Satellite choice
CHILDREN’S FILM Jumanji, 1.40pm, 9.50pm, Sky Family
STRANGE doings are afoot when a young sister and brother (Kirsten Dunst, pictured, and Bradley Pierce) play a magical board game that unleashes flora, fauna and calamity with each roll of the dice. Robin Williams stars.
T20 CRICKET Gloucestershire v Glamorgan, 6pm, Sky Main Event & Cricket
WICKETKEEPER and batsman Phil Mustard has proved a useful signing at Gloucester after his 16 years at Durham. For their latest game in this year’s T20 Blast, they host the inconsistent Glamorgan.
HAUNTED HOUSE The Yorkshire Dales And The Lakes, 9pm, More4
THE pressures on tradition form a big thread in this new episode, which takes us inside Muncaster Castle, a stately home that has been in the Pennington family’s hands for 800 years. Muncaster has a neat selling point – it is said to be haunted and puts on a big annual Halloween show.
MEGALOMANIA Dictators And Despots: A Timewatch Guide, 9pm, BBC4
LONG after his death, Adolf Hitler remains a compelling subject for documentaries, not only because of the importance of World War II, but also because of the charisma that swept him to power. This thoughtful documentary explores what makes a dictator successful.
BIG DIG Impossible Engineering, 9pm, Yesterday
SEA freight accounts for around 90% of world trade, and the ships are getting bigger. Some can’t fit through the original Panama Canal, and this new series starts by accessibly explaining the hugely complicated project to expand it.
MARINE PREDATORS Return To The Isle Of Jaws, 9pm, Discovery
SHARK Week continues as Andy Casagrande and Jonathan Werry return to the treacherous waters off south-west Australia. They have discovered an unprecedented all-male population of sharks there, and now they’re back to find out more.
NATION CREATION Robert Redford’s The West, 10pm, History
ROBERT Redford’s (pictured) grand series rolls on, connecting more dots in the history of the US frontier. We’re now into the era of the gold rush, when the population soared, leading to the rise of mass cattle farming – needed to feed the extra people – and the increase in outlaws.
CLASSIC MOB MOVIE GoodFellas, 10pm, ITV4
MARTIN Scorsese’s intoxicating gangster drama intertwines the stories of a core ensemble of Mafiosi and their women. Ray Liotta (pictured with Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino and Joe Pesci) narrates as Henry Hill, for whom being a gangster was ‘better than being the President of the United States’.
FACT-BASED THRILLER The Stanford Prison Experiment, 10.10pm, Sky Premiere
CHILLING account of the infamous 1971 psychological study in which volunteers took the roles of prisoners and prison guards. Ezra Miller stars.
CULT CLASSIC Pulp Fiction, 11.15pm, TCM
QUENTIN Tarantino’s most famous film is always worth a re-watch. It’s got an unforgettable soundtrack, incredible dialogue and it stars John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L Jackson and Harvey Keitel. What more could you want?