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SLEEPY TOTS CBeebies Bedtime Stories, 6.50pm, CBeebies
TONIGHT’S new story comes from none other than the king of CBeebies himself, Justin Fletcher, who, in his Mr Tumble guise, will be inviting children to sing and sign along with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. And, by the looks of it, he may well be asleep before all the children at home.
SCI-FI LAUGHS Star Trek: Lower Decks, Amazon Prime
STAR TREK shows usually follow the heroes, but this animated comedy is devoted to the underlings, who spend their days worrying about admin and shift patterns, and view the officers as glory-hogging blowhards. It’s a fun perspective for a Star Trek show, although the humour is skin-deep.
FAIRY TALE Fate: The Winx Saga, Netflix
YOUNG fairies (including Abigail Cowen, pictured) figure out emotions and powers in an angsty new series set at a magical boarding school, and based on the Nickelodeon cartoon Winx Club. The fairies’ powers work on different things — earth, water, fire, air, the mind — and the drama of their lives plays like a youngadult version of The Worst Witch, with Eve Best and Downton’s Robert James-Collier among the teaching faculty.
NEW YORK MOVIE The King Of Staten Island, 8pm, Sky Premiere
AMERICAN comic Pete Davidson is a force of nature in this comedy drama as the New York slacker and wannabe tattoo artist who is angry, depressed and all at sea after the death of his firefighter father.
CATCHY TUNES Neil Diamond At The BBC, 9pm, BBC4
A NEW collection of appearances on the BBC by Neil Diamond. There are performances of his classics, such as Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man and Forever In Blue Jeans, plus clips of the singer-songwriter on Wogan, The Shirley Bassey Show and Top Of The Pops.
HILLBILLY REALITY Moonshiners, 9pm, Discovery
THERE is no more stereotypically American reality show than Moonshiners. At the start of this new, tenth season, Josh receives a government stimulus cheque to help with the pandemic, and immediately ploughs the money into his backwoods brewing kit.
CRIME FIGHTERS NCIS, 9pm, Fox
WHY would Gibbs (Mark Harmon) shoot McGee? That is the question hanging over this exciting opener to the new, 18th season, in which the NCIS veteran goes off the books with an edgy Fornell, who now looks more like Willie Nelson than the stiff FBI man he was when we first met him, way back in the very first episode.
GOLF GREAT Tiger, 9pm, Sky Documentaries
FIRST of a new, two-part HBO profile (concluding tomorrow) that digs deep into the pressure put on Tiger Woods to succeed by his father, Earl, not just in golf, but as a role model for all people of colour. Concluding tomorrow, it starts here with sweet footage of him as a child with his dad (pictured). (Sky 114, Virgin 277)
FANTASY SAGA A Discovery Of Witches, 9pm, Sky One
MATTHEW is showing a softer side this week, which must be a relief for Diana, as the witch-intraining is at a turning point. What is the true nature of her power? She needs to figure it out soon, because a quest is beckoning, and Elizabeth I wants to inspect her . . .
FREEVIEW THRILLER Wind River, 9pm, Film4
POWERFUL crime thriller set in a stark, wintry Wyoming. Jeremy Renner’s tracker helps a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) when the daughter of his friend is found dead in the snow.