Satellite choice
GAME SHOW Taskmaster, 9pm, Dave
DAVID BADDIEL brings in some Buckingham Palace loo roll as part of the opening gambit to this new episode, which also features the return of Katy Wix — who has a shock in store for Greg Davies. Later, Jo Brand discovers a surprising new way of picking up points, and Alex Horne gives everyone a cuddle. It’s a busy week!
STAR PROFILE Hollywood’s Brightest Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,y, 9pm,p, BBC4
THIS riveting documentary tells the incredible story of Hedy Lamarr (pictured), the Hollywood actress who also invented the technology behind wi-fi and Bluetooth. Her life is so eventful, it’s enough to leave you dizzy and, occasionally, with a tear in the eye.
FUNNY FAMILY Comedy Legends, 9pm, Sky Arts
THE MARX Brothers came up through the rowdy theatres of vaudeville, where they learned never to let the audience’s attention go for a minute. Here, Barry Cryer talks to a selection of familiar comedy experts about these stage and screen legends, and shows us plenty of great clips.
NEW SERIES Ultimate Survival WWII, 9pm, National Geographic
IN THE first of his new series, Hazen Audel recreates an escape from Songkurai — a Japanese PoW camp that was surrounded not by a fence, but by seemingly impenetrable Thai jungle. The big difference for Audel is that he’s doing this on a full stomach, and in good health.
SC-FI THRILLER Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 9pm, ITV4
THIS technically brilliant sequel came seven years after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s time-travelling cyborg first set out to crush the future of humanity. This time, Arnie’s one of the good guys; his foe is a deeply sinister morphing cyborg from the future.
RETURNING COMEDY In The Long Run, 10pm, Sky One
IDRIS ELBA is on low-key form as this warm comedy based on his London childhood begins a new run. The show has half an eye on the broader history of the Eighties this time as Walter (Elba), now a union representative, begins a thorny exchange with the factory management. HOSPITAL VISIT Inside The Operating Theatre, 10pm,p W THIS new series about the staff (including Kelly and Chris, pictured) and patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Norfolk makes a sweet start. Four-year-old Arabella is having surgery to correct a squint, and looks forward to some toast after the operation, when she’s ‘hungry from all that sleep’.
ISRAELI MOVIE Foxtrot, 10.15pm, Sky Premiere
MOVING Israeli drama in which the parents of a young soldier are told that their son is dead. But in the world of this surreal and profound study of grief, nothing is quite as it seems.
GOLF The CJ Cup, 3am, Sky Golf & Main Event
DAY one of the CJ Cup from Nine Bridges on Jeju Island in South Korea. World number one Brooks Koepka was the winner of this PGA Tour event last season, and he will be back to defend his title this year.