Tonight on TV...

A selection of the best Formula one world champion related television shows on British television tonight (October 17th, 2011)


Tonight on Sky 1:


6.45pm: Damon Hill's Window Sills.

Formula One World Champion Damon Hill travels the length and breadth of Britain in search of the UK's best window sill. The excitement is palpable as Damon and a panel of experts judge some of this island's finest window adjacent shelf-like appendages. In the first instalment, Damon, from the comfort of his first class railway compartment, examines some of the window sills which viewers have brought along, with window sill hobbyists Margot Kidder, Jan Leeming and Noel out of Oasis judging.

Ronan Keating anchors the show in front of a live television audience in Bristol. There's a viewer phone-in vote for best pelmet, and a live performance from Howard Jones.


7:15pm:  Nigel Mansell's Ornamental Lentils


Former Formula One and Indycar champ, Nigel Mansell, travels the length and breadth of The Isle of Wight, in an Invacar, talking to senior citizens about their collections of rare and unusual lentils; episode 1 - Stan Millet talks about the lentils he owns which were allegedly presented to Queen Victoria by the Vassalage of Corcupine in 1973.


BBC2: 8:00pm: Jenson Button's Mutton Glutton. 


British formula one champion, Jenson Button, wanders the highways and byways of the sleepy English countryside, riding a 1910 butcher's bicycle, towing a trailer full of mature sheep carcasses. 

His aim is to find the Briton who can eat the most gamey old sheep meat, and to restore mutton as a family breakfast time staple, as it was in the mid 1980s, before the mutton scandal.

Channel Dave: 9.00 PM: Vettel's Metal Kettle

...in which Formula One double world champion, Sebastian Vettel, visits towns and cities in his native Germany, dragging behind him a large kettle with a heavy metal band within. It's a different band each week, and each band has a connection to the location.

Week 1 - Sebastian Vettel drags hair band Twisted Sister about in his kettle - but what's the connection to Zwinge? Find out in our first episode.

Al-Jazeera: 9.30pm: Michael Schumacher's Poo-Lacquer Cracker Tracker -

in each episode, Michael takes his ornamental cracker tracker (hand lacquered with the finest quality guano) and uses it to track down unusual and rare thin crispy biscuits;

Pilot episode - Michael uses his poo-lacquer cracker tracker to detect Queen Victoria's Imperial Bathroom Crackers, a present from the Gimlet of Prussia in 1873.