Satellite choice
ATHLETICS
Diamond League: Rabat, 8pm, Eurosport 2 THE 3000m steeplechaser and local hero Soufiane El Bakkali, who came second in the World Championships in London last year, renews his rivalry with the reigning world champion, Conselsus Kipruto, in Rabat, Morocco, tonight.
HORROR FILM
Happy Death Day, 8pm, Sky Premiere GROUNDHOG Day meets college slasher movie. Jessica Rothe is the sorority girl who is murdered, but has to relive her last day over and over. Can she find her killer and save herself?
CLASSIC COMEDY
Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, 9pm, Yesterday ‘SOMETIMES when I look at you, I get a bit depressed,’ says Betty to Frank (Michael Crawford) before she packs him off to a job interview in this first-ever episode. His interviewer (George Baker) soon experiences a similar sensation. Episodes two and three follow.
DANISH DRAMA
Dicte, 9pm, More4 THIS solid drama began with Dicte moving back home after a divorce. This third season opens with her marrying in enthusiastic fashion and giving up work as a reporter. Inactivity doesn’t suit a woman of her talents, though, and Dicte soon has a very personal project to pursue.
GLOBE-TROTTING FUN
Hooten & The Lady, 9pm, Pick YOU can’t fault Sky’s Romancing The Stone-style series for scale. In part one, Hooten and the lady were in South America; in two, it was Rome. Episode three opens in Egypt, with a gunfight outside the pyramids and a search for Alexander the Great’s tomb.
ACTION FLICK
How It Ends, Netflix IN NETFLIX’S solid thriller, a man races to find his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event cripples the U.S. Impressive visuals pepper a race against time that stars Theo James and Forest Whitaker.
FREEVIEW MOVIE
Free Fire, 9pm, Film4 CHAOS reigns in a warehouse in this smart, inevitably violent thriller. Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy (pictured) are among the superb cast shooting at one another for the film’s duration.
CELTIC SOUNDS
Smashing Hits! The 80’s Pop Map, 10pm, BBC4 PART two explores the music of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, beginning with the impact of American music on Glasgow. This includes country, which was really returning to its roots as it grew out of Scottish and Irish immigrants bringing folk to the U.S. There’s even a Grand Ole Opry club in the city.
SHIVER ME TIMBERS!
Black Sails, 10pm, 5Spike CAPTAIN VANE has the eyes of a wolf and looksoks more in control of his destiny tonight than Captain Flint (Toby Stephens, pictured), whose crew care considerably less than he does about his dream of a pirate republicblic — they want gold and glory, and they want it today. Still, who knows where the winds of fortune will be blowing by next week’s finale? (Freeview 31, Freesat 141, Sky 150, Virgin 154)
UNWELCOME GUESTS
Help! My House Is Haunted, 10pm, Really ‘EVERY stone you see actually has blood on it,’ intones guide Graham Burney to the spook experts visiting Northumberland’s Chillingham Castle in this first of a new series. One blood-spiller was torturer John Sage — will the spirit of this ‘sadistic individual’ make himself known?