Satellite choice
STORY TIME CBeebies Bedtime Stories, 6.50pm, CBeebies
JOSH HOMME, the lead singer of Queens Of The Stone Age, has a pretty rock ’n’ roll reputation — but he also likes to surprise people, and this isn’t the father-of-three’s first turn in the storytelling chair. Today, the 46-year-old reads Adam and Charlotte Guillain’s School For Dads.
FOOTBALL Derby County v Stoke City, 7pm, Sky Football & Main Event
WHILE the drama of the Premier League transfer deadline day goes on backstage, Michael O’Neill’s Stoke continue their battle to survive in the Championship. They face a Derby side who are unbeaten since before Christmas.
OSCAR-WINNER The Favourite, 8pm,p Skyy Premiere
BIZARRE and intoxicating, intoxicating director Yorgos Lanthimos’s surreal historical drama stars Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in a remarkable, unselfconscious performance that won her an Oscar. Rachel Weisz (pictured with Colman) and Emma Stone are the two women vying for her favour.
WILDLIFE WONDERS When Whales Walked, 8.35pm, PBS America
A NEW documentary about the surprising evolutionary tales of whales, crocodiles, elephants and birds of prey, with breathtaking close-ups of its subjects. It presents the science in unusually riveting fashion, too.
FILM THRILLER Uncut Gems, Netflix
FANS of Adam Sandler’s subtler work — see Punch-Drunk Love — will enjoy his portrayal of a jeweller and gambling addict in this exhausting but satisfying thriller set in New York.
TENSE DRAMA COBRA, 9pm, Sky One
THE way this drama is mixing politics with its account of an apocalyptic Britain feels exciting, if not particularly flattering as to how we would handle a long-term blackout. Here, while the Prime Minister’s rivals plot against him in London, the maverick leader takes a risk that places his Chief of Staff, Anna, in harm’s way.
U.S. CRIME FIGHTERS NCIS, 9pm, Fox
A NEW case that starts with a gun in a fridge turns out to involve hypnosis, which is one of those things that Gibbs (Mark Harmon) just doesn’t believe in or care about. The only things Gibbs does care about are coffee, his team, things he can prove and, from tonight, the fortunes of a lonely boy in his neighbourhood.
SOUL MUSIC Stewart Copeland’s Adventures In Music,, 9.30pm,p, BBC4
WHAT is it about music performed in a church that sets the soul soaring, even among the nonreligious? Stewart Copeland (pictured) — a self-described ‘cynical heretic’ — investigates, and looks at how melody, harmony and rhythm can all contribute to the effect.
CARTOON COMEDY BoJack Horseman, Netflix
THE final episodes of what is arguably Netflix’s deepest and finest original show, despite it being a cartoon about an alcoholic horse who used to be a sitcom star in the Eighties.
INFAMOUS MURDERER Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer, Amazon Prime
HAUNTING documentary that tells the story of the U.S. serial killer Ted Bundy from the perspective of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Kendall, and her daughter. It blends this intriguingly with a portrait of the rise of feminism in the Seventies.