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FUN FILM The Secret Life Of Pets 2, 11.15am, 8pm, Sky Premiere
THE excitable domestic animals who get up to all sorts when their owners are away are back. This time Max, Duke and family head out on a road trip.
SOCCER STORY The English Game, Netflix
JULIAN FELLOWES’S handsome and atmospheric series is set in the 1870s. It tells the true story of how a lord and a stonemason came together to create the modern game of football.
BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA Self Made, Netflix
THIS new, real-life drama boasts a powerful performance from Octavia Spencer as Madam C.J. Walker, the African-American haircare tycoon who was the first self-made female millionaire in the U.S.
U.S. SITCOM Modern Family, 8.30pm, Sky One
DAVID BECKHAM and Courteney Cox play themselves as the comedy continues its final season with a flirtatious farce of misunderstandings. It all unfolds at the spa in a luxury apartment building, where Stephen Merchant plays an eager-to-please concierge.
POP MEMORIES The Story Of Ready Steady Go!, 9pm, BBC4
ITV’S Sixties pop show was host to everyone from the Beatles to Burt Bacharach, and audience members could roam free. ‘You could actually touch the pop stars,’ recalls one, who was a 14-year-old girl at the time, in a new documentary that really brings the show’s story to life.
LONDON COPS Bulletproof, 9pm, Sky One
NOEL CLARKE (pictured) and Ashley Walters are the stars of this buddy police action show, which kicks off series two with plenty of stunts. The Americans have always dominated this genre, and Bulletproof clearly takes its cues from them, but it also has a very strong British accent. The bad boys’ tough boss is played by Lindsey Coulson (East Enders’ Carol Jackson).
ITALIAN CRIME Thou Shalt Not Kill, 9pm, More4
GREY is the predominant colour in this moody crime drama, but that doesn’t keep it from weaving a steadily haunting spell. In this first of a new, second season, the softly-spoken Inspector Ferro (Miriam Leone, pictured) is forced to face her own past when a dead woman’s body is discovered.
SCI-FI SEQUEL Blade Runner 2049, 9pm, Sony Movies
THIS belated yet triumphant sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 science fiction classic stars Ryan Gosling as a blade runner, a cop tasked with killing androids (or replicants) who have gone rogue. The twist? He’s a replicant himself, and he knows it.
REALITY STAR Vicky Pattison Spills The Beans, 10pm, TLC
SHE was a finalist on Celebrity Master Chef, and now Vicky hosts a new dinner party one-off in which she asks her guests (Pete Wicks and Ferne McCann) to bring along their mums for a good chat. It’s a better fit for Pattison’s finely tuned social skills than a random reality show. (Sky 133, Virgin 167)