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GROWING UP The Wonder Years, Disney+
DEAN hits a milestone in this new version of the coming-of-age drama, which unfolds around the fortunes of a black family in late1960s Alabama. And it leads to a discussion about the birds and the bees that upends his world.
FOOTBALL Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur, 7pm, Sky Main Event & Football
THE League Cup semi-finals begin with a London derby. Chelsea were 3-0 victors at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September, but Spurs are much improved under former Blues manager Antonio Conte.
MONTANA THRILLER Big Sky, Disney+
THE return of this twisty U.S. thriller, adapted by David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) from C.J. Box’s novel The Highway. At the start of season two, a shell-shocked Jenny (Katheryn Winnick) returns to the policing fold, while sinister trucker Ronald is still at large. Continues weekly.
HELPING HANDS The Big Clean With Jo & Al, 9pm, Really
FOR their emotional new UK home clean-up show, Al Law and Jo Cooke (pictured) start by helping Wendy, who is grieving the loss of her husband, living uncomplainingly with considerable clutter and health issues, and sleeping in a chair. Jo and Al set to work, and the results bring smiles.
ANCIENT BRITAIN The Great British Dig: History In Your Back Garden, 9pm, More4
THE team arrive in Stretton in Staffordshire, and Hugh Dennis mucks in as the quest to date a collection of roundhouses intensifies. Does the settlement go back to Bronze Age, Iron Age or early Roman Britain?
MOVING DRAMA The Windermere Children, 9pm, BBC4
IN 1945, 300 child survivors of the concentration camps were brought to Lake Windermere to recover. This is a shattering dramatisation of that, and it’s in the details of their behaviour that you see how deeply these horrors shaped them. Iain Glen plays their football coach, Jock.
LEGAL EAGLE Bull, 9pm, Sky Witness
FACE masks at the ready in this new, fifth season of the U.S. legal drama, in which the pandemic plays havoc with the work of trial expert Dr Bull (Michael Weatherly). How will he handle virtual juries? This opener actually takes a more nuanced approach to the subject than is immediately apparent, but it’s one that you’ll love or hate.
RESTORATION PROJECT Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars, 9pm, Quest
AUTOMOTIVE expert Paul Cowland and Drew Pritchard (pictured) return for a new series of restorations, starting with a Lotus Esprit of the kind seen sailing
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Sky Store/Virgin
ANDY SERKIS directs a chaotic superhero film that’s big dumb fun, with Tom Hardy in the Jekyll and Hyde-style lead and Woody Harrelson as his enemy.
COUPLED UP Heartbreak Island, 10pm, TLC
THE islanders in this New Zealand dating contest had just about found their feet when, last week, two ‘disruptors’ arrived. Tonight, four more attractive singletons throw spanners into the couples’ strategies, and a very physical challenge provides both amusement and irritation. (Sky 133, Virgin 167)