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BLOOMING WONDERFUL The Big Flower Fight, Netflix
‘PREPARE for some very serious avant- gardening,’ booms Vic Reeves at the start of this joyful new contest in which duos are challenged to create enormous sculptures out of flowers — first, they must fashion a flower model of a giant insect. Reeves co-hosts with Natasia Demetriou (both pictured) in a series that could fill a TV need you didn’t know you had.
TOP-CLASS DRAMA Downton Abbey, 6.30pm, ITV3
JULIAN FELLOWES’S Belgravia began with a tragedy, and so does Downton — with the absence of an heir after the sinking of the Titanic. Here’s a chance to see the period drama from the start — and to revel in Maggie Smith’s bons mots as the Dowager Countess.
FOOTBALL MEMORIES Brian Moore Meets Kevin Keegan, 7pm, ITV4
IN THE Seventies, Kevin Keegan was twice crowned the European Footballer of the Year. Brian Moore’s documentary captured this whirlwind of charisma and talent as Keegan travelled to Hamburg, to win over his team-mates.
TRAVEL COMPANIONS Ricky & Ralf’s Very Northern Road Trip, 8pm, Gold
IN PART two, Ricky Tomlinson and Ralf Little visit Kendal and make some Kendal Mint Cake of their own. The cheery duo also find and use the world’s largest colouring pencil at Derwent Pencil Museum, and deliver many booming impressions of Brian Blessed.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE 1917, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
SAM MENDES’S astonishing piece of cinema plays as if it were a single continuous shot, and follows two soldiers across a shattered wartime landscape as they try to deliver a message.
CREATIVE COUPLE The Animated World Of Halas And Batchelor, 9pm, Sky Arts
JOHN HALAS was a Jewish emigre from Hungary and Joy Batchelor was a workingclass woman from Watford — together, they created Animal Farm, Britain’s first feature-length animation. They also fell in love, and their children tell that sweet story in this new film.
FREEVIEW ROMCOM About A Boy, 9pm, 5Star
HUGH GRANT moves on from his bumbling posh boy routine for this affable Nick Hornby adaptation. Grant is the rich kid who’s never grown up, getting a new perspective on life from the lonely lad (Nicholas Hoult) who becomes his awkward shadow.
MUSIC MAN The Changin’ Times Of Ike White — Arena, 10pm, BBC4
IKE WHITE was in prison from the age of 19 for murder, yet managed to record a hit album behind bars. However, Changin’ Times was the musical prodigy’s only release — why? This profile tells the startling story of a life during which Ike seems to have lived enough for ten.
DRAMATIC FINALE Flack, 10pm, W
IN THE finale, Robyn (Anna Paquin, pictured) is trying to control the very scandal she unleashed last week and, as her star plummets, so Melody’s appears to rise as she picks up a new client (Yasmine Akram). There’s an even bigger crisis brewing, though, one which manages to silence even Caroline, and the final scene, when it comes, feels harsh but fair.
FILM COMEDY CRSHD, 10.10pm, Sky Premiere
COMEDY set at a so-called ‘Crush Party’, where you only get an invite if someone has a crush on you. Deeksha Ketkar and Sadie Scott are pals hoping to party.