Satellite choice
HOT TOPICS Hayley, BBC3 (via iPlayer)
HAYLEY PEARCE was the vivacious Welsh tea lady on BBC3’s The Call Centre, and this is her second series looking into issues for the channel. This time, it’s slimming, tattoos and fashion.
GOLF WGC: Dell Match Play, 6pm, Sky Golf & Main Event
LAST year’s champion — and current world number one — Dustin Johnson and runner-up Jon Rahm return to the Austin Country Club in Texas. A strong field also includes Major winners Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas.
FILM DRAMA My Feral Heart, 6.25pm, Sky Premiere
TENDER British drama following a young man with Down’s syndrome (Steven Brandon, pictured)pict who is put p into a home when his mother dies. Losing his mum and his independence is painful.
MINIATURE WORLD Secret Knowledge: The Private Life Of A Dolls’ House, 7.30pm, BBC4
CHARLIE And Lola creator Lauren Child’s film is more of a personal passion than a rigorous history. She visits Pat Cutforth, from whom she learned miniature house-building skills as a child — skills that helped her to create her distinctive visual style.
BEHIND THE SCENES dinnerladies diaries, 8pm, Gold
VICTORIA WOOD wrote dinnerladies very precisely and all by herself; here, cast members recall the demands of keeping up with the rewrites. ‘It was terrifying,’ recalls Thelma Barlow. Wood also warmed up the studio audience by herself, rather than getting in a comic.
HOBBY EXPERTS Make! Craft Britain, 9pm, BBC4
THERE’S a lot of happiness on show in this simple new series about the joy of crafting, which is apparently on the rise around Britain. First, we meet Heather Ritchie, a master of creating rugs that look like pictures, who is teaching a workshop in personalised seat cushions.
ACTION SERIES Into The Badlands, 9pm, AMC
THE bloody U.S. martial arts drama set in a feudal future begins its new, second season. It’s a stylish if po-faced affair, but the addition of Nick Frost (pictured) to the cast does give the show a bit of humour. Seasons one and two are on Amazon Prime. (Sky 192, BT TV 332)
MISSING CHILD DRAMA Save Me, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
SKY did well to get Lennie James’s tough drama — it would have looked very much at home on Ch4. In part four (of a succinct six), Claire (Suranne Jones) drifts further into Nelly’s world, where she looks more at ease than she does with husband Barry, who is proving to be as shifty as they come.
SC-FI SC FI FLICK Annihilation, Netflix
PULSE-POUNDING mixture of action and mystery, starring Natalie Portman (pictured) as a biologist who ventures beyond an alien force field to find answers about her husband.
TEST CRICKET New Zealand v England, 12 midnight, Sky Sports Cricket & Main Event
AFTER an entertaining, high-scoring one-day series — with England victorious in the decider at Christchurch — Joe Root now leads the tourists out in Auckland for the first of two Tests.