British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide

Schedule Sunday 20th June 2010

Radio 4 12pm (repeat)
The Museum Of Curiosity. Image shows from L to R: John Lloyd, Jon Richardson. Copyright: BBC

The Museum Of Curiosity

Gallery 3, Episode 6 - Meeting Eighteen

With neuroscientist David Eagleman, Geordie comedienne Sarah Millican, and fantasy novellist Neil Gaiman.

Radio 7 3:30pm (repeat)
Genius. Dave Gorman. Copyright: BBC

Genius

Series 1, Episode 1 - Paul Daniels

With Paul Daniels. Ideas include stupid tests at cash points, the 99p coin, and running the Houses of Parliament based on the rules of Just a Minute.

Radio 7 4:30pm (repeat)
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 71, Episode 9

Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. With Mark Steel, Miles Jupp, Jeremy Hardy, and Susan Calman.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 5:05pm (repeat)
Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson)

Mr. Bean

Episode 8 - Mr. Bean In Room 426

Mr. Bean books into a hotel room and makes himself well and truly at home. In typical fashion he manages to lock himself out in a state of undress. Fortunately, help comes from an unexpected saviour.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 5:40pm (repeat)
Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson)

Mr. Bean

Episode 10 - Mind The Baby, Mr. Bean

The inept master of disaster finds himself looking after a baby at a funfair.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 6:10pm (repeat)
Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson)

Mr. Bean

Episode 9 - Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean

Mr. Bean catches a bargain in the New Year's Day sales, devises an unusual method of transporting his shopping home and wreaks havoc by doing a spot of decorating.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 6:45pm (repeat)
Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson)

Mr. Bean

The Best Of Mr Bean: A compilation of the choicest comedy clips from the award-winning series starring Rown Atkinson as the inveterate bumbler Mr Bean.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 8pm (repeat)
Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions / Working Title Films

Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) finds himself in Los Angeles, masquerading as the National Gallery's top art expert and destroying everything in his wake.

U&Dave channel logo 9:30pm (repeat)
Mock The Week. Image shows from L to R: Andy Parsons, Hugh Dennis, Dara O Briain, Russell Howard, Frankie Boyle. Copyright: Angst Productions

Mock The Week

Series 7, Episode 2

With Rhod Gilbert and Tom Stade.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm
50 min
Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Alan Carr. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

Series 4, Episode 1 - Russell Brand, Pamela Anderson, Glee Cast, Plan B

Alan Carr is joined on the sofa by Russell Brand in his first major UK TV chat show interview since the Sachsgate affair.

U&Dave channel logo 10:10pm (repeat)
QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig. Copyright: TalkbackThames

QI

Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10:25pm (repeat)
The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson. Copyright: BBC

The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson

Series 1, Episode 1

Master impressionist Jon Culshaw joins forces with talented Debra Stephenson, who returns to her comedy roots. No one is safe as the two of them lampoon some of the most familiar celebrities in Britain today.

BBC Two 10:30pm (repeat)
Mock The Week. Image shows from L to R: Russell Howard, Dara O Briain, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons. Copyright: Angst Productions

Mock The Week

Series 9, Episode 1

Dara O'Briain hosts another series of the topical comedy show. Regulars Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard and Andy Parsons are joined by guests Diane Morgan, Milton Jones and Chris Addison.

BBC Three 10:45pm (repeat)
Lee Nelson's Well Good Show. Lee Nelson (Simon Brodkin)

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show

Series 1, Episode 2

More banter with cheeky Lee Nelson. Jason Bent is interviewed by Adrian Chiles, meanwhile Dr Bob puts the fun back into fungal infections.

U&Dave channel logo 10:50pm (repeat)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Image shows from L to R: Phill Jupitus, Noel Fielding. Copyright: TalkbackThames / BBC

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Series 23, Episode 2

Guest host Rhod Gilbert is joined by panellists Greg Davies, Martin Kemp, Gabby Logan and Jeremy Reynolds.

Radio 7 11pm (repeat)
Miles Jupp

Newsjack

Series 3, Episode 1

Miles and the team are back for a new series. This week they tackle the thorny topics of oil spills, football thrills, Government cuts, Earle's girls, easy exams, and poor, poor, Robert Green.

Sky One logo. Copyright: Sky 11pm (repeat)
A League Of Their Own. Image shows from L to R: James Corden, Georgie Ainslie, Andrew Flintoff, John Bishop, Jamie Redknapp. Copyright: CPL Productions

A League Of Their Own

Series 1, Episode 9

It's the penultimate fix and there's still everything to play for. Gabby Logan joins Redknapp's Reds, while Father Ted's Ardal O'Hanlon is picked for Flintoff's Blues.

Radio 7 11:30pm (repeat)
The Penny Dreadfuls Present.... Image shows from L to R: Humphrey Ker, Thom Tuck, David Reed

The Penny Dreadfuls Present...

The Brothers Faversham, Episode 1 - Horatius

The Penny Dreadfuls present the story of Horatius, Victorian Britain's most decorated soldier and first born of the Faversham brothers.

More4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 11:40pm (repeat)
Father Ted. Image shows from L to R: Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O'Hanlon), Father Ted Crilly (Dermot Morgan), Mrs Doyle (Pauline McLynn), Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly). Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

Father Ted

Episode 2.6, The Plague: Father Dougal's new rabbit Sampras has to be kept well hidden when Bishop Brennan arrives to investigate a spate of nude sleepwalking. The Bishop has an intense rabbit phobia due to an incident in a lift in New York.

BBC Four Midnight (repeat)
Rude Britannia. Copyright: BBC

Rude Britannia

Episode 1 - A History Most Satirical, Bawdy, Lewd And Offensive

The art and literature of Georgian Britain revealed a nation openly and shockingly rude.

More4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 12:10am (repeat)
Black Books. Image shows from L to R: Bernard Black (Dylan Moran), Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey), Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig). Copyright: Assembly Film And Television

Black Books

Series 1, Episode 1 - Cooking The Books

Bookshop owner Bernard dreads the end of the financial year as his accounts beckon, Fran is an unlikely birth partner and accountant Manny swallows The Little Book of Calm.

More4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 12:40am (repeat)
The IT Crowd. Image shows from L to R: Jen (Katherine Parkinson), Moss (Richard Ayoade), Roy (Chris O'Dowd). Copyright: TalkbackThames

The IT Crowd

Series 1, Episode 1 - Yesterday's Jam

The unloved, ignored, socially-awkward Roy and Moss make up the I.T. department of Reynholm Industries. Their world is shattered by the arrival of Jen, a new 'relationship manager'.

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