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SCI-FI DOUBLE BILL Blade Runner, 6pm, p Sky y Select
SHOWING in a double bill with the recent sequel, this original is a breathtaking spectacle which its follow-up was at pains to emulate. Superb uperb Harrison Ford (pictured) stars as Deckard in both.
LIVE FOOTBALL Aston Villa v Brentford, 7pm, Sky Football And Main Event
THE Bees wasted a lot of chances last season, so a thumping 5-1 victory, with two goals from French striker Neal Maupay, in their opening game against Rotherham was a promising start to the new term.
NATURAL WORLD Saving Britain’s Wildlife, 7pm, Quest Red
COLD Feet’s John Thomson narrates this largely sweet — but occasionally distressing — new series about the work of the RSPCA. One case involves a super-cute fox cub who has become ensnared in a garden football goal net. (Freeview 38, Sky 149, Virgin 215)
TUDOR HISTORY A Tale Of Two Sisters, 8pm, Yesterday
BEFORE Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn, he had already had an affair with her sister, Mary. Other details on Mary in this documentary are sketchy but, after Anne had a miscarriage, Mary turned up pregnant, having secretly married a soldier — and was banished from court.
SUPERSTAR PROFILE David Bowie: Stardust, 9pm, PBS America
NEW profile of the master of pop reinvention, focused on his Ziggy Stardust album and persona and touched with sorrow over his death. ‘I was not a natural performer,’ reflects Bowie, who felt much more comfortable behind a character on stage.
U.S. DRAMA 9-1-1, 9pm, Sky Witness
THIS U.S. drama has the same cavalier attitude to patients that Spooks used to have to its spies, and that makes it nicely unpredictable to watch. A rollercoaster disaster is the opening emergency in this new episode, in which cop Athena (a commanding Angela Bassett) is also struggling with challenges at home.
CLASSIC THRILLER Town On Trial, 9pm, Talking Pictures TV
JOHN GUILLERMIN’S thriller stars John Mills as the detective investigating the murder of a ‘good time girl’ whose body is found at a posh tennis club. Barbara Bates is one of its tight-lipped members.
SONG AND DANCE My Asian Family: The Musical, 10pm, BBC4
IN A playful new one-off, three generations of a Leicester Asian family sing their stories of hope for the future and reflection on the past. The account of their arrival from Idi Amin’s Uganda in 1972 has some intriguing details — apparently precious items were smuggled in one of the children’s nappies.
GAME FOR A LAUGH Judge Romesh, 10pm, Dave
ANOTHER double bill of increasingly sure-footed comedy courtroom shenanigans from Ranganathan. He doesn’t have to look far for the laughs in episode two, in which Shaun Ryder and Bez from the Manchester pop group the Happy Mondays saunter into his court, with a colourful argument over money that dates back many, many years . . .
CHINESE FILM DRAMA Mountains May Depart, 10.40pm,p Skyy Premiere
SET in three time periodsperiods, this powerful Chinese drama opens in 1999 as China is urged to ‘Go West’, and Capitalism takes it toll on the film’s main protagonists. Tao Zhao (pictured) co-stars.