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FAMILY ANIMATION Kubo And The Two Strings, 11.15am, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere
FROM the studio behind Coraline, this beautifully animated fantasy carries its big themes with grace and wonder. In feudal Japan, Kubo is a gifted 12-year-old boy who, with some magical friends, confronts his ancestral ghosts on an enchanting quest.
FURRY FRIENDS Monkey Life Week, 4pm, Pick
PREPARE for an overload of on-screen sweetness in this first day of a themed run of episodes recounting life at Dorset’s Monkey World. Monday’s episodes are focused on the nursery, and the highlight is the arrival of Rieke, a new baby orang-utan (5.30pm).
FOOTBALL Manchester City v Everton, 7pm, Sky Sports Premier League
EVERTON won 4-0 when these two met in January. Since then, City have spent hugely, as they try to improve on third in last season’s top flight . . .
FAB FANTASY Game Of Thrones, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
THE conventional wisdom with Game Of Thrones is that the big action is reserved for the penultimate episode of any given season. But then almost every part of this run so far has been such a knockout that it’s hard to imagine the bar being raised any higher tonight.
NEW AVIATOR SHOW Jet Set, 9pm, PBS America
EWAN MCGREGOR narrates a new series that meets those training to fly the RAF Tornado GR4. The enthusiasm of these budding pilots for their aircraft, and the terrific footage shot, make up for the annoying background music in a six-parter that unfolds daily.
HORTICULTURE All Gardens Great And Small, 9pm, More4
CAN Miranda Hart’s mum, top amateur gardener Dee Hart Dyke, pass on her love of horticulture to her daughter (pictured together)? That’s one part of this chirpy new series, while the rest follows Dee to lovely private plots, including Julian Clary’s — where they have a good old singsong.
FREEVIEW FILM Avatar, 9pm, Film4
NOT only is a sequel in the works, slated for release in 2020, but five parts of this resplendent eco-space saga are planned. Sam Worthington is the soldier getting into the skin of an alien race.
STORYVILLE Silk Road — Drugs, Death and the Dark Web, 10pm, BBC4
THE black-market website Silk Road opened in 2011 and, by 2013, this ‘Amazon of drugs’ was bringing in some $1.3 million per week in sales. The evidence needed to shut it down would eventually be found by Gary Alford, a tax investigator in the U.S., and this new documentary tells a riveting inside story.
MOVIE DRAMA The Meddler, 10.25pm, Sky Drama
SUSAN SARANDON is radiant as the mum who refuses to be defined as the meddler of the title. In between checking up on her neurotic daughter, she makes a new life for herself.
ON-DEMAND Halt And Catch Fire, Amazon Prime
THE final season of this cool, neat U.S. drama about early modern computing is set in 1990, the baby days of the internet — when we called it the World Wide Web.