Television
TV schedule Thursday 11th August 2016
6am
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Brandy For The Parson
British comedy about a young couple who accidentally become involved in brandy smuggling.
6:10am
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Doctor In The House
Series 2, Episode 12 - Doctor On The BoxWhen a TV company wants to make a film about medical students, the boys are all anxious to take part.
6:25am
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Timmy Time
Spin-off from Shaun The Sheep for the CBeebies channel, featuring Timmy the baby lamb and his friends.
7am
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Outnumbered
Series 5, Episode 4Dad and Ben go on a winter camping trip where Ben shows off his survival skills. Jake has to decide about a gap year, and Mum has had enough of Stacey, the Australian goddaughter who is still staying.
7:10am
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Twirlywoos
Series 2, Episode 4 - InsideThe Twirlywoos see a man putting something inside his tent, and they get carried away putting more and more things inside. Meanwhile, Peekaboo has managed to get stuck inside the teapot. Can Peekaboo get out without being spotted by the Twirlywoos?
7:15am
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Zig And Zag
Episode 4 - ZollercoasterZig and Zag accidentally create the worlds scariest roller coaster, all for a 'high-speed mid-ride' photo!
7:40am
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The Brittas Empire
Despite his ambition and good intentions, everything seems to go wrong at Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre when manager Gordon Brittas is around.
7:55am
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Go Jetters
Series 1, Episode 27 - The Strokkur Geyser, IcelandThe geysers in Iceland are blocked - Glitch is to blame and it could cause an earthquake. Go Jetters go!
8:15am
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My Hero
Series 2, Episode 6 - WeddingJanet's dad is insisting that her baby be born in wedlock, and Thermoman's bosses on Ultron are of the same mind. But as usual things don't go smoothly for the world's favourite superhero as the baby starts to arrive during the marriage ceremony.
8:25am
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Diddy TV
Series 1, Episode 9 - Let It GoDiddy Hazel Irvine hosts the final of the world snooker tournament between Juddery Trump and Ronnie O'Notagain. Also, there is more American sitcom action in RoboPop.
8:55am
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Last Of The Summer Wine
A selection of episodes from the 15th series of Britain's longest-running sitcom.
9am30 min
Hacker Time
Series 6, Episode 4 - Alison HammondShowbiz reporter Alison Hammond gets flushed in to the Hacker Time studio to star in this episode. More used to mingling with Hollywood A-Listers, how will Alison get on when she is stuck with Hacker and his hopeless crew? There's also another adventure with Admiral Lawnmower and his crew, where they are having trouble with their Sat Nav. Also, Cel Spellman joins Hacker for another song in Lost and Found (...& Lost Again). All that and Accordion George plays Beam My Guest.
9:25am
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Wussywat The Clumsy Cat
Episode 20 - HollowEgnog doesn't show up to play so Wussywat goes to search for him. Along the way he notices sounds inside hollow places are not what he expects until he finds Egnog inside one!
10am
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Mr Bean
A selection of episodes from the second series of the animated version of Rowan Atkinson's comic creation.
10am26 min
Fleabag
Series 1, Episode 4Fleabag and her sister Claire reluctantly visit a female-only, silent retreat, courtesy of their father. Their enforced silence is interrupted, however, by an unusual neighbouring weekend workshop, explosive secrets coming to light, and a surprising connection with an old acquaintance.
10:30am
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So Awkward
A selection of episodes from the first series of the children's comedy.
10:55am
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Keeping Up Appearances
A selection of three episodes of the sitcom about Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet').
12:55pm
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Outnumbered
Series 5, Episode 4Dad and Ben go on a winter camping trip where Ben shows off his survival skills. Jake has to decide about a gap year, and Mum has had enough of Stacey, the Australian goddaughter who is still staying.
1pm
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Last Of The Summer Wine
Series 9, Episode 8 - Go With The FlowDespite Clegg's disturbing experience with two young evangelists, Seymour decides it's time to do something worthwhile and puts his talents at the disposal of the local vicar.
1pm
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Mr Bean
A selection of episodes from the second series of the animated version of Rowan Atkinson's comic creation.
1:25pm
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Wussywat The Clumsy Cat
Episode 20 - HollowEgnog doesn't show up to play so Wussywat goes to search for him. Along the way he notices sounds inside hollow places are not what he expects until he finds Egnog inside one!
1:30pm
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Twirlywoos
Series 2, Episode 4 - InsideThe Twirlywoos see a man putting something inside his tent, and they get carried away putting more and more things inside. Meanwhile, Peekaboo has managed to get stuck inside the teapot. Can Peekaboo get out without being spotted by the Twirlywoos?
1:30pm
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Hacker Time
Childrens' comedy entertainment series hosted by Hacker T. Dog.
1:35pm
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The Brittas Empire
Despite his ambition and good intentions, everything seems to go wrong at Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre when manager Gordon Brittas is around.
1:40pm
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2pm
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Next To No Time!
Comedy following a shy engineer's attempts to convince a businessman he's never met of his innovative plans.
2:20pm
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Birds Of A Feather
Series 6, Episode 5 - All Day And All Of The NightSharon has to have work done on the café, and Chris's cousin Georgiou undertakes to do the work cheaply and at night. However he turns the place into an all-night Greek nightclub and Dorien is the star attraction, dancing the night away for £600.
2:20pm
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My Hero
Series 2, Episode 6 - WeddingJanet's dad is insisting that her baby be born in wedlock, and Thermoman's bosses on Ultron are of the same mind. But as usual things don't go smoothly for the world's favourite superhero as the baby starts to arrive during the marriage ceremony.
3pm
(repeat)
Last Of The Summer Wine
A selection of episodes from the 15th series of Britain's longest-running sitcom.
3:45pm
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Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
A repeat of this 1953 film.
3:45pm
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Counterfeit Cat
Episode 6 - CatiquetteGark and Max must pass a series of tests to prove their worth as cats.
3:55pm
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My Parents Are Aliens
A selection of three episodes of the children's sitcom.
4:05pm
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Boj
Episode 4 - Under The Giggly MoonA father-son camping trip in Giggly Park ends up in chaos as the Bleats' Camperzoom 2000 motor home goes wrong and the Woofs' airbeds deflate. Boj saves the day with his boj-a-boom idea to create hammocks from the remaining pieces of fabric from his friends' ruined camping equipment.
4:15pm
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Doctor In The House
Series 2, Episode 13 - FinalsThe day of judgement has finally arrived as the students are thrust into a busy period of exams before they can become fully-qualified doctors.
4:30pm30 min
Hank Zipzer
Series 3, Episode 12 - Hank Rocks OutIt's that time of year again - once more Miss Adolf is trying to get victims to sign up for her annual survival camp.
4:50pm
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Rising Damp
Series 2, Episode 5 - A Perfect GentlemanRigsby's found a new lodger for the house; the charming gentleman Seymour, staying in town away from his country estate. Philip and Alan aren't quite as convinced of his authenticity though.
5pm
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Boj
Episode 41 - Adventure CampWhen Cousin Hoj joins Boj and his buddies on adventure camp, everyone has trouble making friends with him. Boj has a fun boj-a-boom idea to make Hoj fit in with his friends.
5:20pm
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George & Mildred
Series 1, Episode 6 - Where My Caravan Has RestedGeorge trades his clapped-out old car for - of all things - a caravan! Mr Fourmile and the local Residents' Association offer to buy it from him; with her even snobbier sister due to visit, Mildred is particularly keen for him to get rid.
5:25pm
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Go Jetters
Series 1, Episode 29 - Rio de Janeiro, BrazilSomeone's stopped the samba at the Rio carnival! Can the Go Jetters fix the glitch?
5:35pm
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Gigglebiz
Series 3, Episode 9Zany scientist Professor Muddles has some trouble with his pet cat and some itchy fleas, Nana Knickerbocker finds herself at a bus stop and thinks she's in the panto Dick Whittington and Storybook Stan tries and fails to read a winter's tale.
6pm
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6:40pm
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Last Of The Summer Wine
Series 9, Episode 8 - Go With The FlowDespite Clegg's disturbing experience with two young evangelists, Seymour decides it's time to do something worthwhile and puts his talents at the disposal of the local vicar.
6:45pm
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Danger Mouse
Series 1, Episode 15 - Quark GamesThe heroes find themselves fighting for their lives on an alien world in Quark's latest money-spinning sports event.
7pm
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Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?
Series 2, Episode 10 - Between OurselvesWhile Thelma is still at her mother's, Bob has not been eating. He is also regretting having Terry stay with him as he's messy, lazy and causing his neighbours to talk. Bob writes a letter to Thelma that Terry tries to deliver at the library but even that is doomed to failure it seems.
7pm
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Miranda
Series 1, Episode 4 - HolidayMiranda decides she needs to be a bit reckless and wild and so decides to book a holiday at the local hotel down the road.
7pm
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Tell Me Another
Series 1, Episode 6True stories about people, famous and forgotten. This week starring: Bernard Cribbins, Jim Dale, Jimmy Logan, Ted Ray, Norman Vaughan.
7pm
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Horrible Histories
Series 1, Episode 10HHTV News reports live from the Battle of Thermopylae, Celt housewives find decorative uses for severed heads and we learn the revolting truth about Roman toilets.
7:30pm
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The Millionairess
Classic film starring Sophia Loren as the beautiful millionairess who finds that money cannot buy marital bliss, and Peter Sellers as the bewildered Indian doctor with whom she falls in love.
7:40pm
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Only Fools And Horses
Series 5, Christmas Special - A Royal FlushRodney meets an upper-crust young lady selling paintings down the market and they instantly hit it off. However, when Del finds out that she's Lady Victoria of Malebury, whose father is a cousin of the Queen, he begins to plot the couple's wedding.
8pm
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'Allo 'Allo!
Series 5, Episode 2 - The Camera In The PotatoAfter Gruber rescues René from the dungeon, Michelle equips him with a camera disguised as a potato and sends the unwilling café owner straight back to the chateau in search of the safe containing the plans to invade England. Whose bedroom does fate dictate it's hidden in...?
8pm60 min version (repeat)
8pm
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Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Series 3, Episode 1The fact-busting comedy panel series hosted by Lee Mack returns as Jerry Springer, Emma Bunton and Jason Byrne put further fascinating titbits to the test.
8:35pm
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Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?
Series 1, Episode 3 - Cold FeetWith his impending marriage approaching, Bob is having doubts. All his friends seem to be getting divorced and his relationship with Thelma has been up-and-down. Deep down he knows she is the right girl for him but Terry is hardly giving him the encouragement he craves.
9pm
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Da Ali G Show
Sacha Baron Cohen provides an inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat via his characters Ali G, Borat and Bruno.
9pm
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Fawlty Towers
Series 1, Episode 3 - The Wedding PartyA group of guests arriving at the hotel in preparation for a nearby wedding raise Basil's anger levels when he mistakes them for swingers and sex addicts.
9pm60 min version (repeat)
Russell Howard's Good News
Series 6, Highlights Special - Big NewsRussell Howard turns his eye back to some of the biggest and best news stories covered in the past six series of Good News, plus some choice out-takes from the show.
9pm
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Would I Lie To You?
Series 9, Episode 4This week the guests joining Lee Mack and David Mitchell are Alan Davies, Richard Osman, Professor Germaine Greer and Jermaine Jenas.
9pm
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Hot Fuzz
Hit comedy film from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. PC Nicholas Angel transfers from London's Met Police to the sleepy village of Sandford.
9:15pm
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Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?
Series 1, Episode 4 - Moving OnWhen Terry sees the changes that have happened to his home town since he's been away, he is horrified. The labour exchange add to his misery by sending him for a job interview with a company who's staff are all too familiar. He decides to seek out Hughie, an old army buddy, in deepest Berwickshire.
9:30pm
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Da Ali G Show
Sacha Baron Cohen provides an inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat via his characters Ali G, Borat and Bruno.
9:40pm
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Mock The Week
Series 13, Episode 3Angela Barnes, Miles Jupp, Romesh Ranganathan and Josh Widdicombe are the guests this week.
9:45pm
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Come Fly With Me
Episode 2A 'sudden wing malfunction' delays FlyLo passengers on their way to Malaga, while Melody and Taaj get tough with FlyLo's new baggage allowance regulations.
9:55pm
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Keeping Up Appearances
Series 2, Episode 3Hyacinth has arranged one of her candlelight suppers at which she plans to impress Emmet with her singing. Rose interrupts proceedings when she's too embarrassed to be picked up by one of her boyfriends at her own messy home.
10:20pm
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10:30pm
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Fawlty Towers
Series 1, Episode 4 - The Hotel InspectorsWhen friends tip off the Fawltys that there are a group of hotel inspectors in town, Basil sets out to be as nice and amenable towards the guests as possible. However, one particularly demanding visitor pushes him over the edge...
10:35pm
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Keeping Up Appearances
Series 2, Episode 4Hyacinth and Richard take a weekend golfing break with the Major.
11pm60 min version (repeat)
Russell Howard's Good News
Series 8, Episode 6Topical comedy show in which Russell Howard offers up an energetic look at global goings-on and finds his own uniquely upbeat angle on the news each week.
11pm
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Birds Of A Feather
Series 6, Episode 5 - All Day And All Of The NightSharon has to have work done on the café, and Chris's cousin Georgiou undertakes to do the work cheaply and at night. However he turns the place into an all-night Greek nightclub and Dorien is the star attraction, dancing the night away for £600.
11pm
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11:05pm
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8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Series 4 (Channel 4: Series 5), Episode 1Jimmy, Sean and Jon are joined by celebrity guests David Mitchell and Roisin Conaty. Phill Jupitus is in with Susie Dent, while Joe Wilkinson 'helps' Rachel Riley provide the letters and numbers.
11:10pm
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Absolutely Fabulous
Christmas Special - GayIt's Fashion Week season; London's over, and New York's due up next. A fortuitous time, therefore, for Gran to let slip that Serge is gay and living in the Big Apple. Eddy resolves to track him down - after all, how many gay men can there be in New York?
11:15pm
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'Allo 'Allo!
Series 5, Episode 3 - Dinner With The GeneralRené is sent back to Gruber's bedroom, in the guise of a fireman and accompanied by LeClerc, tasked with blowing open the safe. Unfortunately for him, it seems that everyone else is at the chateau too...
11:40pm
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Would I Lie To You?
Series 9, Episode 6This week the guests joining Lee Mack and David Mitchell are Richard Hammond, Sean Lock, Judy Murray and Trevor Noah.
12:15am50 min version (repeat)
8 Out Of 10 Cats
Series 13, Episode 3David Hasselhoff, Rachel Riley and comedians Rob Beckett and Justin Moorhouse join regulars Jimmy Carr, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson for the topical quiz.
12:20am
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Mock The Week
Series 13, Episode 4Dara O Briain and the team skilfully pass around the week's news before shooting on goal with guests Rob Beckett, Susan Calman, Hal Cruttenden and Romesh Ranganathan.
12:25am
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Come Fly With Me
Episode 2A 'sudden wing malfunction' delays FlyLo passengers on their way to Malaga, while Melody and Taaj get tough with FlyLo's new baggage allowance regulations.
1am
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QI
Series E, Children In Need Special - EntertainmentA Children In Need special, with Jeremy Clarkson, Jo Brand and Bill Bailey.
1:05am
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The Young Ones
Series 1, Episode 4 - BombAn atom bomb lands in the middle of the boys' kitchen, but they're divided over what to do with it. Vyvyan, for example, can't work out why he can't set it off.
1:30am
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The Alternative Comedy Experience
Series 1, Episode 6 - Danger ComediansTonight's show includes surreal stand-up Tony Law, idiosyncratic comedian Eleanor Tiernan, satirist Andy Zaltzman, German Henning Wehn and backstage chats with Stewart Lee.
1:40am
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The Indian Doctor
Series 2, Episode 4 - QuarantineWith Trefelin under quarantine, supplies are getting low.
1:40am
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2am
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Da Ali G Show
Sacha Baron Cohen provides an inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat via his characters Ali G, Borat and Bruno.
2am
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Benidorm
Series 3, Episode 2On a trip to the waterfalls of Callosa, Mick upsets Janice and it looks like their relationship might not survive this fight.
2am
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Stand Up Central
Series 2, Episode 7Russell Howard talks about being an uncle and middle class muggers; plus answers questions on how to get out of work. His guests are Steve Williams and Isy Suttie.
2:15am
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8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Series 4 (Channel 4: Series 5), Episode 1Jimmy, Sean and Jon are joined by celebrity guests David Mitchell and Roisin Conaty. Phill Jupitus is in with Susie Dent, while Joe Wilkinson 'helps' Rachel Riley provide the letters and numbers.
2:15am
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Kingdom
Series 2, Episode 3Peter decides to let Simon face the consequences of his actions, after Simon is arrested on suspicion of identity fraud. Peter represents a pregnant woman attempting to trace her partner for child support payments, but the man in questions appears to have gone AWOL from his job with the US Air Force. Lyle is seduced by an attractive biker, but discovers that she is just trying to evade a penalty for speeding.
2:20am
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Mock The Week
Series 3, Episode 4Mark Watson is on Hugh Dennis and Frankie Boyle's team again this week. Meanwhile Andy Parsons is joined by Ian Stone and Jon Culshaw.
2:30am
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Da Ali G Show
Sacha Baron Cohen provides an inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat via his characters Ali G, Borat and Bruno.
2:30am
(repeat)
Drunk History
Series 2, Episode 5Charlotte Ritchie reveals the truth behind The Cottingley Fairies (stars Catherine Tate and Mathew Horne), and Nish Kumar talks about the Invention of the Telephone (featuring Anthony Head).
2:50am
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Absolutely Fabulous
Christmas Special - GayIt's Fashion Week season; London's over, and New York's due up next. A fortuitous time, therefore, for Gran to let slip that Serge is gay and living in the Big Apple. Eddy resolves to track him down - after all, how many gay men can there be in New York?
3am
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Desmond's
A selection of episodes from the second series of Channel 4's longest-running sitcom.
3am
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Comedy Central At The Comedy Store
Series 3, Episode 11Andrew Ryan is not too impressed with marriage, Angela Barnes has too many ailments, Peter White became fat in a day, and Funmbi Omotayo talks the Olympics.
3am
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Drifters
Series 2, Episode 1 - Rock N RollMeg is traumatised when her parents announce a trial separation. Meanwhile Bunny has started seeing the banjo player from promising but unsigned band The New Harvesters, and Laura finds herself taking care of Gary.
3:25am
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Comedy Central At The Comedy Store
Series 3, Episode 12James Acaster is excellent at 'competitive yoga', Sara Pascoe is scared of spiders, Brett Goldstein is agitated by Kevin Bacon, and Mark Watson likes a drink.
3:25am
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Drifters
Series 2, Episode 2 - Truth Or DareMeg organises a girls' night in, as they're all broke and single. The night spirals out of control when Laura and Bunny insist they play Truth or Dare. And which one of the girls stands a chance with fit Scott the neighbour?
3:45am
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Rex The Runt
Claymation sitcom from Aardman Animations. The ten minute episodes revolve around the lives of four dogs - Rex, Bad Bob, Wendy and Vince.