Rob Brydon is back in the host's chair for the award-winningcomedy panel show, with Lee Mack and David Mitchell returningas team captains. Sorting the fact from fiction this week areguests John Cooper Clarke, Judi Love, Chris McCausland andCaroline Quentin.
Jimmy Carr hosts as Roisin Conaty and Kiri Pritchard-McLeantake on Jon Richardson and Rob Beckett. Comedian Huge Davies isin Dictionary Corner. Regular Countdown mathematician RachelRiley and lexicographer Susie Dent are on hand to adjudicate.
Graham kicks off the new year with a sparkling line-up ofguests, including the star of The Hobbit and The Office,Martin Freeman, in new BBC police drama The Responder,double-Oscar-winning Hollywood great Denzel Washington, inJoel Coen's film The Tragedy of Macbeth, top comic JoshWiddicombe and Nina Sosanya, starring in new prison dramaScrew. With music from Years & Years, performing theircurrent single Sweet Talker.
Beverly creates a plan to save Formica Mike's failingmarriage, but her efforts quickly backfire. Meanwhile, Barryenlists Adam and friends to create a James Bond-themed homemovie in his ongoing efforts to court Joanne, but her responseleaves him with a bruised ego. Both Barry and Beverly learnvaluable lessons in love.
In the aftermath of the Vas-COM scandal, Goodwin clashes withthe hospital's new compliance officer. Marcel and Blake try tosave a patient who has a son with severe autism. A patient'sson lies to his father about his diagnosis.
Stella Kidd returns to Firehouse 51. The team must worktogether to put out a potassium fire in a tunnel. After thatincident, Ritter begins to worry about a young cop whowitnessed the fiery death of a truck driver.
When Josh devises a formula for a profitable hard seltzer, hemust convince Tickle and the Laws to contribute their valuablepeach brandy to a risky enterprise; Mark and Digger attempt toturn a windfall of scuppernong grapes into Appalachian cognac.
The team searches for a missing child in what turns out to be avery complicated case. Burgess and Ruzek are in for a shockwhen someone from Makayla's past comes forward.
When Sam's former boss wakes up months later demanding toresume his duties, she is tasked with supervising thisegotistical expert with a scalpel who never acknowledged herstellar talent. Complicating matters, the caustic and arrogantGriff also happens to be her father. As he defies Sam'sauthority and challenges her medical expertise, the bigquestion becomes whether this father and daughter will ever beable to mend their own relationship as expertly as they healthe hearts of their patients.
Alzo Slade explores how medical disinformation has proliferatedand been politicized under the guise of "alternative health"during the COVID-19 pandemic; Hind Hassan travels to thefrontiers of Turkey and Europe, documenting a new migrantcrisis and witnessing Greece's abuse of international law aspart of Europe's response to the humanitarian crisis theyhelped create.
A California almond farm serves up a hidden stash of retro surfshop relics, and a Prohibition-era bowling alley in L.A.offers a mind-blowing trip back in time.