Monday 19 April 2010

TV Picks: 19-25 April 2010 (Blitz Street, Comedy Lab, E20, The Greatest Cities Of The World, The Ricky Gervais Show, White Collar, and more...)

Monday 19 April 2010

MONDAY 19th
Blitz Street (Channel 4, 9pm) Four-part series where a replica of a 1940s London street has been built on a remote air base, which is then attacked using WWII-style bombs to simulate the Blitz.
The Beauty Of Maps (BBC4, 8.30pm) Four-part series on cartography.
Steve Jones In The Jones' Boys Amazon Adventure (Sky1, 9pm) Presenter Steve Jones and his two brothers try to survive in the Peruvian rainforest.
Comedy Lab (Channel 4, 11.05pm) New series of the comedy pilot series, starting with iCandy (a sketch show from Irish comic Liam Hourican) and Happy Finish (a sketch show starring Nadia Kamil, Daniel Kaluuya, Nico Tatarowicz, Sara Pascoe and Mike Wozniak.) Continues on Wednesday with Penelope Princess Of Pets and Jack Whitehall Secret Census and Friday with Movie Mash and Hung Out.

TUESDAY 20th
Blood, Sweat & Luxuries (BBC3, 9pm) Third series of the show where people are shown the truth behind their creature comforts. This episode focuses on Madagaskar where sapphires are mined.
Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon (Sky1, 10pm) Two-part series where Ross Kemp travels to the Amazon to investigate the foresting devastation.

WEDNESDAY 21st
Three In A Bed (Channel 4, 8pm) Eight-part seris where B&B owners compete to have their establishments crowned the best.
Monty Hall's Great Hebridean Escape (BBC2, 9pm) Six-part series where Monty Hall spends 6 months in the windswept North Uist.
White Collar (Bravo, 9pm) US crime drama about a con man who partners a FBI Agent.

THURSDAY 22nd
The Landscape Man (Channel 4, 8pm) Six-part series where gardening expert Matthew Wilson helps people landscape their gardens.
The Greatest Cities Of The World (ITV1, 9pm) Three-part series where Griff Rhys Jones visits various cities, starting with Rome.
The Autistic Me – One Year On (BBC3, 9pm) Matt Rudge's followup to his 2009 documentary about three autistic people.

FRIDAY 23rd
E20 (BBC3, 8.30pm) Three-part spin-off to EastEnders.
The Ricky Gervais Show (Channel 4, 10.30pm) Six-part comedy where the podcasts of Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington are turned into animated half-hours.

SATURDAY 24th
Nothing.

SUNDAY 25th
Five Daughters (BBC1, 9pm) The dramatization of the 2006 true-life story of five young women murdered in Ipswich.