Satellite choice
GROWN-UPS’ MOVIE The Wilde Wedding, 6.15pm, p , Sky y Premiere
SPRAWLING comedy in which the home of a retired actor (Glenn Close) fills with guests for her wedding (to Patrick Stewart — with hair, pictured with Streep). Her first husband (John Malkovich) is also there.
ATHLETICS EAA Classic, 6.30pm, Eurosport 2
AT THIS meeting in Lucerne in Switzerland last year, the German Johannes Vetter threw over 94 metres to win the javelin competition. Tonight, he throws again against the man he beat that night, the Olympic champion Thomas Rohler.
CHALLENGING . . . Running Wild With Bear Grylls, 8pm, 5Spike
MAGIC MIKE’S Channing Tatum is Bear’s first guest/victim in a new-to-Freeview run, and comes across as a thoroughly good egg. The actor had an outdoorsy upbringing in Mississippi and is quite game, splitting a scorpion with Bear (‘Mmm, that’s crunchy’)
NEW DRAMA Lean On Pete, Sky Store
UPLIFTING, well-balanced and unsentimental drama about a teenage boy (Charlie Plummer) from a broken family, who goes on an American odyssey with an ageing horse . . .
NATURE’S WONDERS Yosemite, 9pm, PBS America
WE OPEN with a hang-glider’s view of the U.S. national park in this poetic but unpretentious new film, which records life in Yosemite’s epic landscape, a place with ‘trees bigger than blue whales’. Among the creatures we meet is the plucky hay-gathering pika.
CHILLING FARE Sharp Objects, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
PAST and present intermingle in HBO’s eerie adaptation of the debut novel from Gillian Flynn. At its core is a brokendown reporter (Amy Adams), dispatched by a gruff but caring editor to write about a murder in her home town. This is a slow-burner, but Adams (pictured) is mesmerising in every scene.
APPALLING REALITY 999: Killer On The Line, 9pm, CI
THE true-crime series returns with a powerful re-enactment of the case of Dominic Isom, who killed his fiancee, Samantha, at home in Dorset, and called 999 to report her missing. The actress who plays Samantha (Maria Louis) is quite something. (Sky 156, Virgin 275)
FREEVIEW CRACKER True Grit, 9pm, Film4
THE Coen brothers’ remake comes within a hair’s breadth of being as good as Henry Hathaway’s 1969 original. Newcomer Hailee Steinfeld is excellent as the young girl looking for a shooter to avenge her murdered father, and finding one in Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges).
SPORTING CHANCE The Ice King, 10pm, BBC4
JOHN CURRY wanted to take ballet classes as a child, but his father said no. He was allowed to ice skate, though — and his artistic sensibility propelled him to the top of the sport. This profile digs into the troubled Curry’s experience of being the first openly gay Olympian.
CLASSIC DRAMA Taggart, 10pm, Drama
THE first-ever episode of the Glasgow drama is no-nonsense, and has neat glints of humour. When we first meet Mark McManus’s terse detective, he’s wearing a Big Daddy dressing gown.