Satellite choice

GOLF

The Players Championship, 11.30am, Sky Golf & Main Event THE unofficial ‘fifth Major’ from Florida is the first of golf’s biggest events of 2019. Tiger Woods, who won in 2001 and 2013, is set to be among the stars competing, while England’s Justin Rose, the world’s number one, will be attempting to claim the title for the first time.

PLANE PROFILE Superjet: Secrets Of The Tornado, 4pm, Forces TV

A LOOK at the service of the Tornado as it retires from RAF duty, from its design through to the fighter bomber’s last mission. We also hear what it was like to develop a warplane in conjunction with Germany and Italy after World War II. (Freeview 96, Freesat 165, Sky 181, Virgin 277)

CHEKHOV DRAMA

The Seagull, Amazon Prime A GREAT cast — including Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss and Saoirse Ronan — bring Chekhov’s tangled play about love to vibrant life. The story is set at a lakeside estate outside Moscow.

HOSPITAL SITCOM

Porters, 10pm, Dave DAN SEFTON’S comedy is filmed in the basement of a working hospital, which makes its frequent lurches into fantasy sequences feel all the weirder. Daniel Mays (pictured front with Susan Wokoma, Ed Easton and Claudia Jessie) joins the cast in the wacky first episode of this new, second series, as a slippery mastermind of the portering world. Rutger Hauer is still around, too, as guru-like porter Tillman.

CLASSIC COMEDY

Blackadder II, 10pm, BBC4 to budge until separated immigrant families are reunited pans out.

BEHIND BARS

O.G., 10pm, Sky Atlantic WESTWORLD’S Jeffrey Wright (pictured) stars in a powerful new drama about a prisoner nearing the end of a long sentence — all he wants is a quiet life, until a situation develops that he can’t ignoreignore. OGO.G. was filmed using real prisoners and real guards, inside a real prison, which raises the level of authenticity way above the average.

FUNNY FILM

People You May Know, 10.10pm, Sky Premiere COMEDY drama starring Nick Thune as the shy man who gets a major (mostly made-up) social media makeover. But faking it has its pitfalls . . .

FREEVIEW MOVIE

Ali, 10.25pm, ITV4 WILL SMITH stars as legendary boxer Muhammad Ali in Michael Mann’s full-pelt biopic. The focus is the ten-year period from 1964, after Ali beat Sonny Liston to become heavyweight champion. The champ then took his fight outside the ring as he took on the American Establishment. THE funniest of all the Blackadders, even if the World War I series pips it to the post as the best overall by virtue of its poignancy. The Elizabethan series begins with Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) taking in the manservant ‘Bob’ and finding himself mysteriously drawn to the ‘lad’.