The Gadget Show (C5, 7pm)
REMEMBER 1999, when millions were worried that the millennium bug would wreak havoc, computers would crash and we’d wind up in some sort of electronic dark age? Well, thankfully all that was just a big fuss about nothing. In this week’s user-friendly show, Georgie Barrat heads back to 2000 and assesses that strange time of Y2K fear. Plus, the team equips a pair of backpackers with the latest gear, Ortis Deley goes off-road in Ukraine, and Jon Bentley reveals how to protect yourself from being hacked online.
Unreported World (C4, 7.30pm)
AS Donald Trump fights for re-election, his campaign is targeting white women voters. Filmed prior to the coronavirus pandemic and the killing of George Floyd, Karishma Vyas travels to California to meet the “TradWives”, a growing movement of US women who idolise Donald Trump and who have put him at the heart of their anti-feminist, traditional family values as they work to get him re-elected. This is despite the fact that women have often borne the brunt of the president’s political and personal barbs.
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Travel Man’s Greatest Trips: Arts and Crafts (C4, 8pm)
Richard Ayoade continues to delve into the Travel Man archive with a look at highlights themed around arts and crafts. Featured are a drawing tour of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum with Joe Lycett and a visit to New York’s smallest museum, The Mmuseumm, with Katherine Ryan. Also, Richard and Morgana Robinson discuss their final dining choices stood before Da Vinci’s Last Supper in Milan, while the street art of Athens and Paris is appreciated by Dawn French and Mel Giedroyc, respectively.
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4, 9pm)
ADAM Buxton’s Ramble Book is one of the funniest and most moving of the year. Chances are you’ll be crying with laughter as he makes a welcome return to Dictionary Corner, where he will no doubt be reading more video comments, a little like his show Bug. Team captain Sean Lock will be welcoming This Country’s Daisy May Cooper, while Travel Man’s Richard Ayoade is joined by Ivo Graham. Susie Dent, Joe Wilkinson and Rachel Riley also lend a hand with the laughs, while Jimmy Carr keeps order.
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