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GOLF Portugal Masters, 11.30am, Sky Golf & Main Event

DEFENDING champion Tom Lewis is back to try to win here for the third time. He will be joined by fellow Englishmen and past champions Andy Sullivan and Lee Westwood.

CLASSIC LAUGHS Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes, 8pm, Gold

ANOTHER chance to see the first of these glorious recreation­s of lost gems. The casting is top-notch, in particular Robert Bathurst as Wilson, whose chemistry with Kevin McNally’s Mainwaring is spot-on. Here, the duo endeavour to stop spiv Walker from being called up.

CULINARY TOURIST Jack Stein: Inside The Box, 9pm, Food Network

RICK STEIN’S son, Jack, cooks classic British food in ten foreign cities in this new series. He starts by receiving a history lesson in fish and chips — they were never rationed in either World War, intriguing­ly — then cooking it in Zagreb, Croatia, where he finds an appreciati­ve audience.

EERIE LOCATIONS Abandoned Engineerin­g, 9pm, Yesterday

NEW episodes of this intriguing series begin again, starting with an account of a strange villa on Rhodes and a West Virginia mine abandoned by Henry Ford. The most striking, though, is Quinta da Regaleira in Portugal, a labyrinthi­ne mansion with a spooky staircase.

APOCALYPTI­C COMEDY Daybreak, Netflix

THE apocalypse takes out all the pesky adults in Netflix’s comedy, and the teens left behind have a whole lot of fun.

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Catherine The Great, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

IN THE final part, Potemkin is roaring like a pub boor who thinks his past justifies his present, while Catherine (Helen Mirren, pictured) is a fading force, too. For all its grandeur, Sky’s drama hasn’t been about epic wars and backroom politics — it’s all been about these two, and has been all the more powerful as a result.

FILM DRAMA Old Boys, 9.40pm, Sky Premiere

A CYRANO De Bergerac update, set in a boys’ boarding school. Alex Lawther is the gawky loser who helps a handsome but hopeless jock to woo the French teacher’s daughter.

BLACK HUMOUR Guilt,, 10pm,p, BBC Scotland

NEIL FORSYTH’S pacey,pace slyly sl l amusing four-part drama is showing on BBC Scotland first, before coming to BBC2. It stars Mark Bonnar (pictured) as one of two brothers who kill someone by accident. (In Scotland: Freeview 9, Freesat 106, Sky 115, Virgin 108. Outside Scotland: Freesat 174, Sky 457, Virgin 162)

BRUTAL REGIME On The President’s Orders — Storyville, 10pm, BBC4

‘MY CAMPAIGN against drugs will not stop.’ In the Philippine­s, President Duterte really has waged a war on drugs — one that, since 2016, has led to thousands dying at the hands of police and vigilantes. This harrowing new documentar­y tells the story from both sides, with cinematic flair.

FREEVIEW MOVIE St Vincent, 11.40pm, Film4

BILL MURRAY is the irascible, scruffy, alcoholic veteran who befriends his neighbour’s misfit young son (Jaeden Lieberher). A warm-hearted comedy, with Murray on unstoppabl­e form.

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