BBC Studios have a selection of great programmes to keep you entertained in the month of May.
BBC Brit viewers can expect the return of Death in Paradise - the eleventh season will be filled with mysteries on the island of Saint Marie, picking up from the series 10 cliff-hanger which saw Neville (Ralf Little, The Royle Family) about to confess his feelings to Florence (Josephine Jobert).
On BBC Earth, Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain's biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years on Attenborough and The Mammoth Graveyard. Stephen Fry in Central America sees Stephen travel through all fifty states of the USA and journey through some of the oldest civilisations on the planet. A team of intrepid presenters travel to the edge of the Arctic - and beyond on Operation Arctic and Historian Bettany Hughes takes viewers on armchair travels around the world to explore ancient artefacts and new finds across the globe on Treasures with Bettany Hughes.
Married at First Sight returns to BBC Lifestyle for a sixth series, with more singletons ready to put their trust in a panel of experts to find them their perfect match. MasterChef is back for another series, and this time, the judges are mixing it up – introducing a whole new set of challenges the passionate amateurs must complete in order to progress in the competition. Inside Beverly Hills gives viewers a peek inside Beverly Hills' opulent homes, hotels and businesses to see how the other half work, rest and play.
Weekly Channel Highlights: May 2022
BBC BRIT
Death in Paradise
From Monday May 9 at 20h00
Series 11 (8 episodes)
Death in Paradise returns for an 11th series of mysteries on the island of Saint
Marie, picking up from the series 10 cliff-hanger which saw Neville (Ralf
Little, The Royle Family) about to confess his feelings to Florence (Josephine
Jobert). Will the course of true love run smooth? And will it distract them
from the cases that lie ahead? With guest stars including Tamzin Outhwaite (EastEnders,
New Tricks) and Jason Done (Waterloo Road), it seems that this
island paradise is as deadly as ever.
(Right: Stephen Fry goes South)
Stephen Fry in Central America
From May 6 at 20h00
Series 1 (4 episodes)
Stephen travelled through all 50 states of
the USA in a black cab, he now goes South, exploring pre-Columbian and Latin
America by travelling from the Mexican border through the entire Central
American isthmus to the border with South America. It's a journey through some
of the oldest civilisations on the planet – and some of the most dangerous. To
most of us, these breathtakingly beautiful countries mean little more than a
gap year postcard from a beach or volcano, or hazy ideas of drug cartels,
banana republics and forgotten civil wars.
Attenborough and The Mammoth Graveyard
Sunday May 15 at 16h10
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. Professor Ben Garrod joins the team at DigVentures
during the excavation as they try to discover why the mammoths were here and
how they died. Could the Neanderthals have killed these Ice Age giants?
Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific
From Friday May 20 at 19h00
Series 1 (3 episodes)
Martin Clunes embarks on an epic ocean-wide
adventure in search of the real Pacific in this documentary series - his voyage
is inspired by reading a book given to him when he was a child by his father
about the Kon-Tiki expedition across the Pacific, and Martin has always yearned
to follow in those explorers' footsteps. The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean
on the planet and covering 63 million square miles, is strewn with tens of
thousands of islands with coral atolls, jungle-clad mountains, and lava-spewing
volcanoes. It is rich in animal life and has an astonishing kaleidoscope of
humanity.
BBC LIFESTYLE
Antiques Roadshow
From Sunday May 8 at 20h00
Series 43 (22 episodes)
Dust off your family heirlooms and dig out
those car boot bargains as the ratings-winning series is back on the trail of
the nation's hidden treasures. Antiques Roadshow's experts visit more of
Britain's most sumptuous and unusual locations, inviting the public to bring
their antiques for examination and share stories of how they came to own them.
The specialists in art, furniture and collectables advise on the history of the
pieces and their likely value. This time, the team visit Kenilworth Castle and
Fortney Hall, and explore the aftermath of World War II in a special episode.
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