TV Guide 2025-04-26

It's all kicking off on Wednesday. The Genius Game (VM1 and ITV, also Thu) arrives after seemingly years in development. Glow Up (BBC3) begins its seventh series. On Thursday, Taskmaster returns (C4).

Live semi-finals on Got Talent (VM1 and ITV, Sat). There's a new run of science show Get Set Galactic (Cbeebies, Sat and Sun). Grand final of Chess Masters Colon The Endgame (BBC2, Mon).

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Schedules are accurate at the time of publication; check against EPG for late changes.

Saturday 26 April

Fighting Talk (Radio 5, 11am).
Get Set Galactic (Cbeebies, 11.10am) Funny bones.
Yankee Ninja Warrior (ITV2, 12.40) Semi-finals. Shown on NBC in 2023.
Come Dine With Me The Professionals (C4, 12.55); Four in a Bed (C4, 1.55) Repeats.
Tipping Point Best Ever Finals (ITV, 4pm).
The Piano (C4, 4.30) Repeats from last Sunday.
The Chase Celebrity Special (ITV, 5pm) Repeat with Jon Sopel, Maisie Summers-Newton, Perri Shakes-Drayton, Brian Conley, Jenny Ryan. First shown in January 2024

Primetime

Our Dream Farm (C4, 6pm) This week, they transform a disused building.
99 to Beat (ITV, 6pm) Untangle a rope. Repeated 5.35 tomorrow.
Got Talent (VM1 and ITV, 7pm) The first live semi-final. Repeated tomorrow: 7.25am on ITV Breakfast Broadcasting, 2.50 on ITV2, and 3.30 on VM1 in Ireland.
Blankety Blank (BBC1, 8.05) With Roisin Conaty, Dame Sandi Toksvig, Fire From Gladiators, Desiree Burch, Paddy McGuinness, Joe Pasquale. Subject to delay or cancellation if football can't finish on time.
Pointless Celebrities (BBC1, 8.40) Eva Fontaine, Nigel Boyle, Tom Basden, Tim Key, Natalie O'Leary, Dev Griffin, Milly Zero, Natalie Anderson. Also subject to delay or cancellation if football can't finish on time.
The 1% Club (ITV, 8.05) With a live report from Worm World.

Sunday 27 April

The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge (C4, 8.55am) Repeat from 2022.
Get Set Galactic (Cbeebies, 11.10am) Handwashing.
Y Talwrn (Radio Cymru, 7pm).
Celebrity Catchphrase (ITV, 7pm; VM1 8pm) Mark Charnock, Kerry Godliman, Janet Street Porter. Subject to delay or cancellation if football can't finish on time.
Celebrity Bake Off (C4, 8pm) Revised repeat with Danny Dyer, Rhod Gilbert, Leigh Francis, Yinka Bokinni.
The Piano (C4, 9pm) This week, must be a Wednesday, the team are in Sheffield.

Weekday Daytimes

Celebrity Mastermind (Eden, 11am, 5pm, and 11pm) Editions from the aughts.
Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15; Scotland 11.15am Thu) New on Monday (Exeter) and Friday (Ardingly). Repeats elsewhere. No trivia treble on Two, because it's still snooker season.
Celebrity Catchphrase (ITV, 2pm; not Mon, Fri) Classic episodes.
Countdown (C4, 2.10) John Virgo. Repeat around 6am next day.
Jeopardy! (ITV, 3pm; not Fri) Repeats from 2024.
The Bidding Room (BBC1, 3.45; Fri 4pm) New episodes Mon, Wed, Thu; repeats Tue, Fri.
Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm; not Fri) New episodes Mon-Wed, repeats Thu.
The Finish Line (BBC1, 4.30) Repeats from 2024.
The Chase (ITV, 5pm) Repeats.
Pointless (BBC1, 5.15) New episode on Monday with Anita Rani, then repeats.
House of Games (3) (BBC2, 6pm) Repeats from 2024, with Johnny Cochrane, Shobna Gulati, Dermot Murnaghan, Laura Smyth.
Gladiators (BBC3, 7pm; not Fri) The 2024 series.
Shark Tank (BBC3, 8pm; not Wed, Fri 8.25) The Yankee version of Dragons' Den.

Monday 28 April

Listomania (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm and 8pm).
The Unbelievable Truth (Radio 4, 6.30) Angela Barnes, Mark Steel, Ria Lina, Alan Davies.
Scotland's Home of the Year (BBC1 Scotland, 8.30) This week, the north east and Northern Isles.
Chess Masters Colon The Endgame (BBC2, 8pm) The grand final.
University Challenge (BBC2, 8.30) Semi-final 2. No Mastermind, it's fallen victim to snooker
Dubhlain DIY (BBC Alba, 8.30) Sport and fitness. Here's a quick instruction to E4: "lie detectors" are complete nonsense, and even less reliable than the office printer.
Have I Got a Bit More News for You (BBC1, 10.40; Scot, NI 11.10; Wales 11.40) Angela Rippon, Jo Brand, Richard Osman.

Tuesday 29 April

Act Your Age (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm and 8pm) Generation gap quiz from 2011.
QI XL (BBC2, 9pm) Underthings, with Maisie Adam, Daliso Chaponda, Jack Dee, repeat.
Hypothetical (BBC2, 9.45) Nish Kumar, Dara Ó Briain, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Suzi Ruffell. Previously shown on UKTV G2+1 in 2019.

Wednesday 30 April

Glow Up (BBC3, 8pm) A new series begins here, and the make-up contest starts with a fashion show.
Race Across the World (BBC1, 9pm) This week, the teams head down the East China Sea, and there's a typhoon coming.
The Genius Game (VM1 and ITV, 9pm) David Tennant guides eleven players with exceptional abilities through a series of mind-bending rounds. If we've got this right, it's what happened when Scrapheap Challenge and Taskmaster went down the pub, met someone from The Traitors, invented a game where everyone's dressed like Tuesday of finals week on Going for Gold, and had it played by people who have already thought about the £100,000 dilemma on The 1% Club.

Thursday 1 May - May Day

The 3rd Degree (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm and 8pm) Student quiz from last year.
Interior Design Masters (BBC1, 8pm) Rescue dogs in Battersea.
Taskmaster (C4, 9pm) Series 19 (count 'em!) begins with Fatha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey, and Stevie Martin.
The Genius Game (VM1 and ITV, 9pm) This week's episodes last for 75 minutes, so they're delaying News at Ten so we can see more of clever people.

Friday 2 May

Whispers (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm and 8pm).
The News Quiz (Radio 4, 6.30).
Have I Got News for You (BBC1, 9pm) Sue Perkins hosts, with panellists Michelle Wolf and Tom Peck.

Sign language interpretation

Deal or No Deal (ITV, 3am Sat); (ITV2, 9.45am Sat) Three episodes (ITV2, 10.55am Sun) Two episodes.
Race Across the World (BBC2, 2.55am Tue).
Wheel of Fortune (ITV, 5.05am Tue, Thu).
Interior Design Masters (BBC2, 2am Wed).
99 to Beat (ITV, 3am Wed and 5.10am Thu) Episodes 4 and 5.
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2, 8am Wed). Ending the 2023-4 series.
The Piano (C4, 2.20am Thu).

Challenge

Saturday

7am The Chase 9am Bruce's Price is Right 10am Supermarket Sweep 11am Family Fortunes 1pm Strike it Lucky 3pm Bullseye 4pm The Chase 11pm Bullseye 4am The Chase

Sunday

7am The Bidding Room 9am Friends Like These 11am Play Your Cards Right 12 noon Dickinson's Real Deal 1pm Blankety Blank 3pm Through the Keyhole 4pm Friends Like These 6pm The Chase

Monday - Friday

7am The Chase 10am The Bidding Room 11am Bob's Full House 11.45 Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game 1pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire 2pm Family Fortunes 3pm Bob's Full House 3.45 Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game 5pm Bullseye 6pm The Bidding Room 7pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire 8pm The Chase 10pm Tenable 11pm Bullseye 12 midnight The Weakest Link 1am The Crystal Maze 2am The Chase 4am Catchphrase 5am Bullseye