British Comedy Guide

Schedule Monday 15th June 2009

Radio 7 8am (repeat)
Just A Minute. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Just A Minute

Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo and Peter Jones try to talk about more subjects for sixty seconds. From February 1998. Repeated at 12.00 and 19.00.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Newfangle. Image shows from L to R: Alf (Hugh Bonneville), Crag (Gabriel Vick), Newfangle (Russell Tovey). Copyright: Above The Title Productions

Newfangle

Episode 3 - Grows On Trees

Newfangle, aided by Crag, discovers that piles of mud can be shaped into shelters from the oppressive heat. These mudturtles, as Crag calls them, prove very popular with the other hominids - so popular that Newfangle devises a complicated payment system based on future harvests to cope with demand.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Clip and pin

A Bit Of Explaining To Do

Radio comedy drama in which a man must turn on the charm to try and get a difficult-to-explain entry removed from his credit card statement.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Image shows from L to R: Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer. Copyright: BBC

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Series 51, Episode 1

The perennial antidote to panel games comes from Her Majesty's Theatre (Haymarket, London), with Stephen Fry deputising for the late Humphrey Lyttelton in the chairman's role. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Victoria Wood. With Colin Sell at the piano.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 6:55pm (repeat)
On The Buses. Stan Butler (Reg Varney). Copyright: London Weekend Television

On The Buses

Series 3, Episode 2 - The Cistern

When the toilet breaks, Stan and the family are forced to rush next door to use Jack's facilities until they can arrange for a replacement.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 7:25pm (repeat)
Rising Damp. Rupert Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter). Copyright: Yorkshire Television

Rising Damp

Series 3, Episode 1 - That's My Boy

Rigsby returns from a Spanish holiday to find Alan has let out the two spare rooms: he's delighted that Miss Jones has returned, but likely to be less than enthusiastic about a single mother and her baby - especially if the father is who he believes.

BBC Three 9:30pm (repeat)
Horne & Corden. Image shows from L to R: Mathew Horne, James Corden. Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Horne & Corden

Episode 5

Mathew Horne and James Corden attempt some audience interaction. The Vague Critics, meanwhile, provide more meaningless debate; Xander interrupts Jibson's work presentation; the Silent Farter is once again not that silent; and Mat desperately tries to catch up with the mysterious Julie.

BBC Two 10pm (repeat)
Have I Got News For You. Lee Mack

Have I Got News For You

Series 37, Episode 8

With guest host Lee Mack and panellists Shappi Khorsandi and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

E4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm (repeat)
Shameless. Frank Gallagher (David Threlfall). Copyright: Company Pictures

Shameless

Series 6, Episode 2

With the launch night of the newly redecorated Jockey looming, Jamie and Karen are feeling the pressure in their relationship.

Radio 7 10:30pm (repeat)
Acropolis Now

Acropolis Now

Series 2, Episode 6 - Food

The restaurant regulars decide to have a "Last Supper". No food - just fine words, songs and... hemlock.

BBC Three 10:30pm
30 min
Ideal. Moz (Johnny Vegas). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Ideal

Series 5, Episode 6 - The Passports

Moz and Jenny pack up their things and say their goodbyes as they prepare to skip bail and flee to Portugal with stolen passports. Judith, meanwhile, decides to throw in her lot with her lover, Marco, and Psycho Paul's human trafficking plans go awry when a suspicious crate arrives from Russia - Nicole and Stephanie are not quite who he'd been hoping for.

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