Satellite choice
RUGBY UNION Bristol Bears v Bath, 7pm, BT Sport 1
THE new Premiership season kicks off with a West Country derby as the newly promoted Bristol Bears, who lost only one game in the Championship last season, host Bath at Ashton Gate.
FOOTBALL Leeds United v Middlesbrough, 7pm, Sky Football & Main Event
TOP-OF-THE-TABLE Championship clash, with both Leeds and Boro having won four and drawn one of their five previous games. The home crowd will be hoping Kemar Roofe can keep up the form that has seen him scoring four goals so far.
CLASSICAL CONCERTS BBC Proms 2018, 7.30pm, 11pm, BBC4
LEONARD BERNSTEIN was a mentor to Marin Alsop and here, the conductor leads two numbers by the American musical legend — Slava! and his Symphony No 2. At 11pm, the pianist Andras Schiff performs Bach’s magical (but very long) Well-Tempered Clavier, Book Two.
ACTION MAN Jack Ryan, Amazon Prime
JOHN KRASINSKI takes on the role of Tom Clancy’s reluctant hero in a thrilling new ten-part series that has a sprinkling of dry wit. There’s nothing revolutionary about the plot — bad things are afoot in sandy countries — but Krasinski (pictured) is extremely likeable as the U.S. Marine-turned-CIA analyst, and the action scenes are the equal of plenty of films.
U.S. THRILLER Ozark, Netflix
NETFLIX’S Breaking Bad-style drama follows an unhappy family into an accidental life of criminality. Dad Marty (Jason Bateman, playing against his usual jovial casting) has a head for figures that gives him a flair for crime, and the crux of the series — in the new second season, especially — is that he, his wife and children need to trust each other more than ever in order to survive this dangerous new life.
BRIDAL BOUTIQUE Say Yes To The Dress: Gok Wan, 8pm, TLC
GOK WAN takes over the reality show for tonight’s new episode, and he’s got a challenging client — step forward Sarah, who has already turned down ‘30 or 40’ dresses. Gok suspects she’s been looking for the wrong thing, but will she agree? (Sky 140, Virgin 167)
PETROLHEADS Counting Cars, 8pm, Blaze
NEW-to-Freeview series that may appeal to lovers of U.S. cars or fans of heavily modified leather jackets. One of the team, named Horny Mike, has dinosaur spikes down the back of his — and will similarly customise anything given half a chance. (Freeview 63, Freesat 162, Sky 187, Virgin 216)
FUNNY FILM Pitch Perfect 3, 8pm, Sky Premiere
THE Bellas have left Barden, but life after college — with tough, demanding jobs — is getting them down. Cue a reunionon for Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson), Beca (Anna Kendrick, both pictured) and the rest.
FANTASY CRIME DRAMA Lucky Man, 9pm, Sky One
HARRY’S bracelet has turned completely black in the penultimate episode, which can only be a bad sign. Samuel Blake (Rupert PenryJones) notes this with a gloating tone, but the muscle-bound baddie soon has troubles of his own after an encounter in the prison showers.
DISASTER AFTERMATH Blackout In Puerto Rico, 9pm, PBS America
LAURA SULLIVAN reports seven months after the devastation of Hurricane Maria, and finds that 100,000 people are without clean water and power. It’s amazing to think such a situation could exist in a part of the modern U.S., and the picture of mismanagement painted here is terrifying.