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Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks: Live Racing Virgin Media One, 12.45pm Ed Chamberlin is at Aintree, introducing races at 1.20pm, 1.
55pm, 2.30pm and 3.05pm before the main event itself – the Grand National – which is due to be under starter’s orders at 4pm.
But which rider and horse will follow Paul Townend and I Am Maximus, who triumphed last year, by being first past the post? The Hit List BBC One, 6.50pm Jedward are among the competitors in a special celebrity edition of the music quiz, hosted by Rochelle and Marvin Humes. Others attempting to win a cash prize for charity are Rhys Stephenson and Karen Hauer, Nick Pickard and Danielle Harold.
The Hit List 40 Originals at the BBC BBC Two, from 8.20pm More than two hours of amazing performances from the archives are followed by Covers in the Piano Room at the BBC, which features the likes of Ed Sheeran, Pink, Bono and the Edge, and Kiefer Sutherland offering their unique takes on songs originally made famous by other artists. Legally Blonde RTÉ2, 9pm Hit comedy with Reese Witherspoon as a bubbly student who is dumped by her boyfriend for not being intelligent enough to help his political career.
To prove him wrong, she studies law at Harvard, but faces numerous problems along the way. The Pianist The Pianist TG4, 9.35pm Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning wartime drama stars Adrien Brody as a Jewish musician battling to survive in the remains of the Warsaw ghetto.
Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay and Maureen Lipman also appear. Love on the Spectrum Netflix, streaming now Season three of the US-based award-winning docu-reality series follows more people on the autism spectrum as they navigate the world of dating. The Bondsman Prime Video, streaming now Kevin Bacon stars as Hub Halloran, a resurrected bounty hunter tasked by the devil to hunt wily demons.
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