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ATHLETICS Diamond League: Lausanne, 7pm, Eurosport 1
TRIPLE European champion Dina Asher-Smith is set to face Dafne Schippers in the 100m. Britain’s world indoor champion Andrew Pozzi also faces a tough challenge in the 110m hurdles.
FILM THRILLER The Girl In The Spider’s Web, 8pm, Sky Premiere
THAT’S The Crown’s Claire Foy (pictured) as Lisbeth Salander, completely unrecognisable as the hacker antiheroine of the novels by Stieg Larsson.son This second U.S. remake is suitably grim and murky as Lisbeth is drawn into a weapons-grade conspiracy.
WARTIME EXPLOITS WW2 — Battles For Europe, 8pm, Yesterday
THERE’S some great first-hand testimony from veterans of both sides in this new series. Part one focuses on D-Day and hears from glider pilot Bill Higgs, whose wing was knocked off when he came in to land as part of an operation to capture canal bridges.
SEVENTIES HITS Classic Albums: Carly Simon — No Secrets, 8.30pm, BBC4
CARLY SIMON reflects on the album that gave us You’re So Vain. So, who was it about? Her manager says they never said for sure, partly because they were always asked. ‘The answer wasn’t as important as the game.’ Still, Simon says verse two was definitely about Warren Beatty.
MYSTERIES SOLVED Perception, 9pm, 5 USA
THE fun U.S. drama about a crime-solving neuropsychiatrist takes a particularly bizarre turn in the penultimate episode of season two, even by its standards. Daniel (Eric McCormack) is approached by an old friend who w believes that the CIA is assassinating U.S. citizens. His source is the mysterious ‘Cobra’.
CRIME SQUAD NCIS: New Orleans, 9pm, Fox
CHANGE is afoot tonight — Sebastian becomes involved in some spy action after meeting a seductive British translator at a party. Meanwhile, Pride (Scott Bakula, pictured) starts a new job, pushing pencils higher up the chain, but he’ll be damned if he’s not going to do it in his own way.
U.S. JUSTICE The Night Of, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
THIS thoughtprovoking HBO drama about a presumably innocent man’s journey through the justice system begins a repeat from the start. In episode one, it seems as if the star is Riz Ahmed as the accused, but John Turturro as his eczema-plagued lawyer soon becomes more central.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, 9pm, E4
WILL FERRELL’S sexist newsman, Ron Burgundy, is back. After he throws the mother of all tantrums when Veronica (Christina Applegate) — his wife, co-anchor and mother to his six-year-old son — is promoted ahead of him, can Ron get himself back on top?
LIFE STORY Charley Pride: I’m Just Me, 9.30pm, BBC4
CHARLEY PRIDE was born in segregated Mississippi in 1934, one of 11 children in a family of cotton-pickers,pickers and rose to become that rarest of things, a black country music star. That would be extraordinary enough on its own, but before that, Pride (pictured in 1976) was a baseball player.
STYLISH HORROR Nosferatu The Vampyre, 9.30pm, Talking Pictures
WERNER HERZOG’S languid remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic stars Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Ganz as the couple stalked by Klaus Kinski’s vamp.