Satellite choice
SHOOTING POOL World Masters, 6pm, Sky Sports Mix GIBRALTAR is the new venue for this event, which features 16 of the world’s best players. Top seed Shane van Boening, will be hoping to pocket the prize of $20,000. CHILDREN’S SHOW CBeebies Bedtime Stories, 6.50pm STRICTLY winner Ore Oduba (pictured) is a past master at children’s broadcasting, having presented Newsround for six years. For tonight’s story, he’s reading Stephen Davies’s Don’t Spill The Milk!, the tale of one girl’s long journey to take milk to her dad. RUGBY UNION Gloucester v Saracens, 7pm, BT Sport 1 SARRIES could draw level on points with Wasps with a bonuspoint victory at Kingsholm tonight — but that could be a tall order against a Gloucester side who beat Wasps 36-18. FREEVIEW FUN Men In Black, 8pm, E4 WILL SMITH and Tommy Lee Jones bounce off each other wonderfully in this sci-fi comedy. Smith is the agent newly assigned to the suited-and-booted MIB, who keep their eyes on pesky extraterrestrial visitors on Earth. NEW MOVIE Bad Neighbours 2, 8pm, Sky Premiere THIS sequel will tarnish any fond memories you might have of the first film. This time, Mac is trying to sell his house, but has to contend with the new sorority on the block. NEW DRAMA The Team, 9pm, More4 AN EU-funded drama about the creation of an elite squad of detectives — from Germany, Denmark and Belgium — who try to solve ritualistic murders. When apart, they speak their own languages; when together, they speak English. The mystery is done well enough, and The Killing’s Lars Mikkelsen (pictured centre with Jasmin Gerat and Veerle Baetens) is good value
in the lead.
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Great American Rock Anthems, 9pm, BBC4 THIS fun film digs around in the genre of riff-heavy anthems. According to Alice Cooper, a lot of what made the great U.S. anthem came from the British Invasion: ‘We learned attitude from The Who, creativity from The Yardbirds and melody from The Beatles.’ CRIME DRAMA-LITE Jonathan Creek, 9pm, Drama BAMBER GASCOIGNE guest stars in a still delightful episode from 2004. He’s interviewing the owner of a priceless artefact; the chances of it being stolen are ‘zero’, so you know that there will be a mystery for Creek (Alan Davies) to investigate. MILITARY DANGER Command And Control, 9pm, PBS America ‘YOU had to be prepared to destroy a civilisation,’ says one of the workers who looked after U.S. nuclear missiles in this underplayed documentary, which relates the story of an accident in 1980 that nearly led to
a detonation on U.S. soil. FILM CRACKER Scarlet Street, 12mnt, Talking Pictures TV FRITZ LANG’S influential film noir brings bleak European sensibilities to Hollywood. Joan Bennett and Edward G. Robinson are spiderwoman and prey, with Bennett’s con artist ensnaring Robinson’s meek painter in her web.