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WAR HERO The Last Full Measure, 4pm, Sky Premiere

TRUE-STORY drama about the campaign to award the Medal of Honor, posthumous­ly, to courageous medic William H. Pitsenbarg­er (Jeremy Irvine), who died in Vietnam in 1966.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Paris Saint-Germain v Manchester United, 7pm, BT Sport 2

BEATING the Paris side away in March last year won Ole Gunnar Solskjaer his job. Can United prevail at the Parc des Princes once again as the Champions League group stage gets under way? (also showing on RTÉ2 at 7.30pm) Chelsea, meanwhile, have a tough home fixture in Group E against Europa League champions Seville (7.15pm, BT Sport 3).

ANTIQUES FAIR Restoratio­n Workshop, 8pm, Yesterday

THERE’S a change of tack for the final episode of this genial series, which follows Gary Wallis (pictured) to Fawley Decorative Fair, the eclectic event he co-runs with Lady Judy McAlpine at her Fawley Hill estate near Henley-onThames. ‘Gary is a lunatic, and it’s lovely, because we understand each other,’ reflects Lady McAlpine.

Miss Marple, 8pm, Drama

THIS regular weekly slot for the Joan Hickson Miss Marples continues with a classic instalment. Here, the sleuth uncovers a hive of villainy behind the prim facade of Bertram’s Hotel in London, an establishm­ent based on Brown’s, where Agatha Christie often stayed.

FUNNY CLIPS Greatest Ever Celebrity Wind Ups, 8pm, 5Star

THERE are a few gems in the first of this new series, one of which is Ant and Dec’s dining-inthe-dark prank on Bear Grylls. Look out, too, for Girls Aloud ‘storming off’ the set of a kids’ TV show, and Bradley Walsh donning a disguise to prank Nineties Gotcha king Noel Edmonds.

SCOTTISH HISTORY Blood Of The Clans, 9pm, BBC4

NEIL Oliver, his hair billowing heroically in the Highland breeze, presents a three-part history of clan warfare, previously shown on BBC1 Scotland. His starting point for this bracingly epic tale is the 17th century, and the fight between forces representi­ng England and Scotland.

DARK DRAMA The Third Day, 9pm,p Skyy Atlantic

THE grim finale knits the stories of Helen (Naomie Harris, pictured) and Sam together, and does so in a more satisfying way than you might have suspected from the show’s early episodes. Jude Law gives a rewarding performanc­e as Sam, who is now properly unhinged. Or is he?

OUTLAW ANTICS Ned Kelly, 9pm, Sony Movies

AUSTRALIAN director Gregor Jordan (Buffalo Soldiers) paints Kelly as a folk hero in this bleak – but never too grimy – biopic. Heath Ledger takes the lead as the 19th-century Aussie outlaw in a revisionis­t western that looks great, but only really skims the surface.

SEVENTIES SIEGE A Hole In Babylon: Play For Today, 10pm, BBC4

FIRST shown in 1979, this tense Play For Today recreates the Spaghetti House siege of 1975, when three men took hostages at a London restaurant in the name of black liberation. Alfred Maron, Trevor Thomas and T-Bone Wilson star in a still powerful mix of drama and archive footage.

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