Television
TV schedule Friday 3rd April 2015
6:45am
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Sooty
Series 2, Episode 8 - Easter TimeIt's Easter at the park and Richard is in charge of the annual egg hunt. But with Sooty hiding the eggs and Sweep making the hot cross buns, will their plans for a happy Easter be scrambled?
6:50am
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Timmy Time
Spin-off from Shaun The Sheep for the CBeebies channel, featuring Timmy the baby lamb and his friends.
6:50am
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On The Buses
Series 3, Episode 3 - The Inspector's NieceA new clippie hides a terrible secret - she's Blakey's niece!
7am
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'Allo 'Allo!
A selection of three episodes from the wartime sitcom.
7:25am
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On The Buses
Series 3, Episode 4 - Brew It YourselfStan gets himself in hot water when a home brewing attempt results in a beer far more potent than he'd intended!
7:55am
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Don't Lose Your Head
In Paris, 1789, two dashing English noblemen rescue their French counterparts from Madame Guillotine and the republican revolutionaries.
8:10am
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Minder
Series 3, Episode 13 - InTerry has to track down some tough Scots when Arthur lands himself in trouble with the police.
8:55am
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Harry Hill's TV Burp
Series 1, Episode 2Harry goes to Sun Hill, where The Bill is set, and catches some criminals. Plus, Viv Hope from Emmerdale falls into a wheelie bin.
8:55am
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Shaun The Sheep
Series 4, Episode 21 - The IntruderWhen the Farmer tasks Bitzer with ridding the farm of a pesky crow, Shaun comes up with an ingenious disguise to fool the intruder. However, the plan backfires when he's suspected of being the crazed chicken thief of Mossybottom Farm.
9:25am
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The Vicar Of Dibley
Series 3, Episode 1 - AutumnSimon's back in the village, and the Vicar's particularly looking to give him a warm welcome. Her parishioners, however, are somewhat slow on the uptake. When things go awry for the couple, Dibley is plunged into disarray.
9:45am
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That's Carry On!
Carry On compilation film presented by Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Williams.
10am
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Mr Bean
Series 2, Episode 13 - The NewspaperMr Bean is left in peace when Mrs Wicket goes off on her holidays. This means Mr Bean has free access to her daily newspaper. Every time he goes down to collect it from the letterbox it has disappeared. Someone is taking it, but who? Mr Bean is determined to nab the mysterious newspaper stealer and uses a range of ingenious homemade traps in his quest to catch the sneaky thief.
10:15am
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Mr Bean
Series 1, Episode 31 - Super TrolleyNipping to the shops for a few provisions proves a nightmare for Bean when a mile-long shopping list from his landlady and a clapped-out trolley with a wonky wheel conspire to ruin his day. So he constructs his own trolley, with a petrol mower, pram wheels and an extra pair of hydraulic hands.
10:20am
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The Vicar Of Dibley
Series 3, Episode 2 - WinterIt's Christmas - not to mention the turn of the Millennium - in Dibley, and the Vicar is determined to put on a festive show that will be talked about for years. With Hugo, Frank and Owen in charge, they don't get off to a good start, but plans for a special live nativity, with the actually pregnant Alice as Mary, are soon being made.
11:15am
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Only Fools And Horses
Series 5, Episode 5 - Video NastyRodney has been commissioned to make a film by the Local Community Arts Centre. Unfortunately, Del and Mickey Pearce take over, and the expensive equipment is soon covering weddings and all sorts - and then there's the cast and sponsor list for his production...
11:30am
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My Phone Genie
Episode 5 - The SleepoverA sleepover at Jaz's house has the kids play a game of 'Truth or Dare' with Gene choosing the dares!
11:40am
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Carry On Screaming!
Horror spoof from the Carry On team. Two bumbling Victorian detectives must investigate the disappearance of several young women.
11:55am
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Only Fools And Horses
Series 5, Episode 6 - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?Del is offered a business opportunity that he finds difficult to turn down. To accept would mean emigrating to Australia and leaving the family behind. What should he do?
12pm
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My Parents Are Aliens
Long-running children's sitcom following the lives of three orphaned children. Their new foster parents are secretly aliens.
1pm
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Red Dwarf
Repeat runs of the entire Series V and Series VI.
1:35pm
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Carry On Again Doctor
A doctor stumbles upon a shaman's weight-reducing potion and, realising the potential, returns to England with the aim of making a fortune.
1:45pm
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Mr. Bean
Episode 5 - The Trouble With Mr. BeanThanks to some ingenious driving, Mr. Bean gets to an appointment with the dentist after oversleeping. He also has trouble in the park with a bothersome wasp, and meets a child with a remote-controlled boat.
2:20pm
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Mr. Bean
Episode 6 - Mr. Bean Rides AgainRowan Atkinson creates more comic mayhem as Mr. Bean comes to the aid of a heart-attack victim, fails miserably to post a letter and flies off on holiday.
2:30pm
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Desmond's
Series 2, Episode 9 - Stop The World, I Want To Get OffShirley's feeling lost: 'wife', 'mother', 'shopper' - but no longer herself. Although she goes missing, Desmond almost fails to notice as he is engaged in the annual dominoes contest at the shop.
2:50pm
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Shaun The Sheep
Series 2, Episode 10 - Lock OutWhile preparing for bed, the farmer manages to lock himself out of the house and is stuck outside in his pyjamas. He decides to spend the night in the barn but his incessant snoring drives the flock mad. Shaun concocts a plan to return him to his bed without waking him up.
2:55pm
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Shaun The Sheep
Series 2, Episode 11 - Cheetah CheaterA wildlife film inspires Pidsley the cat to play a prank on the flock by disguising himself as a leopard. Shaun is convinced there is a huge beast on the loose and concocts a plan to catch it.
3:10pm
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Are You Being Served?
Series 2, Episode 3 - The Think TankThe staff are forced to brainstorm ideas to help combat sagging sales on their floor. Holding a fashion show comes to mind.
3:10pm30 min
Talking Comedy
Episode 1 - Bob Hope Talking ComedyA look back at celebrated American comedian Bob Hope's appearances on a selection of the BBC's best-loved talk shows over the years of his long career.
3:15pm
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Mr Bean
Series 1, Episode 32 - MagpieWhen nursing an injured magpie in his room, Mr Bean makes the discovery that magpies steal things that sparkle. When the police arrive to investigate the theft of his landlady's jewellery, it is not just Mr Bean who needs to take flight.
3:25pm
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Carry On Matron
Medical-based comedy from the Carry On team. A gang plan to raid a maternity hospital to steal a gigantic stock of birth control pills.
3:30pm
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Mr Bean
Series 1, Episode 33 - Cat SittingWhen his landlady is involved in an accident, Mr Bean is left to care for her vicious cat Scrapper.
3:30pm
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The Joke Machine
Schoolchildren compete to tell the best jokes, with a comedy punishment for those whose efforts are not up to scratch. Jarred Christmas hosts.
3:40pm
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'Allo 'Allo!
Series 1, Episode 5 - The FuneralRené is - supposedly - dead, and so is forced to masquerade as his own twin brother (René 2); he's also forced to spend thousands of francs on a funeral with an empty coffin. Or at least, it would have been empty if it weren't for the anti-tank mines hidden inside...
3:40pm30 min
Talking Comedy
Episode 2 - Peter Sellers Talking ComedyA laughter-filled look back at a selection of talk show appearances by the Goon Show star who became Hollywood's man of many faces, Peter Sellers.
4:10pm
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Hi-De-Hi!
1987 Christmas Special - Tell It To The MarinesPeggy's piano playing leads Ted to challenge the Royal Marines to a race over their assault course.
4:40pm
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The Vicar Of Dibley
A selection of episodes from the first series of the Dawn French sitcom.
5pm
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Desmond's
Series 2, Episode 9 - Stop The World, I Want To Get OffShirley's feeling lost: 'wife', 'mother', 'shopper' - but no longer herself. Although she goes missing, Desmond almost fails to notice as he is engaged in the annual dominoes contest at the shop.
5pm30 min
The Dog Ate My Homework
Series 2, Episode 10The brilliant young team captains are joined by Dominique Moore from DNN and Horrible Histories, dance phenomenon Aidan Davis, Alex Riley from Junior Vets and host of Extreme School, Susan Calman.
5:15pm
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Carry On Henry
Historical hamming from the Carry On regulars. Henry VIII is up in arms about the garlic breath of his wife, Marie de Normandy.
5:20pm
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Boj
Episode 29 - Puppet ShowBoj helps Mia to look after the Twitchlets, but they quickly get stuck putting on a never-ending puppet show! How can they get the Twitchlets to entertain themselves?
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Only Fools And Horses
Christmas Special - DatesDel attempts to meet his dream woman at a dating agency after seeing Trigger have some success. Meanwhile, Uncle Albert is dropping heavy hints about his impending birthday...
7:05pm
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Carry On Jack
Costume comedy with the Carry On team. A young serving wench in search of her captive boyfriend disguises herself on board the good ship Venus.
9pm
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Da Ali G Show
A selection of episodes of Sacha Baron Cohen's comic creation.
9pm
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Jonathan Creek
Series 1, Episode 1 - The Wrestler's TombA celebrated artist has been killed, with a beautiful model bound and gagged by his side. The police are baffled - so it is just as well that Jonathan Creek accidentally spears Maddy's hand with a cocktail stick...
9pm60 min
Carry On Forever
Episode 1The first episode looks at the birth of the Carry On brand at Pinewood Studios and reveals how producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas accidentally stumbled on a hit formula.
9pm
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Not Going Out
Series 6, Episode 5 - RachelAfter some dubious advice from Daisy, Lee decides that the best way to get Lucy to notice him is to make her jealous, and the best way to make her jealous is to get himself a girlfriend. Now all he has to do is choose the right girl...
9pm
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Bad Education
Series 1, Episode 5 - Football MatchAlfie reveals a hidden talent when the annual football match between Abbey Grove and the school he attended, Middleton House, approaches. Will the benefit scroungers pull it off, or Middleton's snooty toff boys who clinch the win?
9pm60 min
Stella
Series 4, Episode 9Preparations for Big Alan and Celia's impending wedding day are in full swing.
9:30pm
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Bad Education
Series 1, Episode 6 - PoliticsFraser's on professional suspension after an unfortunate incident involving a projector. With the school elections due to take place, Pickwell's determined that to show the governors that she can run something successfully, and Alfie's keen to show Miss Gulliver he can take politics seriously.
9:40pm
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Not Going Out
Series 6, Episode 6 - PlayThe return from Africa of Lucy's first teenage love proves too much for Lee, especially when it turns out that Scott has written a play for Lucy and wants her to star in an Amateur production of it. Can Lee prevent them from getting too close?
10pm
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Carry On Cruising
Comedy with the Carry On crew, in which a sea captain discovers that his regular shipmates have defected and so must he hire an inexperienced crew.
10pm
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Michael McIntyre: Live & Laughing
A TV broadcast of Michael McIntyre's sell-out 2008 stand-up show which cemented the comic's status as one of the UK's top stand-up stars.
10pm60 min
The Football's On
Series 2, Episode 34Ian Stone returns with more football chat. With special guests Sean Hughes and Ian Moore.
10pm30 min
Sketchland
Sketch show pilot based around the topic of moving out of the family home. Features a young cast.
10pm
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Russell Howard's Good News
Series 6, Episode 3Clips include a mayor who has banned residents from dying; a man who can't stop laughing after an operation; and some naughty placards at the London Marathon. The Mystery Guest is a canine Crufts winner. The Good News Extra comic is Dana Alexander.
10pm65 min
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Series 14, Episode 3 - Noel Fielding, Frank Lampard, Denise Van Outen, Lethal BizzleAlan is joined by Alan is joined by footballing ace Frank Lampard; the new girl on Eastenders, Denise Van Outen; and surreal comedian Noel Fielding. With a fantastic musical performance from Lethal Bizzle.
10:15pm
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A Fish Called Wanda
A black comedy starring John Cleese and Michael Palin. A con artist uses her female charms to steal a stash of jewels.
10:20pm
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Mock The Week
Series 4, Episode 4Gina Yashere joins Hugh Dennis and Frankie Boyle for the fifth time. Meanwhile Russell Howard and Andy Parsons have Ed Byrne.
10:30pm
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Goodness Gracious Me
Reunion SpecialSanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia reunite for a one-off special of the ground-breaking British Asian sketch show, with support from Dave Lamb.
11pm
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Jonathan Creek
Series 1, Episode 2 - Jack In The BoxVeteran comedian Jack Holiday has committed suicide. But how did a man with crippling arthritis manage to hold a gun to his head? And how was Jonathan duped into another of Maddy's "grisly murder investigations"?
11pm
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The Trip
The Trip, Episode 6 - The Angel At HettonSteve and Rob visit Bolton Abbey and breakfast at The Angel at Hetton. On their way back home to London they stop off at Steve's parents' house.
11pm
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At Home With The Braithwaites
Comedy drama about the Leeds Braithwaite family, whose lives are changed when mum wins £36 million on the lottery.
11pm
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Would I Lie To You?
Series 8, Episode 5Lee Mack and David Mitchell are joined by Rhod Gilbert, Kelly Hoppen MBE, Carol Vorderman and Hal Cruttenden.
11pm
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Harry And Paul's Story Of The 2s
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse lampoon BBC Two's best known shows and presenters as part of the channel's 50th anniversary programming.
11pm
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11:05pm
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8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Series 4 (Channel 4: Series 5), Christmas SpecialJimmy Carr, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson are back with a Christmas Special. Guests are David Baddiel and Kathy Burke, plus Alex Horne and the Horne Section join Countdown's resident lexicographer Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner, and Joe Wilkinson 'assists' the queen of numbers, Rachel Riley.
11:20pm
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Drunk History
Series 1, Episode 1Tonight Rob Beckett on Henry VIII, Kerry Howard talks Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and James Acaster on The Black Death.
11:40pm
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Human Remains
Black comedy series in which Rob Brydon and Julia Davis play various characters.
11:40pm
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Mock The Week
Series 4, Episode 5Joining Hugh Dennis and Frankie Boyle is Rhod Gilbert and joining Russell Howard and Andy Parsons is Jo Caulfield.
11:50pm
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Till Death Us Do Part
Alf and the family get a big-screen outing in this feature film spin-off from the hit BBC sitcom.
11:50pm
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Drunk History
Series 1, Episode 2Tom Rosenthal talks The Great Fire of London, Andrew Maxwell on graverobbers Burke and Hare, and Rob Beckett on Queen Victoria's unwanted cheese.
Midnight
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Cold Feet
Comedy drama about three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance.
Midnight
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Anita & Me
2002 film based on the book of the same name by Meera Syal about Meena, a 12-year-old Sikh girl living in a predominantly white mining village.
12:05am
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Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Series 14, Episode 3 - Noel Fielding, Frank Lampard, Denise Van Outen, Lethal BizzleAlan is joined by Alan is joined by footballing ace Frank Lampard; the new girl on Eastenders, Denise Van Outen; and surreal comedian Noel Fielding. With a fantastic musical performance from Lethal Bizzle.
12:15am
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8 Out Of 10 Cats
Series 16, Episode 4Sean and Jon are joined in their quest to uncover the public's most popular taking points by guests including Tess Daly, Joe Wilkinson and Aisling Bea.
12:20am
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Birds Of A Feather
Series 2, Christmas Special - Falling In Love AgainChris has got himself into debt with the McCarthy family, Sharon wins a dating show and chooses a trip to Berlin as her prize so that she can collect a valuable car that Chris owns to settle the debt. Dorien gets a nasty surprise and Tracey falls for a mechanic.
12:20am
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Marion And Geoff
Rob Brydon plays the taxi driver who is obsessed with his wife's elopement.
12:20am
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Live At The Apollo
Jack Dee Live At The Apollo Series 1, Episode 5 - Omid DjaliliDeadpan comic Jack Dee shares his gripes on school sports day, rubbernecking and the notion of appointing an Olympic village idiot, before introducing a performance by Omid Djalili, who offers his take on everything from Shakespeare to belly-dancing.
12:20am
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12:30am
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Bluestone 42
Series 3, Episode 4Word reaches the team that a Taliban attack is imminent, doing nothing to help Simon's paranoid suspicion of the new ANA recruit.
12:35am
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Getting On
Series 2, Episode 5Tonight, a graduate nurse drives a wedge between Den and Kim, and Hilary's elaborate new hand-washing protocols serve only to help muddy the water. Meanwhile, Pippa suffers the indignity of reapplying for her own job, but luckily Den and Kim find a way of cheering things up.
1:15am
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The Trip
The Trip, Episode 6 - The Angel At HettonSteve and Rob visit Bolton Abbey and breakfast at The Angel at Hetton. On their way back home to London they stop off at Steve's parents' house.
1:20am
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Alan Carr Live: Spexy Beast
Alan Carr presents his live show Spexy Beast, previously released on DVD in 2011.
1:30am
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Bad Education
Series 1, Episode 5 - Football MatchAlfie reveals a hidden talent when the annual football match between Abbey Grove and the school he attended, Middleton House, approaches. Will the benefit scroungers pull it off, or Middleton's snooty toff boys who clinch the win?
1:50am
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Birds Of A Feather
Series 3, Christmas Special - We'll Always Have MajorcaThe girls are given the chance to spend Christmas in the sun when Darryl's rock star friend offers the use of his villa.
1:50am
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Red Dwarf
A selection of episodes from Series V.
1:55am
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Human Remains
Black comedy series in which Rob Brydon and Julia Davis play various characters.
2am
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Bad Education
Series 1, Episode 6 - PoliticsFraser's on professional suspension after an unfortunate incident involving a projector. With the school elections due to take place, Pickwell's determined that to show the governors that she can run something successfully, and Alfie's keen to show Miss Gulliver he can take politics seriously.
2:25am
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Marion And Geoff
Rob Brydon plays the taxi driver who is obsessed with his wife's elopement.
2:30am
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Drunk History
Series 1, Episode 4Ben Ashenden regales us with the story of Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot and Joe Lycett tells us all about the Krays.
2:40am
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Getting On
Series 2, Episode 5Tonight, a graduate nurse drives a wedge between Den and Kim, and Hilary's elaborate new hand-washing protocols serve only to help muddy the water. Meanwhile, Pippa suffers the indignity of reapplying for her own job, but luckily Den and Kim find a way of cheering things up.
2:40am
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On The Buses
Series 3, Episode 5 - Busmen's PerksOlive wants to redecorate her bedroom. By far the cheapest approach is for Stan to get a couple of cans of cheap bus paint from the garage. After all, everyone's at it - even the boss.
2:50am
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The Alternative Comedy Experience
Series 1, Episode 4 - Paedophile HairIntroducing the brilliant original comedy of Tony Law alongside Josie Long, Simon Munnery, Bridget Christie, Boothby Graffoe and Paul Sinha. Brand new and exclusive live show curated by Stewart Lee.
3:30am
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Russell Howard's Good News
Series 6, Episode 3Clips include a mayor who has banned residents from dying; a man who can't stop laughing after an operation; and some naughty placards at the London Marathon. The Mystery Guest is a canine Crufts winner. The Good News Extra comic is Dana Alexander.
5am
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The Football's On
Series 2, Episode 34Ian Stone returns with more football chat. With special guests Sean Hughes and Ian Moore.