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CRITIC'S CHOICE

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NINETIES NOSTALGIA Back In Time For The Weekend, 8pm, BBC2 TECHNOLOGY (including early games consoles) features prominentl­y in this Nineties-themed episode, and there’s a chance to recall the rise of lifestyle TV as Linda Barker, Tommy Walsh and Mr Motivator reflect on the decade in which we spent our spare time making over our homes, gardens and bodies.

ANIMAL MAGIC The Secret Life Of The Zoo, 8pm, Ch4 WE RETURN to Chester Zoo for a fifth episode, going behind the scenes to meet residents and keepers. Tonight, a crocodile newly arrived from France turns his snout up at the menu, a pair of Bornean river turtles find themselves set up on a date, and there’s a tense stand-off between keeper Niall and Boris the chimp (pictured). WONDER KIDS Born To Be Different, 9pm, Ch4 THIS new two-part series catches up with three of the six children first featured 15 years ago, all born with disabiliti­es. Among them is Zoe, whose confidence is tested when she is invited to try out for head girl at her school. REAL-LIFE DRAMA Scrappers — Back In The Yard, 10pm,1 BBC2 IT’SI BACK to Bolton for a new series followingf the fortunes of scrapyard owner TerryT Walker and his wife, Lyndsay ( pictured). It turns out that it’s been anythinga but plain sailing since we last saw

them — in fact, with the yard hit by money problems and even a serious accident, it’s a miracle that there’s any business left at all.

FILM CHOICES

Abducted, 3.20pm, Ch5 SARAH WYNTER is the warden’s wife abducted by a handsome prisoner (Andrew W. Walker) who is really out to prove his innocence. Manipulati­on is the name of the game here.

Charlie & Boots, 12.15am,, BBC1 LIFE-affirming Australian comedy following a father and son, Charlie (Paul Hogan, pictured) and Boots (Shane Jacobson), on a road trip. After the death of Boots’s mother — Charlie’s wife — Boots decides to take his dad to a fishing spot on the northernn coast;coast they bond through adventure on the way.

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