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SATURDAY NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG

(2010) U ● 2.50PM, ITV2 ★★★

Emma Thompson returns in this sequel to her Mary Poppins-style 2005 hit, and it has all the warts-to-riches magic of the first film. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the mum who is struggling to keep the family farm afloat.

SANTA WHO? (2000) U

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5.10PM, CH5 ★★

Leslie Nielsen is the Santa who falls out of his sleigh and forgets who he is in this festive TV movie. Thankfully, a young boy is full of the spirit of Christmas and saves the day.

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

(2016) 12 ◆ 8PM, ITV2 ★★★ This DC Comics adventure pits the two legendary superheroes against each other after the mother of all fallings-out. Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill star, with Gal Gadot (above, with Affleck) as Wonder Woman.

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (2010) 15

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9PM, ITVBE ★★★

To get you in the mood for the TV show’s sequel series, And Just Like That (on Sky/now from December 9), here’s the four friends’ last screen outing. Follow Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda on a trip to Abu Dhabi.

PARASITE (2019) 15

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10PM, CH4 ★★★★★

PREMIERE See The Big Movie (right).

APOCALYPSE NOW: THE FINAL CUT

(1979) 15 ◆ 12.15AM, BBC1 ★★★★★ Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as the US Army Captain who has been tasked with assassinating Marlon Brando’s rogue Colonel Kurtz.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008) 12 ◆ 12.35AM, CH4 ★★★

After Ang Lee’s cerebral reboot five years earlier (see Monday), action master Louis Leterrier has a go – with the backing of Marvel. Edward Norton (above) is the scientist you wouldn’t like when he’s angry, while

Tim Roth hams it up as his pantomime foe.

SUNDAY NATIVITY! (2009) U ●

2.20PM, BBC1 ★★★★

Festive British musical comedy, with Martin Freeman (above, with Ashley Jensen) as the teacher staging his primary school’s Nativity play as a game of farcical one-upmanship with a neighbouring rival school. Jason Watkins and Marc Wootton also star.

FLUSHED AWAY (2006) U

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3.10PM, CH4 ★★★

Good clean fun, this British animation follows an upmarket rodent down the drain and into London’s sewers. It all feels pinefresh, and the voice cast is top-notch, too – it includes Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet.

NEVER SAY NEVER

AGAIN (1983) PG

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3.15PM, ITV ★★★★ Sean Connery (left) reprised the role of James Bond 12 years after his previous stint, in Diamonds

Are Forever. A young

Kim Basinger is the woman he must save – along with the whole world, of course – from the evil designs of criminal organisation Spectre.

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (2010) U ■

4.55PM, CH4 ★★★

No happy ever after just yet in this fourth chapter, which sees our grumpy hero getting in a pickle when he strikes up a deal with Rumpelstiltskin. Puss In Boots is the retired cat who’s got the cream – and too much of it.

THE VANISHING (2018) 15 11PM, CH4

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★★★★

Tense thriller, inspired by a real-life mystery that transpired on the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides in 1900. Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Connor Swindells are lighthouse keepers starting a lonely, windswept island shift, and making a chilling discovery.

BLUE VELVET (1986) 18 s

11.15PM, FILM4 ★★★★ David Lynch’s neo-noir thriller begins with Kyle Maclachlan’s nice boy finding a severed ear in the grass. Isabella Rossellini (right) is the singer who enchants him, and there are also memorable performances from Dean Stockwell, who died in early November, and Dennis Hopper.

MONDAY THE CHRISTMAS LOTTERY (2020) PG ● 11.15AM, CH5

★★

A new week, a new batch of festive TV movies – with three to binge on each day. This one follows a family who, after drifting apart, are brought together by the prospect of a lottery prize – if only they can find the ticket.

THE VELVET TOUCH (1948) PG

● 12.05PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★ In this diverting film noir, Rosalind Russell is stage star Valerie Stanton, who goes cold on her old lover when she meets a new man (Leo Genn). The break-up goes bad, and Stanton accidentally ends up with a dead body on her hands.

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

(2009) 12 ◆ 6.05PM, FILM4 ★★★ There is lots of talk of fate and destiny in this follow-up to Michael Bay’s hit sci-fi fantasy yarn. Sam (Shia Labeouf) arrives at college, where it soon becomes clear that he’s not got much chance of a quiet life on campus. Megan Fox (above) co-stars.

HULK 7.20PM, ITV4

(2003) 12 ◆ ★★★ Ang Lee’s overly cerebral update of the Marvel Comics franchise stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the doctor with a moody, green secret. Bana was later usurped by Edward Norton (see Saturday), then by Mark Ruffalo in Marvel’s Avengers movies.

LAKEVIEW TERRACE (2008) 15 9PM, HORROR

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★★★

A disturbing study of racism, with Samuel L. Jackson as the cop unable to deal with his neighbours’ mixed-race relationship. Kerry Washington and Patrick Wilson are the couple (above) not sure what they’ve done wrong. (Freeview 68, Freesat 138, Sky 317, Virgin 149)

THE HATTON GARDEN JOB (2017) 15

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11.15PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★★

Heist caper, based on the infamous 2015 London robbery by career criminals hoping to pull off one last job as they hit retirement age. Larry Lamb stars with Matthew

Goode, Phil Daniels and Joely Richardson.

TUESDAY JACK AND JILL (2011) PG ●

7.10PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★

Adam Sandler stars as the twins of the title (above), dragging up to play Jill, the visiting sister who outstays her Hanukkah welcome. In a bizarre twist, Jack, an ad man, wants to get Al Pacino to appear in a commercial, and Jill turns out to be his secret weapon.

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016) 12 9PM, 5STAR

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Denzel Washington heads up a posse of vigilantes – among them Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt and Vincent D’onofrio – in Antoine Fuqua’s action-led update of John Sturges’s classic 1960 western.

THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES (1977) PG ● 9PM, TALKING PICTURES

★★★ Showing in two parts (concluding tomorrow), this madefor-tv biographical drama stars Tommy Lee Jones (above) as Hughes, the rich and eccentric American film-maker, aviation pioneer – and, latterly, hypochondriac.

DEATH WISH (2018) 15 11.05PM, CH5

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★★

Bruce Willis stars in this remake of the harsh vigilante thriller from 1974. Willis looks a lot smoother than original star Charles Bronson, but this film is rougher around the edges. Willis is Paul Kersey, an ER doctor who seeks revenge after the brutal slaying of his wife.

CRIMINAL

(2016) 15 ◆

11.25PM, FILM4 ★★★

One of those actioners with a bonkers plot, this makes for an entertaining romp (think Face/off). Kevin Costner stars as a violent criminal who becomes host to the memories of a dead CIA man (Ryan Reynolds). Gary Oldman and glamorous Gal Gadot also star.

MAHANAGAR (1963) PG

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2.45AM, CH4 ★★★

Satyajit Ray’s drama follows a middle-class family in the Calcutta of the 1950s as they move with the times. Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee, right) takes a job as a saleswoman, and emerges from her domestic shell to shine in her career.