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FAMILY FILM Harvie And The Magic Museum, 5pm, Sky Premiere
VIDEO game-loving Harvie unlocks the wildest game of all when he breathes life into a toy museum — including its less than friendly puppets.
POLLUTION CRISIS Something In The Air, 7.20pm, PBS America
EXPERTS paint a troubling picture of what we breathe in every day in this report. The statistics are stark — we are told that in India, air pollution kills 3,000 people a day, and these problems aren’t restricted to fast-growing economies.
FOOTBALL Preston North End v West Bromwich Albion, 7.30pm, Sky Football & Main Event
AFTER two defeats on the road, Preston will want to get their promotion challenge back on track at Deepdale — but they face a West Brom side in formidable form. Slaven Bilic’s side, beaten only once in the Championship, are looking to extend a run of four victories.
SCENIC STROLL Yorkshire Walks, 7.30pm, BBC4
THE artist Shanaz Gulzar goes from Leyburn to Bolton Castle in this first of a new, daily series. She’s capturing the walk with a hand-held, 360-degree camera, and this gives the series a personal feel. It’s almost as if you’re walking with her, birds tweeting restfully in the background.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
JASON STATHAM and Dwayne Johnson pair up for this pleasingly ridiculous Fast & Furious spin-off. It also features an action-packed role for The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby as Shaw’s MI6 sister, and Idris Elba as a genetically enhanced terrorist.
SOCCER STORY Football: A Brief History By Alfie Allen, 9pm, Blaze
‘I LOVE football,’ says Game Of Thrones star Alfie Allen (pictured), who once played Sunday league and sang backing vocals on Vindaloo, the football song co-written by his dad, Keith. He is our smiley host for a new-toFreeview twopart history. (Freeview 63, Freesat 162, Sky 164, Virgin 216)
YOUNG DETECTIVE Endeavour, 9pm, ITV3
SHAUN EVANS is superb in this pilot for the Inspector Morse prequel, an enterprise so successful that six series have followed, with a seventh due in 2020. There are haunting echoes of Morse’s future life to look out for here.
SECRET SERVICE Spies Of War, 9pm, History
SIR MAX HASTINGS is one of the contributors to a packed new history of wartime deception. We start with the lies fed to the Nazis in the run-up to D-Day, which included the creation of the entirely fictitious First United States Army Group and the efforts of a network of cunning double agents.
FACING THE PAST Facing Franco’s Crimes: The Silence Of Others — Storyville, 10pm, BBC4
THIS film is a haunting reminder of the importance of not forgetting the past. It follows the struggle of victims — against a governmentsanctioned ‘pact of forgetting’ — to gain recognition for their suffering during Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco.
FREEVIEW FRIGHTS The Serpent And The Rainbow, 11pm, Horror Channel
WES CRAVEN directs this chiller, set in Haiti. Bill Pullman is the U.S. drugs company executive asked to find a toxin used to create zombies. The country’s voodoo religion and extremist politics collide — to mindbending effect. (Freeview 70, Freesat 138, Sky 317, Virgin 146)