Satellite choice
SWEET STUFF Ace Of Cakes, 5pm, Food Network
REALITY shows normally thrive on conflict, but isn’t there enough of that in life? This joyful US series follows the good people at Charm City Cakes, Baltimore, and their maverick leader, Duff Goldman. FILM COMEDY Grandma, 6.30pm,p Skyy Premiere LILY TOMLIN (pictured) has never really been away, but this first lead role in 27 years puts her back in the driving seat. It’s part road-trip comedy, part character study, with Tomlin on caustic form.
FOOTBALL Burnley v Watford, 7pm, Sky Sports 1
TWO sides widely tipped for the drop meet at Turf Moor. If Burnley are to avoid an immediate return to the Championship, they will need Welsh striker Sam Vokes to find his best form.
ON-DEMAND THRILLER Imperium, Sky Store, Virgin
DANIEL RADCLIFFE displays a range some thought him incapable of in this brutal cop tale. Radcliffe is an FBI agent going undercover in a dangerous right-wing faction.
ARTIST BIOPIC Kew’s Forgotten Queen, 9pm, BBC4
MARIANNE NORTH, a ‘Victorian rebel in petticoats’, travelled the world alone for 15 years, and produced more than 1,000 paintings. North was inspired by the gardens at Kew, and Emilia Fox’s film on her is a cosy treat, even if it makes her story seem oddly pedestrian. BREAKING THE MOULD 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammies, 9pm, Sky 1 ROSALINE is in her mid-60s and is admirably undaunted by the idea of a bungee jump. She’s one of the ladies joining Baz and his mum for a new series of extreme challenges, which are usually followed by excited whooping, and some sweet, life-affirming chats.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Knowing, 9pm, Movie Mix
NICOLAS CAGE (pictured) works out that sequences of numbers buried in a schoolyard time capsule predict a series of deadly disasters. But what happens when the numbers run out? Stylish doomsday fare from director Alex Proyas.
HORTICULTURE British Gardens In Time, 10pm, BBC4C
A REPEAT for this superb series of garden histories opens with Great Dixter (pictured), which was created by Nathaniel and Daisy Lloyd. They were an intriguing couple who married with an unusual condition, on her side, in 1905: every year, each partner would spend a month doing as they wished . . .
TOP COP-DRAMA Blue Bloods, 10pm, Pick
THIS high-end mix of family and police drama has been a hit on Sky, so it’s great that it has a regular Freeview slot. As season one continues, Police Commissioner Frank (Tom Selleck) flexes the full might of the NYPD when an officer is killed.
MEDIC-REALITY Helicopter ER, 10pm, Really
DESPITE its title, most of the activity in this new series takes place on the ground, as the emergency services stabilise patients and await the dramatic arrival of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Among the cases here is that of Sam, whose tractor has crashed.