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AFTERNOON MOVIE The Sony Way Movie We Channel Were, 1.10pm, LAZY rich kid Robert Redford and politically charged firebrand Barbra Streisand are the classically mismatched pair in Sydney Pollack’s tissue-tugging tale of ill-fated lovers. (Freeview 32, Sky 323, Virgin 425) FURRY FRIENDS We Bare Bears, 4.30pm, Cartoon Network THE Baftawinning adventures of three bears continue in this weekday run of new episodes. Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear’s attempts to integrate into human society rarely go smoothly — here, they’re on a road trip to see a meteor shower. (Sky 601, Virgin 704) WILDERNESS WORK Rocky Mountain Railroad, 9pm, Quest THERE’S a considerable risk of avalanche in the first of this new series, in which tough men and tough trains operate against the odds in the stunning Rocky Mountains. Some of those tough men head off to drop explosives in order to release the snow in a controlled fashion. PERIOD WHODUNIT Murdoch Mysteries, 9pm, Alibi WE’RE back to familiar Murdoch ground for the set-up of this week’s new case as, when a pioneering surgery goes wrong, the detective is called in to help. Meanwhile, George’s uniquely weird brain mulls over the moral implications of organ transplants. PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Kingsman: The Golden Circle, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies COLIN FIRTH and Taron Egerton return for a spy sequel that adds Americans and turns the style up to 11, even if the substance is slightly lacking. SHOOT TO KILL Trophy: The Big Game Hunting Controversy — Storyville, 9pm, BBC4 THIS new documentary opens with a stark statistic: since 1970, the world has lost more than 60 per cent of its wild animals. The film follows hunters (such as Texan Philip Glass, pictured) as they book to kill rhinos and lions in the wild and witnesses kills, It’s moving, justly distressing and quite riveting to watch.
NEW MOVIE Cardboard Boxer, 10pm, Sky Premiere
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH (pictured) gives a committed performance as a homeless man in Los Angeles, looking for hope and purpose and finding it in the lost diary of a nine-year-old girl. EMERGENCY SERVICE Into The Fire, 10pm, Really THE team are called to deal with that classic firefighter’s cliche in tonight’s new episode: a cat caught in a tree. ‘Most of the time, you just end up leaving it,’ reflects one. ‘The cat’ll climb down eventually.’ (Not this feline, though.) At the opposite end of the tension scale is a car crash that involves the sister of
firefighter Joe. DOMESTIC DANGER Hidden Killers Of The Edwardian Home, 10.30pm, BBC4 BALDNESS, blindness, madness — such were the risks of Edwardian make-up. And as Suzannah Lipscomb’s entertaining documentary explains, there were plenty more dangers lying in wait — radium paint, asbestos and all those uninsulated electric wires running through the house.