Satellite choice
GOLF
U.S. Open, 5pm, Sky Sports 4 LIVE coverage of the opening round of the second Major of the season. Germany’s Martin Kaymer was triumphant in this event in 2014.
INCENDIARY DRAMA
White Heat, , 6.50pm,p TCM JAMES CAGNEY tears up the place in this classic film noir, as the smiling, sadistic gangster ‘Cody’ Jarrett. Virginia Mayo as his wife (pictured with Cagney), and Margaret MargaretWych Wycherly as his ma, are the women in his life.
U-21 EURO-FOOTBALL
England v Portugal, 7.15pm, BT Sport 1 ENGLAND get their Under-21 European Championship campaign under way with this potentially challenging clash from the Czech Republic.
RUGBY LEAGUE
Castleford Tigers v St Helens, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1 THE last meeting between these sides was in February, when Mark Percival scored a try and kicked two conversions in a 21-14 win for the Saints.
FREEVIEW MOVIE
Bend It Like Beckham, 8pm, BBC3 THIS Gregory’s Girl for the 21st century, with Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley, makes up in heart what it lacks in originality. Nagra is the British Asian hiding her passion for the beautiful game from her strict parents.
FORENSIC STUDY
Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story, 9pm, BBC4 GABRIEL WESTON presents a lightly sensational new series about cases that demonstrated advances in forensic science. Most gruesomely intriguing is the section on forensic entomology — or, what the activities of insects on a body tell you about the time of death.
UNLIKELY LEGEND
Hoff The Record, 9pm, David IT’S easy to forget that David Hasselhoff is an actor — he’s now more of an entertainer — but this new series is a good reminder. It’s a mockumentary based around a surreal version of his life, and starts with its deluded star bombing out of an audition to play himself. ‘The Hoff’ is very game for a laugh, especially in the second half of an opener that, while a little heavy on crudity, cuts close to the emotional bone.
DRAMA
Madam Secretary, 9pm, Sky Living THIS lively U.S. mix of family and political drama just gets better, and has already earned a second season. Tea Leoni is the likeable,eable plausibly human official of the title, and there’s a touch of The West Wing in the banter of her staff.
QUIRKY CRIME SERIES
Perception, 9pm, Alibi NEW episodes from the final season of this U.S. investigative drama resume, with Daniel (Eric McCormack) back at work despite suffering a serious head trauma. An interesting parallel story develops inside his head, as he tries to unpick his feelings towards Moretti — and there’s an enjoyable, Agatha Christie-style gathering to solve one of the
mysteries afoot here.
POLITICO-FILM
Frost/Nixon, 10.30pm, Great Brits MICHAEL SHEEN delivers another great performance, this time as David Frost. Frank Langella is Richard Nixon, running rings round Frost during his post-resignation TV interviews. Sharp, witty and compelling.