Thursday Night TV Guide Daily Listing

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Thursday night TV Guide 26/4/7

8:30pm - 9:00pm Channel 4 Chaos at the Chateau. Real life Fawlty Towers. Essex couple Ann and David Darrell try to run a luxury hotel in Slovakia. The clash between macho David and his gay master chef is even funnier than Basil versus Manuel. Tonight things go missing and a local farmer disrupts proceedings.

9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC1 Life Line 2/2 Excellent supernatural thriller, continued from Tuesday. The story so far: After many years abroad Peter Brisco has an affair with former lover Katy, who cheats on her boyfriend. But Katy is killed in a car accident.  Peter and the boyfriend have a heavyweight argument at her funeral. Peter seeks solace through Life Line, a chat line for the bereaved. A caller sounds like Katy, and reveals personal information that only Peter knows. But then Peter is banned for revealing personal information. In trying to track down Life Line he encounters Catt, a strange young woman who has the same problem...

Record 9:00pm - 10:00pm Five House 6/24 - Que Sera Sera House is in jail after humiliating a cop last week by inserting a thermometer where the sun don't shine and leaving it there. Who prescribed House the painkillers? The cop has him on a drug charge. After this incident House and team deal with a morbidly obese man. As with ER, the Americans do hospital drama so much better than the Brits. But we Brits still have the edge in satirical comedy. House is played by Hugh Laurie, so we get the best of both worlds. This is the best thing on television. 

Radio 9:30pm - 10:00pm Radio 4 In Our Time Roman and Greek Love Poetry. Read our summary, or listen to it again on the radio 4 web site.

10.00pm - 10:30pm BBC2 The Graham Norton Show Actor 9/13 Oscar winning "rain man" Dustin Hoffman and singer Mika join Graham for the usual mix of chat, sharp comedy and inventive studio stunts. The BBC have at last found the best way to use Graham, which turns out to be the way that Channel 4 used him.

10.35pm - 11.35pm BBC1 Question Time David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Oxford. The panel of guests include Labour health minister Caroline Flint, Liberal Democrat MP David Laws, and Plaid Cymru's Adam Price. 

11.35pm - 12.25pm BBC1 This Week Andrew Neil,  Diane Abbott MP, and Michael Portillo discuss political developments from the past week. Special items, Andrew's witticisms, and guests stars may keep you awake.