Satellite choice
FILM DRAMA Apostasy, 6.20pm, Sky Premiere
INTELLIGENT and involving British drama starring Siobhan Finneran as a mum of two teen girls. Devout Jehovah’s Witnesses, their faith and family love are tested and prove hard to reconcile. Director Daniel Kokotajlo draws from his own experiences here.
FOOTBALL Manchester City v Schalke 04, 7pm, BT Sport 2
CITY should go through to the Champions league quarter-finals after coming from behind to win a breathless away leg 3-2 with a late goal from Raheem Sterling. But Nicolas Otamendi and Fernandinho will both be missing tonight.
FAR EAST CULTURE The Art Of Japanese Life, 8pm,p, BBC4
JAMES FOX (pictured)itd) isi admiring d ii both Japan’s nature and its culture in the first of this interesting series. Here, he treks through bewitching forests, marvels at bonsai trees that are hundreds of years old, and explores how the country’s religions — Shinto and Buddhism — have shaped its art.
MOMENTOUS EVENTS America In Colour, 8pm, Smithsonian
THE Sixties episode is weaved around JFK and starts with the first televised Presidential debate. The Cuban missile crisis and the horror of his assassination — reported live on TV — follow, before the mood is lightened by The Beatles. (Sky 195, Freeview 99, Freesat 175, Virgin 295)
NOBEL LAUREATE Decoding Watson, 9pm, PBS America
THIS new one-off profiles the American scientist James Watson, who, with British scientist Francis Crick, deduced the structure of DNA in 1953, when he was just 25 years old. ‘He’s an anarchist,’ observes one contributor of Watson, who — even in his 90s — is a feisty interviewee for a film that brims with suitably jazzy music.
ARMY ELITE SEAL Team, 9pm, Sky One
A PLANE is hijacked in tonight’s new episode, and Jason (David Boreanaz) and the Seals are paired with the EU and the SAS. The Seals are appalled at the EU plan to negotiate with the terrorists, and Jason’s body language is a picture of barely suppressed rage during his meeting with the SAS. How much of that anger is justified, though?
U.S. THRILLER The Passage, 9pm, Fox
IF YOU’VE been wondering how this pre-dystopian U.S. drama about a vampire virus concludes, this is the double bill finale to season one. And, if you want to know more, it’s based on a trilogy of novels by Justin Cronin. For now, Amy faces a difficult decision when her plan for the greater good could end up killing Brad.
FREEVIEW Room, 11.15pm,p Film4
EMMA DONOGHUE adapts her own novel, a story inspired by headlinegrabbing real events. Brie Larson is a woman who has given birth to a son while being held captive. Their tiny, rudimentary home is all that five-year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay, pictured with Larson) has ever known — until, out of the dark, there’s a glimmer of light . . .
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Slaughterhouse Rulez, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
CONFUSING but entertaining public school-set horror comedy, featuring Michael Sheen, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Margot Robbie. It was directed by Kula Shaker front man Crispian Mills.