Satellite choice
MATINEE MAGIC A Place Of One’s Own, 1pm, Talking Pictures TV
A SPOOKY Gainsborough melodrama starring Margaret Lockwood as a young house guest possessed by an angry spirit. With Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price and James Mason.
FREEWHEELIN’ The Great British Bike Off, 5.30pm, TogetherTV
TOM WOODROW and Graham Hoskins are riding across the UK on dirt bikes in this cheery new series. They stop along the way to take in a stunning sunrise at Cumbria’s Muncaster Castle as woodpeckers chatter in the background. (Sky 173)
HORROR MOVIE A Quiet Place, Sky Store, Virgin
REAL-LIFE couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski play parents in a world where the slightest sound draws the attention of deadly creatures. The multitalented Krasinski also directs and co-writes this finely detailed piece of horror that keeps building the tension.
SOCCER Yeovil Town v Aston Villa, 7.30pm, Sky Football & Main Event
YEOVIL are famous for their FA Cup heroics, and former player and now manager Darren Way will hope his League Two side can repeat their success in the League Cup first round.
CLASSIC ENGINEERING Plane Resurrection, 7.50pm, PBS America
THIS new run of the in-depth restoration series is showing every weekday, and tonight’s episode focuses on an Avro Lancaster. The sound of the World War II bomber’s engines roaring across a field is quite something.
CELLULOID Mark Kermode’s Secrets Of Cinema, 9pm, BBC4
HORROR is the final stop on Kermode’s masterly tour of genres, and it’s a subject that’s particularly close to his heart – the critic wrote his thesis about horror fiction. He uses a dizzying number of clips here, nimbly making his points using a wider range of films than you might expect. George A. Romero’s seminal zombie film, Night Of The Living Dead, follows at 10pm.
NEW DRAMA Burden Of Truth, 9pm, Universal TV
IN THIS new Canadian drama, Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk (pictured) stars as a ruthless corporate lawyer who slowly rediscovers a sense of morality in her home town – where her family name is mud. Kreuk acts the part with more nuance than it demands, and makes for an assured lead.
CRIME DRAMA Harrow, 9pm, Alibi
THE pathologist’s personal and professional lives dovetail in tonight’s episode as his romance with Dass (Mirrah Foulkes, pictured) deepens, and a deadly incident unfolds at a party where his daughter has been less than angelic. It’s a moral-testing moment for Fern.
NEW THRILLER Canaries, 10.30pm, Sky Premiere
LOW ON budget but big on ambition, this sci-fi comedy is set largely in Wales, where New Year’s Eve revellers become the focus of an invasion by ‘alien-human hybrid killing machines’.