Sky UK TV Guide

06:00 Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks
My Right Arm
Children Porcine adventures with Piggley Winks and friends. Friendship comes through when Ferny and Dannan help Piggley overcome his temporary handicap - a broken arm - to win the ball toss contest at the annual school fair.

06:20 Clifford the Big Red Dog
Pot Luck Party Pooper
Children Exploits of a giant dog, his friends Cleo and T-Bone and his owner, eight-year-old Emily Elizabeth. The Howards plan a party and invite everyone. Mr Bleakman refuses to interrupt his Saturday afternoon routine to attend, so the others try to change his mind.

06:35 Brum
Brum and the Bowling Alley
Children The adventures of a little car who lives in a motor museum. Pickpocket Polly strikes at the bowling alley, and Brum comes to the rescue.

06:45 Pinky Dinky Doo
Tipsy Topsy
Children Mixed media animation for young children. Pinky Dinky Doo lives in Great Big City with her parents, her four-year-old brother Tyler, and their amazing pet Mr Guinea Pig. When a problem arises, Pinky dances her way to a cardboard story box and uses a piece of chalk and her imagination to tell a story. Pinky and Nicholas visit Princess Volume and play a special game.

07:00 Arthur
All Worked Up
Children Animation following the adventures of a young aardvark and his friends. Mum gets a job and Arthur and DW aren't entirely happy about the change.

07:15 Dennis & Gnasher
Mother's Day
Children Dennis and Gnasher believe the world is their oyster and that kids should make the rules. Dennis has forgotten to buy Mum a gift for Mother's Day and so, when his ideas to create something for her fail, he decides on one thing that sure to make her happy - staying out of trouble for the whole day. He tries his hardest, but still inadvertently causes a domino affect of chaos. By the end of the day, it's clear that Dennis just can't stay out of trouble.

07:25 Dennis & Gnasher
Run Rabbit Run
Children Dennis and Gnasher believe the world is their oyster and that kids should make the rules. Dennis's mum is looking after Walter's rabbit while he is away when Dennis accidentally lets it loose. Dennis and Mum try to find the rabbit but with no luck. When Walter unexpectedly returns, Dennis disguises Gnasher as the rabbit to fool Walter while he continues to search for it. Discovering the rabbit being chased by a cat, Dennis calls on Gnasher for help, and together they mount a rescue operation.

07:40 The Basil Brush Show
The Candidate
Children Children's comedy series featuring the irrepressible fox and friends. Basil is keen to give Molly's school council campaign a helping hand, but his attempts at spin doctoring go awry.

08:05 Jinx
Minty Freshman
Children Comedy drama about a girl with a magical cookbook. Lulu volunteers herself and Frenchy for the school talent show, but lives to regret it when each recipe Cookie provides to help them has an unexpected and disastrous effect.

08:30 The Legend of Dick and Dom
Dick's Brain
Children With a terrible plague turning the citizens of their home kingdom into beasts, bungling princes Dick and Dom are once again Fyredor's last hope. Joined by their less-than-heroic companions, light-fingered servant Lutin and useless mage Mannitol, they have just weeks to re-re-make a cure before Fyredor is doomed forever. The antidote needs 'the brain of a prince called Dick'. Not great news for Prince Dick.

09:00 Tracy Beaker Returns
Viva Carmen
Children Drama set in a children's home. Carmen's mother turns up wanting her daughter to live with her again. Is she all she seems to be?

09:30 Spirit Warriors
The Cave of Ghosts
Children Five children discover from Shen the Dragon that they are spirit warriors, on a quest to find twelve spirit pieces - if they fail, the evil Li will find them and then control the universe! Martin, Trix and Vicky display different kinds of bravery and intelligence as they try to recover the spirit piece from the dreaded Cave of Ghosts. But will these qualities prove to be enough in a treacherous village whose every inhabitant has been destroyed by Hwang?

10:00 Something for the Weekend
Cookery Live recipes, the best of the week's TV and celebrity chat to set up your Sunday. Tim Lovejoy, chef Simon Rimmer and Louise Redknapp are joined by West End star and comic actress Sheridan Smith and Five Days actress Suranne Jones.

11:30 On Thin Ice
Documentary James Cracknell and Ben Fogle attempt to race to the South Pole. The duo start their training. They learn to cope with extreme cold and wind in a climatic chamber, expose themselves to hypothermia and, most importantly, find their third team member - actor Jonny Lee Miller. Together, the three polar novices travel to Norway to attend their first race training session and to learn the basic skills required to survive the constant cold of Antarctica.

12:15 EastEnders
Soap Ian hears devastating news from Lucy and Jane, unaware that worse is to come. Peggy is called to the police station, but who is waiting in the cells? Whitney takes the rap for vandalism on the Square, and Becca makes an ill-advised attempt to seduce a grieving Max.

14:10 Six Nations Rugby
France v Italy
Sport John Inverdale introduces live Six Nations rugby from the Stade de France, where the French face Italy. The Azzurri have yet to beat Les Bleus since joining the Six Nations, a statistic Nick Mallett's men would dearly love to put right. Italy gave the French a bit of a scare on their last visit to Paris before eventually losing 25-13. Commentary from Nick Mullins and Rob Henderson.

16:40 Escape to the Country
Hampshire/Surrey Borders
Interests Home relocation series. Alistair Appleton house-hunts for a couple who are desperate to relocate for work reasons. They are after a three-bedroom house and have a healthy budget but Alistair has problems finding them what they want.

17:10 Banded Brothers: The Mongoose Mob
Documentary Wildlife series following the lives of the meerkat's bigger cousin, the banded mongoose. The more of the latest litter of pups can survive to adulthood, the greater the chance the Bandeds have of remaining a fighting force. Tensions rise within the Banded Brothers family and infighting leads to some of the family being cast out into the wilderness.

18:10 Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections
Deep Space Observatory - Keck, Hawaii
Science Richard Hammond discovers the secrets behind the Keck Observatory, which has seen further into the universe than any other telescope on earth. He reveals that the observatory owes its incredible design to an ancient Greek ritual, a Russian inventor, a breakthrough in aerial reconnaissance and an attempt to cure yellow fever. Hidden in its DNA he finds an ancient technique for lighting a flame, a weird-sounding musical instrument, a sand blaster, a Korean spy plane and a refrigerator.

19:00 Top Gear
Interests James May travels to California to take a look at what is being hailed as the future of motoring - the hydrogen powered Honda Clarity. Meanwhile, out on the test track Jeremy Clarkson has a high voltage encounter with the Tesla, a battery powered super car, and Richard Hammond takes an affectionate look back at 50 years of Touring Car racing. The star in the reasonably priced car is Tom Jones.

20:00 Tropic of Cancer
Mexico to the Bahamas
Travel He may look like a gap-year student but Simon Reeve has made a successful career out of exploring the most troubled places on this planet. He's been to Somalia, Azerbaijan and Congo. He's also eaten sheep's eyes, caught malaria and been held by the KGB on suspicion of spying. So it's a little surprising to see him start his latest trip - an epic journey of 23,000 miles through 18 of the countries that straddle the Tropic of Cancer - in an impossibly luxurious resort in Baja California, where a suite costs more than 5,000 pounds a night. Moments later he's on more familiar territory, though, joining the Mexican police on a drugs raid and uncovering the poverty of Haitian refugees who've made it as far as the Caribbean paradise of the Bahamas. But whether Reeve is giving us a human interest story, hard-hitting facts, a glimpse of the bizarre or sharing a stunning landscape, he maintains the genial, unpretentious attitude that has probably opened many doors as well as got him out of some tight spots. However, it doesn't help him extricate himself from the arm-lock of a female Mexican wrestler who has a hint of Lady Gaga about her. Radio Times reviewer - Jane Rackham

21:00 Wonders of the Solar System
Order out of Chaos
Documentary Professor Brian Cox describes how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. He reveals how the beauty and order in Earth's cosmic backyard was formed from nothing more than a chaotic cloud of gas. Chasing tornados in Oklahoma, Brian explains how the same physics that creates these spinning storms shaped the young solar system. Out of this celestial maelstrom emerged Brian's second wonder - the magnficent rings of Saturn.

22:00 Match of the Day 2
Sport Adrian Chiles introduces highlights from the day's Premier League fixture and goals from Saturday's matches. Manchester United will look for revenge against Fulham, having been thrashed 3-0 in the reverse fixture at Craven Cottage. The Londoners have lost their previous six games at Old Trafford, however. At the Stadium of Light, Roberto Mancini and Manchester City face a Sunderland side who have gone off the boil after a good start. Plus a look at the funny side of football in 2 Good 2 Bad.

22:50 No Distance Left to Run
Documentary Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree have clearly seen enough rockumentaries to know that they wanted this record of their 2009 reunion to look more like Metallica: Some Kind of Monster than This Is Spinal Tap. But while all four are guardedly nostalgic in chronicling the combo's journey from an Essex comprehensive to headliners at the Glastonbury festival, they let slip enough affection and frankness to provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of one of British music's most chameleonic bands. Expertly compiled by co-directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace from archive material, exclusive interviews and tour footage, this debunks several pop-star myths while demonstrating there's no substitute for talent, originality and hard work. It may not convert unbelievers and there are flashes of self-congratulation about the enterprise, but it's hard not to admire the artistic integrity that impelled Blur before it pushed Albarn and Coxon apart.