What To Watch This Week

We’ve hand-picked what to watch across our network next week, so you don’t have to! This week we've got money-saving tips from the Supershoppers, a reinvention of British staple dishes with Jamie: Keep Cooking Family Favourites, home transformation tips form Dick and Angel in Escape To The Chateau: Make Do And Mend and a continuation of the diet challenge as 5 volunteers attempt to Lose A Stone In 21 Days With Michael Mosley.

Monday 17th August

Supershoppers - 8pm on Channel 4

Helen Skelton and Sabrina Grant return for a brand-new series packed with money-saving tips and the secrets of the big brands. In this first episode, they show how to save money booking a last-minute staycation in the UK. There is also essential advice on how to protect your money if anything goes wrong on your holiday. There are tips on savings on foreign trips for next year, including surprising hacks with the major airlines. And as the travel industry begins to ramp up again, there's advice on reducing your carbon footprint. 

Supershoppers

 

Jamie: Keep Cooking Family Favourites - 8.30 pm on Channel 4

Jamie Oliver returns with a brand-new series, filmed from his home and featuring recipes created for his family. Jamie's challenged himself during lockdown to create some brand-new dishes that he hopes will become new family favourites. He makes problem-solving meals for every need, from quick and tasty dinners to useful staples to add to our regular repertoires, as well as easy but extra-special family favourites and crowd pleasers - all taking inspiration from the average weekly shopping basket and using ingredients many of us already buy. With a glimpse into life at the Oliver household, Jamie: Keep Cooking Family Favourites inspires us all with easy ideas for simple, affordable, delicious meals. Jamie kicks off the series by reinventing the roast chicken - a British staple that lots of us cook every week. Jamie offers new inspiration by teaming it with flavour-packed Cumberland sausages and tasty veggies, creating a delicious one-pan roast dinner. And looking at the ingredients we all have in the fridge, Jamie puts a British twist on the classic spaghetti bolognese by swapping in pale ale and Cheddar cheese to create an incredibly easy, cheap and tasty batch-cook recipe. Plus, he's got a fun take on pasta prep that the kids - and adults - will love.

Jamie Oliver

 

Tuesday 18th August

Building The Dream - 9pm on HGTV

Architectural designer Charlie Luxton heads to different areas of the UK to help people who are in the process of spectacular yet affordable builds. In Cambridgeshire a coupe are building a German kit eco-home, but things to not always go to plan. Enter Charlie with advice on how to overcome their issues.

Building the dream

 

Wednesday 19th August

Lose A Stone In 21 Days With Michael Mosley - 9pm on Channel 4

It's the third and final week of the diet challenge for Michael Mosley and his five volunteers. In this episode Michael explores the connection between comfort eating and the different ways our brains respond when faced with a bar of chocolate as opposed to a pile of fruit and veg. He also has the unique experience of having a camera stuck up his nose to learn about the connection between weight, snoring and the life-limiting condition of sleep apnoea. Michael's wife and best-selling cookbook author Dr Clare Bailey shares recipes and food tips while Michael also looks at how a low-calorie, low-carb and high-protein diet is sustainable in the long term before the five volunteers return to Michael's home for their final results and weigh-in. It's been 21 days; have they lost a stone? 

Lose a stone in 21 days

 

Thursday 20th August

Escape To The Chateau: Make Do And Mend - 8pm on Channel 4

Dick and Angel Strawbridge help families across the UK tackle their design and DIY dilemmas. In this episode, Dick and Angel meet Natalie and Pete, who are keen for some compact camping ideas. Dick constructs a portable solar shower that doubles up as a kitchen sink and builds a rocket stove for outdoor cooking, while Angel creates tyre chairs with a rustic rope finish. First-time gardener Sam seeks Dick's help to transform her garden into a plot she can be proud of, and Gill wants Angel's upholstery advice to help bring her favourite chair, that's been left in tatters by the family dog, back to life. Meanwhile Petale - the Strawbridge's puppy - is in luck! Inspired by a request from Johan to help build a doghouse, Dick creates a 'Petale house' and Angel makes a dog bed using an old suitcase and some home-made cushions. And 'Operation Love' - aka Grandma's secret birthday party - is almost ready. Once the croquembouche - a towering French profiterole cake - has been made and vintage games built, it's time for the big surprise! 

Escape to the chateau

Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years - 9pm on Dave

A look at the challenging logistics of the most celebrated and successful sci-fi comedy ever.

Red Dwarf

Friday 21st August

 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown - 9pm on Channel 4

A compilation of the best bits from recent series of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Jimmy Carr, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson, and Countdown regulars Susie Dent and Rachel Riley, are joined by a host of top comedians, including Alan Carr, Richard Ayoade, Kathy Burke, Roisin Conaty, Joe Wilkinson, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Ryan, Phil Wang, Aisling Bea and David Mitchell.

8 out of 10 cats does countdown

Ghost Bait - 10pm on Really

Paranormal pioneer Bob Magill and empathic investigator Tina Storer investigate haunted locations across America. They are on a mission to help victims reclaim their sense of peace and control.

Ghost Bait

Saturday 22nd August

Finding Your Feet - 9pm on Film4

At a grand soiree given in her honour, Lady Sandra Abbott (Staunton) discovers that her husband, Mike (John Sessions), has been having an affair with her best friend, Pamela (Josie Lawrence). Justifiably outraged, she leaves him. But where for? The only person she can think of staying with is her sister, Bif (Celia Imrie), who lives on a London housing estate. The sisters couldn't be more different, but when Bif invites Sandra to her dance class, things start to change. Will two sisters rediscover the relationship they had when they were kids? Could 'her majesty' find happiness so late in life? And even end up living on a barge? Hope so! The ensemble cast of great British talent also includes Timothy Spall and Joanna Lumley.

First Play On Film 4.

Finding your feet


Sunday 23rd August

George Clarke: National Trust Unlocked - 9pm on Channel 4

Every year, around 27 million visits are made to the National Trust's 300 houses and gardens. But this all came to a halt in March 2020, as tourism sites across the country closed. In this new six-part series, George Clarke, along with his faithful four-legged companion Loki the Siberian husky, discovers some of the UK's most impressive historic homes, as he's granted special access to some of these extraordinary places, delving into the hidden recesses that visitors don't normally get to see. Walking around the stunning gardens, open countryside and spectacular surrounding scenery of these treasured estates, George finds out about the fascinating architecture, design and stories behind each property. And while adhering to social distancing, he meets the people keeping these sites in working order until they're ready to be re-opened. In this first episode, George's journey begins in Dorset at the UK's most exquisite example of Italianate architecture - the magnificent 17th-century Kingston Lacy. He uncovers a tale of shame and scandal on the south coast, and the beautiful Cotswold landmark - Hidcote Manor Gardens - in full bloom takes his breath away. George also mines the history of the country's last cave dwellers at one of Britain's best-kept secrets, the Rock Houses at Kinver Edge. And finally, with his husky Loki, George takes a walk at spectacular Studland Bay, part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

George Clarke

All six episodes of this series will be available to stream or download, for free, on All 4, following the transmission of this episode.

 

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