Satellite choice
FAMILY FILM
Ice Age,g 6.30pm, Sky Family
THERE’S a light ecological theme to this dawn-of-time tale from Blue Sky Studios, the makers of the Rio franchise. Sid, Manny and Diego are the prehistoric pals on a mission.
FOOTBALL Manchester United v CSKA Moscow, 7.30pm, BT Sport Europe
FOR Moscow ’keeper Igor Akinfeev, Old Trafford holds bad memories. In 2009, he let in two in the final minutes — and a 3-1 lead slipped to a 3-3 draw.
Seville v Manchester City 7.30pm, BT Sport 2
KEVIN DE BRUYNE sneaked a winner for City at home, but Seville feel they deserved more and will surely put up a fight tonight.
BRITAIN TODAY Britain’s Biggest Sexists, 9pm, BBC3
JOURNALIST Leah Green fronts this spirited oneoff film in which she challenges sexism in Britain today. It’s not all angry tub-thumping; the approach is more playful, with Leah joined by comedians to help to defuse and disempower any bigoted behaviour.
WWII SURVIVORS
Surrender, 9pm, Nat Geographic
ARCHIVE footage, some of it distressing, features in this sombre, two-part documentary, which follows the experiences of some of WWII’s survivors. In the war’s final months, millions of civilians were displaced, hungry and dying, while Allied soldiers pushed onwards during a freezing winter.
AS YET UNTITLED
Alan Davies . . . , 10pm, Dave
THE comedians Nick Helm, Olivia Lee, Lee Mack, and Katherine Jakeways join Alan (pictured) for the first of a new series of entertainingly raucous, round-table chats. This has the feel of a (very sweary) evening in the pub, and Helm’s self-deprecating anecdotes are particularly worth listening to in this edition.
SPOOKY COP DRAMA
Grimm, 9pm, Watch
SEASON five of the supernatural cop drama gets under way, with Nick (David Giuntoli) still reeling from the deaths of the women in his life: his mother and Juliette. With friends and colleagues fretting over his state of mind, Nick focuses on revenge.
DRAMA SERIES Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce, 10pm, Lifetime
ABBY’S old college friend, Jo (Alanna Ubach), visits in tonight’s episode, and the pair have a lot of catching up to do now that husbands are no longer in the picture. Jo is fun, but, unfortunately, is a replacement for Janeane Garofalo’s fabulously acerbic Lyla.
HORROR MOVIE Let Us Prey, 12.15am, Sky Premiere
NEWBIE director Brian O’Malley makes an impression with his first film, a creepy supernatural horror with a retro feel. Liam Cunningham is the mysterious stranger quietly raising hell.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Slow West, BT TV, Sky Store, Virgin
THE western is invigorated in this bleak Old West tale. Kodi Smit-McPhee is the lad hooking up with a mysterious loner (Michael Fassbender) on a quest to find the woman
he loves.