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CYCLING Giro d’Italia, 12 noon, Eurosport 1

ALEX DOWSETT and Chris Froome are among the Brits in contention in this year’s first of the three Grand Tours. Today’s fifth of 21 stages, from Agrigento to Santa Ninfa in Sicily, is 95 miles long. A summit finish on Mt Etna looms tomorrow.

FOOTBALL Chelsea v Huddersfie­ld, 7.30pm, Sky Premier League & Main Event

HUDDERSFIE­LD battled to a draw at the City of Manchester Stadium on Sunday, but are still looking over their shoulders at the relegation zone and will be desperate for another point at Stamford Bridge. The Blues, though, have their sights set on fourth place . . .

MILITARY MAN Harry And Meghan, Warrior Prince, 9pm, Forces TV

THIS interestin­g new film reflects on Prince Harry’s military service and how his time in Afghanista­n led him to become a champion for injured personnel. Ex-army chief Lord Dannatt is among the interviewe­es. (Freeview 96, Freesat 165, Sky 450, Virgin 277)

POST APOCALYPSE The 100, 9pm, E4

SEASON four of this thrilling U.S. drama ended with the survivors just barely holding on, both on the ground and in space, and with the arrival of a prison ship. Will its passengers — such as Charmaine (Ivana Milicevic, pictured) turn out to be trustworth­y? Find out as season five kicks off in ferocious style.

MR BRIC-A-BRAC Salvage Hunters, 9pm, Quest

AS A new run of this down-to-earth antiques hunt begins, Drew Pritchard is opening a shop. He needs stock to fill the shelves, so excitedly sets off to Wotton Auction Rooms in the Cotswolds, where he spots a ‘Pritchard St’ sign for sale. How high will he bid for that?

PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Insidious: The Last Key, Sky Store

THE fourth and weakest of the horror franchise, this still offers solid haunted house shocks. The excellent Lin Shaye returns as psychic Elise Rainier, who is drawn back to her childhood home.

CIVIL UNREST Vive La Revolution! Joan Bakewell On May ’68, 10pm, BBC4

JOAN BAKEWELL reflects on the legacy of May 1968, when protests swept the globe as the younger generation took on the authoritie­s. She uses plenty of archive footage to flesh out this story of unrest, which nearly led to the fall of the French government.

OFFICE SITCOM Corporate, 10pm, Comedy Central

NEW U.S. comedy that delivers a dazzlingly dark skewering of office life. It’s set at a creepy corporatio­n where posters on the wall read ‘We encourage confrontat­ional criticism’criticism’, and where everyone lives in fear of tyrannical, swordwield­ing CEO Christian DeVille (Lance Reddick, pictured above right with Anne Dudek, Matt Ingebretso­n and Jake Weisman).

RUSSIAN FILM Zoology, 10.20pm, Sky Premiere

NOT for the squeamish, this satire succeeds thanks to its star, Natalya Pavlenkova. She plays the dowdy zoo worker who grows a tail and with it a new-found self-confidence.

FREEVIEW ROMCOM I Love You, Man, 11pm, 5Star

PAUL RUDD is Peter, a sensitive man who sets out to make male friends after he realises that he has no one to be best man at his wedding (to Rashida Jones). Mishaps ensue, with dim-witted Jason Segel causing his fair share.

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