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BBC Choice
2002-03-20 · Wednesday · 12 listings
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Another dose of celebrity news and gossip, offering viewers the latest from the world of show business. Featuring regular reports from Hollywood and Broadway, as well as on-the-spot backstage reports from some of the UK’s biggest showbiz affairs
01:00
More mechanical mayhem as Craig Charles and Julia Reed present another nail-biting edition of the action-packed game show in which contestants pit their home-made robots against one another
01:45
Jools Holland presents performances from the acid-funk band
19:00
From his own flat, Richard Bacon hosts the show in which two teams, currently living in grotty houses, compete to win a luxury flat rent-free for a year
19:45
The Girl Who Got above Her Station
Series of dark, twisted stories spoofing 19th-century children’s morality tales. Seamstress Sarah Smith gets high and mighty - and pays a heavy price for her presumption
20:00
Another dose of celebrity news and gossip, offering viewers the latest from the world of show business. Featuring regular reports from Hollywood and Broadway, as well as on-the-spot backstage reports from some of the UK’s biggest showbiz affairs
20:30
Fast-paced travel game show in which five couples fly to a holiday location, but only one gets to stay on for a week. This programme comes from Reykjavik and is presented by Joe Mace
21:00
Rousing sci-fi adventure about a time portal that provides a gateway into an alternate universe. A crack team of explorers, including an Egyptologist, embark on a journey into the unknown when they venture through the 'stargate'. Differences within the group pale into insignificance as the team confront the challenges before them
22:50
This special edition of the programme takes a look ahead to next week’s Oscars ceremony, the biggest night of the year for the film industry. Jonathan Ross examines how to mount an Oscar-winning publicity campaign, hears from some of this year’s main contenders and recalls some of the major shocks in Academy Award history
23:20
Circus/Sport
Series in which participants wear miniature cameras in order to show viewers life from their perspective. Featuring a performer’s view from the trapeze and the high wire at the Moscow State Circus. Plus the experience of accelerating from 0 to 200mph in four seconds with a dragster racer, and a session in the ring with one of Thailand’s finest Thai boxers
23:50
James Dean’s Porsche
Mark Lamarr finds out what happened to the prized possessions of dead celebrities. Here he tracks down the Porsche in which James Dean died and which he bought only a week before his death