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BBC Entertainment in June, 2010:
The Graham Norton Show 6 (13 episodes)Premiered: Monday 14 June 2010 at 22h55
Continues every Monday
The irreverent BAFTA award-winning chat show host from the Emerald Isle returns with a new series. Each episode features chat, comedy, celebrity gossip and general weirdness.
Celebrities joining Graham on the sofa in this series include Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker, comedienne Joan Rivers, Hollywood superstar Robert Downey Jr, rapper 50 Cent, British treasure Stephen Fry and comedian Bill Bailey.
At the end of each show, Graham introduces contemporary music acts - amongst others, this series features music from Will Young, Annie Lennox and the Dame Shirley Bassey.
The Weakest Link Celebrity Specials (20 episodes)Premiered: Monday 14 June 2010 at 17h35
Continues every weekday at 17h35 Dressed in austere black, The Weakest Link presenter Anne Robinson has a well-earned reputation for intimidating contestants with her withering put-downs and arch insults. But what happens when instead of members of the public the players are a host of celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, music and sport?
This series of special episodes sees nine celebrity contestants play the fastest, meanest quiz show on television. They leave their lives of glitz and glamour at the door and have to work as a team in order to win charity prize money of up to £20,000. But eight of them will leave with nothing, as round by round they lose the player voted the weakest link.
QI Series 6 (12 episodes) Premiered: Tuesday 15 June at 22h25 and 22h55
Continues every Tuesday in double bills Ringmaster Stephen Fry presides over comic chaos in the ‘The World's Most Impossible Quiz’.
Asking impossibly difficult questions of a four-strong panel of guests from the cream of current comic talent, Fry is harried and hampered at every turn by regular panellist Alan Davies.
Other guests include the likes of Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon, Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus, Johnny Vegas, Ronni Ancona, David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, and Clive Anderson - each bringing to the table their own levels of general knowledge and/or ignorance.
Points are awarded for answers that are ‘quite interesting’, regardless of whether they are correct or even relevant, while heavy penalties are imposed for those that are ‘obvious’ but wrong.
Subjects in this series all begin with the letter “F”, and include such topics as Food, Future, Fashion, Flora and Fauna, and France.
The Real Hustle 5 (10 episodes)Premiered: Wednesday 16 June 2010 at 20h20, 20h55, 21h25 and 21h55
Continues every Wednesday at 20h20 and 20h55
The Real Hustle’s team of expert hustlers return to try out some more notorious scams on members of the public. The aim is to reveal how scams work so that the viewer can avoid being ripped off by the same con.
In this series, the hustlers join the antiques trade and make a killing in an antiques scam, Jess leaves some clubbers with a bad taste in their mouths with a hustle involving cocktails, and the team show that a picture is worth a thousand words in a fine art con.
Celebrity cons are played on chef Aldo Zilli, Gavin And Stacey star Joanna Page, and socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who all get a nasty surprise they hadn’t bargained for as they find themselves outwitted by the hustlers.
BBC Entertainment is on DStv Channel 120.