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FREEVIEW FANTASY Howl’s Moving Castle, 12.40pm, Film4
INSPIRED by a British fantasy novel published in 1986, this splendid Studio Ghibli animation mixes fairytale themes with an antiwar message. It’s showing in its English-language dub (as all of Film4’s Ghibli films do this week); the voice cast includes Jean Simmons and Christian Bale.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Bayern Munich v Sevilla, 7pm, BT Sport 3
SEVILLA, who saw off Manchester United thanks to two goals at Old Trafford by Wissam Ben Yedder, are in Germany for this Champions League quarter-final, second leg. Over on BT Sport 2, Real Madrid play host to Juventus.
RECENT HISTORY From World War To Cold War, 8pm, Yesterday
THIS engrossing two-part documentary tells the story of the historic Yalta Conference, held in February 1945. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met in the Soviet Union in an attempt to shape a lasting peace – but instead sowed the seeds for a new Cold War.
ANCIENT HISTORY Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God Of Ecstasy, 9pm, BBC4
IN this joyous documentary, Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the story of Bacchus, god of wine, revelry and excess. Her journey takes her from Georgia to Greece and Britain to discover his origins, and his continued presence in the modern world. Best watched with a glass of vino.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE The Disaster Artist, Sky Store
JAMES Franco directs, produces and stars in a fact-based drama about Tommy Wiseau, a man with incredible selfbelief, who made The Room – a notoriously terrible film.
CRIME DRAMA Bones, 9pm, Pick
EMILY Deschanel directs this opener to the final season of the US drama, which has its Freeview premiere tonight. Here, Booth (Boreanaz) looks for Brennan (Deschanel) after she is abducted by old assistant Zack, who hasn’t been seen regularly since season three.
WAR DOCUMENTARY The Vietnam War, 9pm, PBS America
KEN Burns’s mammoth documentary series was shown to great acclaim on BBC4 last year, when it took up an astonishing ten hours of the schedule. But that’s not all – the director’s cut is 18 hours long, and begins its UK premiere tonight with a focus on the pre-war history of Vietnam, from 1858 onward, giving a fascinating insight into the
Viet way of life.
GODZILLA ORIGINS Shin Godzilla, 9.50pm, Sky Premiere
THE 31st instalment of the long-running Japanese monster franchise is another reboot (‘shin’ means ‘new’). It’s an origin story for the radioactive dino-star, which authorities battle to control.
SUPERIOR DRAMA The Street, 10pm, ITV3
ORIGINALLY shown on BBC1, although it was actually produced by ITV, Jimmy McGovern’s Baftaand Emmy-winning drama begins a repeat on ITV3 from the first episode. As it begins, Angela (Jane Horrocks, pictured), a married mother of three, embarks on an affair with a neighbour – but it soon turns sour . . .