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CHILDREN’S TALE CBeebies Bedtime Stories, 6.50pm, CBeebies
HOLLYWOOD actor Luke Evans reads his second Bedtime Story tonight. The Welsh-born star of Professor Marston And The Wonder Women is reading Przemyslaw Wechterowicz’s The Secret Life Of A Tiger, about a big cat with an unexpected nocturnal hobby.
CYCLING Six Days Manchester, 8pm, Eurosport 2
FOUR-TIME Olympic gold medallist Laura Kenny takes part in her first Six Days event, complete with music and light show, which is staged in Manchester for the first time. Jason Kenny, Elinor Barker, Chris Latham and Katie Archibald also ride.
COUNTRY GREAT Kenny Rogers: Cards On The Table, 8pm, BBC4
DURING Rogers’s more than sixdecade career, the 80-year-old has excelled not just in country music, but also in jazz and folk — plus, he has acted on TV and film and is an accomplished photographer. In this profile, he reflect son his‘ impulsive obsessive nature ’.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Crazy Stupid Love, 8pm, ITV2
STEVE CARELL (pictured) is the middle-aged dad having the rug pulled from under him when his wife (Julianne Moore) announces she’s been having an affair. He ends up getting lessons in seduction from Ryan Gosling in this convoluted romcom.
MYSTERY RETURNS The OA, Netflix
NETFLIX’S bewitchingly weird drama rather flew under the radar in its first season. As it returns, ‘the OA’ — once known as Prairie Johnson, who was missing for seven years, then returned with mysterious powers — wakes up in another dimension. Brit Marling (pictured), who also co-created the series, is its beguiling star.
FUNNY FILM Tag, 8pm, Sky Premiere
COMEDY about a group of grown men who get together once a year to play a game of tag. Ed Helms, on Hamm and Jeremy Renner star, with
Isla Fisher and Rashida Jones.
SUREFIRE HIT? The Secret Science Of Pop, 9pm, BBC4
CAN science create a hit pop song? Dr Armand Leroi thinks so, and brings his thought-provoking understanding of evolution to bear on the project — if you bring enough of the ‘mutations’ that have featured on big songs together in one tune, success is sure to follow . . .
DYSTOPIAN DRAMA Curfew, 9pm, Sky One
‘I’VE got two settings, nice and not nice,’ says Miranda Richardson’s character in tonight’s new episode of Sky’s race drama, which takes the pace down considerably and plays like a so-so episode of The Walking Dead. It’s a shame we don’t get more of the ‘not nice’ side here, but the last scene is worth seeing.
BRIDE-TO-BE Say Yes To The Dress: Lancashire, 9pm, TLC
GOK WAN has his work cut out in this first of a new series of the bridal reality show, specifically with the very sweet Jacinthe (pictured), who is four-and-a-half months away from her wedding, and feeling the nerves. ‘I’m very indecisive, always try to please everybody,’ says the bride-to-be.
U.S. INVESTIGATORS NCIS, 9pm, Fox
YOU can only watch so many episodes of NCIS that open with a dead petty officer. Tonight’s new instalment begins with the Secretary of Defence demanding that McGee and Torres be locked up, while a storm rages outside. It’s an atmospheric start, and the flashback that explains the case is odd, but not a disappointment.