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ANIMATED MOVIE The Adventures Of Tintin, 6.50pm, Film4
STEVEN SPIELBERG’S faithful motion-capture adaptation of Herge’s tales follows the intrepid young reporter on an adventure with Captain Haddock.
RUGBY UNION Gloucester v Exeter Chiefs, 7pm, BT Sport 1
EXETER thumped Gloucester 23-6 at home in November, while their England stars were busy beating Australia. With the national team now deep into the Six Nations, the Chiefs’ squad players will want to take the chance to impress again.
FILM COMEDY Life Of The Party, 8pm, Sky Premiere
MELISSA McCARTHY (pictured) plays to her physical comedy strengths as the housewife who reacts to her divorce by going to college — the same one as her patient but embarrassed daughter (Molly Gordon).
SUPERHERO STORY The Umbrella Academy, Netflix
NETFLIX’S new comic-book adaptation follows a messed-up family of superheroes, raised from babies by an emotionally distant tyrant. The story turns on them reuniting and fighting as adults, after his death — there’s a secondary plot about the apocalypse in there, too. Robert Sheehan, Ellen Page and Tom Hopper star in a stylish show — with a killer soundtrack — that takes an episode to show its full colours.
HIT MAKERS Flat Pack Pop: Sweden’s Music Miracle, 9pm, BBC4
THIS new one-off has nothing to do with Abba — it’s all about a group of Swedish songwriters and producers behind some of the biggest pop hits around. Its central figure is Denniz Pop, who produced Britney Spears’s Babyy One More Time and who died
of o cancer aged just 35.
CHICAGO CRIME Perception, 9pm, 5 USA
EPISODE three of this hallucinatory detective drama — one of many shows descended from Sherlock S Holmes — throws up u an interesting character. The damaged Professor Pierce (Eric McCormack) is investigating the return of o a killer, and his only witness is a comatose amnesiac who has been mentally stuck at 17 since the Eighties.
ON THE DECKS Rob & Romesh vs Superstar DJs, 9pm, Sky One
ROB BECKETT and Romesh Ranganathan’s willingness to make absolute fools out of themselves serves this series well. In tonight’s amusing new episode, the pair of comedians receive advice from top DJs before getting behind the wheels of steel and having a go.
FUNNY FILM The Breaker Upperers, Netflix
NEW ZEALAND romcom about an agency that uncouples happy couples. It starts out waspish, dark-minded and wickedly funny, then softens.
CARTOON COMEDY Rick And Morty, 10pm, E4
ADULT animated U.S. sitcom that’s cleverer than Family Guy and less caustic, too. At its centre is mad scientist Rick — like a boozy version of Back To The Future’s Doc Brown — and his goofy grandson, Morty. It’s co-created by Dan Harmon, the man behind Community.
COURTROOM MASTER Bull, 10pm, Fox
WHEN Bull (Michael Weatherly, pictured) volunteers to help Marissa’s husband after a dramatic fire, it looks as if it will be a straightforward case — personal, but straightforward. What it becomes instead is a window on to the couple’s marriage, which has, up until now, been presented as Marissa’s blissful refuge away from the demands of her job — and Bull.