Satellite choice
All That Heaven Allows, 12.55pm, Film4
MATINEE MOVIE
DOUGLAS SIRK’S melodrama, one of his heart- and soul-stirring best, has much to say about life, love, class and gender. Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman sizzle as the unexpected lovers.
SOCCER FC Basel v Manchester City, 7pm, BT Sport 3
THE quadruple is still possible for Pep Guardiola’s City as they face Basel, who beat Manchester United here with an 89th-minute goal from Michael Lang in the group stages. City only lost once in the group stage, winning the other five matches.
Juventus v Tottenham Hotspur, 7pm, BT Sport 2
IN THE round of 16, Juventus – unbeaten in 26 European home games – host Spurs, who topped their own group. Mauricio Pochettino needs a positive result ahead of the return leg next month.
FEMMES FATALES Frankie Drake Mysteries, 9pm, Alibi
WHAT are Frankie and her all-female team of private eyes up to this week? Mixing their own cocktails, to start with – all very jolly – before getting caught in the middle of a Chicago-style mobster shoot-out . . .
HISTORICAL DRAMA Vikings, 9pm, History
THE fourth series of this historical drama series starring Alexander Ludwig and Katheryn Winnick continues. Bjorn’s fleet sails onward and launches a surprise attack. Back in Kattegat, Lagertha continues in her quest for power.
TRUE-DRAMA MOVIE The Railway Man, 9pm, More4
COLIN FIRTH stars in this sombre, fact-based drama as Eric Lomax, a survivor of the so-called Death Railway, the line that Japan’s prisoners of war were forced, under torture, to build. Wife Patti (Nicole Kidman) helps Eric, still traumatised, to unpick his story – and its grisly reality.
FRONT-LINE WAR My Fighting Season, 10pm, National Geographic
YOU can see the spent cartridges flying out of the guns in this new series, which is filmed by US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan. Most of these paratroopers had very little combat experience before arriving, and their reflections on the fighting are still raw.
EMERGENCY SERVICES 999: Rescue Squad, 10pm, W
THE Hazardous Area Response Teams were set up after the 7/7 bombings to save lives in extreme situations. This tense new series follows them on calls from the small but challenging (a man trapped under a car) to the dramatic (evacuating an estate when a recycling plant catches fire).
GROWN-UP COMEDY It Had To Be You, 10.10pm, Sky Premiere
CRISTIN MILIOTI is the likeable, if untogether, lead in this comedy. Declining her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, Sonia (Milioti, pictured) spends the rest of the film analysing and agonising over her
decision.
LOVE FILM Gloria, 1.45am, Film4
UPLIFTING Spanish-Chilean drama starring Paulina Garcia as a free-spirited 50-something divorcee who searches for love on the Santiago singles scene. Her carefree life is complicated by a new attachment, to Rodolfo, a gregarious older man.