British Comedy Guide

Schedule Wednesday 14th May 2014

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
When The Dog Dies. Sandy Hopper (Ronnie Corbett). Copyright: CPL Productions

When The Dog Dies

Series 4, Episode 1 - Gone In A Flash

Sandy's feeling bereft. His lodger has gone to live with her new man. And then his granddaughter Calais, with her parents away, gives a party which it seems hundreds of wild teenagers are going to crash. Can a lone granddad quell a major riot?

CBBC logo. Credit: BBC 5pm
25 min
DNN. Image shows from L to R: Bob Roberts (William Andrews), Felicity Bond (Kelly-Anne Lyons). Copyright: BBC

DNN

Series 2, Episode 2

There is a birthday in the studio, Nellie Osmond looks at the latest smart homes, and Davina Wave's record-breaking weather report has her hot under the collar.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 6:20pm (repeat)
Last Of The Summer Wine. Image shows from L to R: Walter C. 'Foggy' Dewhurst (Brian Wilde), William 'Compo' Simmonite (Bill Owen), Norman Clegg (Peter Sallis). Copyright: BBC

Last Of The Summer Wine

Series 1, Episode 5 - The New Mobile Trio

Clegg thinks that the time has come for him and his friends, Compo and Blamire, to get about a bit more - widen their horizons. With this in mind, they buy an old car. But Clegg is more imaginative than practical...

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Isy Suttie

Isy Suttie's Love Letters

Series 2, Episode 3 - Crank

The tale of the Crank, a Matlock oddball who Isy's mother has roped into helping Isy study the Welsh language.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 7pm (repeat)
Open All Hours. Image shows from L to R: Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron), Granville (David Jason), Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker). Copyright: BBC

Open All Hours

Series 3, Episode 5 - "The Man From Down Under"

When one of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's admirers returns from Australia, Arkwright proffers a real Yorkshire welcome...

E4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 7:30pm
30 min
Youngers. Image shows from L to R: Davina (Shavani Seth), Jay (Calvin Demba), Yemi (Ade Oyefeso). Copyright: Big Talk Productions

Youngers

Series 2, Episode 2 - Big Lady Business

Davina gets a job at the gym to pay for recording studio time, whilst Jay and Yemi attempt to patch things up with Ashley - if he's still interested in their talent.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 7:40pm (repeat)
Open All Hours. Image shows from L to R: Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron), Granville (David Jason), Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker). Copyright: BBC

Open All Hours

Series 3, Episode 6 - The Cool Cocoa Tin Lid

Granville decides to get cool. He's got the open necked shirt and the shades, but where's a poor errand boy going to find a medallion?

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 8:20pm (repeat)
Porridge. Image shows from L to R: Mr. Mackay (Fulton Mackay), Fletcher (Ronnie Barker), Godber (Richard Beckinsale). Copyright: BBC

Porridge

Series 1, Episode 5 - Ways And Means

After offering advice to fellow fishing-net "knitter" McLaren on curbing his short temper, Fletch attempts to make amends with the governor when McLaren forgoes angry outbursts for a more peaceful rooftop protest.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 9pm (repeat)
Not Going Out. Image shows from L to R: Tim (Tim Vine), Lee (Lee Mack), Kate (Megan Dodds). Copyright: Avalon Television / Arlo Productions

Not Going Out

Series 1, Episode 3 - Aussie

Ruth, an Australian friend of Kate's, comes to stay and Lee is persuaded to pretend to be Tim. Lee gets a job handing out leaflets at a shopping centre, but soon falls foul of a local youth.

U&Dave channel logo 9pm
60 min version
(repeat)
Have I Got News For You. Image shows left to right: Ian Hislop, Paul Merton. Credit: Matt Crockett

Have I Got News For You

Series 41, Episode 1

Jack Dee hosts the satirical panel game, with guest panellists Caroline Wyatt and Jon Richardson.

ITV2 logo. Credit: ITV 9pm (repeat)
Through The Keyhole. Leigh Francis. Copyright: Talkback

Through The Keyhole

Series 1, Episode 6

Keith and Dave are joined this week by Coronation Street star Simon Gregson and Saturdays singer Mollie King.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 9:40pm (repeat)
Blackadder. Image shows left to right: Baldrick (Tony Robinson), Mr. Edmund Blackadder, Esquire (Rowan Atkinson). Credit: BBC

Blackadder

Black Adder The Third, Episode 1 - Dish And Dishonesty

The House of Commons, now led by William Pitt the Younger, sets out to bankrupt the Prince Regent. Blackadder has a plan to stop them, but it'll involve a rigged by-election and new MP - there's only one man for the job...

BBC Two 10pm
30 min
Episodes. Image shows from L to R: Beverly Lincoln (Tamsin Greig), Matt LeBlanc (Matt LeBlanc), Sean Lincoln (Stephen Mangan). Copyright: Hat Trick Productions / BBC

Episodes

Series 3, Episode 1

Sean and Beverly are back together but quickly discover the healing process is an ongoing one. Meanwhile, Matt's fighting with his ex-wife after sleeping with his stalker.

U&Dave channel logo 10pm (repeat)
Room 101. Frank Skinner. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

Room 101

Series 1, Episode 4 - Ross Noble, Jamelia, Germaine Greer

This week Ross Noble, Jamelia and Germaine Greer try to send the things they hate the most into Room 101. Nominations include folk dancing, text speak and computer pop-up adverts.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10pm
30 min
Derek. Image shows from L to R: Kev (David Earl), Hannah (Kerry Godliman), Derek (Ricky Gervais), Vicky (Holli Dempsey), Dougie (Karl Pilkington). Copyright: Derek Productions

Derek

Series 2, Episode 4

Derek and the Broad Hill gang go on a trip to London Zoo. It's Derek's best day ever, meeting giraffes, penguins, aardvarks, and in Vicky's case, the man of her dreams. Throughout all the fun Hannah's caught off guard and must deal with the unexpected.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 10:20pm (repeat)
Blackadder. Dr. Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane). Credit: BBC

Blackadder

Black Adder The Third, Episode 2 - Ink And Incapability

When Baldrick appears to have used the sole copy of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary as fuel in the Prince's fireplace, Blackadder fears for his life at the hands of Samuel and his enraged, opium-fiend friends. He immediately sets about trying to write a new one...

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 10:35pm
30 min
Cardinal Burns. Image shows from L to R: Dustin Demri-Burns, Seb Cardinal. Copyright: Left Bank Pictures

Cardinal Burns

Series 2, Episode 3

This week we meet Chin, a party-loving Chinese Yuppie; and Banksy's French pen pal, Le Rat, comes to stay.

U&Dave channel logo 10:40pm (repeat)
24 Hours To Go Broke. Copyright: Renegade Pictures

24 Hours To Go Broke

Episode 1 - Armenia

David Baddiel and Richard Herring travel to Yerevan in Armenia to play chess with human-sized pieces and sabre dance in drag on the city's most elaborate monument.

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 11pm (repeat)
Harry Enfield & Chums. Image shows from L to R: Kathy Burke, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse

Harry Enfield & Chums

Hit 1990s sketch show starring Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side. Elvis McGonagall (Elvis McGonagall). Copyright: Unique Productions

Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side

Series 1, Episode 3 - Taking Care Of Business

Elvis rails against the wage gap, franchises, capitalism and corporate nonsense, until he is persuaded that his poetry is a bankable concern.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 11:05pm (repeat)
Alan Carr: Chatty Man. Alan Carr. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

Series 12, Episode 7 - Lily Allen, Courtney Love, John Torode, Gregg Wallace

Joining Alan for the seventh show of the series is pop star Lily Allen who chats and performs her latest single Our Time live in the studio. US rock star Courtney Love joins Alan to talk about her forthcoming UK tour and MasterChef hosts John Torode and Gregg Wallace talk to Alan about the upcoming final.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 11:10pm
40 min version
Room 101. Frank Skinner. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

Room 101

Series 3, Episode 4 - Kelly Hoppen, Miles Jupp, Vernon Kay

Dragons' Den star Kelly Hoppen, stand-up Miles Jupp and TV presenter Vernon Kay try to banish sliding doors, limp handshakes and people who litter forever.

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
Matt Berry

I, Regress

Series 1, Episode 2

Robin Hood - no relation - comes to Dr Matt Berry with a fear of spiders. The diagnosis seems to be that this may all be down to an unusually potent encounter between an arachnid and a South African grandmother...

Gold channel logo. Copyright: UKTV 11:40pm (repeat)
Harry Enfield & Chums. Image shows from L to R: Kathy Burke, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse

Harry Enfield & Chums

Hit 1990s sketch show starring Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke.

U&Dave channel logo 11:40pm (repeat)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Image shows from L to R: Noel Fielding, Phill Jupitus. Copyright: TalkbackThames / BBC

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

Series 25, Episode 6

Greg Davies hosts the pop quiz, with Noel Fielding and guest team captain Frankie Boyle. Plus TOWIE star Amy Childs, Tinchy Stryder, Ian 'H' Watkins from Steps and Holly Walsh.

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