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PAY-PER-VIEW FANTASY Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
LOVINGLY made expansion of the Harry Potter universe, this is full of optimism, yet never manages to feel cloying. Eddie Redmayne plays the wizard whose magical beasts are loose in Twenties NYC.
FOOTBALL France v Spain, 7.40pm, ITV4
ENGLAND will be facing France in June in a friendly, but before then, Les Bleus — with Chelsea star N’Golo Kante and Spurs ’keeper Hugo Lloris among their squad — host Spain, also in a friendly.
ART DETECTIVES Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge, 8pm, Sky Arts
FAKE paintings have been placed in various galleries for this new series, and the public are hunting them down. Meanwhile, Giles Coren chats jovially with engaging art historian Rose Balston (both pictured), who is surely destined for a series on
BBC4.
SINGING SUPERHEROES Supergirl/The Flash, 8pm/9pm, Sky 1
SPECTACULAR new, two-part musical crossover episode, featuring song-anddance veteran John Barrowman and a pair of scheming new villains played by Teri Hatcher and ex-Glee star Darren Criss. The razzmatazz kicks in towards the end of Supergirl, in which Kara (Melissa Benoist, pictured with Grant Gustin) encounters the villainous Music Meister (Criss)
WEIGHTY SUBJECT Gravity And Me, 9pm, BBC4
FOR something we can’t see, gravity has an incredible impact on our lives. In fact, gravity binds together everything we can see — all the matter in the universe. For this eye-opening new film, Jim Al-Khalili reveals how it also affects our weight, height, posture and the rate at which we age, and how its strength varies across the UK.
SCENIC ROUTE Mighty Trains, 9pm, Quest
THE Canadian is a train that goes 2,775 miles from Vancouver to Toronto and is the subject of this first of a new series. It’s the kind of journey where people gather in the bar rather than bury themselves in books and phones, seeing the country from a new perspective as the train pushes on through mountains and over rivers.
FREEVIEW FILM Youth, 9pm, Film4
IT MIGHT seem like strange casting, but Michael Caine is wonderful as a retired composer, relaxing and reminiscing at an idyllic spa resort. In an elegant drama from director Paolo Sorrentino, there’s starry support from Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel and a knockout Jane Fonda.
MYSTERY THRILLER Undeniable, 10pm, ITV Encore
ANOTHER chance to see both halves of ITV’s compelling drama from 2014 about a girl, Jane, who witnessed her mother’s murder at the age of seven. Claire Goose plays the adult Jane, who believes she has seen the killer (a sinister but nuanced Peter Firth) again. Is she right?
FILM COMEDY Moonwalkers, 11.25pm, Sky Premiere
SILLY conspiracy theory comedy following the U.S. government’s attempt to employ cult film director Stanley Kubrick to fake footage of astronauts walking on the moon. Rupert Grint stars.