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LIVE FOOTBALL Middlesbrough v West Bromwich Albion, 7pm, Sky Football & Main Event
AFTER a slow start, West Brom have won their last two games, including a 7-1 thrashing of QPR last time out. Another win tonight at the Riverside Stadium will see them draw level with tonight’s opponents at the top of the table.
CLASSICAL CONCERT BBC Proms 2018, 7.30pm, BBC4
FIVE pieces make up the first half of a concert devoted to Hungarian Gypsy Folk, two of which, Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No 1 and 11, have a fiery rhythm. The closing half is also taken up by Brahms — his First Symphony, which it is said he spent 21 years writing.
MOVIE PREMIERE Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, 8pm, Sky Premiere
THIS updated version of the 1995 film starring Robin Williams features Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan and Jack Black as friends sucked into a magical video game — and forced to play for their lives in a fantastical world. Great fun.
FREEVIEW COMEDY Karl Pilkington: The Moaning Of Life, 9pm, Pick
A FREEVIEW run for the comically honest Karl Pilkington (pictured) series, in which he travels the world contemplating what concepts such as time and identity mean to different people in different countries. Here, his look at art in the U.S. and UK has some gross moments.
FACEBOOK’S STORY The Social Network, 9pm, TCM
TIGHTLY scripted, by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by David Fincher, this drama charts the development of social giant Facebook, which started its chequered life at Harvard. Jesse Eisenberg is great as the site’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, ably supported by Andrew Garfield and pop star Justin Timberlake.
CLASSIC COMEDY The Royle Family, 9pm, GOLD
REPEAT for a great comedy that can find humour in the reading of a phone bill — and does, in this very first episode. Ricky Tomlinson is dad Jim, permanently parked in front of the TV, Sue Johnston his long-suffering wife, and the late Caroline Aherne their idiotic daughter.
U.S. DRAMA Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, 9pm, 5USA
GARY SINISE and his elite team of FBI agents are in Japan this week, sorting out crimes involving Americans that the locals simply aren’t American enough to solve. The Feds are in Tokyo here, digging into the suspected homicides of three Americans that, at first, seemed to be suicides.
MURDER MYSTERY NCIS: New Orleans, 9pm, Fox
THE agents investigate the murder of a petty officer who was killed in such an unusual fashion that they don’t quite know how to proceed. It’s left to their no-nonsense leader Pride to drive the case forward, and he soon arrives at femme fatale Chloe (Natalie Hall, pictured) as a suspect. But what could be her motive?
INDIAN BEATS The Sound Of Asian Britain, 10pm, BBC4
BOBBY FRICTION shows us how the folk music of north India found its way into the British clubs of the Eighties for this new, one-off film. The story is clearly a personal one for Friction — the DJ remembers dancing to his parents’ records at home, and heading out to daytime gigs as a teenager.
FILM CHILLER The Fury, 11.15pm, Film4
BRIAN DE PALMA’S paranormal chiller stars Kirk Douglas as a father and former CIA agent, searching for his ‘gifted’ son, who has been kidnapped by a sinister government organisation.