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ON-DEMAND DRAMA American Gods, Amazon Prime
THE second part of Neil Gaiman’s modern mythology slows down the pace, as taciturn ex-con Shadow Moon gets to grips with the strange world of deities that lies just beneath the U.S. he knows. One of his strangest experiences in part two is talking to the living spirit of ‘Media’, who is played by Gillian Anderson (pictured), and is trying to woo Shadow to her side.
TENNIS Madrid Open, 11am, Sky Sports 3
AFTER his Monte Carlo win, Rafael Nadal is hoping for a successful season. He’s helped by the fact that Roger Federer is resting.
SERIES RETURNS The Evermoor Chronicles, 5.50pm, Sky Disney
THE British teen drama returns for a new series, with a sliver of darkness running through its colourful heart. Bella is hoping to leave the village for fashion school, when a dark magical presence makes itself known . . . (Sky 609, Virgin 724)
FOOTBALL Chelsea v Middlesbrough, 7pm, Sky Sports 1
AFTER a 1-0 win in the reverse fixture earlier this season, Chelsea topped the league. Meanwhile, Boro’s tough end-of-season run-in continues, with Southampton and Liverpool still to come.
BOYS’ CLUB Inside The Freemasons, 8pm, Sky 1
‘OUR wives love us being masons, because they know where we are,’ says Rick Wakeman in this new episode. The focus is on secrecy and on Chelsea Lodge, the branch for entertainers such as Wakeman and, in the past, Peter Sellers and Bob Monkhouse.
FILM CHILLER Fatal Attraction,, 9pm,p TCM
MEMORABLE psychological thriller, in which a laywer (Michael Douglas) pays a high price for a one-night stand with a woman (Glenn Close, pictured with Douglas)Douglas who doesn’t take rejection lightly.
MODERN CULTURE Barcelona: An Art Lovers’ Guide, 9pm, BBC4
PART TWO of this cultural city guide dials down the banter between hosts Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke, and gets to the point. Ramirez is delighted by religious artefacts in a shop, and there is insight into the buildings of Gaudi, such as the famed Sagrada Familia.
NEW MOVIE Zoom, 10.10pm Sky Premiere
FANTASY drama in which the stories of a comic book artist (Alison Pill), a film director (Gael Garcia Bernal) and a novelist (Mariana Ximenes) intertwine in inventive ways.
ADULT DRAMA Harlots, 10pm, ITV Encore
SIR HOWARD was a thoroughly nasty sort and, last week, he met a thoroughly nasty end. Will the Wells women avoid the noose for their part in it? That’s the question in this penultimate episode, which also finds Lydia — the ‘Lady Macbeth of brothel keepers’, played with relish by Lesley Manville — taking revenge on Emily.
SHARP U.S. COMEDY Teachers, 11pm, Comedy Central
THE twisted teachers return for a new and improved second season of this sharp and silly U.S. comedy. Deb is outraged to be working from a ‘modular satellite classroom’ — otherwise known as a trailer — while Ginger is horrified to learn she will be teaching the feared ‘hell class’.