Satellite choice
GLOBAL SPORTS A Week To Beat The World, 4.40pm, CBBC
ONE team of boys and one team of girls travel the world for CBBC’s ambitious new series, in which they compete in local sports. Today’s episode has an unusual twist — the boys must ask permission from the spirits in order to play Mayan football in Guatemala. Continues daily.
CHILDREN’S DRAMA The Demon Headmaster, 5pm,p, 8pm,p, CBBC
BODYGUARD’S Nicholas Gleaves (pictured) stars as the hypnotic headmaster in a new, ten-part weekly drama based on Gillian Cross’s books. The ice-cold educator is now the ‘Super Head’ of an academy and, for all his negative points, would probably be pretty good at fighting budget cuts.
SNOOKER English Open, 12.45pm, 6.45pm, Eurosport 1
THE biggest names in snooker — including favourite Ronnie O’Sullivan — head to Crawley for the English Open, the first of the prestigious Home Nations Series.
FUNNY FILM Changeland, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere
WRITTEN and directed by its star, Seth Green, this comedy drama sees Green in Thailand with an old pal (Breckin Meyer) after his marriage breaks down. Look out for Macaulay Culkin.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Late Night, Sky Store/Virgin Movies
EMMA THOMPSON, on commanding form, stars as a TV talk show host who’s ‘a little old and a little white’, and has her image reinvented by a new writer (Mindy Kaling). Reliably funny, if not as edgy as it could be.
FOUR-LEGGED FRIENDS The Dog Rescuers With Alan Davies, 9pm, 5Select
A NEW series of endearing and inspiring pages from the casebooks of RSPCA inspectors, including the hoped-for recovery of severely beaten dog Bruce. Also, Alan assists vet Gwen with Staffordshire bull terrier Annie, who has a mysterious lump. (Freeview 55, Freesat 133, Sky 159, Virgin 152)
SEASON FINALE Succession, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
DURING the hearing, Logan (Brian Cox,) looked vulnerable. Was that just a ploy to let Kendall take the fall, or is the hard-swearing media tycoon on the way out? Either way, Logan promised a ‘blood sacrifice’ in this season two finale, which also has a hostage crisis to resolve. The show will return.
NATIONAL SECURITY ECURITY Damian Lewis: Spy Wars, 9pm, History
OPERATION Overt was launched by MI5 in 2006 to track a London terror cell that turned out to have plans that rivalled 9/11 in scale. Damian Lewiswis (pictured) provides a guide to what became the biggest surveillance operation in British history, and to the transatlantic tensions that cropped up along the way.
DATING GAME Love Island Australia, 10pm, ITVBe
SEASON one of this Aussie version was filmed in Mallorca, where the UK version is made. For this new, second season, host Sophie Monk (pictured) and the swimwear-sporting romantics have moved a bit closer to home — the South Pacific island of Fiji. The series continues every weeknight.