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NARNIA ADVENTURE The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, 5.40pm, Sky Family

C.S. LEWIS’S first published Narnia chronicle gets an appropriat­ely spectacula­r screen makeover. Anna Popplewell, William Moseley and Georgie Henley are three of the children having a magical adventure in a secret world.

EUROPA FOOTBALL Fiorentina v Tottenham Hotspur, 6pm, BT Sport Europe

TOTTENHAM begin the Europa League knockout stage away to the Serie A side who beat them 2-0 last year (Spurs went out 3-1 on aggregate). Dele Alli will be among those keen to show off his talents.

FC Augsburg v Liverpool, 8pm, BT Sport Europe

JURGEN KLOPP is back in Germany for the first leg of the Reds’ last-32 tie — though he might want to forget his last encounter with Augsburg, when his Borussia Dortmund side lost to ten men and were booed by fans.

COURT BATTLES The Good Wife, 9pm, More4

THE new run of this top U.S. drama eases up on plot developmen­ts and focuses instead on big cases for Diane (Christine Baranski, pictured) and Alicia. Both involve meaty subjects — euthanasia and racial profiling — but the best reason to watch this episode is the fresh insight into Alicia’s hunky gumshoe (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).

PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Crimson Peak, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S period horror oozes style from every pore. Mia Wasikowska is the American girl who weds Tom Hiddleston’s Englishman — it’s a strange family she’s married into, with a very strange house . . .

REAL-LIFE CRIME Snapped: Women Who Kill, 9pm, truTV

THEY might not receive the attention of series such as Making A Murderer, but more workaday true-crime shows such as this remain very watchable — and popular. This week’s tangled new case is that of Joanna Findlay, a Scottish university lecturer who was convicted of attempted murder in the U.S. (Freeview 68, Freesat 154, Sky 198)

GOOD SPORTS A League Of Their Own, 9pm, Sky 1

RICKY PONTING and Andrew Flintoff — ex-Australia and ex-England cricket captains — are on the same team for this fun new edition. Ponting is a very game guest and asks to be booed so that it feels more like his previous visits to the country.

WILDERNESS WILDLIFE

America’s National Parks, 10pm,p, Nat Geo Wild

EAGLES swooping to catch fish, otters ‘busting a few quirky moves’ (actually marking the area with scent), sea lions hunting underwater and marmots (pictured) feasting in preparatio­n for hibernatio­n: such are the sights in the opening part of this new series. They are some of the inhabitant­s of Washington state’s Olympic National Park, which sprawls across an area a sixth the size of Wales. (Sky 528, Virgin 264)

FREEVIEW FILM ACTION

Dirty Harry, 11.25pm, ITV4

DON SIEGEL’S brutally efficient crime thriller stars Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, the San Francisco cop — unorthodox, blunt and violent — who would rather do things his way. In the first of five films, he’s on the trail of a sniper serial killer who shoots his victims from rooftops.

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