Satellite choice
GOLF Women’s PGA Championship, 5.30pm, Sky Sports 4 & Mix
CANADA’S Brooke Henderson won this event last year after a dream start — a hole in one in her first round. The 2016 runner-up, Lydia Ko, looks set to provide stiff competition again.
FILM FANTASY Hugo, 6.35pm, Film4
MARTIN SCORSESE’S familyfriendly and visually stunning love letter to the cinema. Asa Butterfield (pictured) is the boy who unlocks the secret of movie pioneer Georges Melies.
RUGBY LEAGUE Leeds Rhinos v St Helens, 7pm, Sky Sports 1
WHEN these two sides met in the Super League season’s opening round of matches, back in February, it was a low-scoring encounter, with St Helens winning a hardfought and absorbing game 6-4.
MUSIC MASTERS The Vintage TV Sessions, 8pm, Vintage TV
A NEW collection of performances, including a set from the blues guitarist Doyle Bramhall II (pictured), once a right-hand man to Eric Clapton and currently the otherr half of actress Renee Zellweger. (Freeview HD 82, Freesat 505, Sky 369, Virgin 343)
SUN-SOAKED DRAMA Riviera, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
JULIA STILES is a compelling presence at the centre of Sky’s glamorous but plot-heavy Euro-drama. This week, Georgina (Stiles) is focused on revenge for what happened to her possibly dead, definitely dodgy husband, and gets hold of a gun — first, for target practice and then, for something more deadly.
BACK IN TIME Outlander, 9pm, More4
AFTER World War II, a married nurse (Caitriona Balfe) falls through time and finds herself in 1740s Scotland, in the midst of a rebellion against the British crown. What follows in this U.S. drama is a lavish mix of adventure and romance, with a stirring soundtrack. If you’d like to jump ahead, the first two seasons are available, on demand, on Amazon Prime.
CHILLY ENCOUNTERS Alaska Haunting, 10pm, Quest Red
EERILY gripping new ‘true haunting’ series, with a narrator who treats every scene like an Eighties movie trailer. The first story involves a grandmother who loves to play the piano, a practice that becomes her ‘one solace’ as spooky events engulf her family. (Freeview 38, Sky 162, Virgin 215)
KNOCKOUT FILMS Boxing At The Movies: Kings Of The Ring, 11pm, BBC4
DEEP but succinct history from Danny Leigh, who talks about Raging Bull, Kid Galahad (the one with Bogart) and a Thomas Edison short from 1894 that features boxing cats — and looks eerily like a YouTube clip. His themes include racism, masculinity and life after the ring.
FREEVIEW CLASSIC The Deer Hunter, 11.05pm, ITV4
REWARDED with five Oscars, Michael Cimino’s powerful and chilling drama is a high point of the decade’s cinema output. It follows three smalltown friends (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage) before, during and after service in Vietnam.