Spotlight on food and science
VIEWERS are in for a treat for the next two weeks, with the BBC Worldwide Channel screening programmes on everything from food to history and science.
Come Dine with Me: Supersized Series 10
30 episodes, from Friday, December 9, at 9pm on BBC Lifestyle channel 174 on DStv.
The award-winning show returns for a 10th series.
Every week five strangers take it in turns to throw a dinner party. But this is no ordinary supper – guests are secretly scoring the host and at the end of the week the top-scoring host wins £1 000 (R17 300).
This series features dog-mad executive PA JulieAnn Rayner, who hopes that her fishy “Taste of the Sea” dinner menu will have her guests hooked.
Meanwhile, personal trainer Jamie Tulloch tries to impress fellow contestant and critical teetotaller David Edes with his unusual dessert of berries, cream cheese and basil, and Steve Carvill dishes up home-made pasta and white chocolate panna cotta to his guests – who are expecting fast food rather than fine dining.
Filmed all over the UK, hosts from all walks of life provide astonishing and hilarious insights into their homes and dinner party secrets.
Weird Wonders of the World Series 1
Eight episodes, from Sunday, December 11 at 4pm on BBC Earth channel 184 on DStv
How has the sun changed the landscape of classical music? What do goats and spiders have in common? Could spider’s silk help us develop bulletproof skin? This series takes us on a fascinating journey to discover the answers to some of the strangest questions on the planet.
With the help of leading scientists, engaging contributors and stunning experiments, this series opens up the secrets behind bizarre science and remarkable natural phenomena.
Billionaire Boy
Sunday, December 11 at 8pm on BBC First channel 119 on DStv.
A stellar cast including David Walliams, Catherine Tate and John Thomson star in this adaptation of David Walliams’s book.
This is the story of Len, who makes a billion from inventing a new toilet roll called “Bumfresh”, and his 12-year-old son, Joe. Len quickly sets about spending his money, buying a huge mansion and sending Joe to a private school. But Joe hates his new school and it’s soon apparent that all he really wants is a friend. Will Len realise the error of his ways?
Trillion Dollar Island
Thursday, December 15 at 8pm on BBC Brit channel 120 on DStv
New and exclusive to BBC Brit, Trillion Dollar Island highlights a secretive slice of Britain; a sun-soaked Caribbean paradise – the Cayman Islands.
Watched over by a governor appointed from Whitehall, the Caymans are well and truly British.
But with one big difference: no one seems to be paying a penny of tax! World-renowned journalist Jacques Peretti is given unprecedented access to Cayman’s politicians, financiers, millionaires and ordinary British expats.
He is on a mission to uncover the unexpected truth about the islands.