British Comedy Guide

Schedule Saturday 20th August 2011

BBC Radio 5 Live 11am
60 min
Fighting Talk. Colin Murray. Copyright: World's End Productions

Fighting Talk

Series 9, Episode 3

Steve Bunce, Neil Delamere, Iyare Igiehon and Dougie Anderson all join Colin Murray to battle it out to try and win points for punditry.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 5:30pm
40 min
Alexander Armstrong

Epic Win

Episode 1

Alexander Armstrong welcomes ordinary individuals to put their extraordinary abilities to the test. The panel is Micky Flanagan, Jason Manford and Nina Wadia.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 6pm (repeat)
Blackadder. Mr. Edmund Blackadder, Esquire (Rowan Atkinson)

Blackadder

A selection of episodes from the second, third and fourth series of the historical sitcom covering Britain's most famous comic dynasty, the Blackadders, and their idiot servants, the Baldricks.

U&Dave channel logo 7pm (repeat)
BBC Two 7:30pm (repeat)
Dad's Army. Image shows from L to R: Private Godfrey (Arnold Ridley), Lance Corporal Jones (Clive Dunn), Private Walker (James Beck), Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), Private Frazer (John Laurie), Sergeant Wilson (John Le Mesurier), Private Pike (Ian Lavender)

Dad's Army

Series 7, Episode 4 - The Godiva Affair

Jones is worried that Mrs. Fox is falling in love with the town clerk, Mr. Gordon, so he asks Captain Mainwaring if he can help. Meanwhile, Hodges and Gordon are casting for the role of Lady Godiva in the town parade.

U&Dave channel logo 7:40pm (repeat)
Have I Got News For You. Image shows from L to R: Ian Hislop, Angus Deayton, Paul Merton. Copyright: BBC / Hat Trick Productions

Have I Got News For You

Series 24, Episode 1

With Christine Hamilton on Ian's side and Rod Liddle on Paul's side.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 8pm (repeat)
One Foot In The Grave. Image shows left to right: Margaret Meldrew (Annette Crosbie), Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson). Credit: BBC

One Foot In The Grave

Series 4, Christmas Special - One Foot In The Algarve

Victor and Margaret accompany Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her pen pal Alfonso, on holiday to meet him in his native Portugal. Fleet Street paparazzo Martin Trout is hot on their tail after an encounter at Victoria station leads him to believe they have accidentally taken possession of an extremely valuable and politically explosive roll of film...

U&Dave channel logo 8:20pm (repeat)
Red Dwarf. Image shows from L to R: Cat (Danny John-Jules), Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), Holly (Hattie Hayridge), Lister (Craig Charles), Rimmer (Chris Barrie). Copyright: BBC

Red Dwarf

Series IV, Episode 1 - Camille

Rescuing a mechanoid, Camille, from a crashed spaceship, Kryten falls in love instantly. However, so does Rimmer. And Lister's quite taken with her too. Just what is going on?

U&Dave channel logo 9pm (repeat)
QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig. Copyright: TalkbackThames

QI

A selection of episodes from Series E of the world's cleverest and most interesting panel game. Repeated again as 00.20.

BBC Three 9pm (repeat)
Three@TheFringe. Copyright: BBC

Three@TheFringe

Live comedy spectacular bringing the best of the Edinburgh Fringe to a national audience.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9:45pm
30 min
John Bishop's Britain. John Bishop. Copyright: Objective Productions / 3 Amigos Productions

John Bishop's Britain

Series 2, Episode 4 - Animals

John's guests in this episode include Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, talking about animals.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 10pm (repeat)
Fawlty Towers. Image shows from L to R: Manuel (Andrew Sachs), Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales), Polly (Connie Booth). Copyright: BBC

Fawlty Towers

A selection of episodes form the first and second series of the hotel-based sitcom starring and co-written by John Cleese.

Radio 2 logo 10pm
60 min
Russell Kane's Whistle Stop Tour. Russell Kane. Copyright: Avalon Television

Russell Kane's Whistle Stop Tour

Episode 3 - Brighton

Russell Kane is joined at Brighton's Komedia by comedians Richard Herring, Holly Walsh, Stephen Grant and Joe Wilkinson, while music is provided by The Holy Vessels.

ITV2 logo. Credit: ITV 10:15pm (repeat)
Bridget Jones's Diary. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger). Copyright: Working Title Films / Universal Pictures

Bridget Jones's Diary

Film based on Helen Fielding's novel about an unlucky-in-love Londoner who decides to take control of her life and start a diary.

BBC Four 10:55pm (repeat)
Sex And The Sitcom. Copyright: Crocodile Media

Sex And The Sitcom

Documentary examining how society's attitudes towards sex and sexuality since the 1950s have been reflected in sitcom.

BBC Two 11pm (repeat)
The Rob Brydon Show. Rob Brydon. Copyright: Arbie

The Rob Brydon Show

Series 2, Episode 5

Rob Brydon has a royal visit from the legendary Dame Edna Everage and the evergreen Will Young. The unique combination of guests results in some masterful double entendres and a colourful duet. There's also stand-up comedy from the up-and-coming Phil Wang.

BBC Two 11:30pm (repeat)
Starter For 10

Starter For 10

Comedy about Brian, a 1980s working class boy stumbling romantically and academically through his first year at Bristol University.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV Midnight (repeat)
Ripping Yarns. Michael Palin. Copyright: BBC

Ripping Yarns

Episode 5, Across the Andes by Frog: The epic tale of Walter Snetterton, an explorer who tries to prove his belief that frogs can scale mountains by setting out on a great adventure in the Andes mountain range.

BBC Three Midnight (repeat)
The Pranker. Ross Lee. Copyright: Big Talk Productions / Running Bare Pictures

The Pranker

Episode 1

This week, The Old Lady learns to play ping-pong in a very unusual way, an estate agent encounters a possessed potential tenant, Slaphead finds some human hair and Boris the Teenager inflicts wedding day woe on his babysitter.

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