Satellite choice
CRICKETING COMEDY Outside Edge, 10.25am, ITV3
ROBERT DAWS and Brenda Blethyn are the buttoned-down Roger and Miriam, with Timothy Spall and Josie Lawrence as the passionate Kevin and Maggie (pictured), in this Nineties sitcom. It started life in the theatre, and you can feel it in the staging of this opening episode.
FOOTBALL Manchester United v Arsenal, 7pm, Sky Premier League & Main Event
IT WAS the Gunners who ended Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s dream unbeaten Premier League run as caretaker manager with a 2-0 win in March. Can they follow that up with their first Premier League victory at Old Trafford since September 2006?
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Rocketman, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
JOYFUL musical biopic of Elton John that hits the kind of high notes you’d expect. Dexter Fletcher directs with flair and confidence, and it’s clear how much work his star, Taron Egerton, has put into his performance.
CARS & COLLECTIBLES Junk And Disorderly, 8pm, ITV4
THE reliable double act of Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove return for a chatty new series in which they buy and sell on memorabilia and spare parts from the ‘auto jumble’ scene. The duo begin their foray into this potentially lucrative business at the Bristol Classic Car Show.
MARITIME MYSTERIES Drain The Oceans, 8pm, National Geographic
THERE are countless wrecks in the waters around New York, and this first of a new series brings the stories of some to life. One was discovered on land — at Ground Zero — and seems to be a British vessel linked to a grisly chapter in the American Revolutionary War.
U.S. DRAMA Succession, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
AS THE Roys arrive in Scotland, the influence of Rhea (Holly Hunter, pictured) on Logan forces a temporary alliance among his squabbling offspring. Otherwise, this episode feels mostly like the calm before the storm, and culminates in a jawdropping display from the robotic Kendall.
BEIJING MASSACRE Tiananmen: The People v The Party, 9pm, BBC4
IN JUNE 1989, pro-democracy protesters clashed with the Chinese authorities in Tiananmen Square in a confrontation that is thought to have left up to 15,000 dead. This pacey new documentary uses leaked documents and eyewitness accounts to track the turning points.
ROMAN SITCOM Plebs, 10pm, ITV2
THERE’S a vile scene of pig slaughter as the new series of this lads-about-Rome comedy begins. That aside, it’s the usual recipe of misadventure for the idiotic Romans (including Ryan Sampson as the fantastically funny Grumio, pictured above right with Jon Pointing and Tom Rosenthal) as they find themselves marooned in a village. Look out for John Thomson in episode two.
FILM ROMCOM Make Or Break, 10.10pm, Sky Premiere
ROMCOM about a couple (Marguerite Moreau and Hus Miller) who try to revive their failing relationship by playing a no-limits game in which they can’t say no to one another.