Satellite choice
NEW KIDS’ SHOW Claude, 12.30pm, Disney Jr
CLAUDE is a dog who loves to help, and his best friend is a walking sock who’s voiced by Simon Callow. Together, they are the stars of a delightful and artfully animated new British series based on the books by author-illustrator Alex T. Smith. (Sky 607, Virgin 727)
IT’S BACK! Raven, 3.50pm, CBBC
THE return of this impressive and Baftawinning physical game show, in which children test their mettle against the evil sorcerer Nevar. Raven (Aisha Toussaint, pictured) is there to offer guidance, and everyone, audience included, takes the fantastic world they compete in very seriously indeed!
AFTERNOON THRILLER The Man Who Knew Too Much, 4.05pm, Film4
IN THIS Hitchcock classic — a fullblooded, full-colour remake of his original 1934 film — James Stewart stars as the ‘everyman’ who learns the details of an assassination plot, and puts his family in grave danger. But putting Stewart in the shade is Doris Day — the warmest, most melodic of all of Hitchcock’s blondes — who steals the film as the mother holding it together while she determines what to do to save both her son and the gunman’s target.
CRIME DRAMA Private Eyes, 8pm, Universal TV
JASON PRIESTLEY returns as the less intelligent half of the investigative duo at the heart of this Canadian drama, which resumes new episodes tonight. Matt Shade (Priestley) is an ex-hockey player turned private eye — his smarter partner is Angie Everett, a veteran gumshoe.
SEASON FINALE Gone, 9pm, Universal TV
KICK seems happy in the season finale; then, a development regarding her vile childhood captor, Mel Foster, throws her into chaos. Plenty of twists follow in an episode that brings all the plot threads together in a satisfying finish, but what really elevates it is Leven Rambin’s entirely believable performance as Kick.
TRUE-TALE FILM All The President’s Men, 9pm, TCM
ALAN J. PAKULA directs a thoroughly fascinating, factbased conspiracy thriller, written by William Goldman. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as reporters uncovering the Watergate affair.
MEAT MARKET Love Island, 9pm, ITV2
LOVE IT, loathe it, or simply do your best to ignore it, this tawdry (yet Bafta-winning!) reality show — in which scantily clad singletons ogle each other at a sundrenched villa — is back for a new series. Caroline Flack (pictured) returns as host, and further unedifying dispatches from Majorca follow every weekday . . .
ON-DEMAND SERIES Brothers & Sisters, Sky On Demand / Now TV
THIS U.S. series started out as something special and, while it turned into a soap, it was always a superior one. Sally Field stars as the rich, widowed mother to daughters played by Rachel Griffiths and Calista Flockhart, the latter of whom married a good-looking senator (Rob Lowe).
FRONT-LINE STORY I Was There: Kate Adie On Tiananmen Square, 10pm, BBC4
THE journalist Kate Adie (pictured) recalls her coverage of the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in which she was wounded. Adie draws on archive film to supplement her own reflections on an incident she could have easily not survived . . .