Television
TV schedule Tuesday 31st August 2021
6am27 min
Back To Life
Series 2, Episode 1Miri is moving on with her life with a new job and a date with Billy. But her past returns to trouble her with the arrival of a surprise visitor.
6am27 min
Back To Life
Series 2, Episode 2Between modern day sex and bank accounts, Miri is once again baffled by the world today as she navigates both her new job and her budding relationship with Billy.
6am26 min
Back To Life
Series 2, Episode 3While the town prepares for Lara's vigil, Miri is unwittingly taken to meet Billy's family for the first time, and attempts to reinvent herself.
6am25 min
Back To Life
Series 2, Episode 4A series of disasters threaten to derail Miri's first date with Billy. Meanwhile, Caroline & Oscar find a visitor on their doorstep and must finally reckon with Caroline's affair.
6am26 min
Back To Life
Series 2, Episode 5With the former police chief still missing, Miri takes her driving test. Oscar enlists Dom to help with his environmental activism.
6am28 min
Back To Life
Series 2, Episode 6Knowing she must go to the police, Miri's final day with Billy is interrupted by his domineering mother.
5pm30 min
Lagging
Series 1, Episode 7 - SlugsBecca likes a boy who's massively into gaming - but she knows precisely zero about playing online games... so she makes Sol pretend to be her and game online on her behalf.
6pm60 min version (repeat)
QI
Series R, Episode 7 - RevolutionsSandi Toksvig quizzes the panel on a few revolutionary ideas, with Alan Davies, Gyles Brandreth, Susan Calman and Jessica Fostekew going round the houses trying to come up with a decent answer.
6:45pm
(repeat)
The Green Green Grass
Series 1, Episode 1 - Keep On RunningDenzil calls about Boycie's house bringing news that the infamous Driscoll Brothers are being released early from prison and they're on the hunt for the supergrass who helped get them banged up. Boycie is horrified. By the time Marlene and Tyler return, he's sold the house, sold the car dealership and planned a new life in Shropshire.
7:25pm
(repeat)
Gavin & Stacey
A selection of episodes from the third series of the sitcom by and starring Ruth Jones and James Corden.
7:40pm
(repeat)
Would I Lie To You?
Series 6, Episode 7Lee Mack is joined by Huw Edwards and Sarah Millican, and David Mitchell is joined by Bradley Walsh and Josie Lawrence.
8pm
(repeat)
The Good Life
Series 2, Episode 4 - The Day Peace Broke OutTom takes the law into his own hands when leeks start disappearing from his garden.
8:20pm
(repeat)
QI
Series O, Episode 10 - Origins And OpeningsTune in to hear what Mr First thought of Mr Second - and much more. With Susan Calman, Rich Hall and Josh Widdicombe.
8:30pm
(repeat)
Porridge
Series 1, Episode 3 - A Night InGodber moves into the bottom bunk in Fletcher's cell. Unable to sleep, the two spend the night discussing their hopes, fears, and the lives they left outside.
9pm60 min version (repeat)
QI
Series R, Episode 11 - RoamingSandi Toksvig asks questions on the theme of roaming this week, with Sara Pascoe, Josh Widdicombe and Benjamin Zephaniah and Alan Davies trying to come up with interesting answers - while avoiding the most obvious ones.
9:20pm
(repeat)
Not Going Out
Series 3, Episode 1 - PregnantWhen Lucy announces that she is pregnant, Lee wonders if the father might accidentally be him.
10pm60 min version (repeat)
Live At The Apollo
Series 10, Episode 1 - Sarah Millican, Russell Kane, Joe LycettThe series kicks off with Sarah Millican as host with special guests Russell Kane and Joe Lycett.
10pm
(repeat)
10pm60 min
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Series 6, Episode 6Jason Manford opens up about how he became a stand-up and the time he got a dressing down from showbiz royalty, Bruce Forsyth. Toussaint Douglass, who is currently taking the stand-up scene by storm, chats about slipping down the pecking order. While New Yorker, Desiree Burch, discusses what life is really like on the streets of the city that never sleeps; and award-winning comic Suzi Ruffell reveals how she's still reeling over the time she was left holding her neighbour's tool.
10pm
(repeat)
Plebs
Series 2, Episode 3 - The BabyWhile doing the recycling, Grumio finds a baby behind the bins and takes it home to raise as his own. Stylax uses it to strike up a relationship with an attractive young wet nurse. Meanwhile, Marcus tries to avoid seeing Cynthia's painfully boring one-woman play.
10pm60 min
The Last Leg
The Last Leg Of Tokyo 2020, Episode 8Freshly returned from Japan, the GB rowing team are in the studio, whilst the boys try out blind football and Alice Tai and Phil Wang join in the chat.
10:30pm
(repeat)
Plebs
Series 2, Episode 4 - The PatronGrumio falls ill after eating an apple on the loo. Marcus refuses to pay for his medical treatment, preferring instead to go with Cynthia's remedy of candlelight and prayer. Stylax strikes up a rapport with rich nobleman Gaius, who agrees to fund his charioteering career.
10:35pm
Back To Life
Series 2, Episode 1Miri is moving on with her life with a new job and a date with Billy. But her past returns to trouble her with the arrival of a surprise visitor.
11pm
(repeat)
Peep Show
Series 5, Episode 1 - BurglingMark rediscovers single life after his disastrous wedding to Sophie, and he and Jeremy become victims of crime.
11pm
(repeat)
Taskmaster
Series 7, Episode 5 - Lotta SoupRhod Gilbert endangers Alex's life (again), Jessica Knappett's sunny outlook on life is severely tested by a former traffic warden and Phil Wang has a lovely old time with a squeezy jar of mayonnaise.
11:35pm
(repeat)
Peep Show
Series 5, Episode 2 - Spin WarMark and Sophie return to work after their non-existent honeymoon and Mark tries to deflect the inevitable bad PR attached to a jilter. Meanwhile, Jeremy and Super Hans's band play their first gig.
11:35pm45 min version (repeat)
Have I Got News For You
Series 60, Highlights Special - Have I Got 2020 News For YouTeam captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop are joined by a variety of guest hosts and panellists from the worlds of comedy, journalism and current affairs for a compilation that looks back at the big news of 2020.
Midnight
(repeat)
Mock The Week
Series 13, Episode 1Milton Jones, Ed Byrne, Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan join the regular cast for the familiar mix of games and topical banter that "makes Mock The Week as reliable as a UKIP expenses claim and as much a part of summer as English sporting failure and mutant animal tabloid scare stories".