What’s On TV This Week: 9th October - 15th October
The Reckoning
Monday
BBC One, 9.00pm
After TV presenter Jimmy Savile’s death in 2011, over four decades of his sexual abuse came to light.
After TV presenter Jimmy Savile’s death in 2011, over four decades of his sexual abuse came to light.
Channel 4 check back in with property expert Sarah Beeny and her family’s ambitious build in Somerset.
Joining McGuinness are two new team captains in Olympic Gold medal-winning hockey player Sam Quek and England rugby star Ugo Monye.
McGuinness is no stranger to game shows, hosting I Can See Your Voice and Catchpoint, as well as presenting another BBC One flagship, Top Gear.
Quek, the first female captain in A Question of Sport’s fifty year history, won over 120 caps for the national hockey team and gold for Team GB in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Banter merchant Paddy McGuinness gets everyone’s big New Year’s in underway with a one-hour, star-studded live show of fun, music, games and surprises.
Also on the cards is a hilarious quiz of 2020, inviting us to play along and test our memories of the long, dramatic year gone by.
The night begins at 9pm with The Big New Year’s In hosted by Paddy McGuinness.
Celebrity guests will join McGuinness in a live show of music, games, surprises and a hilarious quiz of the year.
Graham Norton will then continue the countdown with his traditional end of year talk show, joined by Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hanks, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jessica Chastain, Nish Kumar, and with music from Sophie Ellis Bextor.
Offering a fresh take on the music game show genre, I Can See Your Voice will provide music, comedy and play-along fun for the whole family.
The aim of the game involves two players attempting to guess who can and can’t sing from a group of mystery singers before them, in order to win a cash prize.
Through a series of amusing lip sync challenges, the competitors must weed out those masquerading as music maestros and whittle down the group to the one they believe truly has the gift of song.
The Profumo affair was the scandal that rocked a nation and is still being talked about half a century later.
Paddy McGuinness is back as Take Me Out returns back to our screens next year, with two special episodes to celebrate 10 years of dating success.
One will feature a line-up of thirty fabulous single older ladies looking for love, and the second will be a fun flip as McGuinness brings thirty of his favourite male contestants back for another chance at love.
With seven weddings and three babies having come from the show, McGuinness chats to the couples and reminisces about the moment their eyes met across the Take Me Out love lift.