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SNOOKER Riga Masters, 9am, Eurosport 1

NEIL ROBERTSON defends his title in Latvia as the season gets under way. He’s set to face competitio­n from the likes of top-ranked Mark Selby and ex-world champions Mark Williams and Stuart Bingham.

ROMCOM SEQUEL Bridget Jones’s Baby, 12.15pm, 8pm, Sky Premiere

BLOWING away the cobwebs of the sub-par second movie, this finds our beloved Bridget (Renee Zellweger, pictured) facing g an all-new lifechange­r of a muddle (she’s pregnant). Will she meet the challenge head- on or bury her face in a tub of ice cream?

FIFTIES CLASSIC All That Heaven Allows, 3pm, Film4

DOUGLAS SIRK’S melodrama, one of his heart- and soul-stirring best, has much to say about life, love, class and gender. Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman sizzle as the unexpected lovers.

FREE SPEECH THREAT Nobody Speak, Netflix

ALARMING documentar­y that explores how the super-rich have the power to silence the Press through the courts, using Hulk Hogan’s financiall­y crippling lawsuit against U.S. media company Gawker as an example.

RUGBY LEAGUE Leeds Rhinos v Castleford Tigers, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 3

A TOP-of-the-table clash at Headingley. When these sides met in May at St James’ Park in the Super League’s Magic Weekend, Greg Eden scored a hat trick of tries for Castleford in a hard-fought 29-18 win.

ROCK VETERANS Glastonbur­y 2017, 7.30pm, BBC4

THIS year’s festival features more than 1,000 acts, and BBC4’s coverage opens with a classic: The Pretenders, fronted by Chrissie Hynde. They’ve been back together and touring since last year, bringing out a new album. Fellow legend Kris Kristoffer­son follows.

EIGHTIES L.A. TALE GLOW, Netflix

NETFLIX’S unique new series dives headfirst into the world of allfemale wrestling in the Eighties. Mad Men’s Alison Brie (pictured) stars as Ruth, a downon-her-luck actress who’s one of a cast of misfits drawn into an enterprise run by a drug-fuelled horror director. GLOW feels like a comedy, but it has a streak of drama that flows from Ruth’s inability to get on with anyone.

WILDERNESS LIVING The Last Alaskans, 9pm, Quest

IF YOU give this slow-paced series about a disappeari­ng way of life your full attention, it steadily weaves a soulful spell. ‘Nothing lasts for ever,’ ponders Ray Lewis as his daughters prepare to find their own paths, away from their parents’ remote and beautiful family cabin in the woods.

NEW WORLD SETTLERS Jamestown, 9pm, Sky 1

THAT dreaded letter from England arrives in tonight’s episode, and Jocelyn drinks the night away, fearing the end is near. She’s right, in a way — this is the season finale, although the show will be returning — and there’s plenty of drinking going on elsewhere in the colony, too, as secrets are revealed and decisions are made.

SPOOKY FUN Ghost Adventures, 9pm, Really

ZAK BAGANS embarks on a new series of spook hunts, opening with an apparently life-threatenin­g trip inside a claustroph­obic Colorado mine ‘that could collapse’. ‘Dude, I’m like, shaking,’ quivers Zak as a garbled message from the spirit world appears to come through.

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