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FMTV — your week in television
Monday
2 NovClassic Comedy UK
20.00**NEW** Porridge
S1E1: "New Faces, Old Hands"
Veteran inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher gives the benefit of his experience to his green young cellmate Godber.
30 min
20.30The Thick of It
S1E6: "Episode 6"
Hugh sends an expletive-littered e-mail to an eight year old girl.
30 min
21.00Nightingales
S1E2: "Takeaway"
Carter & Bell take the guise of Shakespearian villains to do away with Piper.
30 min
Monday
2 NovClassic Comedy UK
20.00**NEW** Porridge
S1E1: "New Faces, Old Hands"
Veteran inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher gives the benefit of his experience to his green young cellmate Godber.
30 min
20.30The Thick of It
S1E6: "Episode 6"
Hugh sends an expletive-littered e-mail to an eight year old girl.
30 min
21.00Nightingales
S1E2: "Takeaway"
Carter & Bell take the guise of Shakespearian villains to do away with Piper.
30 min
Tuesday
3 NovClassic Comedy US
20.00M*A*S*H*
S1E13: "Edwina"
The nurses go to extremes lengths to find a date for Nurse Eddie - they won't go out with anyone until Eddie gets a date. The men draw straws, and Hawkeye is the big loser, especially after Eddie nearly kills him in a scene resembling teenage "mating" rituals.
30 min
20.30Cheers
S1E13: "Now Pitching, Sam Malone"
Sam lets the sexy appeal of an agent and the glamour of the public spotlight lure him into being a TV pitchman.
30 min
21.00Sledge Hammer!
S1E1: "Under The Gun"
Violence-prone Sledge Hammer is assigned to head up the investigation when the mayor's daughter is abducted, but he predictably objects to a requirement that he work with female detective Dori Doreau.
30 min
Wednesday
4 NovIn Performance
20.00Carmen
TBA
Carmen has grown tired of Don José and his controlling behaviour, and she tells him to go home to his mother. The women tell their fortunes: the cards foretell love and riches for Frasquita and Mercédès, but only death for Carmen. Escamillo turns up unexpectedly, still determined to pursue Carmen.
120 min
Thursday
5 NovPick 'n' Mix
19.30University Challenge
S56E17: TBA
TBA
30 min
20.00Heroes
S1E13: "The Fix"
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.
60 min
21.00The Prisoner
"A. B. and C."
The new Number Two uses a new wonder drug to tap into Number Six's subconscious to try to discover why he resigned. Over a period of three nights he encounters A, B and C in separate circumstances. Unknown to Number Two, Number Six has realised what has happened and gets his dreams to prove that he was not selling out.
50 min
Friday
6 NovFrankie's Film Club: Once Upon A Time
20.00Once Upon A Time In The West
Director: Sergio Leone. Starring: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Woody Strode, Jack Elam.
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica teams up with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow and her land from a ruthless assassin in the employ of a railroad tycoon.
165 min
Saturday
7 NovNetflix and Chill
19.30Blue Eye Samurai
"Peculiarities"
Akemi embarks on a new career and Mizu searches for a way to reach Fowler, bringing them both to Madame Kaji's rather unusual establishment.
45 min
20.15Mindhunter
S1E5: "Episode 5"
Holden and Bill return to a perplexing case in Pennsylvania where a set of clues leading in multiple directions leaves no shortage of suspects.
45 min
21.30Ripley
S1E5: "Lucio"
Ensconced in a lovely Rome apartment, Tom's perfect life is threatened by the arrival of an unexpected visitor.
45 min
Sunday
8 NovPrestige TV
19.00House
S8:E16: "Gut Check"
House and the team take on the case of a 22-year-old minor league hockey player who collapsed while coughing up blood after a fight on the ice. Meanwhile, House drops a bomb on Wilson that he has an eleven-year-old son. Chase offers to help Park change her living arrangement and become his roommate.
60 min
20.00Deadwood
S1E5: "The Trial of Jack McCall"
Swearengen transforms the Gem into a courtroom as Deadwood is forced to try a cowardly killer.
60 min
21.00Band of Brothers
"Crossroads"
Winters writes a report on the challenge of an unexpected resistance to a German attack.
60 min