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Bruno in the ring

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HOLD the presses! At the 11th hour Prime Sport has secured live coverage of the WBC Heavyweight Championship bout between Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno at Cardiff Arms Park (8am, repeating at 11.30am and 7pm).

Lewis is the superior boxer, but the many supporters of fellow Brit Bruno will be hoping the Wandsworth lad can leap in with that vital strong start. The commentator is Ian Darke. COWABUNGA! After a week of repeats and repeats of repeats, finally there'ssomething worth staying in for - Jean Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's deepest black comedy Delicatessen (Pearl 9.30pm, ORT 97 mins).

Forget Alive, this is the funniest film about cannibalism ever made. It's set in post-apocalyptic France, where naive young circus entertainer Luison (Dominique Pinon) takes up lodging in a tenement owned by a butcher - not realising that he's destined tobe the next slice on the slab.

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The dilapidated building is filled with an assortment of eccentric lodgers: there's the Kube brothers, two old men who make toys that moo like cows; neurotic Madame Interligator whose attempts at suicide grow more and more convoluted; the whore who pays for her human spare ribs in kind; and the frog man who grows his own lunch in his bog-like cellar.

Each owes their allegiance to the murderous butcher, and each is constantly relieved not to be the next meal. Luison, complete with clown shoes, innocently enters this arena, but luckily forms an alliance with the butcher's terminally short-sighted daughter. it's music that brings them together - she on the violin, he on the saw.

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Determined to save her man from becoming lunch, the daughter enlists the help of the underground - literally - resistance movement, the Trogladistes to save him.

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