Satellite choice
CHANNEL LAUNCH Sony Crime, from 7am
THE channel previously known as True Crime becomes Sony Crime and adds dramas to its schedule. These include the first episodes of Hustle (7pm), Person Of Interest (9pm) and Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black (11pm). (Freeview 60, Sky 157, Virgin 193)
CYCLING Dubai Tour, 9.30am, Eurosport 2
MARK CAVENDISH will be keen to register r an early-season sprint win on the wide, flat roads of Dubai. He was the champion in 2015, but failed to win a single stage last year when his German rival Marcel Kittel came out on top. .
TRUE-LIFE TALE E My All-American, 4.10pm, Sky Premiere
THE sad but true story of college football star Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock) — a plucky player who thought his size would hold him back, but who faced a far worse obstacle.
MINIATURE MARVEL Art, Passion & Power: The Story Of The Royal Collection, 9pm, BBC4
THE standout item in this final part is an amazing doll’s house made for Queen Mary. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a new Sherlock Holmes story for its tiny library, there is real champagne in tiny bottles, and the shotguns might even work. Not for small children, then, but incredible all the same.
PRIVATE EYES Frankie Drake Mysteries, M 9pm, Alibi
ANOTHER new episode of the Twenties mystery finds Frankie (Lauren Lee Smith, pictured) and her all-female detectives d trading gunshots on the street, looking for Communists and meeting a very clever horse. This show is smart, fast and jigs along with a soundtrack that sets the head nodding.
DOWN UNDER Demolition Man, 9pm, Quest
LAWRIE VOUTIER will not challenge any Aussie stereotypes. Craggy, hairy and with a gift for banter and an eye for bargains, he’s the subject of a new series that follows his work as the head of a demolition and salvage company, whose employees include the memorable Jabba (‘I’ve probably been sacked 30 times’).
WAR FILM M 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi, 9pm, Film4
MICHAEL BAY (Transformers) directs this fact-based action drama, in which an American compound in Libyaibya comes under attack. John Krasinski (pictured) is part of the six-man security team fighting to protect U.S. diplomats from terrorists.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Blade Runner 2049, Sky Store/Virgin Movies
A WORTHY follow-up and an interesting film in its own right, this visual feast of a sequel stars Ryan Gosling as the investigator working a replicant mystery. Harrison Ford reprises his role as Deckard and does some of his finest acting to date.
SPOOKY FUN Celebrity Ghost Hunt, 10pm, 5Star
RYLAN CLARK-NEAL (pictured) has the showman’s touch that’s necessary to make a ghost-hunting show fun. At the start of a new series, he and three reality stars are in a decommissioned nuclear bunker that might lack centuries of history, but is still a rather creepy place.