Satellite choice

GOLF

DP World Tour Championship, 8am, Sky Golf JUSTIN ROSE still has an outside chance of beating Tommy Fleetwood in the Race to Dubai, but his wins in Shanghai in the HSBC Champions and the Turkish Airlines Open demonstrated an emphatic return to form ahead of this season-ending tournament at the Jumeirah Golf Estates.

ROAD MOVIE

The Doo Dah Man, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere TWO men, both on the run for different reasons, form an unlikely friendship. Glenn Morshower plays the con man whose life takes a new direction when he picks up a hitchhiker.

SCI-FI SITCOM

Red Dwarf, 9pm, Dave A REALITY-BENDING anomaly strikes the ship in the last of this series, which is full of treats for fans — and is arguably the best episode since the show’s BBC2 heyday. It’s where it sends Rimmer (Chris Barrie, pictured) that sets the episode above the others — on a quest to discover if there are any parallel universes in which he is not a bitter loser.

FRIENDLY PHYSICIST

John Bishop: In Conversation With Brian Cox, 9pm, W DR BRIAN COX has made science more accessible to thousands — he recently did a tour of talks that set a world record by selling more than 150,000 tickets. Here, he talks to Bishop about how the key to science, like anything, is ‘being interested and practising’.

CULTURE CLASH

Living The Dream, 9pm, Sky One IN THE third episode of the comedy, Mal and Jen (Philip Glenister and Lesley Sharp) must get on the good side of the eccentric father of daughter Tina’s new boyfriend when a mishap at the park puts them in desperate need of his help.

AUSTEN ADAPTATION

Persuasion, 9pm, Sony Channel SALLY HAWKINS and Rupert Penry-Jones star in this portrayal of love divided by a lack of wealth, the best of a trio of Jane Austen adaptations first shown on ITV in 2007. Hawkins (pictured right) brings real emotional depth to the role. This is the first of

two parts — the second follows at the same time next week. FREEVIEW FILM

Kingsman: The Secret Service, 9pm, Film4 SMART, stylish and action-packed, this spy spoof stars Colin Firth as an immaculately tailored secret agent who recruits and trains Taron Egerton’s aimless yob and gives the boy a much-needed kick to the posterior. Samuel L. Jackson is a techno bad guy.

FANTASY LAUGHS

Zapped, 9.40pm, Dave AFTER all that exciting talk of ‘The Henge’ last week, you might expect this finale to be an all-out extravaganza, with the characters rallying round to help Brian to return home. It’s quite the opposite and all the funnier for it as he spends a good chunk of it trying to stop wizard Howell from drinking

himself into a stupor.

TRUE CRIME

Swipe Right For Murder, 10pm, Really THE first of a new series about the dark side of internet dating begins with the murder of Nadine Aburas in a Cardiff hotel in 2014. She had met her partner, Sammy Almahri, on a Muslim dating site in 2012, and at first the relationship was glamorous — but it took a violent turn.