FILM CHOICE

Possession, 11.50pm, BBC1 TWO academics of opposing temperaments pore over a secret love affair between two Victorian poets, and life slowly begins to imitate art. Gwyneth Paltrow (pictured) is the bookish Brit, while Aaron Eckhart is her brash American colleague in this adaptation of the novel by A.S. Byatt. Far from subtle, it doesn’t have much spirit, either.