TV FILMS OF THE WEEK

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FINDING YOUR FEET Tonight, Channel 4, 9.15pm

LADY Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) flees the sprawling marital home after discovering her husband is having an affair and pitches up on the doorstep of estranged older sister Bif (Celia Imrie), who lives on a London housing estate. The pair initially grate on each other but Sandra accompanies her sibling to community centre dance classes, where she puts her best foot forward with fellow singletons Charlie (Timothy Spall), Ted (David Hayman) and Jackie (Joanna Lumley). A sweet and undemanding comedy drama, which is choreographed to appeal to mature viewers.

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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Tomorrow, ITV, 7.30pm

SET directly before the events of Episode IV: A New Hope (aka the first one), this Star Wars spin-off sees Felicity Jones, pictured, among a group of rebels out to steal plans for the Death Star’s secret weapon from a heavily fortified complex on Scarif. Rogue One is a dark, gripping adventure that dovetails neatly into the sprawling Star Wars universe.

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STAND BY ME

Monday, Sony Movies Classic, 9pm

BASED on a short story by Stephen King, this 1950s set drama follows a group of four 12-year-old boys (River Phoenix, left, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O’Connell and Corey Feldman) as they set out on an adventure in the Oregon wilderness. They’re looking for the body of a missing teenager but fail to anticipate the other horrors they’ll encounter along the way.

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PATTI CAKE Tuesday, Film 4, 11.20pm

PATTI CAKE is a crowd-pleasing underdog story which wears its heart on its sleeve. Bored with her life in her New Jersey hometown, Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle Macdonald, pictured) decides to follow her idol and become a rapper. Along with her friend, grandmother and a musician, she tries to overcome the obstacles to her dream.

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK Wednesday, Sony Movies, 9pm

THIS acclaimed drama charts the early days of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg, pictured with Andrew Garfield as pal Eduardo Saverin) launches an online site allowing fellow Harvard students to rank female classmates according to attractiveness. This gives him an idea for an even more successful site, but as the users mount up, so do the lawsuits...

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HARRY BROWN Thursday, 5Star, 11.05pm

HARRY (Michael Caine, pictured) is a widower who lives alone on a crime-riddled housing estate, which is under the control of a gang of thugs led by the sadistic Noel Winters (Ben Drew). The final straw comes when Harry’s best friend (David Bradley) is found stabbed to death in an underpass. Harry sets about tracking down the men who killed his pal.

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SELMA

Friday, BBC2, 11.20pm

DAVID OYELOWO, pictured, delivers a breakout performance as Martin Luther King in this impassioned biopic. In 1960s America, political bureaucracy and prejudice deny AfricanAmericans the chance to vote in the forthcoming election. King plans a march from Selma to Montgomery to secure equal voting rights, amid dangerous racial tensions.