Satellite choice
RUGBY LEAGUE Wigan Warriors v Warrington Wolves, 7.30pm, Sky Arena & Main Event
THE opening game of the new Super League season sees GB international Jackson Hastings making his debut for the 2018 champions, Wigan. A rematch of 2019’s grand final, St Helens v Salford, is on Friday.
NEW TO FREEVIEW Elementary,y, 8pm,p, Pick
IN THE third season,season Holmes has left MI6 under a cloud, and Watson (Lucy Liu) is doing just fine without him — at least, until she’s presented with a locked-room mystery. Two British actors — Ophelia Lovibond (pictured with Liu) and Raza Jaffrey — join the cast in a busy opener that sets the show up as more of a team proposition.
MUSEUM TOUR Seriously Amazing Objects, 8pm, Smithsonian
THEMED new tour of some of the U.S. institution’s many and varied treasures, starting with ‘survivors’. This includes a B-26 Marauder that flew more than 200 missions during World War II, and rare cheetah cubs.
FILM-MAKER PROFILE Sam Mendes: Life Cinematic, 9pm, BBC4
THE film-maker Sam Mendes recently released the brilliant 1917 and he also directed Skyfall, the best of the recent batch of Bonds. There’s plenty more to him, of course, and for this first of a new series, the Oscar-winner shares his love and knowledge of film.
WILD LIFE Land Rush, 9pm, DMAX
THE Alaskan government offers a select few the chance to build cabins in the wilderness, and this new series follows four of them. Mum Tiffany wants her son to learn to live in the wild, and her experience shows you a little of how hard it must have been for the original pioneers. (Sky 172, Freeview 37, Freesat 150, Virgin 171)
SCI-FI FILM Snowpiercer, 9pm, Film4
STYLISH dystopian science fiction drama, set aboard a huge train that carries humanity’s modern-day ice age survivors. Chris Evans is the low-class passenger forcing his way up through the train’s hierarchical carriages. Also stars Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell and John Hurt.
BEAUTIFUL GAME Steven Gerrard: Make Us Dream,, 9pm,p, ITV4
A MUST-MUSTSEE for football fans,fans this remarkably honest profile of the Liverpool player-turned-Rangers manager features open and candid commentary from Gerrard himself as he discusses his career, his doubts, his late-career injuries — and that infamous slip that cost Liverpool the title in 2014.
POLITICAL DRAMA Madam Secretary, 10pm, Sky Witness
IN THE penultimate instalment of a U.S. drama that’s maintained a high level of quality throughout, Elizabeth (Tea Leoni) is threatened with impeachment — and the world with nuclear annihilation. Some
top-level diplomacy is called for.
MYSTERY THRILLER The Stranger, Netflix
THIS eight-part adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller is the TV equivalent of a page-turner, and stars Richard Armitage as a family man whose world is upended by a single piece of information. Look out for Jennifer Saunders (pictured) in a rare dramatic role.