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TUESDAY, 13 OCTOBER
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The People v Gary McKinnon
Using the moniker 'Solo', Gary McKinnon broke into 97 US military and NASA computers from London over the course of 13 months, causing outages and deleting files. He also posted a criticism of the military's security on their website.
Gardens Through Time
The Ministry of Time
The Ministry of Time, a newly established government department, is gathering ‘expats’ from across history in an experiment to test the viability of time-travel. Commander Graham Gore (an officer on Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition) is one such figure rescued from certain death – alongside an army captain from the fields of the Somme, a plague victim from the 1600s, a widow from revolutionary France, and a soldier from the seventeenth century.
Buddy
Buddy was a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It starred Wayne Goddard as Buddy Clark, a teenager dealing with various life problems, Roger Daltrey as his father Terry and pupils from the Cavendish School in Eastbourne. Daltrey reprised his role in the 1991 film Buddy's Song with Chesney Hawkes as Buddy.
Blue Planet III
The third series of this nature documentary uses the very latest in underwater filming techniques to reveal brand new and untold stories from magical underwater worlds focusing on five major underwater habitats: the tropical seas, temperate seas, polar seas, high seas and deep seas.
The Dream Lands
It’s 2039 and temperatures are soaring, seas are rising, and the political climate is equally as menacing. Chance is living a life of crime just to get by, when her community is singled out for a government rejuvenation scheme, promising to bring her coastal town back to life. But when Chance falls in love with Franky, a girl with ties to the establishment, she and those closest to her begin to realize that all may not be as it seems.
Honey
East Berlin, 1982. Marta, 24, is a deep cover agent for MI6. Surrounded by enemies and constantly under threat of her cover being blown, she tries her hardest to avoid detection by Friedrich Bauman, the new Head of Counter Espionage for the Stasi. Finding herself caught between Friedrich and the reckless, arrogant (and incredibly attractive…) CIA operative Aaron Neeland, she is blind-sided by desire in this Cold War menage-a-trois.
Hogmanay Live
Hogmanay Live is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast from either Edinburgh Castle's Great Hall or BBC Pacific Quay on Hogmanay. Regardless of location, the programme rings in the New Year with the firing of Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock Gun and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh. Occasionally the programme is networked across the United Kingdom on BBC One and it is also streamed live over bbc.co.uk on the internet. The programme features a mixture of Scottish contemporary and folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh. The show was most famously presented by Jackie Bird, but has also been hosted by Susan Calman and currently Edith Bowman
Hidden Planet
Dive into the secret world of the most successful and important animals on Earth – Insects. Building on the remarkable advances in camera technology pioneered by The Green Planet, this series reveals the beautiful and dramatic lives of insects in unprecedented detail.
BBC News at Six
The BBC News at Six is the evening news programme broadcast each night on British television channel BBC One and the BBC News channel at 18:00. For a long period the News at Six was the most watched news programme in the UK but since 2006 it has been over taken by the BBC News at Ten. On average it pulls in 4 million viewers. George Alagiah is currently the main presenter, presenting Monday to Thursday, while Fiona Bruce is its Friday presenter. Other BBC News presenters, including Sophie Raworth, Mishal Husain and Sian Williams also appear. In late 2007 the length of the programme was shortened from 30 minutes to 28 minutes to allow for a news summary being shown on BBC One at 7:58pm.
Open Water
Marcus works in retail while trying to develop a career as a photographer. Effie is studying dance at university in Dublin. From the moment they meet, they feel an immediate, undeniable connection. But, as Marcus soon learns, Effie is in a relationship with Marcus' friend Samuel. It's a boundary that Marcus is unwilling to cross. A shared project, photographing and documenting Black creatives in London, draws them into each other's orbit, but can their burgeoning friendship resist the pull of desire?
BBC Weekend News
BBC Weekend News is the BBC's national news programmes on BBC One at the weekend and bank holidays, although it is often referred to on guides simply as BBC News. It is called BBC Weekend News on all bulletins apart from being broadcast on Weekend at the 10:00pm hour, where it is named the BBC News at Ten.
WEDNESDAY, 14 OCTOBER
Tomorrow
Linda in Wonderland
NOVA: Evolution
“Nova: Evolution” is a five-part series from the GBH documentary unit together with the BBC and BBC Studios, which will trace the development of life from a single ancient cell into the many species alive today.
FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House
It's a matter of life and death for Alison, Mike, Mia and the Ghosts.
The Northumbria Mysteries
Set on Northumberland's coast, the series follows unlikely partners Joe Ruby, a jack-of-all-trades marked by regrets, and Oxford-educated DI Rose O'Connell, a brilliant intellectual, as they solve crimes together.
SUNDAY, 25 OCTOBER
This City Is Ours
Notorious gang boss Ronnie (Sean Bean) steps back from his criminal empire, triggering a violent power struggle between his volatile son Jamie (Jack McMullen) and trusted lieutenant Michael (James Nelson Joyce), who sees his chance to seize control. As rivalries ignite and loyalties fracture, the family behind the city’s cocaine trade descends into open war.
MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER
Doctor Who: The Satan Pit
Join the Doctor and Rose as they travel to Sanctuary Base 6, a remote outpost perched on a planet orbiting a black hole. When an ancient force awakens beneath the surface, the crew find themselves trapped in a battle against an evil older than time itself.
FRIDAY, 25 DECEMBER
Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms
In September 1939, Nonnatus House is the beating heart of the East End community of Poplar. The nurses and nuns dedicate their lives to mothers, babies and the poor. But there is no gas and air, no penicillin, no cure for TB, and no welfare state. Then war is declared — and life gets even harder. While bombs rain from the sky, women give birth underground, families are shattered and whole streets are reduced to ruins. But courage and resilience triumphs as the community unites to survive.
TUESDAY, 11 MAY (2027)
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.
THURSDAY, 5 AUGUST (2027)
The Bluey Movie
On an action-packed day, a big surprise changes everything for Bluey and her family.
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