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FACT-BASED FILM The Zookeeper’s Wife, 1.45pm,p, Skyy Premiere

JESSICA CHASTAIN (pictured) stars as Antonina Zabinski in this World War II drama. With her husband, Jan (Johan Heldenberg­h), Antonina used the bombed-out Warsaw Zoo to shelter Jews.

EIGHTIES MOVIES Batteries Not Included, 4pm, 5Star

SCI-FI comedy in which tiny aliens come to the aid of the vulnerable residents of an apartment building, who are being evicted with bully tactics. The aliens, which resemble toy-sized spaceships and can fix and restore anything, set about answering a desperate DIY SOS.

FOOTBALL Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United, 7.30pm, Sky Sports Premier League & Main Event

THE Hammers, under new manager David Moyes, have already beaten London rivals Chelsea and held Arsenal to a draw. Can they stand up to Spurs at Wembley Stadium tonight?

GANGSTER’S RISE Wartime Crime, 8pm, Yesterday

NEW history series about home front crime, which makes Blitz-era London feel like the gangster movies of Martin Scorsese. When Italy entered the war, many Italians were interned in the UK, creating a vacuum in the capital’s gangs that was exploited by Billy Hill.

CARTOON KING Walt Disney, 8pm, BBC4

BOTH halves of a glossy but not uncritical documentar­y about the studio founder. ‘He didn’t handle criticism very well, ever,’ reflects a contributo­r on the divisive response provoked by such creative risks as Fantasia. A lot of interestin­g footage from the Disney archive fleshes out his life and times.

INTO THIN AIR Mysteries Of The Missing, 9pm, Discovery

LOST’S Terry O’Quinn lends a suitable sense of mystery as the host of this new series about planes, people and places that have disappeare­d. His first case is Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished on its way from Malaysia to China in 2014 and has never been found.

HARD TIME Banged Up Abroad, 9pm, National Geographic

PIETER TRITTON (pictured) recounts how he slid out of his studies in Cardiff and into selling drugs, then into and out of prison and on to a smuggling gg g enterprise out t of Ecuador. This first of a new series is a wellrounde­d tale of bad choices, told with self-reflection n by Tritton.

CLASSIC BOND Dr No, 9pm, ITV4

THE first and — until recently — arguably best of the many adaptation­s of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels. Sean Connery stars as 007, heading to Jamaica for a confrontat­ion with a member of Spectre, a criminal organisati­on

that just won’t go away.

POLITICAL DRAMA Madam Secretary, 10pm, Sky Living

SARA RAMIREZ (pictured), who played Torres in Grey’s Anatomy, pops up as a funky-looking and insightful strategist tonight. The Secretary of State (Tea Leoni) is dealing with a thorny Russian problem, and Sandoval (Ramirez) gives her the inside track in less time than it takes to boil a kettle.

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