A war between man and monkey and an insight into the Belgian equestrian world: this is not to be missed on TV tonight

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Riders

Documentary. Belgian equestrian sports are led by several family dynasties that have put the country on the map as a horse mecca. Every season they spare no effort to get their Grand Prix horses in top condition at the start. Because only the very best can play a meaningful role for the 50,000 frenzied spectators on the grass track in Aachen.

At 9.20 pm on VRT Canvas.

Legally Blonde

Movie. When dumb blonde Elle is dumped by her boyfriend Warner, she decides not to give in easily. She follows her ex-lover to Harvard University, where she studies law. However, she has a hard time: her fellow students and professors are not impressed by her appearance and never miss an opportunity to embarrass the girl.

At 8:35 PM on Play5.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Movie. In San Francisco, scientist Will Rodman tries to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. He tests a genetically modified virus on chimpanzees, but the virus has an unexpected side effect: it increases the intelligence of the chimpanzees to human levels. When the monkeys manage to escape, a war breaks out between humans and monkeys.

At 8.35 pm on VTM 3.

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Baby Reindeer

Life is not going so well for a while for Donny (Richard Gadd), who is in his late thirties. He was dumped by his girlfriend not long after moving from Edinburgh to London. Donny is a struggling stand-up comedian, who perhaps should have worked on his repertoire a little longer before taking that step to the capital.

So for a living he works as a bartender in a pub in Camden, where a seemingly innocent act of kindness – he offers a free drink to Martha (Jessica Gunning), who is sitting on dry semen – lands like a boomerang back in his pocket. : Martha starts stalking him, and also becomes visibly bolder in her methods.

On Netflix.

Shogun

The ten part Shogunstarring the relatively unknown British-American actor Cosmo Jarvis as Blackthorne and Hiroyuki Sanada (John Wick: Chapter 4) as Toranaga, is a sequence of epic grandeur, which echoes Ridley Scott’s recent Napoleon And especially – Game of Thrones shows. She is fearless in showing the often inhumanly cruel traditions on which feudal Japan was founded. The sex is depicted as chastely as in the soon to be 45-year-old original, but the violence goes a few octaves higher; although what you are served is more of a frenzied grandguignol than that Shogun tries to shock with its brutality.

On Disney+.

Fallout

Before the atomic bombs were dropped and all of America turned into a radioactive wasteland, opportunistic mutant bounty hunter Cooper (Walton Goggins) was an actor in old-fashioned straight-up Westerns, specializing in the old-fashioned righteous cowboy.

In the series Fallout, Based on the brilliant video game series of the same name, the occasional flashbacks to Cooper’s pre-apocalyptic acting life provide a razor-sharp picture of the morally gray area in which this unapologetically pulpy parable about greed, group formation and the urge to survive takes place.

On Amazon Prime Video.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

With Donald Glover as screenwriter and protagonist Mr. & Mrs. Smith you expect an alienating, Lynchian universe like that of his hit series Atlanta. Nothing is less true. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is rooted in more classic fiction, more specifically a spy world such as that of James Bond, Jason Bourne and Mission: Impossible. The 2005 film of the same name with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is a difficult point of comparison. That entertaining Hollywood lightweight relied on the sparks between the leading actors and the spectacular shoot-outs. Pitt and Jolie played a married pair of spy-hitmen, albeit for rival employers. One day they are ordered by their respective bosses to kill each other.

Glovers’ premise Mr. & Mrs. Smith is quite different. In the series, he and a superb Maya Erskine are given a spacious New York row house as a base for a mysterious organization. They have to go through life as John and Jane Smith, a married couple, both computer programmers.

On Amazon Prime Video.