:00:00. > :00:15.It is Friday! # It's the final count down. The final count down to the
:00:16. > :00:23.the end of series. We have a rocking show with Larry Lamb and one of TV's
:00:24. > :00:34.toughest judges is Jason Gardiner. We are pulling out all the stops
:00:35. > :00:38.tonight. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Welcome to the show. Because it is
:00:39. > :00:45.springtime we thought we would get some Lamb on the show. Larry Lamb is
:00:46. > :00:55.here. We will grill him about his time in TV. And Jason Gardiner is
:00:56. > :01:03.here And back to the 80s and the game show that paved the way for the
:01:04. > :01:07.Crystal Maze. And there will be a large James Martin-sized hole in
:01:08. > :01:12.Saturday Kitchen. A chunky hole. But the show is in capable hands with
:01:13. > :01:19.Michel Roux Junior as the first guest host. He will be brilliant.
:01:20. > :01:23.Sad news that the nation's best loved agony aunt Denise Robertson
:01:24. > :01:32.has passed away. I was proud to have nope her. -- to know her. Even felt
:01:33. > :01:39.like she knew her. She was the resident agony aunt on This Morning
:01:40. > :01:43.and helped thousands of viewers. Particularly lamb's TV career spans
:01:44. > :01:59.four decades. He has been in shows including... Triangle, The New
:02:00. > :02:06.avengers, Casualty, Spooks, Gavin and Stacey, Eastenders and New
:02:07. > :02:14.tricks. I panicked about that all day. He has been discovering Britain
:02:15. > :02:23.with Maureen Lipman. Have a quick look. Here I am in the city of
:02:24. > :02:28.London in septic tank that is 7 hundred to 800 years old. Up to my
:02:29. > :02:36.neck in it. Sifting through human excrement may not be top of
:02:37. > :02:43.everyone's wish list. But for this archaeologist it is great, because
:02:44. > :02:55.it is preserving things. Very oily. Oh dear. Please go barmy for Larry
:02:56. > :03:02.Lamb. I love you singing my career. I wish it was that easy for me. I
:03:03. > :03:07.will put it on record for you. Thank God you didn't put on all the shows,
:03:08. > :03:16.you would be here to next week. We thought we had. This one discovering
:03:17. > :03:22.Britain, you got your snozzle in that muck. It is a joy. I don't know
:03:23. > :03:25.the city so well. I walk around it, but to go down in one of those
:03:26. > :03:30.places and get down and have a look. I have been under the streets of
:03:31. > :03:36.Rome. But I have not been under the streets of London. Were you a
:03:37. > :03:41.history buff before? Yes I always was. I insisted that I wanted to be
:03:42. > :03:51.a doctor. So instead of studying the things the I loved which was history
:03:52. > :03:55.and going French. Now that is long forgotten. What I'm doing is what I
:03:56. > :04:02.love to do. What was your favourite thing to cover in the series. You
:04:03. > :04:08.were with Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes he came bouncing out of a car on
:04:09. > :04:15.Denmark street. The producers were there and they were - we have got
:04:16. > :04:21.Benedict coupler batch! We were purposed out. -- we were pushed out.
:04:22. > :04:25.I was interviewing somebody in Denmark Street about disappearing
:04:26. > :04:29.Soho and a car door opened and I looked and I'm standing and Benedict
:04:30. > :04:35.and I know him, said hello, what are you doing, I told him what I was
:04:36. > :04:39.doing. He said, fantastic, I'm on to a discussion about disapeering Soho
:04:40. > :04:45.and we interviewed him. You asked about the most, the most inspiring
:04:46. > :04:50.thing for me, one of the biggest and most amazing things I saw was a
:04:51. > :04:56.little boy was HMS Victory in Portsmouth. It is like a living
:04:57. > :05:02.museum and you can walk through it. There in my 60s, a whole lifetime
:05:03. > :05:09.later I'm under HMS Convict which are a marine architect, looking at
:05:10. > :05:19.how they're restoring it. That is I started off in wonder as a boy and
:05:20. > :05:26.still I'm glorying in it. You are with Maureen Lipman. Were in a play
:05:27. > :05:31.in the nineties. We stayed friends and it was lovely and we get on. She
:05:32. > :05:42.digs me and I dig her and we wind each other up. It works. If you want
:05:43. > :05:48.to catch it it is on More 4. Your CV is very impressive, what have been
:05:49. > :05:51.the highlights? A lot of things are the things I have done in the
:05:52. > :05:58.theatre. Exciting times in the theatre. But of course they were
:05:59. > :06:01.there on the day. Then you know, you can't after a career that's gone
:06:02. > :06:07.into all sorts of areas not talk about the fact that you were in
:06:08. > :06:12.those two amazing programmes, Eastenders and Gavin and Stacey and
:06:13. > :06:19.they go on and you're a part of that living legend. We will get on to
:06:20. > :06:24.that. We are going to take you back, brace yourself, your first TV roles,
:06:25. > :06:31.we were talking about ships, you were the chief engineer in Triangle.
:06:32. > :06:36.A soap set on a ferry. Obviously. Have a look. Take you back this. You
:06:37. > :06:42.may tell the passengers we are getting under way. No, we are going
:06:43. > :06:50.to need a couple of hours. How long? At least. Can't you contin whattior
:06:51. > :06:54.problem is. It is shot and my men are tired, but I am sure they would
:06:55. > :07:01.welcome your engineering expertise. I asked a simple question. To which
:07:02. > :07:06.there is a simple answer - no. That is very close up that shot. Yes,
:07:07. > :07:11.probably because on that day the sea was bad and the only way they could
:07:12. > :07:17.keep you in the camera was to keep it on your face. Sometimes it was
:07:18. > :07:24.literally heaving and they had cameras on stands, but they were
:07:25. > :07:36.terrible. With sea sickness. I lived on sea sick pills. I was zombied
:07:37. > :07:42.out. You mentioned Gavin and Stacey and Eastenders you were doing both
:07:43. > :07:48.at the same time. Yes. It is a magic jumper that makes you nice? It is
:07:49. > :07:56.the jumper. Yes. No creases as nice Nick and a few in the forehead Azar
:07:57. > :08:01.-- as Archie. It is the jump hear the does it. There is no doubt. As
:08:02. > :08:09.soon as I put a jumper on I become nice. Probably like you. I'm going
:08:10. > :08:17.to get you a jumper. Now we thought you could choose the next bit we do.
:08:18. > :08:32.Do you want a clip of nice Larry or bad Larry? I would like to see a bit
:08:33. > :08:37.of... Bad Archie. Have we got it? You want it. When Peggy tells me
:08:38. > :08:46.that I will go. Her words to my face. I'm telling you. The question
:08:47. > :08:51.are you too stupid to... Listen? My business is with Peggy. Until she
:08:52. > :08:56.says otherwise I will stay put and you get it wrong, the question is -
:08:57. > :09:04.what are you going to do about it? Ooh! We offered you the choice, now
:09:05. > :09:15.we want to see the other one as well. Please can we have it. #
:09:16. > :09:22.Wasn't it good # Oh so fine isn't it madness he can't be mine! I tell you
:09:23. > :09:29.what, I still can't get over last night. It were phenomenal. I was
:09:30. > :09:33.worried it was too much. Oh God, no. You play your cards like, you never
:09:34. > :09:43.know what might happen tonight. Say it quickly. No Go on. Please. Just
:09:44. > :09:51.whisper it. It has always been you. Camilla! And they pay you to go to
:09:52. > :09:54.work. Would you like to see that come back? Me the and the rest of
:09:55. > :10:01.the world. That is all I can say. Everyone would love to see it back.
:10:02. > :10:07.It was a joyous thing. Me and the rest of the world! Yes. Make it
:10:08. > :10:15.happen. What have you got coming up next? I can't tip you off I in the
:10:16. > :10:23.middle of a pilot for a comedy series. That is it. Top secret. Will
:10:24. > :10:27.it be any good? As far as I can see it will be fantastic. It will be
:10:28. > :10:38.amazing. Thank you for coming here. Let's hear it for Larry Lamb! It is
:10:39. > :10:44.time for a TV trail blazer and back to a galaxy far away and the classic
:10:45. > :10:54.show The Adventure Game. See if you remember this. It is bonkers. 1980
:10:55. > :11:03.kicked off with cuts to Ben its at British feel -- benefits, at British
:11:04. > :11:09.Steel, and unemmroement. Maybe no wonder when BBC Two launched a game
:11:10. > :11:14.show the appeal was instant. Many light years away on the far side of
:11:15. > :11:27.the galaxy, in a region often visited by time travellers, lies Ar.
:11:28. > :11:33.Rvegts The game picked up an adult audience. They are going to have to
:11:34. > :11:40.work for their Crystal. Two contestants and a member of the
:11:41. > :11:46.public were transported to a planet to earn their passage back to earth.
:11:47. > :11:53.There is a train. The show was the brainchild of Patrick Doulling who
:11:54. > :12:03.had hits with kids shows like Why Don't You? He wanted to capitalise
:12:04. > :12:14.on the craze for cutting edge computer games like this. It is just
:12:15. > :12:20.words on a screen. He mixed that element with dungeons and dragons.
:12:21. > :12:27.And with the eyes. You may hold a Dearing. He created a completely
:12:28. > :12:32.original concept for TV. Well to The Adventure Game in which a team
:12:33. > :12:40.crosses the galaxy to a planet alled Arg. Arg was inhabited by
:12:41. > :12:47.shape-shifting dragons. But they took on a human form. Exempt for the
:12:48. > :13:00.ruler who liked to be a plant and later a tea pot. Have you discovered
:13:01. > :13:06.our mosaic? It is based on our currency. They were set tasks that
:13:07. > :13:11.were bewildering. We have to talk to you through the computer. That
:13:12. > :13:18.followed a logic not all of us grasped. But that sort of was not
:13:19. > :13:27.the point. An orange triangle. But I'm not on either. Hang on. The show
:13:28. > :13:44.was a come pull sieve viewing. There is Chris off the egg heads. . What a
:13:45. > :14:02.planet. Fans took up the language of show from gronda, groda. The final
:14:03. > :14:11.scene became iconic. It packed away in 1986 but paved the way for other
:14:12. > :14:17.shows from The Crystal Maze... They may win something completely...
:14:18. > :14:28.Ordinary. And fantasy favourite Nightmare I. There a man in a
:14:29. > :14:40.table... And een-The Incredible Games. They all owe something to the
:14:41. > :14:50.show. It blazed a trail for curious thinking as entertainment and for
:14:51. > :14:54.that we all hail and Gronda. You need to extend that arm. What about
:14:55. > :15:01.expressions on your face. You know what happened? I have been hanging
:15:02. > :15:07.out with Jason Gardiner from Dancing On Ice. He has gone from dishing the
:15:08. > :15:17.dirt to being covered in it. You were good. # Macho, macho man! That
:15:18. > :15:27.is a cool site. That it how it should be done.
:15:28. > :15:38.He is so macho. Please welcome Jason Gardiner!
:15:39. > :15:52.Well done, that was impressive. You to the final, do win it? I do! April
:15:53. > :15:59.fool 's! I really can't tell you. For people that don't watch it,
:16:00. > :16:03.you've got put out in the sticks with Bear Grylls and you have to
:16:04. > :16:07.survive. We had to try to survive as best we could, there were times when
:16:08. > :16:12.surviving wasn't really on the cards, we really needed some help
:16:13. > :16:18.and then to step in and say, you'd be dead. It was an incredible
:16:19. > :16:23.experience. I never imagines that I would make it to the final, I
:16:24. > :16:26.thought I was going to be out in the second elimination at least because
:16:27. > :16:33.everybody else seemed so capable and so good and I was really struggling
:16:34. > :16:40.because I do have OCD with my hands and everything. That was a really
:16:41. > :16:48.big obstacle to overcome. That last clip, quite surprising. Michelle was
:16:49. > :16:51.incredible because she was carrying every injury you could imagine, her
:16:52. > :16:55.knee was twice the size of the other one but she kept going, she was
:16:56. > :17:05.relentless and I really respected that, I thought it was really quite
:17:06. > :17:14.admirable. It was properly full on. You went drinking fluids from
:17:15. > :17:20.elephant dung. That is in our green room! We should get some ice coffee!
:17:21. > :17:29.You mentioned the OCD, what was the most challenging thing? It was the
:17:30. > :17:35.group dynamic, I cannot do things on my own and I make my own decisions.
:17:36. > :17:39.Who did your head in the most? Myself, I was my own worst enemy
:17:40. > :17:44.because I was allowing things to get to me when I shouldn't have and that
:17:45. > :17:47.took some time to adjust and I do have to consult with other people
:17:48. > :17:53.and I have to let other people do things and help me and I find it
:17:54. > :17:59.hard. El Ahmadi think it changed you as a person, the cleanliness thing,
:18:00. > :18:05.got back to real life, did you snap back into your old habits, super
:18:06. > :18:09.clean and super neat? When I was in the wild and you are in nature, it
:18:10. > :18:14.is more about germs and viruses and bacteria, which you get in cities,
:18:15. > :18:21.rather than where I was and although I didn't enjoy having my hand in
:18:22. > :18:26.elephant dung and all that stuff, you roll with the punches. You love
:18:27. > :18:30.a challenge because you have gone from Bear Grylls to working with the
:18:31. > :18:34.toughest chef, Marco Pierre White. What is wrong with you? I don't
:18:35. > :18:38.know, there is a masochist inside me dying to get out and I'm doing these
:18:39. > :18:43.programmes and putting myself in these situations but I get a lot of
:18:44. > :18:49.stick for people saying you should put yourself in contestants's places
:18:50. > :18:53.because I have dished it. How does it feel because you have dished it.
:18:54. > :18:59.Do you regret dishing it so heavily before? Not at all because at the
:19:00. > :19:02.end of the day you are making a TV programme and you are giving you
:19:03. > :19:05.expect opinion as they are so anybody that knows more than what
:19:06. > :19:15.you do has a right to sort of critique you. Is Marco better chef
:19:16. > :19:21.venue? Getting there. I have a better table-side manner, I think.
:19:22. > :19:23.Before you tell us about the programme, we have a clip. Let's
:19:24. > :19:28.have a look at you on The toughest new colour only
:19:29. > :19:36.competition is about to begin. Let's get stuck in. I'm going to smash it!
:19:37. > :19:41.Ten celebrities. One terrifying chef on a very large ship. Some people
:19:42. > :19:48.want to swim, some people want to six. I'm so sorry. I fight was to
:19:49. > :19:55.get through tonight, I would take a rolling pin to his head! Alex James,
:19:56. > :20:01.was he winding you up, who was the most competitive on that ship? Greg
:20:02. > :20:11.Rutherford because he is a very good sportsman, and Olympian, top bloke.
:20:12. > :20:17.He wanted to win. He should open a restaurant the Olympic stuff feels.
:20:18. > :20:21.You are on Britannia, basically. The most beautiful ship, the Britannia
:20:22. > :20:25.and went to five different ports and in each port we had to learn a
:20:26. > :20:30.signature dish and then we had to recreate it with a twist. Work
:20:31. > :20:35.together as a team and then we had to present it for the captain and
:20:36. > :20:43.VIP celebrity guests, which was terrifying. Sounds like a holiday!
:20:44. > :20:46.Holiday from hell! You have worked with Bear Grylls and Marco Pierre
:20:47. > :20:52.White, who you know. Who would win in a street fight? They are both
:20:53. > :20:57.pretty tough. My money would go on Bear for the street fight but in
:20:58. > :21:05.terms of being able to steer somebody down, it would be Marco.
:21:06. > :21:08.That man can steer like nobody else, he is almost like Confucius with it
:21:09. > :21:16.and he looks deep into your soul and he burns it. It is wonderful. Larger
:21:17. > :21:21.than life in every way. He is phenomenal. I absolutely adored him.
:21:22. > :21:24.Jason is not afraid of giving somebody a good tongue lashing, how
:21:25. > :21:29.could we forget some of his put-downs on Dancing On Ice, we have
:21:30. > :21:32.them. Enjoy this, Greg Rusedski, you told him he had the charisma of
:21:33. > :21:39.cardboard and was the last dishwater. -- dull as dishwater. You
:21:40. > :21:45.told Aggie MacKenzie she looked like an ODP being dragged around the ring
:21:46. > :21:46.and finally Lauren Goodger, you told her she had the sensuality of a
:21:47. > :21:59.walrus -- I think that Moore are quite sensual
:22:00. > :22:02.animals! Would you argue with me? Do you think doing all these programmes
:22:03. > :22:07.are you rebranding, are you more like yourself on this cooking show
:22:08. > :22:12.because you can be the baddie all the time. I think you are right,
:22:13. > :22:15.what is great about doing these programmes and putting yourself
:22:16. > :22:21.outside of your comfort zone is that people will really get to see what
:22:22. > :22:25.they get on Dancing On Ice, it is not a character, it is real, I can
:22:26. > :22:32.critique and I know what I'm talking about. When I am not judging, I am a
:22:33. > :22:34.nice guy. We are seeing the nice side of you. If it for Jason
:22:35. > :22:42.Gardiner. Time for a programme that is like
:22:43. > :22:47.Marmite, you love it or hate it but has a huge cult following, game of
:22:48. > :22:51.Thrones, back on Sky Atlantic this month, if you don't know you
:22:52. > :22:55.Khaleesis from your Wilding Lawro and if you think a red wedding means
:22:56. > :22:57.Prince Harry has got happy news, wish you to help with our game of
:22:58. > :23:04.Thrones in a nutshell. Game of Thrones is a fantasy drama
:23:05. > :23:08.about a bunch of families fighting over who gets to sit on a chair. It
:23:09. > :23:16.doesn't even look very comfortable. Hill breeze fire on them. The main
:23:17. > :23:23.challengers or the throne are the rich and evil family. The Marassi
:23:24. > :23:35.ins. She is the one with the Dragons. And
:23:36. > :23:40.the goody two shoes family the starks, they were a lot of fire and
:23:41. > :23:47.are obsessed with weather. Winter is coming. Winter is coming. A
:23:48. > :23:52.seemingly unstoppable supernatural army of white walkers are advancing
:23:53. > :23:56.slowly towards them. Take Lord of the rings and cross it with
:23:57. > :24:01.Coronation Street and what you end up as a fantasy soap opera with
:24:02. > :24:06.die-hard fans hooked on its endless twists and turns but don't get too
:24:07. > :24:11.attached to any of the characters, anyone can be killed at any time and
:24:12. > :24:17.they often do. Today is another day. And as for John Snow, he knows
:24:18. > :24:23.nothing. You know nothing, John store you know nothing John Snow.
:24:24. > :24:30.Expect certainly, swordplay and saucy stuff. Get back to bed. That
:24:31. > :24:43.is Game of Thrones in a nutshell. Power is acutely as thing, my lord.
:24:44. > :24:49.-- -- is strange thing. The iron throne will be mine. No, it will be
:24:50. > :24:54.mine! He is scary, give him what he wants. I really love that, it is
:24:55. > :24:57.brilliant but you have got to invest time in it and it is quite
:24:58. > :25:02.complicated and I got lost. Massively cinematic and the
:25:03. > :25:05.production values are so high. It is a bit fruity and violent but people
:25:06. > :25:11.love it so they are excited, the new series is out this month. Each
:25:12. > :25:16.episode costs $10 million. You could get P Diddy to play your birthday
:25:17. > :25:19.party ten times for that! You could, is it wrong I'm finding it quite
:25:20. > :25:23.attractive with that beard. Yesterday's. Time for the biggest
:25:24. > :25:34.decision of the day. What are we watching tonight?
:25:35. > :25:40.The Night Manager has come to an end and you are asking yourself, what
:25:41. > :25:47.will you do on a Sunday night at 9pm, Haberdashers, set in a darkened
:25:48. > :25:56.room? You will be watching this, Sunday night's BBC One, it is called
:25:57. > :26:01.Undercover and it stars Sophie Okonedo as a lawyer defending a
:26:02. > :26:05.falsely imprisoned man on death row in the States. His final words spy
:26:06. > :26:13.her on in an attempt to change the entire legal system. It goes up
:26:14. > :26:23.because a long way past my death. Come close. Real close. You cannot
:26:24. > :26:29.win. Try to save people like me. You have to go and dig.
:26:30. > :26:38.Walk away from me now. It is good, also stars the brilliant Adrian
:26:39. > :26:44.Lester and Sophie's husband who might be an undercover policeman
:26:45. > :26:49.spying on her. This show has more twists than a 30 thing. Undercover,
:26:50. > :26:54.BBC One nine o'clock. Another big drum on ITV, this is that if the
:26:55. > :26:59.clock is the Durrell 's, based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of coffee
:27:00. > :27:01.memoirs. It sees the Durrell family starting a new like moving from
:27:02. > :27:07.Bournemouth to sunny Greece. This looks really good. -- Corfu memoirs.
:27:08. > :27:17.We have no money, I have a miserly widow's pension. You are a miserly
:27:18. > :27:23.widow. And you will get nothing. We are here to live like local people,
:27:24. > :27:28.enjoy the togetherness without the trappings of so-called civilisation,
:27:29. > :27:35.which as far as I can tell basically means cruelty and alienation, it is
:27:36. > :27:41.going to be wonderful. Everything Keeley Hawes does is wonderful. Six
:27:42. > :27:46.episodes to come. The Durrell 's, Sunday, ITV at 8pm. That is all we
:27:47. > :27:51.have time for and for this series. Huge thanks to all the guests we
:27:52. > :27:54.have had on the programme. Hubby have enjoyed bingeing on all the
:27:55. > :27:56.television, here is a little doggy bag to take home with you -- I hope
:27:57. > :28:06.you have enjoyed. Watching telly on the sofa doesn't
:28:07. > :28:14.get tougher than this. I cannot wait any longer. What are we watching
:28:15. > :28:19.tonight? I dread to think for your Emma Bunton one is? It hurt a lot.
:28:20. > :28:25.Take the toy away from the Child, please.
:28:26. > :28:40.Downward dog. Shut up, fool. That is not very nice. You know what I want,
:28:41. > :28:44.Emma, what I really, really want. Time for wind back Wednesday. Come
:28:45. > :28:59.on, come on. So dramatic. I'm loving this! Stop now! Very
:29:00. > :29:00.nice, thank