Satellite choice
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
POWERFULLY-cast sequel to Disney’s re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty, which pits the haughty fairy (Angelina Jolie) against a magnificently conniving human queen (Michelle Pfeiffer).
FOOTBALL Tottenham Hotspur v RB Leipzig, 7pm, BT Sport 2
THEY’RE missing strikers Harry Kane and Son Heung-min through injury but Spurs will be feeling buoyed after recent wins over Manchester City and Aston Villa.
TRICKY QUIZ Jon Snow’s Very Hard Questions, 8pm, 10pm, More4
IIN A new quiz that does what it says on the tin, a paternal Jon Snow (pictured) reads very hard and very long questionsq to two teams — here, the Intelli-gents and Assassins’ Guild — who can then sacrifice points for clues to the answer. It feels like University Challenge, but less stern.
U.S. SITCOMS The Goldbergs/Schooled, 8pm/8.30pm, E4
THE warm Eighties-set U.S. comedy opens its new, seventh season with a family trip to Disneyland, led by Goldberg matriarch Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey, pictured). In season two of its Nineties spin-off, Schooled, Lainey starts teaching in the style of Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds.
SIXTIES SLEUTH Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, 9pm, Drama
THE latest new-to-Freeview case for Miss Fisher’s Sixties niece has a whiff of The X Files. In a two-parter that ends next week, a mysteriously frozen body leads Peregrine (Geraldine Hakewill) to an even more mysterious military facility, and to a patronising male scientist.
FREEVIEW THRILLER
The Butterfly Effect, 9pm, Sony Movies TIME-MANGLING thriller, with Ashton Kutcher as the student with the ability to change the present by jumping into the past. Dark and surprisingly violent, it became a cult classic.
IRISH COMEDY Finding Joy, 10pm, W
JOY visits a retreat where actual tree-hugging occurs in this new episode of Amy Huberman’s life-change comedy, which is finding real heart as it goes on. Joy (Huberman) is there looking for peace, but the retreat triggers the opposite response; meanwhile, at home, her housemate Amelia (Aisling Bea) has found inner peace in the bath.
PANEL GAME Hypothetical,yp 10pm,p Dave
THE guests are asked to come up with new Bond villains and to devise a plan to reunite the cast of Friends in this new instalment of the reliably funny panel show. Sue Perkins and Tom Allen (pictured) both come up with excellent villains in an episode that sails much closer to the wind than usual. Felicity Ward and Alex Brooker are the other panellists joining hosts Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster this week.
PAT & PEGGY EastEnders: Back To Ours, 11pm, BBC4
PAT BUTCHER and Peggy Mitchell were one of EastEnders’ great double acts and, for this Goggleboxstyle reflection, the actresses who played them — Pam St Clement and Barbara Windsor — watch clips and tell stories. Hearing St Clement’s relatively posh voice is, as always, quite a shock.