Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Norwich City v Swansea City, 7pm, Sky Football & Main Event
FINNISH striker Teemu Pukki, who joined the Canaries on a free in the summer, has been a canny signing. As they push for promotion, he’s up for the Championship Golden Boot, and will be looking to add to his 24 league goals tonight.
MONSTER MOVIE Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, 8pm, Sky Premiere
THIS sequel to the rebooted hit franchise doesn’t really offer anything new. But if you want jolly heroics from Chris Pratt (pictured with Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Robinson and Ty Simpkins), fantastic special effects, lots of dinosaurs — and some odious humans as the real baddies — it will keepp yyou thoroughlygy entertained.
COMEDY DRAMA Lady Bird, 8pm, Sky Select
TODAY is International Women’s Day, and Select dedicates its schedule to female directors. Among the highlights is Greta Gerwig’s outstanding black comedy with Saoirse Ronan.
GERMAN SPY SEQUEL Deutschland 86, 9pm, More4
THREE years after Deutschland 83, this compelling sequel has welljudged dabs of humour. It unfolds in East Berlin, where Barbara Dietrich brings a new dimension to East German espionage, and South Africa — where Lenora looks for an ally.
DISCO STANDARD The Story Of I Will Survive, 9pm, BBC4
A DIVE into the history of the disco hit, first released by Gloria Gaynor on October 23, 1978, which has sold 14 million copies. Gaynor returns to the club where it was first played — Studio 54 — and we hear cover versions in Japanese and Hindi.
ZOMBIE THRILLER Curfew, 9pm, Sky One
PART three takes the pace down a notch and flashes back both to the beginning of the outbreak and to the history of Faith and Errol. Both characters have hidden depths, and Errol’s can make him swing from vulnerability to violence in the space of a sentence. Don’t miss the jaw-dropping climax.
FEMALE FIGHTERS Epic Warrior Women, 9pm, History
DURING the time of the Ancient Greeks, Scythian women fought on horseback alongside their men, and are believed to be the origins of the Amazon myth. This atmospheric first in a new series, with insights from Bettany Hughes, imagines the life of a female Scythian warrior.
COUNTRY MEGASTAR Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road, 9pm,p, Skyy Arts
THE AC/DC frontman returns for a new run of his entertaining inside look at the lives of musicians. Here, he talks to Dolly Part onn( pictured pictured with with Johnson) about her long, long career — she released her first single in 1959 — and hears the stories she wants to share from her many tours.
DARK COMEDY After Life, Netflix
THERE’S a reason for all the swearing in Ricky Gervais’s melancholy comedy. He plays a local news journalist whose grief for his dead wife makes him feel as if he can say anything to anyone. This six-parter has a good cast (Diane Morgan, Penelope Wilton, Ashley Jensen) and a steadily deepening script by Gervais, who also directs.
SIXTIES FILM Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment, 10pm, Talking Pictures
GLORIOUS cult British comedy — a Cannes winner and Oscar nominee that has fallen into obscurity. David Warner stars as an artist with a wild and well-developed fantasy world, trying to win back his posh wife (Vanessa Redgrave).