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◆ 8PM, BBC4 ★★★★ In this dreamy adaptation of Colm Toibin’s novel, Saoirse Ronan (above, with Domhnall Gleeson) stars as the young woman whose prospects – in work and in romance – greatly improve when she relocates from rural Ireland to New York City in the early 1950s.

(2015) 12 ADAM (2020) 15

9.45PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★

A change of pace for Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul – in this drama, he plays Adam, a hardworkin­g salesman who becomes quadripleg­ic after an accident. As Adam struggles to come to terms with his new life, his straightta­lking nurse has some of the answers.

THE NANNY (1965) 15 PREMIERE

10PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★★

All is not well in the home of the Fane family in Seth Holt’s classic British chiller. Ten-year-old Joey (William Dix) returns after a stint at a school for troubled children, and he’s not at all pleased to be reacquaint­ed with his old nanny (Bette Davis).

22 JUMP STREET (2014) 15

10.25PM, CH5 ★★★

Comedy sequel (the first film is tomorrow at 9pm on ITV2) in which overgrown adolescent cops Jenko and Schmidt (Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill) graduate from high school to college for their undercover police work.

THE BEGUILED (2017) 15

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11.30PM, BBC2 ★★★★

Sofia Coppola’s version of a novel first filmed in 1971. During the American Civil War, at a girls’ school, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst are distracted by Colin Farrell’s wounded soldier.

SIGHTSEERS (2012) 15

◆ 12.45AM, FILM4 ★★★★

In this pitch-black comedy, co-written by its stars, Steve Oram (left) and

Alice Lowe are the anoraklovi­ng couple taking a road trip that turns seriously messy – think Nuts In May meets Natural Born Killers.

THE MERCY (2017) 12

◆ 9PM, BBC2 ★★★ PREMIERE Colin Firth stars in this biographic­al drama, bringing his trademark quiet reserve to the story of Donald Crowhurst, who competed in a single-handed round-the-world yacht race, which began in 1968. No spoilers if you don’t know his story…

THE A-TEAM (2010) 12

9PM, ITV4 ★★★

The hit 1980s TV series gets the big-screen treatment. Liam Neeson is the cigar-chomping Hannibal, getting the gang – Bradley Cooper (below, as Face), Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley – back together to clear their names.

THE HURT LOCKER (2008) 15

12 MIDNIGHT, BBC2 ★★★★

Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winner is set amid the danger and extreme tension of a bombdispos­al team in Iraq. Jeremy Renner is the bold new team member leading the action.

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN (2017) 15

◆ 1.35AM, CH4 ★★★ Luke Evans stars as William Moulton Marston, the university professor who invented Wonder Woman. It’s a fascinatin­g true story about a man, his wife and his girlfriend getting tied up in female empowermen­t.

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