Satellite choice
CLASSIC SERIES
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, 4.20pm,p, Drama A REPEAT from the start for the British-bricklayers-in-Germany drama, from Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, specialists in shows about men in confined situations (Porridge, The Likely Lads). Kevin Whately, Tim Healy and Timothy Spall are among the cast.
BIOPIC
Unbroken: Path To Redemption, 4.30pm, Sky Premiere FOLLOW-UP to Angelina Jolie’s 2014 film, continuing the story of Olympic runner and PoW survivor Louis Zamperini, here played by Samuel Hunt.
FOOTBALL
Arsenal v Chelsea, 6.30pm, BT Sport 2 JOINT Golden Boot winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was a bright spot for the Gunners in a poor Premier League run-in. But a Europa League final win would also mean Champions League football next season. Who will come out on top in a London derby, which is controversially being held thousands of miles away from the capital in Baku, Azerbaijan?
ART AND SCIENCE
Victorian Sensations: Decadence and Degeneration, 9pm, BBC4 PAUL McGANN, who once played Doctor Who, begins his riveting dive into Victorian art and science with H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine. The actor connects this dystopian tale, along with Oscar Wilde’s The Picture Of Dorian Gray, to fears of moral, racial and sexual degradation at the time.
COMEDY GAMES
Taskmaster, 9pm, Dave PAUL SINHA is a comedian, a qualified GP and one of the Chasers (‘The Sinnerman’) on ITV quiz show The Chase. Could he add Taskmaster champion to that already intriguing CV? The series continues tonight with Alex Horne setting a hilarious task that involves holding the attention of a toddler.
U.S. DRAMA
Gone, 9pm, 5 USA KICK (Leven Rambin) seems happy in the season finale; then, a development regarding her vile childhood captor, Mel Foster (Lee Tergesen), throws her into chaos. Plenty of twists follow in an episode that brings all the plot threads together in a satisfying finish, but what really elevates it is Rambin’s performance as Kick.
DOUBLE BILL
Grey’s Anatomy/Station 19, 9pm/10pm, Sky Witness THE hospital drama and its firefighting spin-off reach their season finales, but both shows will be returning. Before that, though, fog rolls in over Seattle just as Meredith and Alex try to save Gus, while for the men and women of Station 19, nature is also a challenge: there’s a wildfire raging in Los Angeles.
FACT-BASED FILM
The Post, Amazon Prime THE story of how The Washington Post defied the White House to publish the damning Pentagon Papers. Tom Hanks stars as newspaper editor Ben Bradlee.
FINANCIAL COMEDY
Black Monday, 10.10pm,p, Skyy Atlantic IN A riotous new U.USS. drama set a year before the stock market crash of 1987, Don Cheadle (pictured with Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall) plays a drugged-up financial whizz nicknamed ‘Black Moses’. It’s funny in a viciously over-the-top way, the Eighties details are great, and there’s more going on with the plot than is obvious at first.