Satellite choice
FAMILY FILM The Witches, BT TV Store
ANNE HATHAWAY revels in the role of the Grand High Witch in an elaborate new take on the Roald Dahl tale, which has bypassed a cinema release.
ANIMATED ACTION Blood Of Zeus, Netflix
LIKE a dark Ulysses 31, this epic animated series chronicles a battle between demons and the son of Zeus.
SOCCER Lokomotiv Moscow v Bayern Munich, 5.30pm, BT Sport 2
BAYERN MUNICH dazzled fans with some scintillating football, including a demolition of Barcelona, as they won the Champions League last season – so the German side should be confident of claiming three points in this Group A match at the Lokomotiv Stadium.
BENEATH THE WAVES Drain The Oceans, 8pm, National Geographic
OPERATION Crossroads was designed to figure out the realities of atomic warfare, and involved using nuclear weapons to sink a lot of ships at Bikini Atoll. This interesting new episode digitally drains the waves to reveal more than 12 wrecks, including an aircraft carrier.
SPOOK HUNT Ghost Adventures, 9pm, Really
ZAK BAGANS certainly ups the ante for this new Halloween edition of his enjoyably over-the-top spookhunt, which follows the paranormal adventurer to Romania in search of none other than Dracula himself. He’s especially good at getting sinister stories out of the locals.
U.S. CRIME Prodigal Son, 9pm, Sky One
JESSICA (Bellamy Young), who has less sense than you want her to, really places a target on her back in tonight’s high-tension new episode. Events include a ransom demand, an explosive on-air interview and some terrible pottery by her serial killer ex, Martin (Michael Sheen).
COMEDIAN’S IDOL Passions: Noël Coward By Julian Clary, 9pm, Sky Arts
JULIAN CLARY has admired Noël Coward since he was a child and, more than a decade ago, even managed to buy the playwright’s old house. Clary pursues the history of his idol here, and this jolly quest takes him from Joan Collins to Twiggy (pictured with Clary), and on to Coward’s work for British intelligence.
TEEN COMEDY MEDY Banana Split, , 9.45pm, Sky Premiere
AFTER a painful breakup, highschooler April (Hannah Marks) makes an unlikely friend in her ex-boyfriend’s new squeeze (Liana Liberato, pictured with Marks and Dylan Sprouse).
GRITTY DRAMA Just A Boys’ Game: Play For Today, 10pm, BBC4
NINE years before Rab C. Nesbitt, Gregor Fisher co-starred in this 1979 Play For Today about a man living in the shadow of his ailing grandfather, once said to be the hardest man in Greenock. The sense of menace that comes off the screen is immediate and entirely convincing.
EX-CONS Love After Lock Up, 10pm, TLC
AS THIS uncomfortable but weirdly compelling US reality series continues, Cheryl and ex-con Josh have a tense discussion about marriage. Meanwhile, the truth of the post-prison relationship between Vince and Amber becomes all too clear – she’s just not that into him. (Sky 133, Virgin 121)
HORROR FLICK St Agatha, 11.35pm, Film4
NUNS are up to no good in this moderately creepy US horror thriller, set in the Fifties. Pregnant Mary (Sabrina Kern) takes refuge in a convent run by a moody mother superior (Carolyn Hennesy), and suffers a horrifying ordeal.