Satellite choice
FAIRYTALE ANIMATION The Little Mermaid, 3.30pm, Sky Disney
DISNEY’S chirpy musical inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s darker fairytale. Ariel is the mermaid princess who falls in love with a human prince and longs to join him on dry land.
TENNIS Miami Open, 4pm, BT Sport 1
WITH last year’s champion, Victoria Azarenka, busy with her new baby, the likes of world number two and three Angelique Kerber and Karolina Pliskova will fancy their chances of winning the title for the first time.
SOCCER Oxford United v Bolton Wanderers, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
THIS is Bolton’s fourth game in 11 days, and having won the previous three – including a 4-2 victory at promotion rivals Fleetwood – beating The U’s would tighten their grip on second place in League One. Oxford, though, won the reverse fixture 2-0 in October and have the play-offs in their sights.
MEDICAL MISTAKE Primodos: Secret Drug Scandal, 8pm, Sky Atlantic
IN the Sixties, Primodos was used in Britain as a pregnancy test – a quicker alternative to the old method of injecting toads with urine. This troubling film reveals evidence that suggests the drug was harmful to foetuses, and talks to some of the families involved.
DOCUMENTARY Atlantic’s Edge – A Year In Lahinch, 9pm, Eir Sport 1
SHOWING over three consecutive nights, this engaging documentary explores life in the west Clare town which has become a mecca for surfers from all over the world.
MILITARY LAB Inside Porton Down: Britain’s Secret Weapons Research Facility, 9pm, BBC4
THERE’S a real air of danger as Michael Mosley films inside the secretive military facility, inhales CS gas and challenges the current head over a 1953 tragedy. There’s also some rather horrid footage of a rabbit being given sarin.
STARS’ IDOLS Passions, 9pm, Sky Arts
JULIAN Clary (pictured) has admired Noël Coward since he was a child and, a decade ago, bought the playwright’s old house. Clary is the first of the famous faces to pursue their idols in this new series, and it’s a quest that takes him from Joan Collins to Twiggy and on into Coward’s work for British intelligence.
RITE-OF-PASSAGE FILM Boyhood, 9pm, Film4
ELLAR Coltrane is the boy growing up in front of our eyes in Richard Linklater’s drama, filmed over more than ten years. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke play his estranged parents.
FUN THRILLER The Catch, 10pm, Sky Living
AT the start of the second season of this US ‘rom-con’, master conman Ben (Peter Krause) is given a way out of jail – but only if he works for the FBI. If he takes the deal, will that be the end of his romance with private eye Alice (Mireille Enos, pictured with Krause) Or will it make it more exciting? Utterly ridiculous, but very slick.
FINAL CASE Stalker, 10pm, Pick
THE last-ever episode of this tense US thriller is a hunt for a serial killer. It does resolve the ‘will they/won’t they’ between investigators Beth and Jack, though. As potential TV couples go, they couldn’t have looked further apart back in episode one – she was paranoid, and he was creepy.