Satellite choice
ANIMATED ADVENTURE Mulan, 6.25pm, Sky Disney
DISNEY’S take on ancient Chinese legend, this is the story of a young girl who impersonates a man in order to fight against an invading army in place of her elderly father.
RUGBY LEAGUE Leeds Rhinos v Hull Kingston Rovers, 7.30pm, Sky Arena & Mix
AFTER a long career with the Rhinos, 35-year-old half-back Danny McGuire is now playing for the newly promoted Hull KR. Tonight, he returns to Headingley Stadium to face the defending champions.
JAZZ GREAT Hugh Masekela — Welcome To South Africa, 8pm, BBC4
THE late, great South African musician reflects on his career in a profile that was originally recorded to mark his 70th birthday in 2009. It follows the jazz maestro through apartheid, his exile to the U.S. and his return to South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s release.
IRAQ REPORT Stacey Dooley: Face To Face With ISIS, BBC3 (via iPlayer)
FOR a moving new documentary in which danger is ever present, intrepid Ms Dooley travels to Iraq with a former sex slave to confront the woman’s memory of her hideous experience at the hands of ISIS.
DEEP SPACE DRAMA The Orville, 9pm, Fox
ROB LOWE makes his second appearance in Seth MacFarlane’s gleeful Star Trek spoof, although you might struggle to recognise him under the make-up. There’s a plot in here about peace talks on the ship between warring races (a classic Trek premise), but the real storyline is romantic, and Lowe’s blue alien is smack in the middle of it.
CATWALK CLASS Making A Model With Yolanda Hadid, 9pm, Lifetime
THE mums join their girls for this new U.S. modelling contest, in which a sharp-eyed Yolanda (pictured) stresses the importance of the bond between the generations. As mothers and daughters work together in this first assignment, Yolanda monitors the balance of power.
ANCIENT EPIC Britannia, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
MACKENZIE CROOK’S druid is the most sinister element of Sky’s barmy drama, which is set between the invading Romans and the superstitious Celts. As with Rob Lowe in The Orville, Crook (pictured) ) is not easy to recognise under the make-up, but his character’s power over the Celts is very clear — especially tonight.
COUNTRY PURSUITS The Yorkshire Dales And The Lakes, 10pm, More4
GAME shooting is worth £120 million to the Yorkshire economy. In this episode of the gentle series, we receive an inside perspective on pheasants from gamekeeper David (‘I think they’re very clever, some people think they’re daft’) and meet people who shoot them.
FREEVIEW MOVIE The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, 10.45pm,p Film4
A FRANK, FRANK yet endearingly quirky, quirky coming-of-age comedy drama starring Bel Powley as Minnie, a bold 15-year-old girl who becomes sexually active — with her mother’s boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard) — in San Francisco during the permissive Seventies. Kristen Wiig (pictured with Powley and Skarsgard ) co-stars as her mum.