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Tuesday 29 May 2012

Programme Information

Network TV BBC Week 16
Highlights 18-24 April 2009

Martin Clunes stars as Reggie Perrin in BBC One's modern-day update of the classic sitcom

Reggie Perrin

Friday 24 April See Week 16 Unplaced BBC ONE

Martin Clunes, Fay Ripley, Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Whitehead, Neil Stuke and Lucy Liemann star in this modern-day update of the classic Seventies sitcom The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin, written by Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly) and David Nobbs, the writer and creator of the original show

Ashes To Ashes

Monday 20 April See Week 16 Unplaced BBC ONE

Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes return as DCI Gene Hunt and DI Alex Drake in the award-winning police drama

Tonight's The Night

Saturday 18 April BBC ONE

John Barrowman presents a new, glitzy entertainment series which combines show-stopping acts with wish-fulfilment and once-in-a-lifetime performances

The Omid Djalili Show

Monday 20 April See Week 16 Unplaced BBC ONE

"Iran's answer to Carol Vorderman" returns with a new series of his sketch, song and stand-up show

Louis Theroux – A Place For Paedophiles

Sunday 19 April See Week 16 Unplaced BBC TWO

Louis Theroux mixes with more than 500 of America's most disturbed criminals – convicted paedophiles – at Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, spending time with those undergoing treatment there

BBC Switch On BBC Two – Winging It

Saturday 18 April on BBC TWO

BBC Switch launches a new comedy series for teens featuring quick-witted comedians Tom Deacon, Rhys Thomas, Joe Thomas, Holly Walsh, Jonny Sweet, Matthew Crosby and Andrew Spiers, who are thrust into unfamiliar, real-life scenarios and forced to improvise their way out

BBC Headroom – Georgia's Story: 33 Stone At 15

Tuesday 21 April on BBC ONE

BBC Headroom tackles the psychological issues surrounding conditions such as anorexia, bulimia and obesity, in a three-part series, beginning with a film about an obese teenager whose condition has put her life at risk

BBC Four Sessions – Marianne Faithfull

Friday 24 April on BBC FOUR

Marianne Faithfull performs a selection of old favourites and new material, accompanied by an ensemble of musicians, in an intimate concert recorded earlier this year at London's LSO St Luke's

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