Satellite choice
SCI-FI ADVENTURE A-X-L, 4.10pm, Sky Premiere
ALEX NEUSTAEDTER stars as resourceful teenager Miles, who forms an unbreakable bond with a robot dog designed for the military.
SOCCER Manchester City v Aston Villa, 5.30pm, BT Sport 1
BOTH Manchester sides are in action tonight as they vie for top spot in the Premier League. After City host Aston Villa, United face Fulham at Craven Cottage (8pm, BT Sport 1).
CREEPY BUILDINGS Abandoned Engineering, 8pm, Yesterday
AN OLD mustard gas factory in North Wales is the first stopping point tonight, and the sight of the empty storage rooms beneath is unsettling – and not the end of the building’s secrets. Later, we visit a palatial shell of a building in Malta that has a creepy subterranean level, too...
P.O.T.U.S. NO. 46 President Biden, 8.30pm, PBS America
WE LIVE in a time of stark contrasts, but the difference between the man leaving the White House and the man going in is surely one of the starkest. This new profile takes us through Joe Biden’s halfcentury in public life, including presidential runs in 1988 and 2008.
FRENCH COMEDY Forte, Amazon Prime
AN OVERWEIGHT accountant signs up for pole-dancing lessons to assert her femininity in this big French comedy film, which is more charming than it sounds.
TRUE CRIME Cruise Ship Killers, 9pm, C+I
ERICA is a rising model embarking on a cruise to raise her stock on social media, but gets a nasty shock when her husband turns up at the last moment. The two don’t get on, and the cruise ends badly for Erica... (Sky 156, Virgin 225)
DETECTIVE DUO Bulletproof: South Africa, 9pm, Sky One
A HOLIDAY is never truly a holiday for TV detectives, and Pike and Bishop (Ashley Walters and Noel Clarke, pictured) find their South African sojourn interrupted by a kidnapping in this exciting new three-parter. Bishop looks particularly downcast by the development – he’d been enjoying himself on the beach.
MURDER CASE Instinct, 9pm, Pick
THERE’S a simmering tension hanging over this penultimate episode, which carries into next week’s finale. Dr Dylan (Alan Cumming) is anxious about the adoption process, while his case with Lizzie (Bojana Novakovic, pictured with Cumming) involves
COMING-OF-AGE TALE Boys, 10pm, Sky Arts
AFTER Bulletproof over on Sky One, here is co-star Ashley Walters’s directorial debut on Sky’s arts channel. His short film is a frank, sweary and ultimately sweet coming-of-age-tale in which Noah (Hector Abbott) sets out across London to fill a wish list of items for his imprisoned brother.
FILM DRAMA Windows On The World, 10pm, Sky Premiere
RYAN GUZMAN is the Mexican man who, post-9/11, travels to New York in search of his father, who worked at the World Trade Center’s famous restaurant.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Relic, Sky Store/Virgin Movies
ONE of those horror films that are all the scarier for being rooted in authentic human emotions. Emily Mortimer stars as Kay, whose mother is becoming lost in Alzheimer’s and doesn’t want to leave her remote and really rather creepy home.