Satellite choice
CRACKIN’ FAMILY FILM Mr Popper’s Penguins, 3.20pm, Film4
SELF-ABSORBED city-boy Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) finds himself the owner of six plucky penguins. Gooey family fare, with Carrey trying very hard to upstage his flippered co-stars.
LIVE FOOTBALL Swansea City v Leeds United 7pm, Sky Football/ Main Event
RELEGATED Swansea host Leeds, under Marcelo Bielsa, their 14th manager since 2012. United have won their first three matches of the season and will go top tonight with another win. Could the Yorkshire giants be making their way back to the top flight for the first time since 2004? Also tonight, and tomorrow night, are the Champions League play-off first legs, on BT Sport 2 & 3.
HOME IMPROVEMENT Zombie House Flipping, 9pm, Lifetime
A ‘ZOMBIE’ house is a rotting home that is ‘contaminating neighbourhoods’, and this returning U.S. series is all about fixing and selling them on. The tone is amusingly tonguein-cheek, but the experts, including Irish-born Ashlee Casserly, aren’t mucking about.
DRAMA FINALE The Affair, Sky Atlantic, 9pm
THE characters have certainly learned a lot about themselves over the course of this absorbing fourth series, which concludes in a double bill tonight with Ben finally — finally! — confessing all to Allison (Ruth Wilson). A fifth and final season is due to arrive next year.
GENEALOGY SERIES The Secrets In My Family, 10pm, Really
THIS new-toFreeview series, a blend of Long Lost Family and Who Do You Think You Are?, is hosted by Alex Jones (pictured). Both this week’s cases are deep searches for missing fathers, and the first — that of Andrew, once a drummer with M People — reveals a surprising story of adultery.
SECRET HISTORY Search For The Tesla Files, 10pm, History
WHY did ‘literally thousands’ of the files of inventor Nikola Tesla go missing after he died in 1943? Did they contain world-changing secrets? A scientist and a journalist hunt for answers in a tantalising new series.
LAST-EVER EPISODE Code Black, 10pm, W
THIS U.S. medical drama receives a satisfying send-off in the jam-packed last-ever episode. The big news is that a plane crashes into the hospital. There’s a lot else to deal with though, including the mental state of the heroic Willis (Rob Lowe) who is talking to a vision of his dead brother. Can he learn to move on?
FILM CLASSIC Deliverance, 11pm, TCM
RONNY COX, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight play the city folk who go in search of themselves, but end up way out of their depth, in the Georgia wilderness. The Britsh director John Boorman’s classic is no less shocking now as on its first run.
CHILLING MOVIE Silkwood, 11.05pm, Talking Pictures TV
MERYL STREEP stars in a powerful fact-based drama from Mike Nichols, the director of The Graduate’. She’s a nuclear plant worker (pictured) who gathers evidence of negligence after a group of her colleagues suffer ill effects. Kurt Russell and Cher co-star.