Satellite choice
SATIRICAL DRAMA Norman, 5.50pm, Sky Premiere
RICHARD GERE is well cast as a man who has devoted his life to making connections and who counts the new Prime Minister of Israel as one of his ‘friends’.
FOOTBALL Tottenham Hotspur v Juventus, 7pm, BT Sport 2
CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN completed a brilliant comeback for Spurs with his 71st-minute goal in their 2-2 Champions League first-leg draw in Turin. They were 2-0 down in the first ten minutes, but now, they have the edge at Wembley.
TRUE STORY Madeleine, 7.45pm, Talking Pictures
DAVID LEAN directs his then wife, Ann Todd, who plays the wealthy Scotswoman who featured in the ‘trial of the century’ when accused of murdering her lover in 1857.
HIGH-SCHOOL MYSTERY Riverdale, 9pm, 5Star
NEW U.S. drama that provides a dark, sly twist on the all-American Archie highschool comics and has clear echoes of Twin Peaks. The story unfolds in the aftermath of the mysterious death of a boy in a town where nothing is as it seems, and where Luke Perry plays Archie’s dad (pictured below with K.J. Apa as Archie). All of seasons one and two are on Netflix.
OFF WITH A BANG Lucy Worsley’s Fireworks For A Tudor Queen, 9pm, BBC4
LUCY WORSLEY gathers a team to recreate a fireworks display thrown by Robert Dudley to woo Elizabeth I. Everyone dresses up for the thunderous result (including Lucy, in full make-up as Elizabeth), which is a health and safety minefield and must have looked like magic to 16th-century eyes.
COOKING CONTEST Hell’s Kitchen USA, 9pm, ITV2
GORDON RAMSAY has opened a Hell’s Kitchen-themed restaurant in Las Vegas, and the winner of this new, 17th season will be its head chef. It’s a big responsibility — there are reservations up to the end of June — and every contender this year is a former contestant.
ESSEX SISTERS Sam And Billie Faiers: The Mummy Diaries, 9pm, ITVBe
LIFE has moved on for the reality star sisters (pictured) in this new run of the series. Sam is pregnant with baby number two and is enjoying her new, six-bedroom, four-bathroom home — but there is still work to do: ‘There are no TVs on the wall.’
LONDON THRILLER Save Me,, 9pm,p, Skyy Atlantic
ONE of Sky’s most compelling dramas in a long time arrives at episode two. Nelly (Lennie James) is determined to find whoever abducted his daughter — and framed him for it — but the beating he took means he needs to take a breath. He does so at the home of a crossdressing hostess played by Jason Flemyng (pictured with James).
FREEVIEW FILM Falling Down, 9pm, ITV4
PUSHED over the edge by a traffic jam and a series of petty annoyances, Michael Douglas’s ordinary Joe becomes armed and dangerous in director Joel Schumacher’s edgy drama. Showing his darker side, Douglas is scarily good as he chews his way through a series of dangerous encounters.