Satellite choice
NOIR THRILLER The Sound Of Fury, 1.15pm, Film4
STARRING Lloyd Bridges, directed by Cy Endfield and based on the same source as Fritz Lang’s Fury — and every bit as good — this is the story of a kidnapping gone horribly wrong. Film noir at its darkest.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Ferdinand, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
FUN animation, with likeable wrestler John Cena providing the voice of Ferdinand, a bull who learns to be more than is expected of him.
FILM COMEDY The House, 6.25pm, Sky Premiere
AMY POEHLER and Will Ferrell (pictured with Ryan Simpkins) are the suburban couple running an underground casino to pay for their daughter’s college tuition — an idea similar to one that worked better in The Simpsons.
FOOTBALL Bournemouth v Manchester United, 7pm, BT Sport 1
THE Cherries have won one and lost one of their Premier League meetings with United at home. After Bournemouth’s 2015 win with a goal from ex-United man Josh King, Jose Mourinho was victorious in 2016 in his first league game in charge of the Red Devils.
LIFE LESSONS Rich Kids Go Skint, 9pm, 5Star
FERGUS lives a pampered life in Chelsea (‘I don’t know what poor is’) and, in this new series, he spends two days with a poor family. It isn’t long before Fergus feels ashamed of what he spends on a night out, and the end result of it all is surprisingly sweet.
SCI-FI ADVENTURES Timeless, 9pm, E4
THE sci-fi drama continues in fine form as the team travel to Hollywood, 1941. There, they team up with Hedy Lamarr to stop Rittenhouse’s plot to prevent the release of Citizen Kane. Lamarr should be a great ally — in her spare time, the actor invented the technology behind wi-fi.
THRILLER FINALE Taken, 9pm, 5 USA
BRYAN’S girlfriend is being held by Mejia’s men as insurance against him killing Mejia. As in the films, though, Bryan isn’t to be stopped by such trifles — and in this season one finale, he tells Mejia firmly over the phone: ‘I will find you.’ Just like in the films. And no direct order from his own boss is going to stop him.
COMIC-BOOK ACTION Marvel’s Runaways, 9pm, SyFy
THE latest Marvel series is an edgy coming-of-age drama about LA teens who suddenly learn their parents are actually supervillains — one is played by Buffy’s James Marsters — and band together to try to thwart their evil plans. How far will parent and child be willing to go to stop the other?
WORK OF ART Hard Beauty: Helaine Blumenfeld, 10pm, Sky Arts
‘I THINK the first sculptures I saw were in my dreams.’ The Americanborn artist Helaine Blumenfeld carves incredibly delicate, twisting and dreamlike marble forms. This new documentary follows her over a year as she fashions her ambitious latest work, Tree Of Life.
FIREFIGHTER DRAMA Station 19, 10pm, Sky Living
THIS is a new spin-off from Grey’s Anatomy, and the strong and relatively subtle pilot does a good job of setting up its many characters. These include firefighter Andrea ‘Andy’ Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz, pictured), who could be in line for a promotion, and Grey’s character Ben Warren, an EMT who has joined the Seattle fire station.