Satellite choice
FILM DRAMA Head Full Of Honey, 3.50pm,p, Skyy Premiere
GRAVELGRAVEL-VOICED Nick Nolte is the old man with Alzheimer’s who is taken on a road trip by his granddaughter (Nolte’s real-life daughter, Sophie Lane, both pictured). A remake of a German hit.
FOOTBALL Swansea City v Queens Park Rangers, 7pm, Sky Main Event
QPR boss Mark Warburton saw his team running out 5-1 winners when these sides met last month in the third round of the FA Cup. Can Rangers repeat the feat at the Liberty Stadium?
EMPTY TOWNS Abandoned Engineering, 8pm, Yesterday
ANOTHER week, another evocative collection of ruined buildings. The first — described by one historian as a ‘dystopian hobbit town’ — turns out to be a Soviet facility for storing nuclear weapons in Poland, without telling the Polish. Later, we visit the South African ghost town of Pilgrim’s Rest.
CELEBRITY SITTERS Portrait Artist Of The Year 2020, 8pm, Sky Arts
ACTOR Russell Tovey is the first celebrity subject in this new episode, and he’s got more interest in art than most of the sitters — the Being Human star is always buying canvases. ‘I’ve got an addiction, it’s a problem,’ he reflects. Joining him this week are Doreen Mantle and Asim Chaudhry.
BRIGHT IDEAS David Jason’s Great British Inventions, 9pm, More4
THE national treasure concludes his interesting series by looking at domestic inventions. Jason tells us all about the British inventor of the lawn mower, and the surprising role played by Queen Victoria in the development of the telephone.
WELSH MYSTERY Hidden, 9pm, BBC1 Wales
PREVIOUSLY shown on S4C, this is series two of the slowburning Welsh drama, which opens with a case shot through with secrets. DCI John (Sian Reese-Williams, pictured) arrives at the house of a retired teacher found dead in his bath. Why did the caller who tipped them off refuse to say their name? (Freesat 964, Sky 978, Virgin 864)
WARZONE MEDICS The Cave, 9pm, National Geographic
WHILE air strikes from the civil war whine overhead, medics treat the wounded in a makeshift hospital under the streets of Ghouta in Syria. This superb new documentary follows the work of Dr Amani Ballour and others as they show immense grace under pressure, and it’s gripping right from the start.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Joker, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
THIS dark origin movie for Batman’s nemesis had 11 nominations at this year’s Oscars — more than any other film. Joaquin Phoenix is fully committed in the lead role, and was rightly crowned
Best Actor by the Academy.
FREEVIEW THRILLER Layer Cake, 9pm, Sony Movies
HAVING cut his teeth as a producer on Guy Ritchie films such as Lock, Stock . . . , Matthew Vaughn started directing with this enjoyable British gangster flick. A pre-James Bond Daniel Craig is a cocaine dealer who wants out of the game, but who gets caught up in a sticky and dangerous mess.