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FRIDAY'S TV AND RADIO
365's Guide To The Day's Essential Viewing & Listening
Compiled by Neil Rowlands
PICK OF THE DAY
Extra Time With Ron Atkinson, 7.30pm on ITV2 Disgracefully tucked away on a station available only to ONdigital customers, here’s half an hour of Big Ron in conversation with probably the only English football manager who fancied himself more than he did – Brian Clough. Unmissable.
TELEVISION
Terrestrial
BBC ONE
10.30pm (Wales), Portugal v Wales Full, delayed coverage of tonight’s friendly. The immensely skilled Portuguese, a footballing nation often accused of playing in pretty patterns without coming up with the goals that should go with it, are in England’s group at Euro 2000 and have cannily arranged this warm-up match against British opposition to give their boys a taste of what to expect in Eindhoven on June 12. Though how much use marking a great lummox like Iwan Roberts will be when you’re up against an Alan Shearer or a Michael Owen is open to question.
ITV
12.25am (Sat - Scotland), World Football Pan-global news, action and features for the post-pub crowd.
12.55am (Sat - Scotland), World Sport Special More action, more news and more features. But less football.
CHANNEL FOUR
8.50pm (S4C only), Portugal v Wales – Live Every kick as it happens from the above match as a Welsh side shorn of as many as eight probable first-team players through injury (hello Ryan!) take on one of Europe’s top footballing sides complete with the likes of Barcelona’s Luis Figo and Rui Costa of Fiorentina. With commentary in Welsh. For team news, see
page four.
Satellite, Cable & Digital
EUROSPORT
8.30am, Dream TeamContinuing the series that aims to select, position by position, the finest possible football side from all the European nations ahead of Euro 2000. In this case, it’s attacking midfielders like Ryan Giggs, Luis Figo, David Beckham and Luis Enrique.
SKY SPORTS ONE
7am, Sky Sports CentreCatch up with all Thursday’s top tales with this repeat of last night’s late bulletin. Shown again on Sky Sports Two at 7.30am, back here at 8.15am and over on SS2 again at 8.45am.
9.30am, Trans World SportInternational sporting highlights and headlines – the football is always in there somewhere among the updates on Tiger Woods’ ever-burgeoning bank balance. Shown again on Sky Sports Two at 4pm.
6.30pm, Sports CentreThe footy season’s over, so our old reliable Friday night football hour is now a Friday night football-and-other-things 30 minutes (but look on the bright side, at least they’ve packed in Hold The Back Page). Updated at 10.30pm on Sky Sports Three, then repeated here at 11.30pm and on Sky Sports Two at 1.30am (Sat).
SKY SPORTS TWO
8.15am, FIFA TVAll the news and action Sepp Blatter wants you to see.
9am, European Under-21 ChampionshipRepeat of last night’s England v Slovakia group match. Howard Wilkinson’s lads needed Turkey to do them a favour against Italy to make the final, but there are so many play-offs in this thing that they can count on some sort of action at the weekend.
The Newcastle Arena is the venue for the northern round of this oldsters six-a-side competition. What price Peter Beardsley looking sharper at 39 than half the England side did on Wednesday?
2.30pm, What A WeekendThe best bits from England-Brazil (ie, just about everything not involving Phil Neville), Jim Leighton getting his face kicked in at Hampden and a look ahead to the live action on Sky Sports over the next few days. Repeated here at 5pm.
SKY SPORTS THREE
1.30pm, World Cup ClassicsIt’s Mexico 1970, so it has to be Brazil. In this case, it’s their quarter-final against Peru. Paddington Bear’s uncles and brothers scored twice that day in Guadalajara, but that was never going to be enough.
BBC CHOICE
7pm, The Sin BinSporting chat and features, including a look at last week’s celebrity six-a-side footy tournament (for charidee, naturally) at Stamford Bridge.
10.30pm, Alistair McGowan’s Big ImpressionFeaturing take-offs of Alan Hansen, Posh & Becks, Gary Lineker and Mark Lawrenson. The less said about his Gazza the better, I feel.
8.45pm (Wales), Portugal v Wales – LiveThe same pictures as they’ll be showing on S4C (see above) but with commentary in English. The result will be just as lop-sided mind.
11.40pm (Wales), sport.walesRegional news and views, including a report on the above international friendly.
BBC NEWS 24
7.30pm, SportsdayRound-up of the day’s top football stories.
CNN
8.30am, World SportInternational headlines and highlights as seen through America’s eyes. Repeated/updated at 10.30am and 3.30pm and completely revised with all today's top stories at 10.30pm. CNN being CNN, any or all of these bulletins could be bumped from the schedule to make room for coverage of breaking news
SKY NEWS
10.30pm, SportslineNews and punditry.
SKY SPORTS NEWS
Round-the-clock news, views and features.
MUTV
5pm, Reds@FiveKids’ fun. 6pm, The Weekend Starts HereNews and chat. 7pm, The Friday SupplementThe week’s news reviewed. Shown again at 10.30pm. 8pm, Red Hot NewsThe latest United gossip. More of the same at 10pm. 8.15pm, Season SnapshotsMore goals from 1999-2000. 8.30pm, SuperMatchBeckham from the halfway line at Wimbledon in August 1996. 10.15pm, Super Match ShortsThe May 1993 championship party that included a win over an Alan Shearer-less Blackburn.
RADIO
RADIO FOUR (92.4-94.6 FM, 198 LW)
11pm, Late TackleSports news and chat, including a report from Malta ahead of England’s final pre-Euro 2000 friendly match there tomorrow.
RADIO FIVE LIVE (693 & 909 MW)
7.35pm, Alan Green’s SportsnightRadio’s Mr Misery and guests chew over the week’s two England games and the final squad of 22 Keggy named. Expect the words ‘Andy’ and ‘Cole’ to crop up again and again.
TALKSPORT (1053 & 1089 MW)
All sport, all the time presented by the likes of The Sun's Brian Woolnough, Brian Moore, Alvin Martin and Tommy 'Not The One Who Plays For Celtic' Boyd.
FOOTBALL365 RECOMMENDS...
Terrestrial
BBC ONE
9.30pm, The Talk Show With Michael ParkinsonBarnsley’s most saggy-faced fan (imagine the mush on him at about 5pm last Monday!) traces the history of TV chat shows, interviewing the big half man-half desk names and trotting out archive footage of some classic interviews. Continues next week.
BBC TWO
6pm, The SimpsonsDouble bill of yellow hued humour from Springfield, including the one where Bart and the local kids go to war after their Shelbyville rivals steal a lemon tree.
CHANNEL FOUR
10pm, FrasierLaugh like a drain at a double-bill of the world’s most pompous radio shrink. Tonight, Daphne chews over her feelings for Niles. Which way will she jump (as if we don’t know)? Not shown on S4C.
3.05am (Sat), The Big HeatHard-boiled Fritz Lang crime drama featuring Lee Marvin (who else?) hurling a pot of boiling coffee in a woman’s face. Starts at 3.35am (Sat) on S4C.
Satellite, Cable & Digital
CARLTON CINEMA
7pm, The Four FeathersClassic adventure following a British officer who is accused of cowardice in battle and sets out to prove otherwise. They’re supposed to be remaking it with Jude Law in the lead role, y’know.
11pm, The Silence Of The LambsThe second best Hannibal Lecter movie, featuring Anthony Hopkins pantomiming away in the role that Brian Cox nailed four years before in the criminally ignored Manhunter. With Hopkins returning to the role for the currently-being-shot Hannibal, I suppose it’s worth checking in and reminding ourselves what the fuss was all about.
GRANADA PLUS
4pm, The Professionalsand 5pm, Starsky & HutchHey, it’s Friday afternoon! Forget about work for a bit and bask in some crime-busting Seventies nostalgia form both sides of the pond.
ITV2
11.50pm, The Late Show With David LettermanWatch Parky’s dissection of the form on the Beeb and then turn over to check out the state of the art as Dave combines star chat, gags and music.
MTV
9.30pm, Celebrity DeathMatchClaymation comedy that attempts to answer the timeless seven-pints-to-the-good question: ‘Who would win a fight between…’ Tonight’s bill of battling movie and TV stars, pop idols and sports heroes includes Britney Spears v Christina Aguilera. Woof!
PARAMOUNT
Midnight, CheersWell-crafted laughs from the Boston bar where everybody knows your name.
3am (Sat), The Larry Sanders ShowSitcom set behind the scenes at a top American TV chat show (anyone spotting a theme with tonight’s programming) complete with insecure host, idiot sidekick and top stars of film, TV and music playing themselves in often pants-darkeningly funny cameos.
SKY ONE
7pm, The SimpsonsAnother double bill of yellow hued humour from Springfield (time it right and you’ve got almost two continuous hours!), including the one where an archaeological dig unearths what appears to be the skeleton of an angel.
SKY PREMIER
8pm, The Truman ShowJim Carrey sets aside the idiocy for a while in this genuinely touching tale of a man who doesn’t know his entire life is a TV show, played out on a soundstage and watched by a global audience of millions.
UK GOLD
5.40pm, It Ain’t Half Hot MumWartime sitcom about a British army concert party in the Far East, dominated by Windsor Davies’ superbly shouty Welsh sergeant.
9pm, One Foot In The GraveRichard Wilson plays it to the hilt in another edition of fine ‘grumpy old man’ comedy. More of the same at 12.35am (Sat).
9.40pm, Jonathan CreekImpossibly complex murders solved by a man with impossibly curly hair. Is it a perm? More of the same at 2.55am (Sat).
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