For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Chris BennionGreat British Gardens: Season By Season with Carol KleinChannel 5, 9pmSomething is happening at Channel 5. Gone are the unedifying Big Brother and its shrieking celebrity spin-off — the two shows that have defined Channel 5 for years — and filling the ghastly reality TV void are quality dramas (Blood, 15 Days), pretty decent history shows (last week’s The Blitz: Britain on Fire, for instance) and extremely watchable factual programmes (Our Yorkshire Farm, Secrets of the National Trust). All-right, there’s still the odd “Boy with the World’s Biggest Knees” hanging around, but the winds of change on the UK’s fifth channel are refreshing indeed. And now, crikey, it has got into…

Source: The Times June 03, 2019 23:01 UTC