Bargain Loving Brits in Blackpool: Episode 3

DJ Jason Fubar is hanging up his headphones to overhaul a bar on Blackpool prom, but his tight £10,000 budget means calling in favours and doing lots of the work himself. In Skegness, 1960s-themed B&B owner Lorraine’s hopes of impressing first-time visitors from Filey hang in the balance when her matching linen is stolen.

Bargain Loving Brits in Blackpool is a series about Blackpool’s residents and visitors, who are taking advantage of the resort’s budget prices and business or showbusiness opportunities.

Season 2 Episode 3
Runtime: 60 minutes
Time: 20:00
Airdate: 9 May 2021
Network: Channel 5

The Pursuit of Love: Episode 1

Linda dreams of a life of adventure, while Fanny is more concerned with stability after being abandoned by her mother. When a glamorous local aristocrat invites a charming stranger to a ball, Linda is instantly smitten, but Fanny’s disapproval threatens to tear the inseparable friends apart.

The Pursuit of Love follows the travails of the Radlett family, focusing on Linda, the most beautiful and wayward Radlett daughter, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist, and finally a French duke named Fabrice, and her cousin Fanny Logan. Consumed by a desire for love and marriage, the two women are on the hunt for the ideal lover. Their friendship will be put to the test as Fanny settles for a steady life and Linda decides to follow her heart, to increasingly wild and outrageous places.

Season 1 Episode 1
Runtime: 60 minutes
Time: 21:00
Airdate: 9 May 2021
Network: BBC One

Gods of Snooker: Snookered

The sport’s rise to prominence, beginning by examining how Alex `Hurricane” Higgins upset the snooker establishment to help transform a game played in the backrooms of working men’s clubs into a TV ratings hit. Interest in the sport had been growing thanks to the new possibilities of colour broadcasting, and in particular the weekly snooker show Pot Black, but it was the antics of the unpredictable Ulstersman that took the game stratospheric.

For a remarkable period in the 1980s, sporting superstardom was embodied by a select group of well-dressed men in tight-fitting suits – utterly poised, chasing after multi-coloured balls on a green table. Snooker had landed on our screens and captivated an audience of millions.

In this series, snooker’s golden age will be brought back to life by those at the very heart of the story – Jimmy White, Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor, Stephen Hendry, Ray Reardon, Barry Hearn and more – sporting heroes from working-class backgrounds who quickly became household names.

Mixing sporting prowess with unapologetic excess, this new generation of snooker players managed to take the game out from the dark corners of working men’s clubs into the bright lights of a money-spinning, sporting soap-opera.

This is a story of a magical era; when an entire nation could be united by a fascination with snooker and where its leading players became unlikely superstars.

Season 1 Episode 1
Runtime: 60 minutes
Time: 21:00
Airdate: 9 May 2021
Network: BBC Two