TV Guide 2026-05-02

This week's highlights:

• Am Dro! returns (S4C, Sun).
• Ancient University Challenge and Only Connect (2) on BBC4 (weeknights).
• Friday is just like old times, with Pointless and Have I Got News for You going back to BBC2 for the weekend. Like any twentysomething student, they've probably got a bag of washing and want to be fed.

• Fighting Talk (Radio 5, 11am).
• Celebrity Bridge of Lies (BBC1, 5.40) Phil Wang, Anna Williamson, Miles Jupp, and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell.
• Stephen Mulhern's Celebrity Catchphrase (ITV, 6pm) Motsi Mabuse, Rob Delaney, Amber Rose Gill.
• Blankety Blank (BBC1, 6.25) Joe Marler, Sue Perkins, Trevor Nelson, Josh Pugh, Tasha Ghouri, Sara Barron.
• Got Talent (ITV, 7pm) Live semi-final 2.

• Give Us a Clue (Talking Pictures, 3.30) Repeated from 1985: Ronald Allen, Janet Brown, Leslie Crowther, Sue Lloyd, Hank Marvin, Julie Rogers.
• Round the Islands Quiz (Radio 4, 4.30) England vs Wales.
• The Amazing Race Down Under (E4, 5.30) The Incredible Travelling Tipping Point Machine.
• Y Talwrn (Radio Cymru, 7pm).
• Y Llais (S4C, 7.30) The grand final.
• The Money List (RTÉ1, 7.30) The show we knew as Who Dares Wins.
• An Deis (TG4, 7.30) More six-sided fun.
• Am Dro! (S4C, 8pm) More favourite walks.
• Taskmaster Bleeped (4Extra, 8pm).
• Your Song (C4, 9pm) This week, Alison's tour is in Birmingham.

• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15; Fri BBC2 at 12 noon) New on Mon (Exeter).
• Countdown (C4, 2.10) The guest is Nina Wadia.
• Bridge of Lies (BBC1, 4.30; celeb rpt Thu, not Fri).
• Pointless (BBC1, 5.15; Fri BBC2) Angela Scanlon is the co-host.
• Beauty and the Geek Down Under (MTV, 6pm) Originally shown in 2021.
• Quizzy Monday Classics (BBC4, 7pm, not Fri) University Challenge from 2022-23, and Only Connect from 2008 (before the Egyptian hieroglyph had been invented).

• The Unbelievable Truth (Radio 4, 6.30) Alan Davies, Celya AB, Ian Smith, Angela Barnes.
• Scotland's Home of the Year (BBC1 Scotland, 7pm) South of Scotland this week.
• Masterchef (BBC1, 8pm) It's only authentic salade niçoise if it's got sixty-nine ingredients.

• Slé Anois go Cúramach (TG4, 7.30) St Brendan's College Kerry vs Holy Faith Secondary Clontarf.
• Interior Design Masters (BBC1, 8pm) Homeless charity, with guest judge Dara Ó Briain.
• Mas Fhior (BBC Alba, 8.30).
• Masterchef (BBC1, 9pm) Ricotta raviolo.

No new shows today. For a repeat, we recommend Give Us a Clue (Talking Pictures, 6.30), with Derek Nimmo and Keith Chegwin.

Or, for something more modern, We Raced Across London Three Different Ways, starring Evan Edinger, Matt Gray, and Tom Scott.

• Race Across the World (BBC1, 8pm) Do the teams want to visit Kyrgyzstan? Do the teams know how to spell Kyrgyzstan?!
• Masterchef (BBC1, 9pm) A brunch dish with fresh produce.
• Taskmaster (C4, 9pm) "I corroborate".
• The Traitors India (BBC3, 9pm) A murder in plain sight, second-guessing close allies, and trying to get into the minds of the Traitors. Three episodes, with some passages subtitled.
• The Neighbourhood (VM1 and ITV, 9pm 10.45) A cocktail party to "relax", and a spy in the house.

• The News Quiz (Radio 4, 6.30) Lucy Porter, Geoff Norcott, Hugo Rifkind, Rachel Fairburn.
• Have I Got News for You (BBC2, 9pm) Back to the nineties for this edition, going out on the second network. Steph McGovern hosts, with Jon Richardson and Sheila Hancock.
• The Neighbourhood (VM1 and ITV, 9pm 10.45; HTV Wales 10.45) The contestants cosplay as Neighbourhood Watch. Except nobody's watching this, they could replace it with the test card and some music and more people would tune in.

• Dickinson's Real Deal (ITV, 2pm; not Mon); Lingo (ITV, 3pm; Mon Celebrity Lingo at 4.25); Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm; Mon Best Ever Finals at 4.55); The Chase (ITV, 5pm; Mon 6.30). None of these on HTV Wales on Fri, and potentially not on STV and Grampian.
• House of Games (3) (BBC2, 6pm; Fri 7pm) Jordan Banjo, Sian Lloyd, Nick Pickard, Ellie White.
• !mpossible, Lightning (BBC2, from 1pm Tue-Thu).
• QI XL (BBC2, 9pm Tue).

• Masterchef (BBC2, 1.20am Sat, 12.40am Thu, 12.30am Fri)
• Interior Design Masters (BBC2, 2.20am Sat).
• Lego Masters Australia (E4, 6am Sat).
• Race Across the World (BBC2, 2.30am Tue).
• Celebrity Sabotage (ITV, 5.05am Wed).
• The Neighbourhood (ITV, 3.25am Thu; 3am Fri).
• Taskmaster (C4, 12.10am Sat).

7am The Chase 9am Dickinson's Real Deal 11am Blockbusters 12 noon Celebrity Catchphrase 1pm Tenable 2pm Bridge of Lies 4pm The Chase 11pm Bullseye 2am The Chase

As Saturday except 2pm The Family Chase

7am The Chase 9am Tenable 10am The Bidding Room 11am Dickinson's Real Deal 12 noon The Crystal Maze 1pm Celebrity Catchphrase 2pm The Family Chase 6pm Tenable 7pm The Chase 11pm Bullseye 12 midnight Millionaire 1am The Chase 4am Bullseye

As Monday except 2pm The Chase 3pm Pointless Celebs 4pm Millionaire 5pm The Bidding Room

9am Deal or No Deal 10am Tipping Point 1pm Lingo 2pm Tenable 3pm Guest show 4pm Time is Money (Sat: Riddiculous) 5pm Deal or No Deal 6pm Lingo 9pm Guest show 10pm Tipping Point 12.50am Tenable

Guest show – shown at 9pm, repeated 3pm next day
Saturday – Parents' Evening (3pm Sunday: Deal or No Deal Celebrity)
Sunday, Monday – Millionaire
Tuesday – Epic Gameshow
Wednesday – Beat the Chasers
Thursday – Limitless Win
Friday – The Floor