- SWITCHED
ON THIS WEEK - THE BEST BITS ON TV
- Written
by Caren Clark of TV & satellite Week magazine.
- For the week
Saturday 28 August to Friday 3 September
1.
The Worst Jobs in History Channel 4 Saturday 8pm NEW SERIES
Tony Robinson uses his experience of playing Blackadder’s
hapless servant Baldrick to try out the worst careers of the past
2000 years, kicking off with a spell as a Viking egg collector.
2.
Road Raja Sky One Sunday 9pm NEW SERIES
Caprice, Dennis Waterman and Julie Goodyear are among the
‘stars’ taking to the treacherous streets of Mumbai for a unique
race across the Indian
city. But who will be crowned King or Queen of the road?
3.
What’s Inside Frank
Sinatra’s Coffin? Channel 4 Monday 9pm
This fascinating documentary reveals the secrets behind the
intriguing objects which were buried with Ol’ Blue Eyes
when he faced the final curtain in 1998.
4.
The O.C. E4 Monday 9pm NEW EPISODES
The hottest teen drama
since Dawson’s Creek
returns from a summer break and both Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) and
Seth (Adam Brody) are struggling with the women in their lives.
5.
Steel
River Blues ITV1 Wednesday 9pm NEW
SERIES
This gritty Middlesbrough-based firefighting drama looks set
to fill
the void left by the departure of London’s
Burning. Daniel Casey (Midsomer
Murders’ Sgt. Troy) stars.
6.
Flipside TV Paramount 2
Wednesday-Friday 10pm NEW SERIES
In a channel hoppers’ dream, Richard Bacon is joined by a
panel of celebs to show viewers the weird and wonderful programmes
they could be watching on the
other side.
7.
The Hamburg Cell Channel 4 Thursday 9pm
Almost three years after 9/11, this chilling drama explores
how a group of students in Germany became suicide bombers
responsible for an attack
which changed the world.
8.
Doc Martin ITV1 Thursday
9pm NEW SERIES
Martin Clunes stars in this quirky drama about a socially
inept surgeon who moves to a Cornish village after developing an
aversion to blood. Caroline
Catz, Stephanie Cole and Joe Absolom co-star.
9.
Carrie & Barry BBC1
Friday 9pm NEW SERIES
And Clunes’ fellow Man
Behaving Badly, Neil Morrissey, features alongside Claire
Rushbrook in this cheeky sitcom about a saucy
couple dealing with the trials of married life.
10.
Green Wing Channel 4 Friday 9.30pm NEW SERIES
Black
Books’ Tamsin
Greig and Coupling’s Sarah Alexander are among the stars polishing off their
stethoscopes for this raucous
new medical comedy which could be the UK’s answer to Scrubs.
VARIATIONS
Green Wing S4C Friday 11.05pm NEW SERIES
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