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MOVIE DRAMA Irrational Man, 12.50pm, Sky Premiere LESSER Woody Allen fare, with Joaquin Phoenix as a troubled professor plotting the perfect murder. And he would have got away with it if it weren’t for the fact that there’s no such thing. FUN ANIMATION Digbygy Dragon,g, 4.30pm,p, Nick JR IT’S RARE for British children’s TV to be produced outside the BBC, so this cheery and gorgeously animated new series is to be applauded. Today, the hapless Digby is learning to fly, but he’s not very good at it — luckily, he has supportive friends. (Sky 615, Virgin 715) SPEEDWAY Swindon Robins v Coventry Bees, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1 THE visitors are having a rough season, particular­ly away. This is the second meeting between the teams in just three days, and Krzysztof Kasprzak will be looking back to the days when the Bees rode high in the Elite League. SCI-FI MYSTERY Dark Matter, 8pm, Syfy IN SEASON one of this sci-fi series, six people woke up on a spaceship, with amnesia. At the start of this new, second season, they wake up in prison, on both sides of the law — and a story with plenty of pace, martial arts action and solid special effects unfolds from there. TOP DOCUMENTAR­Y Life And Deaf, 9pm, BBC4 THIS new documentar­y uses subtitles and British sign language, and puts score and commentary aside, in an effort to place viewers inside the lives of deaf people. It’s an absorbing experience that takes us into the rivalry between the football teams of the English Deaf Cup, and introduces us to Tina Costi, who is expecting a baby. A LITERARY LIFE The Secret Life Of Children’s Books, 8.30pm, BBC4 IN THE first of a new series, Samantha Bond (pictured) links author Edith Nesbit’s guilt over the death of her son to her creation of a wishgranti­ng sand fairy in the novel Five Children And It. Some of the conclusion­s here feel tenuous, but Nesbit’s story is a fascinatin­g one. MOVIE BIOPIC Lincoln, 9pm, Film4 SPIELBERG’S epic tells the story of Lincoln’s (Daniel Day-Lewis, pictured) struggle to consign slavery to history. The altogether less serious Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter follows. U.S. CRIME DRAMA Ray Donovan, 9pm, Sky Atlantic THE tough U.S. drama returns, and it looks as if the fixer (Liev Schreiber) has put his troubles – alcoholism, adultery, lots of violence — behind him. He even smiles in this opener, directed by Schreiber, after reconnecti­ng with his daughter — but that happiness is unlikely to last for long. HORROR MOVIE The Curse Of The Werewolf, 9pm, Horror OLIVER REED is the man who must try to keep his beastly urges under control in this werewolf romp. Only true love can tame the animal within, but when he’s separated from his fiancee, all hell breaks loose. (Freeview 70, Freesat 138, Sky 319, Virgin 149)

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