Satellite choice
Dubai Championships, 10am, Sky Sports Arena & Main Event
GRIGOR DIMITROV is set to be the top-ranked player in this event, which Andy Murray won last year. Later, Rafael Nadal is due to appear in the Mexican Open (12 midnight, Sky Action & Main Event)
Hell Is A City, 4pm, Tallkng Pictures TV
VAL GUEST’S classic British thriller stars Stanley Baker as a worldweary police inspector hunting h an escaped convict in Manchester. M Billie Whitelaw and Donald Pleasence (pictured) co-star.
The Worst Witch, 5pm, CBBC
WITH the school under threat and Miss Cackle about to quit — on her birthday — Miss Hardbroom galvanises the girls into putting on a jolly good performance at the talent show. Listen for the tune that Ethel forces everyone to play. It might sound familiar!
The Death Of Stalin, BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin
ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S seriously dark satire about the Soviet dictator’s last days was banned in Russia. Jason Isaacs, Steve Buscemi and Michael Palin are among the fine cast
Christine, 5.50pm, Sky Premiere
REBECCA HALL stars in this drama telling the story of the onair suicide of TV reporter Christine Chubbuck. It was senseless, sad and fuelled by frustration. Murdoch Mysteries, 9pm, Alibi INSPECTOR BRACKENREID indulges his artistic side in tonight’s new episode, which finds him insinuating himself into a group of possibly murderous artists. There are lots of lovely small comic touches during a case that gives his wife plenty to complain about.
The Walking Dead, 9pm, Fox
THIS slugfest of a zombie drama returns for a new run of episodes, and despite all the tragedy he has endured so far, the specific misery that Rick now lives with is surely the one that could break him. He and the others begin tonight very much on the back foot, hunkered down in the Hilltop as Negan presses his advantage.
Active Shooter: America Under Fire, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
THE series that gets up close and all too personal with some of America’s most horrific mass shootings examines the attack by a white supremacist on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin in 2012. It was the first responders’ acts of heroism that transformed a community.
Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena, 10pm, 5Spike
THE stylish and brutal historical action drama prequel explores the lives of the gladiators before Spartacus’s rebellion. John Hannah (pictured) is back in the arena as gladiator trainer Batiatus in a six-part series that contains plenty of violence and nudity. Well, it is ancient Rome!
12 Years A Slave, 11.10pm, Film4
THIS brave Oscarwinning drama, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, doesn’t hold back in its depiction of the cruelty and indignity suffered by African slaves in 19th-century America. There’s a strong supporting cast, which includes Sarah Paulson, Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt