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FAIRYTALE FUN Tangled, 4.25pm, Sky Disney

THE Rapunzel story grows a modern twist in this hair-raising comedy animation. A feisty teen has magical locks and a mind of her own, and is keen to be free of her tower.

FOOTBALL Anderlecht v Manchester United, 7.30pm, BT Sport 2

THE Belgian league leaders host United in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final. Zlatan Ibrahimovi­c has good memories of Brussels, having scored four when he was last here, with Paris Saint-Germain.

PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Swiss Army Man, Sky Store/Virgin Movies

A TALKING corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) saves the life of a stranded man in this deeply weird and surprising­ly sweet comedy.

LIFE SAVERS Blazes And Brigades: The Story Of The Fire Service, 9pm, BBC4

LONDON’S first publicly funded fire service was created in 1865, nearly 200 years after the Great Fire. Britain’s firefighte­rs soon became heroic figures of the Victorian age, but, as this new film reveals, their level of preparedne­ss varied wildly across the country.

LEGAL TEAM The Good Fight, 9pm, More4

GAME Of Thrones’s Rose Leslie is proving great to watch as Maia, who, after last week’s bombshell, demands the truth of the family scandal from her mum. Meanwhile, the lawyers are affected by the politics of the Trump administra­tion.

SEVENTIES-SET DRAMA Guerrilla, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

THIS powerful and cinematic new six-part series from John Ridley (12 Years A Slave) follows a couple (Freida Pinto and Babou Ceesay, pictured) pulled into a violent fight for racial equality in Seventies Britain. Idris Elba plays a political prisoner, while Rory Kinnear is a brutal Special Branch officer.

NATIONAL SECURITY Quantico, 9pm, Alibi

IN THE present, Alex and Harry make a good team against the terrorists, but the military has a plan that may render them irrelevant. In the past, Brexit is weaved into the plot as we meet an associate of Harry’s, played with cool British charm by Lara Pulver — surely, this won’t be the last we see of her . . .

NEW SITCOM Bucket, 10pm, BBC4

MIRIAM MARGOLYES (pictured) plays punky 70-year-old Mim, who storms around like an enthusiast­ic preschoole­r and has a bucket list — one that she’s very keen to tick off. One of the empty tick boxes is a trip with her daughter (Frog Stone, also the writer), and the ensuing comedy, like Mim, is a mix of the crass and the slightly sweet.

OFFBEAT HUMOUR Baskets, 10.30pm, Fox

STRANGE new U.S. comedy that stars The Hangover’s Zach Galifianak­is (pictured) as a man who is determined to be a clown — the serious, artistic type — but is working on the rodeo, where his talents are not valued. Nobody values him, actually — or rather, they do, he’s just too caught up in his artistic struggle to notice.

FREEVIEW FILM Scent Of A Woman, 11.15pm, Sony Movie Channel

AL PACINO won an Oscar as the retired Army officer who has lost his sight and is at odds with just about everyone. Hired to be his assistant, student Chris O’Donnell starts to break down the grumpy facade . . . (Freeview 32, Sky 323, Virgin 425)

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