Television Time: What’s On BBC (October 2022)

Celebrate moments from the past, both the extraordinary tales of weather survival and making new discoveries on BBC Earth. Join Sir David Attenborough as he partakes in an archaeological dig uncovering Britain’s biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years on Attenborough and The Mammoth Graveyard. Watch how Sir David Attenborough together with biologist Prof. Ben Garrod and a team of archaeologists and palaeontologists excavate carefully this prehistoric crime scene and search for clues to unravel this Ice Age mystery.

BBC Lifestyle delivers a month of delicious delights featuring Donal’s Irish Adventure and Hungry For It. Follow Donal on a local food adventure as he whips up Fresh Lobster Roll, Galway’s Bloody Mary Oyster Shooters and many iconic dishes. With Donal’s trademark charm and his passion for both his home country and its gastronomy, this is truly a feast for the soul, the eyes and the stomach!

Adventure doesn’t just stop at food. The Bafta-winning show returns for the young and young-at-heart, Swashbuckle, which pits teams of youngsters against pesky pirate foes on CBeebies.

BBC Earth

Attenborough and The Mammoth Graveyard
Premieres 30th October, Sunday at 8:05pm, on StarHub channel 407, Singtel channel 203 and BBC Player

Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain’s biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years. In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone ‘hand axe’ made by a Neanderthal. Why were the mammoths here and how did they die? Could the Neanderthals have killed these Ice Age giants? Sir David Attenborough joins biologist Prof. Ben Garrod and a team of archaeologists and palaeontologists as they carefully excavate this prehistoric crime scene and search for clues to unravel this Ice Age mystery.

Coastal Fishing with Robson Green
Premieres 18th October, Tuesday at 9:00pm, on StarHub channel 407, Singtel channel 203 and BBC Player

Robson Green travels around the coast of the UK meeting some of those who make their living from the sea and goes in search of the biggest, wildest and tastiest fish in British waters.

The World’s Deadliest Weather S5
Premieres 7th Oct, Friday at 9:55pm, on StarHub channel 407, Singtel channel 203 and BBC Player

Extraordinary stories of weather survival and endurance from around the globe caught on cameras, phones and security cameras. In these thrilling series, we feature the most extraordinary weather ever caught on camera, capturing the destruction and despair of earthquakes, floods, tornados and snowstorms at their worst, and interview the survivors and life-saving heroes who were part of these incredible events.

BBC Lifestyle

Donal’s Irish Adventure
Premieres 17th October, Monday at 7:25pm, on StarHub channel 432, Singtel channel 255 and BBC Player

In each episode, Donal will be cooking up a local dish, from Fresh Lobster Rolls on the dramatic coastline of West Cork to Galway’s Bloody Mary Oyster Shooters in Galway’s picturesque oasis. With Donal’s trademark charm and his passion for both his home country and its gastronomy, this is truly a feast for the soul, the eyes and the stomach!

Hungry For It
Premieres 7th October, Friday at 7:25pm, on StarHub channel 432, Singtel channel 255 and BBC Player

The ultimate cookery crash course. Stacey Dooley, Big Zuu and Chef Kay Kay test out ten rookie cooks. They’ll live and work together – but who’ll win the foodie trip of a lifetime?

CBeebies

Swashbuckle S8
Premieres 3rd October, Monday to Friday at 8:30pm, on StarHub channel 303, Singtel channel 236 and BBC Player

The return of the Bafta-winning swashbuckling game show that pits teams of youngsters against pesky pirate foes. All aboard for adventure and more action-packed challenges!

BBC First

Grantchester S7
Premieres Friday, 7th October, on StarHub channel 502, Singtel channel 308 and BBC Player

Grantchester returns for a seventh series, with Robson Green as DI Geordie Keating and Tom Brittney as Grantchester’s Reverend Will Davenport. This series is set in the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspective Geordie Keating is busy as ever investigating a range of local murder cases. With a new decade just around the corner, the question of what the future holds is on everyone’s minds, not least Will’s, but before the 50s roll over into the swinging sixties there are some crimes to solve and some life-changing decisions to be made that might change life in Grantchester forever.

Mcdonald & Dodds S3
Premieres Saturday, 1st October, on StarHub channel 502, Singtel channel 308 and BBC Player

Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia star as dedicated (but very different) detectives in this lively crime drama. Watch them tackle murderous crimes in the picturesque Bath. The third series will comprise of new murder mysteries for the pair to solve. They are now joined by a new boss, Chief Superintendent Ormond, played by Outnumbered actress Claire Skinner.

Trigger Point S1
Premieres Friday, 21st October, on StarHub channel 502, Singtel channel 308, and BBC Player

Set in contemporary London, Trigger Point, is a high-octane six-part thriller series focusing on the Bomb Disposal Squad. Known as “Expo”, officers risk their lives daily on ‘the long walk’ towards danger. Death is always just a heartbeat away. Vicky McClure (Line of Duty) will play front line officer Lana Washington, who is an experienced bomb disposal operative. Reckless and out of control, Lana is ex-military and pushed to breaking point dealing with a series of improvised explosive devices which threaten the capital during a terrorist summer campaign. Under extreme pressure and searching for answers, Lana can’t help but become suspicious that the bomber’s targets on her team are premeditated. It’s a terrifying thought, but against all odds how does she prove it and discover the bomber’s real identity?

Doctor Who: Centenary Special
Coming Soon

As part of the BBC’s Centenary celebrations, join the thirteenth Doctor for this final feature-length special. Having faced many perilous journeys battling some of the most feared monsters throughout space and time, it’s the final instalment for the Thirteenth Doctor. This epic blockbuster special will see the Doctor fight evil across the galaxy one last time but just who will she come up against in her final battle before the Doctor regenerates once more…

BBC Brit

Strictly Come Dancing S20
Coming Soon

British television dance contest in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. Each couple is scored by a panel of judges.