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SATURDAY RATCHET & CLANK

(2016) U ■

12 NOON, CBBC ★★★

PREMIERE Animated adventure based on the video game, following cat-like mechanic Ratchet and his robot friend, Clank, as they fly into action and become intergalactic heroes. Repeated on Monday at 9.05am.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE

(1940) U ●

1.15PM, BBC2 ★★★

The first major version of Jane Austen’s classic novel stars Greer Garson as Lizzie Bennet. A delightful whimsy, co-scripted by Aldous Huxley, this is all about the lavish spectacle.

KIMI (2022) 15 ◆

8PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★

PREMIERE This taut, exciting thriller follows agoraphobic tech worker Angela (Zoe Kravitz, above), who, while reviewing a data stream, hears evidence of a violent crime. When her company won’t help, Angela must brave the outside world to get to the bottom of things.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

(2018) 12 ◆ 9PM, CH4 ★★★★

PREMIERE See The Big Movie (right).

NOTTING HILL (1999) 15

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10.40PM, ITV ★★★★

An easy-going comedy written by romcom king Richard Curtis. Hugh Grant is the terribly nice London book shop owner who falls for a Hollywood starlet, played with suitably starry aplomb by Julia Roberts.

YOUNG AHMED (2019) 15 ◆ ★★★

11.30PM, BBC4

PREMIERE This Belgian drama from the Dardenne brothers is the story of a lonely Muslim boy (Idir Ben Addi, above, with Othmane Moumen) who is radicalised and then incarcerated. It asks difficult questions in a thoughtful and considerate way.

GIFTED

(2017) 12 ◆ 11.40PM, CH4 ★★★ Chris Evans stars as Frank, the legal guardian of his young niece, Mary (Mckenna Grace), a maths genius like her late mother. Mary’s future becomes a bitter family battleground.

SUNDAY ZOO (2017) PG 1PM, CH4 ★★★

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As air raids batter Belfast during the Second World War, an order is given to euthanise the city zoo’s animals in case they escape. Local teenager Tom (Art Parkinson, above, second left) is troubled by this, and sets about protecting a baby elephant from a sad fate.

IVANHOE (1952) U

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1.50PM, BBC2 ★★★★

See Classic Film Choice (right).

WONDER (2017) PG

● 3PM, CH4 ★★★ Sensitive drama about ten-year-old Auggie, who, born with a rare condition, hides his face behind various masks. Auggie can’t hide for ever – and nor should he. His parents are played by Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. ●

★★★ For this hugely enjoyable sequel, the team of resourceful penguins manage to get the crashed plane airborne and fly the zoo animals (including Melman the giraffe, above) off the island. But it only gets them as far as mainland Africa.

OLD HENRY (2021) 15 8PM, SKY PREMIERE MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA (2008) PG 3.15PM, BBC1

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★★★

PREMIERE Pared back and simple, this western packs a big surprise as it builds to a familiar sort of showdown. Tim Blake Nelson is the taciturn farmer trying to keep his teen son (Gavin Lewis) out of harm’s way – until harm arrives at their door.

THE PROGRAM (2015) 15

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11.30PM, BBC1 ★★★

Biopic of fallen cycling idol Lance Armstrong, exploring the infamous doping scandal that ended his career. Behind the scenes, Armstrong (Ben Foster) lets his ego run wild.

GONE GIRL (2014) 18

s 11.30PM, CH4 ★★★★ Gillian Flynn adapts her own bestseller for the screen. A dark psychothriller, strictly and refreshingly for grownups only, it examines the devastating decline of a relationship. Rosamund Pike stars as the girl, gone, with Ben Affleck (right) playing crestfallen as her husband.

MONDAY THE FLINTSTONES IN VIVA ROCK VEGAS

(2000) PG ● 10AM, ITV2 ★★

John Goodman and the rest of the cast from the 1994 live-action film didn’t return for this prequel, which sank like a stone. Brit Mark Addy takes the role of Fred, with Stephen Baldwin as his put-upon pal, Barney Rubble.

THE FURIES (1950) PG 11AM, FILM4

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Anthony Mann directs this dizzying fusion of western and ‘women’s picture’, which puts Barbara Stanwyck’s Vance (below, with Gilbert Roland) at the centre of the action. She’s cut from the same tough hide as her dad, but finds her feelings driving conflict.

MASTER OF THE WORLD

(1961) PG ● 11.55AM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★ Based on two novels by Jules Verne, this stars Vincent Price as Robur, a man with an air of Captain Nemo about him. Steering an airship with fierce fire power, Robur sets about enforcing world peace in ironic style.

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) 15 9PM, ITV4

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Clint Eastwood stars as the Man with No Name in the first of three spaghetti westerns with Italian director Sergio Leone. Riding into a dispute between two rival families, Eastwood’s enigmatic hero grasps the chance to make a few bucks from his deadly skills.

EXECUTIVE DECISION (1996) 15 11.10PM, ITV4 ★★★

The US President must decide whether to shoot down a hijacked, booby-trapped plane with 400 people on board. But only if special forces – led by Kurt Russell (above, with Halle Berry) and Steven Seagal – cannot first thwart the terrorists (led by David Suchet).

ENTEBBE (2018) 12

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11.15PM, BBC2 ★★★

Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl play two of the terrorists who, in 1976, hijacked an Air France passenger jet en route from

Tel Aviv to Paris. All eyes were on the Israeli rescue mission at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.

TUESDAY NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG 10AM, ITV2 ★★★

(2010) U ●

Emma Thompson writes and stars in this sequel to her Mary Poppins-style 2005 hit, and it has all the warts-to-riches magic of the first film. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the mum who is struggling to keep the family farm afloat – enter Ms Mcphee (above).

BABY MONITOR MURDERS (2020) PG

● 2.15PM, CH5 ★★

PREMIERE Babysitter Cassie (Natalie Sharp) overhears a sinister plot on the baby monitor in this romp of a TV movie thriller. Suspecting that her employer’s husband is up to no good, can she stop him in time?

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (2014) 12 9PM, FILM4

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★★★ Chris Pine (left) joins Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and others in playing Tom Clancy’s US Marine recruited to the CIA. This time, he uncovers a plot to crash the US economy, orchestrated by a Russian tycoon (Kenneth Branagh).

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (2015) 18 9PM, 5STAR

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Somehow, a self-published erotic book – designed to be read, by women, in their alone time – sold millions, and landed a film adaptation. Dakota Johnson is the woman seduced into a new way of thinking about love and sex by Jamie Dornan’s dashingly dominant yet troubled Christian Grey.

DAYS OF THUNDER

(1990) 15 ◆

11.05PM, CH5 ★★★

Top Gun in fast cars, starring Tom Cruise as the feisty Nascar racer who needs a cooler head if he’s to keep his place in the starting line-up. Michael Rooker is his on-track rival, with Nicole Kidman as the woman in his life.

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC (2016)

15 ◆ 11.15PM, BBC2 ★★★ An Oscar-nominated Viggo Mortensen stars as a loving father (right) who has opted to raise six children outside of the mainstream, but is forced to reconnect with society after tragedy strikes. This comedy drama presents a heartfelt and offbeat examination of family values.