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MOVING FILM Ordinary Love, 4.15pm, Sky Premiere
HERE’S a reminder that Liam Neeson (pictured with Lesley Manville) has a far greater range as an actor than his recent action roles. He stars as the husband of Lesley Manville’s Joan, who is diagnosed with breast cancer. A beautiful, if sad, study of a long marriage and the challenges it faces.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Belle, 6.55pm, Film4
GUGU MBATHA-RAW stars as mixed-race aristocrat Dido Elizabeth Belle in this Fact-based drama. Dido rises through 18thcentury British society, despite much twitching of bonnets.
FOOTBALL RB Leipzig v Paris SaintGermain, 7pm, BT Sport 1
THE Champions League moves on to the semi-final stage at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, where both the German and French sides are looking to make the final for the first time in their history.
ANTIQUES EXPERTS Restoration Workshop, 8pm, Yesterday
ANTIQUES dealer Gary Wallis has a knack for finding unusual items and, in this new series, he passes these rough diamonds on to a team of artisans for transformation. He’s got a good one in this first episode, too — a mirror that may have once stood in Buckingham Palace.
ROAD TRIP A303: Highway To The Sun, 8pm, BBC4
A REPEAT for one of those unexpectedly compelling documentaries for which BBC4 has such a flair. It follows the adventures of Tom Fort, a man who once wrote a social history of lawn mowing, as he drives up the 92 miles of the A303 in a Morris Traveller.
SULTRY DRAMA Little Birds, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
HUGO turns up with a peace offering in tonight’s new episode of a drama that seeps heat through every pore. Lucy (Juno Temple, pictured), who now knows the truth of their ‘marriage’, doesn’t seem likely to accept, and the unpredictable edge that’s coming out of her character is interesting to watch.
SERIAL KILLER SAGA Prodigal Son, 9pm, Sky One
HOW much did Jessica know about the serial killing ways of her husband? That’s the question driving her profiler son, Malcolm (Tom Payne), around the bend in tonight’s new episode of a U.S. drama that keeps you coming back for more with its OTT twists.
COMING-OF-AGE TALE Yes, God, Yes, Virgin Movies
CATHOLIC schoolgirl Alice (Natalia Dyer) has a physical awakening at a spiritual retreat designed to do quite the opposite in this comedydrama, which is the feature debut of writer-director Karen Maine.
LADS & LASSES Geordie Shore, 10pm, MTV
THE raucous Newcastle reality show has been on TV for nearly a decade. This is series 21 and, while the show has long since veered into self-parody, there is something rather fun about the dauntless, Love Island-style antics of Chloe et al — especially as they’re all stirred up by a new arrival in this new episode. (Sky 126, Virgin 134)
CRIMINAL ATTRACTION Love After Lock Up, 10pm, TLC
CHERYL has a keen interest in serial killers, and struck up a relationship with prisoner Josh — a bank robber, not a killer — after she found his picture online. In this first of a jawdropping new U.S. reality series, Cheryl thinks he’s going to make the best stepdad. ‘You’re stupid,’ says her prison officer sister. (Sky 133, Virgin 167)