Satellite choice

FOOTBALL

Espanyol v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 5.15pm, BT Sport 1 WOLVES continue their European adventure in Barcelona in the first of tonight’s televised Europa League round-of-32 games. There are later kick-offs for Arsenal, Manchester United and Celtic.

SCI-FI THRILLER

Altered Carbon, Netflix AVENGERS star Anthony Mackie (pictured) takes over the lead of this Blade Runnerstyle drama for its second season, which is set in a future where people can switch bodies. Mackie adds charisma to a series that usually puts looks and ideas ahead of character,ter and has a nice double act with the computergenerated Poe (Chris Conner).

HISTORIC PALACE

Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes, 9pm, More4 IN PART two of his jaunty tour of aristocratic homes, Spencer is at Hampton Court. The property expert enters a labyrinth of abandoned grace-and-favour rooms used by aristocrats in need and, despite having a map, gets lost. He should have taken a ball of thread.

MUSIC HALL DRAMA

Funny Man, 9pm, Talking Pictures TV A REPEAT from the start for an obscure, 13-part ITV drama about the decline of music hall in the late Twenties. It was first shown in 1980, and stars veteran stage comic Jimmy Jewel and Trudie Styler.

CANADIAN DETECTIVE

Carter, 9pm, Alibi IN A new season of this Canadian detective drama that gently spoofs its own genre, Jerry O’Connell returns as actor turned-private-eye Harley Carter. There’s a lot to like in episode one, in which Carter uses his ‘acting skills’ for a missing persons case from a quirky client — nicely played by Colin Mochrie.

MUSICAL DATING

Love Song, 10pm, BBC Scotland IN A Scottish series that feels like a good night out at the pub, singletons sing to attract a mate with the backing of a full band. One of tonight’s bunch once sang with Elton John, and Radio 1’s Arielle Free (pictured) is the host. (In Scotland: Freeview 9, Freesat 106, Sky 115, Virgin 108. Outside Scotland: Freesat 174, Sky 457, Virgin 162)

U.S. MEDICS

New Amsterdam, 10pm, More4 SEASON one of this ethically obsessed U.S. drama concludes with Max finally retreating from work, leaving Dr Sharpe in charge. Work follows him home, though, when wife Georgia is in need of urgent medical treatment. Season two is available on Amazon.

COMEDY COUPLE

Meet The Richardsons, 10pm,p, Dave LUCY BEAUMONT has written a comedy about life with her husband, the neurotic comedian Jon Richardson (pictured with Beaumont), and it sails on the chemistry between the two. The people you see in the show are real — the neighbours, their daughter, Bernie Clifton — and it’s their house, but the show is scripted.

HORROR FLICK

Extracurricular, 10pm, Sky Premiere STUDIOUS highschoolers let off steam by going on increasingly brutal killing sprees in this gory horror. Luke Goss plays the local sheriff — and dad to two of the killers.