Satellite choice
ATHLETICS Diamond League: Zurich, 7pm, Eurosport 2
MO FARAH is set to run his final track race tonight, but also look out for Jake Wightman and Justin Gatlin, who have been impressive this season — in the 1,500m and 100m, respectively — as the Diamond League nears its close.
GOLF Northern Trust, Sky Sports Golf, 7pm
AFTER winning the Open, Jordan Spieth will be at the Glen Oaks Club in Westbury, New York, for this first of the four big money FedEx Cup play-offs, marking the end of the PGA Tour season.
FANTASY DRAMA Outlander, 9pm, More4
JAMIE goes off on a heroic mission to rescue Claire from the brutal clutches of Black Jack Randall, but the results of the encounter between the three characters are not what any expected — especially Claire (Caitriona Balfe). This episode is partly narrated by Jamie (Sam Heughan, pictured with Balfe), which is an interesting (and, this week, necessary) change of perspective.
MEDICAL DRAMA Chicago PD, 9pm, 5USA
CROSSOVER episodes used to be rare TV events, but they’re commonplace in the universe of the Chicago shows (PD, Fire, Med). This tense new episode finds Voight and co in the cross hairs of a sniper, and features guest appearances from Dr Halstead (Chicago Med) and firefighter Herrmann (Chicago Fire).
BIOPIC Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed By Hollywood, 9pm, Sky Arts
HOW did the silent movie legend Buster Keaton fall from his peak in 1926, the year he released The General, to become a sad, lonely alcoholic in the mid-Thirties? This revealing new film explores his battle for creative control with the studios over the next seven years, a time that also saw the transition to talkies.
DOCUMENTARY Poisoned Water, 9pm, PBS America
NEW documentary about the shocking U.S. government cost-cutting that resulted in the poisoning of the water supply of Flint, Michigan. It’s an appalling situation, and it’s not over — the people of Flint won’t be able to use their tap water until 2020.
ROMANTIC DRAMA Cruel Intentions, 9pm, Sony Movie Channel
A FLASHY update of the 1782 French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which has been filmed many times, most famously in 1988,1988 with Glenn Close and John Malkovich. In this version, Ryan Phillippe is the dastardly Valmont, with Sarah Michelle Gellar (pictured with Phillippe) as his seductive sparring partner. (Freeview 32, Sky 323, Virgin 425)
HORROR FILM The Veil, 9.50pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
LILY RABE stars in this cheap supernatural horror as the sole survivor of a suicide cult. Years later, she returns to the scene with a documentary crew, and confronts lingering dark forces.
MOVIE CLASSIC Chinatown, Film4, 1am
ROMAN POLANSKI’S neo-noir stars Jack Nicholson as battered gumshoe ‘Jake’ Gittes, who, during a Los Angeles heatwave, is lured into a complex and beguiling mystery by Faye Dunaway’s immaculate Evelyn Mulwray.