British Comedy Guide

Schedule Saturday 8th March 2008

BBC Radio 5 Live 11am
60 min
Rick Edwards. Credit: BBC

Fighting Talk

Series 6, Episode 28

Sports game in which Colin Murray plays judge and jury.

Radio 2 logo 1pm
30 min
Buy Me Up TV. Copyright: BBC

Buy Me Up TV

Episode 1

The TV station organises a charity telethon for animals, with Ewen from The Office in the loos taking the calls. However, guest presenter Eamonn Holmes is a spanner in the works. It soon emerges that not only is the seemingly reliable GMTV presenter happy to defraud charity appeals, he once cheated on Celebrity Ready Steady Cook too.

Radio 7 6:30pm
30 min
Space Hacks. Copyright: BBC

Space Hacks

Series 2, Episode 2 - The Quite Good Escape

Mother's got a boyfriend and Charlie and Moog are feeling a bit left out.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 6:45pm
30 min
Harry Hill's TV Burp. Harry Hill. Copyright: Avalon Television

Harry Hill's TV Burp

Series 7, Episode 8

This week's episode featured the werewolf, Steve McDonald had a farm, Mysteroso on The Royal Today, questionnaires disease on Doctors, a visitor to Hampstead Heath on American Princess, an invisible letter and Gail talking to a banister on Coronation Street, Phil and Shirley's paper mache fight, tortoise, Zippy, Top 3 Campest Waiters of the Week ("let's go fly a kite"), Freaky Eaters with Harry eating bread and hoopy hoops, and two knights.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9pm
30 min
Love Soup. Alice Chenery (Tamsin Greig). Copyright: BBC

Love Soup

Series 2, Episode 2 - Integrated Logistics

Cleo's attempt to fix up Alice with a sales rep ends in failure, and she offends Milly when she tries to put a lover off her by claiming Milly is a man. Alice then gets herself involved in a Dickensian romance.

BBC Two 10:30pm (repeat)
Timeshift

Timeshift: Gagging For It - TV's Hunger For Radio Comedy

Documentary examining how television has looked to radio comedy for the 'next big thing'.

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