October on BBC – BBC highlights for the month of October include Boiling Point, The Bay, Dragon’s Den, Murder of Provence, Wilderness Week, Ben Fogle: Lost Worlds, Expedition with Steve Backshall, Kate Humble: Living with Nomads, Where the Wild Men Are and Hey Duggee.
Boiling Point
Australian Premiere
Tuesdays at 8.30pm from October 31
Starring: Vinette Robinson, Stephen Graham & Hannah Walters
6 x 60′
A visceral TV adaptation of the hit film – the team juggle their personal lives alongside the challenge of running a new kitchen. Starring BAFTA Winner Stephen Graham.
Eight months after her mentor Andy Jones suffered a heart attack, head chef Carly is battling to forge a name for new London-based restaurant Point North alongside her old kitchen crew. We follow the team as the stresses of keeping the restaurant running bear down on them amidst a hospitality industry in crisis.
With the pressure to draw in new customers and keep the business profitable, the team must find a way to manage their complicated personal lives alongside the punishing intensity of life inside the kitchen.
Cast includes Ray Panthaki, Gary Lamont, Áine Rose Daly, Taz Skylar, Daniel Larkai, Stephen McMillan, Hannah Traylen and Izuka Hoyle.
The Bay
Series 1 and 2
BBC First Premiere
Thursdays at 7.30pm from October 5
Starring: Morven Christie, Daniel Ryan & Andrew Dobiggin
12 x 60′
Series 1 sees Detective Sergeant Lisa Armstrong (Morven Christie) investigates a missing person case in Morecambe. As a police Family Liaison Officer, she’s trained never to get emotionally involved. But Lisa realises she’s got a personal connection with this frightened family.
Series 2 sees the team return to the coastal town of Morecambe once more to investigate some more twisted crimes. It begins with Lisa Armstrong at a low ebb: forced to do menial police work whilst she watches Med go from strength to strength. But a new case involving a shocking murder within a lobing family brings Lisa unexpectedly back into the front line. She must get under the skin of a new family and prove her worth; to her colleagues, to her family and to herself.
Dragons’ Den
Series 20
Australian Premiere
Thursdays at 9.30pm from October 5
14 x 60′
Dragons’ Den returns for its 20th series, with a new set of eager entrepreneurs hoping to strike a life-changing deal with the toughest titans of industry; Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman, Tej Lalvani and Sara Davies.
Pitches include exercise classes with a drag queen, headboards extending lengths of beds, outdoor exercise machine combining rowing and cycling, gender neutral sparkled party wear, mushroom snacks, multi-purpose key-rings, armpit sweat patches plus much more.
Murder In Provence
UKTV Premiere
Mondays at 8.30pm from October 9
Starring: Nancy Carroll, Roger Allam & Keala Settle
3 x 120′
With its pale Provençal stone, faded grey shutters and cafés spilling onto pavements, serving glasses of rosé as temperatures rise, Aix-en- Provence presents a blissful scene. But, as Investigating Judge Antoine Verlaque and his romantic partner, Criminal Psychology Professor Marine Bonnet, know only too well, beneath even the most picture-postcard city there’s a hidden underbelly of dark secrets and disturbing misdeeds.
From local intrigues and professional jealousies to family feuds and murder – when wrongdoings occur in Aix, Antoine is the man they call. Follow this witty, sparky duo as they unpick mysteries that lay bare humanity in all its complexity, under the seemingly benign Provençal sun.
Wilderness Week
All week at 7.30pm from October 23
This October, there’s one destination when it comes to life in the wild. Go off-grid into remote and rugged landscapes with BBC Earth’s Wilderness Week. Explore some of the most untamed and isolated corners of the world with gripping adventures from the resilient characters that call it home.
Programming includes the Australian Premiere of Ben Fogle’s Lost Worlds, new seasons of Where the Wild Men Are, Life Below Zero and Expedition with Steve Backshall plus Kate Humble’s Living with Nomads.
Ben Fogle: Lost Worlds
Australian Premiere
Mondays at 7.30pm from October 23
3 x 50′
Adventurer Ben Fogle travels to remote corners of the world and uncovers what caused people to leave these areas and witnesses new efforts to revitalise the islands that time forgot.
A community in the Californian desert that has lived outside the mainstream for over 60 years. A cluster of abandoned Scottish islands, overlooked by spirit guardians and populated by feral cattle. An active volcano on Montserrat in the Caribbean surrounded by an eerie exclusion zone. Ben Fogle explores long-forgotten landscapes and meets communities who live outside the realms of normality.
What lessons might be learned from those whose lives have been influenced by these wild and remote locations?
Expedition with Steve Backshall
Series 2
BBC Earth Premiere
Tuesdays at 9.40pm from October 24
6 x 60’
Explorer and naturalist Steve Backshall has dedicated his life to exploring some of the most remote locations on earth and venturing into places never before seen by human eyes, but he has only scratched the surface. Expedition series 2 sees Steve venture even deeper into the unknown to shine a light on unexplored corners of the planet.
On a mission to discover fresh insights that could help to secure a future for the world’s wildlife, Steve and his hand- picked team of experts dive with sharks in Mexico’s Eastern Pacific, head deep into Africa’s unexplored jungles in search of apes, paddle the white-water of the Russian Far East into the heart of brown bear territory, abseil into the depths of Saudi Arabia’s ancient deserts to explore an unmapped, uncharted volcanic underworld and climb the Djangart mountains of Kyrgyzstan in search of endangered snow leopards.
The ambition is big and – on this rapidly changing planet – the stakes have never been higher.
Kate Humble: Living with Nomads
BBC Earth Premiere
Thursdays at 7.30pm from October 26
3 x 60′
Presenter and adventurer, Kate Humble, always wanted to be a nomad. Living in some of the world’s most remote wildernesses, at one with nature.
Now, she embarks on a whole new adventure, travelling to Nepal, Siberia and Mongolia; home to some of the last people who remain living as nomads. It’s a unique opportunity to explore their history and lifestyle, and to see if it is still viable in the 21st century.
In some dramatic and emotional encounters, she witnesses the harsh reality of nomadism. Often they face a battle against their environment and the pressures of the modern world.
Where the Wild Men Are
Australian Premiere
Fridays at 7.30pm from October 27
6 x 50′
Ben Fogle meets more people who’ve turned their backs on the rat race and radically changed their lives.
Explorer Ben Fogle travels to remote locations in Australia, the US, Italy and Zambia meets families who’ve set up home in some of the most inhospitable places in the world.
In this series Ben heads down under to visit Bette, an elderly lady living alone in a ramshackle house in the wilds of Northern Queensland. Ben returns to a location he’s been to before and a character who het met, and could never forget, in Slab City. He heads to Tuscany to visit British couple, George and Sophie, who breathed new life into a relict Tuscan farmhouse. He also journeys into the heart of Zambia, to live with a British family who have built a safari lodge on the edge of a national park.
Hey Duggee
Series 4 (New Episodes)
Australian Premiere
Weekdays at 4.40pm from October 9
10 x 7′
Lovable club leader Duggee and his Squirrels are back for more fun and adventure in the hugely popular animated series for pre-schoolers.
The return of the Bafta and International Emmy-winning series for pre-school children that encourages curiosity and having a go. Guided by big lovable Squirrel Club leader Duggee, the Squirrels have fun playing, learning and making new friends via comical adventures, always ending with an achievement badge and a Duggee Hug.
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