Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Huddersfield Town v Reading, 2pm, Sky Sports 1
THIS play-off final is worth around £170 million in Premier League revenue to the winner. Reading ’keeper Ali Al-Habsi is the Royals’ player of the season, while Danny Ward saved two penalties for the Terriers to get them to this Championship play-off final!
FAMILY FILM Ice Age: Collision Course, 4.40pm, Sky Premiere
NUMBER five in the franchise set in prehistoric times. Pals Manny, Diego and co try to avert extinction when asteroids threaten the Earth.
SPOOKY MOVIE Snow White & The Huntsman, 6.35pm, Film4
KRISTEN STEWART and Charlize Theron star in a dark reworking of the classic fairytale. Chris Hemsworth is the huntsman coming to young Miss White’s rescue . . .
SCI-FI ACTION Continuum, 8pm, Pick
THE Freeview premiere for a strong and naturally played Canadian sci-fi action series that opens in 2077, when America is run by a corporate dictatorship. Their rule is protected by high-tech enforcers such as Kiera (Rachel Nichols, pictured), until a time-travel accident turns everything upside down . . .
OUTDOORS MAN Primal Survivor, 8pm, National Geographic
HAZEN AUDEL is in the jungles of Indonesia for the first of a new series, a place where ‘danger comes out of nowhere’. Indeed, when the explorer takes to a swamp, he is attacked by a python — he was rooting around for eels at the time, though, so he’s only got himself to blame!
FRENCH TALES The Riviera: A History In Pictures, 9pm, BBC4
RICHARD E. GRANT has been visiting the French Riviera for half of his life and revels in its lifestyle and beautiful, dazzling light. Here, he looks at the golden era of its artistic output — beginning with the arrival of Matisse near the end of World War I.
COMEDY The Great Indoors, 9.30pm, ITV2
IT’S got all the subtlety of a brightly coloured brick hitting a window, but this U.S. comedy has sailed on the spark of the buddies at its centre — two old-school media men, played by Joel McHale and Stephen Fry. That wasn’t enough, though, and this is the last-ever episode.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE XXX: Return Of Xander Cage, BT TV Store,, Skyy Store,, Virging
VIN DIESEL (pictured) returns as the muscular r spy and extreme sports specialist in a sequel that’s big on over-the-top action and, sadly, a bit short on subtlety and nobility . . .
A RADIO INSTITUTION Arena: Desert Island Discs 10.05pm, BBC4
MUCH of this film is spent with Roy Plomley, who created the show, and reflects on the choices of his guests, such as Paul McCartney (none of his own music) and Otto Preminger (all of his own music). A large number of the original interviews are available, free, as podcasts.
FREEVIEW CRACKER Heat, 11.10pm, Film4
THE star pairing of Pacino and De Niro is just one of the virtues of Michael Mann’s superb psychological thriller. Pacino is the weary cop on the trail of De Niro’s gentleman thief.