his pit of deception. Roxy stops worrying about Ronnie - but is that a mistake?

EastEnders 2008 - 2012: 2009

A classic year in the Square, with wedding bells for Archie and Peggy, a mother and daughter reunited at last and a shock for Stacey.

Syed has the chance to come clean. 
Shown at 8pm on BBC1   Soaps: page 31

Coming of Age

Sitcom set in the world of a group of sixth form students living in Abingdon.

Teenager Tim Dawson's comedy takes a frank look into the outrageous world of a group of sixth form students living in Abingdon as they enjoy a final romp with adolescence

Coming of Age: Series 1

Coming of Age: Series 1: Episode 3: I Suck Coppers

Episode 3: I Suck Coppers

I Suck Coppers

BBC Three - Coming of Age, Series 1, I Suck Coppers

DK tries to avoid being done for drink-driving by swallowing some copper coins.

Sitcom set in the world of a group of sixth form students. Driving home from a party, DK tries to avoid being done for drink-driving by swallowing some copper coins.

A group of sixth form students living in Abingdon enjoy a final romp with adolescence. 

Driving home from an impromptu party in Chloe's bedroom, DK gets pulled over by a policeman. He tries to avoid being done for drink-driving by swallowing a load of copper coins. When bits of his body start going green, DK is delighted. At last he's got something truly special to show the girls.

Chloe finally agrees she will go out with Matt, but only if he starts eating a healthy diet. As Matt hates vegetables, Chloe comes up with a foolproof test to make sure that Matt is eating his greens by examining his poo. Now Matt must eat some vegetables or find an ingenious method of passing Chloe's exam.

When Jas gets the chance to fulfil her dreams of going to London to start in the Rocky Horror Show, Ollie is really worried. How will they survive without each other and without all the sex? Jas finds a surprising way to make certain that Ollie won't miss her.

3/6; series one. Chloe goes to extraordinary lengths to monitor Matt's health.

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 2

Family Guy: Series 2: Episode 6: Death is a Bitch

Episode 6

Episode 6: Death is a Bitch

Death is a Bitch

BBC Three - Family Guy, Series 2, Death is a Bitch

When Lois finds a lump in Peter's breast, he goes to hospital.

Animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of family life. When Lois finds a lump in Peter's breast, he goes to hospital.

Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of the Griffin family

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

Series two. Peter ends up in hospital following a health scare.

Family Guy: Series 2: Episode 7: The King is Dead

Episode 7

Episode 7: The King is Dead

The King is Dead

BBC Three - Family Guy, Series 2, The King is Dead

Lois is named artistic director of the Quahog Players theatre group.

Animated comedy about family life. Lois is named artistic director of the Quahog Players theatre group and chooses The King and I as her first production.

Animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of family life. Lois is named artistic director of the Quahog Players theatre group and chooses The King and I as her first production.

Lois becomes a director.

As 8.30pm.

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 2

How Not To Live Your Life: Series 2: Episode 3: Don the Singer

Episode 3: Don the Singer

Don the Singer

BBC Three - How Not To Live Your Life, Series 2, Don the Singer

Samantha's singer-songwriter boyfriend Jackson invites Don to play at his open mic night.

Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts. Samantha dates a singer-songwriter who invites Don to play at his open mic night.

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

Samantha is dating a cool singer-songwriter called Jackson, who invites Don to play at his open mic night, much to Sam's dismay, and an instant rivalry begins between the two singers.

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

How Not to Live Your Life

as 9.30pm

as 9pm

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 3

Don't Tell the Bride: Series 3: Episode 5: Luke and Lauren

Episode 5: Luke and Lauren

Series 3

Luke and Lauren

BBC Three - Don't Tell the Bride, Series 3, Luke and Lauren

Groom Luke must organise every detail of his upcoming wedding to Lauren all by himself.

With the strict proviso that Luke must organise the big day with no help from the bride, Luke and Lauren are given 12,000 pounds towards their wedding.

Luke and Lauren are madly in love and the birth of daughter Poppy a year later sealed the deal, but with a new baby it would have taken them years to save for their big day. 

They are given 12,000 pounds towards a wedding but the catch is that they have agreed, in the presence of a lawyer, that Luke must organise the whole event on his own. They will have absolutely no contact with each other and Lauren won't know a single thing about the wedding until the big day three weeks later.

Will Luke make the wrong choices or collapse under the pressure? Can he deliver everything Lauren desires and will he appreciate the importance of her faith? Most significantly, can this man give this woman a day she will never forget?

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, without the bride having any knowledge before the big day

Bizarre ER

Series about eye-watering cases which come through the doors of British A&E departments

Bizarre ER: Best Of

Bizarre ER: Best Of: Episode 10

Episode 10

Best Of

BBC Three - Bizarre ER, Best Of, Episode 10

Including a DIY enthusiast whose ear was almost severed falling off a ladder.

Documentary series about eye-watering cases in A&E departments. Includes a DIY enthusiast whose ear was almost severed falling off a ladder and a toddler attacked by a deckchair.

Freema Agyeman narrates a series about the most bizarre and intriguing accidents and emergencies to pass through the doors of the A&E Department of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, with retrospective cases of the most bizarre cases treated by British doctors in recent years.

Includes a DIY enthusiast whose ear was almost severed falling off a ladder; a toddler attacked by a deckchair; and an extraordinary hair-raising accident and how surgeons saved the victim's scalp.

Documentary series about eye-watering cases in British A&E departments

as 12.20am

as 10.30pm

Tough Guy or Chicken?

Tough Guy or Chicken?: Episode 7: Bangladesh

Episode 7: Bangladesh

Bangladesh

BBC Three - Tough Guy or Chicken?, Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the five adventurers must learn to catch venomous snakes.

The lads' penultimate challenge could be the most deadly, as they come to Bangladesh to learn to catch venomous snakes under the aegis of snake king Shoporaj Dholu.

Five young British men take on the challenge of a lifetime - to spend four months travelling the world, taking on some of the most deadly creatures and hostile places on the planet.

The lads' penultimate challenge is going to be one of the most deadly, as they have come to Bangladesh to learn to catch venomous snakes. Master snake king Shoporaj Dholu has just six days to train them up and keep them alive.

Dholu comes from generations of snake kings. He is a Bedey gypsy, a caste known for its snake catchers, snake charmers and snake medicine. The Brits arrive in the Bedey village of Rahmatpur at just the right time - Dholu is planning the first snake hunt of the season, for deadly cobras, and if they are good enough he has agreed that the outsiders can come along.

First, they have to prove they can catch rats and lizards, that they can handle milk snakes without getting bitten and that they can keep their head when confronted by a deadly cobra, while surviving 45 degree heat in 100 per cent humidity. 

Reuben looks to be in pole position because he actually loves snakes, but Nick is still determined to retain his incredible record of passing every challenge so far.

Five adventurers take on some of the most deadly creatures and hostile places on earth

Series in which five young British adventurers spend four months travelling the world, taking on some of the most deadly creatures and hostile places on the planet

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