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FILM ADVENTURE Kiki’s Delivery Service, 12.50pm, Film4

WONDERFUL Japanese animation from Studio Ghibli. With the help of her trusty black cat, Jiji (and her own ability to fly), trainee witch Kiki sets up a magical courier service.

CLASSIC COMEDIES Hi-De-Hi!, 1.40pm, Drama

THREE comedies begin repeats from the start today, opening with the holiday camp show starring Su Pollard and Paul Shane – who also appear in upstairs/ downstairs comedy You Rang, M’Lord?, which starts at 4pm. Look out, too, for the beginning of Are You Being Served?, from 2.20pm.

FAMILY CRACKER Last Commanders, 5.30pm, CBBC

THE last in this slick modern take on the likes of The Adventure Game and Knightmare, in which children guide characters around a space station, and try to outwit a deadly computer. They receive guidance from warrior Skye and become totally absorbed.

ON-DEMAND TV Detroit, Amazon Prime

BASED-on-truth drama directed by the award-winning Kathryn Bigelow that puts you right inside the racial tension and rioting of Sixties Detroit. Star Wars’ John Boyega stars.

WHODUNNIT Frankie Drake Mysteries, 9pm, Alibi

THE enjoyable 1920s mystery ends with a most unusual case: Frankie is asked to prove whether an amnesiac is actually Anastasia, the presumed dead daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. She smells a con, but it’s unclear from whom, and ropes her grifter mother in to clarify . . .

THE GREAT OUTDOORS Running Wild With Bear Grylls, 10pm, Discovery

JULIA Roberts (pictured) joins Bear in the wilderness as this survival series returns for a new run, and she’s not mucking about. The actress is carrying vaccines to a remote village in Kenya, and has asked Bear to help. And when things get tough? ‘You just gotta keep laughing, right?’ And she does.

EIGHTIES ENJOYMENT Unforgetta­ble, 10.20pm, Sky Premiere

STRAIGHT out of the Eighties, this catty thriller follows two watchable women – Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl – fighting over the same identikit hunk. Enjoyably trashy fluff.

QUIRKY COMEDY The Grand Budapest Hotel, 11.05pm, Film4

FROM the leftfield director Wes Anderson – behind the brilliant The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic and The Squid And The Whale – this quirky comedy is set in a hotel where a concierge (Ralph Fiennes) is framed for murder. Our own Saoirse Ronan is also part of the ensemble cast and gives a typically splendid performanc­e.

FACEBOOK FOUNDERS The Social Network, 1.10am, Film4

JESSE Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield star in this enjoyable biographic­al drama from director David Fincher about the brains behind Facebook.

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