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WORDS & NUMBERS Celebrity Countdown, 6.55pm, More4
AFTER mysteriously disappearing from the schedules last year, new episodes of the celebrity version begin a weekday run on More4. Chris Packham and Good Morning Britain’s Charlotte Hawkins are the contenders today as Jo Brand takes a turn in Dictionary Corner.
FUN ON THE ROAD Celebrity Coach Trip, 7.30pm, E4
NEW series of the road trip contest in which the least popular pairs are voted off. Contestants include Blue’s Antony Costa and Simon Webbe, I’m A Celebrity’s Adele Roberts and her partner, the Emmerdale actress Kate Holderness — and none other than Rustie Lee (pictured with Costa).
NEW REALITY SHOW Being Reuben, 8pm, Quest Red
REUBEN DE MAID is 14, lives in Cardiff and loves singing and wearing make-up. He’s become a social media star through his passion for the latter, and appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’s talk show in the U.S. This sweet new series follows his daily family life. (Freeview 38, Sky 149, Virgin 170)
INTO THE BEYOND Space Voyages, 8pm, Smithsonian
NASA’S victories and defeats are probed in this optimistic new series. It starts by relating how the failures of the past have allowed the achievements of the present, such as Curiosity and Maven, which study Mars from the surface and from orbit.
HISTORIC AIRCRAFT Plane Resurrection, 8.35pm, PBS America
THE Douglas Skyraider entered service near the end of World War II and, despite having one engine, could carry a bigger bomb load than a four-engine B-17. It’s the first subject in a new run of the series that’s as much a history lesson as it is an insight into the hurdles of restoration.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE The Mustang, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
A VIOLENT prisoner finds salvation through training wild horses in this moving, basedon-truth drama co-produced by Robert Redford. A simple story welltold, The Mustang becomes all the more powerful as it goes on.
SCI-FI WESTERN Westworld, 9pm, Syfy
THIS is the first time HBO’s peerless series has been shown outside of Sky Atlantic — and, as it’s being shown on Syfy, Virgin subscribers will be able to witness its violent delights for the first time, too. In the opening double bill, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood, pictured with James Marsden) starts to question her reality.
GRITTY THILLER Get Carter, 9pm, ITV4
ONE of Michael Caine’s darker and more grandiose films, this classic British crime drama sees him on chilling form, despite the odd wry quip here and there. Caine is Jack Carter, a gangster who returns to his native Newcastle to investigate the death of his brother — and to wreak violent revenge.
FILM ROMANCE Berlin, I Love You, 10.15pm, Sky Premiere
THE latest in the Cities Of Love anthology film series, following Paris, Je T’Aime and New York, I Love You. Keira Knightley (pictured), Helen Mirren, Diego Luna and Mickey Rourke star.