Satellite choice
FOOTBALL West Ham United v Watford, 7.30pm, Sky Premier League & Main Event
A NERVY encounter is on the cards at the London Stadium this evening — with both sides sitting just three points above the drop zone, defeat here would make the possibility of relegation uncomfortably real.
FBI AGENT Absentia, Amazon Prime
CASTLE’S Stana Katic produces this returning thriller, in which she also delivers a rounded performance as an FBI agent who is abducted for six years, then returns to find her family has moved on.
FANTASY ADVENTURE Cursed, Netflix
NETFLIX’S new adventure series is based on a comic book, and is essentially an origin story for the Lady of the Lake. Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) pplaysy Nimue (pictured),p), who teams up with a young mercenary called Arthur and seeks a boozy magician named Merlin. Among her many enemies is a warrior played by Peter Mullan.
SCI-FI MOVIE Ad Astra, 8pm, Sky Premiere
BRAD PITT (pictured) is on brooding form in this psychological sci-fi drama. He plays an astronaut sent to the farther reaches of space to find his missing father, a man who might hold the key to a series of mysterious terious and life-threatening power surges.
BELGIAN COPS Code 37, 9pm, More4
HANNAH’S team of miscreants in the vice squad — Bob, Kevin and the permanently smoking Charles — must be the most politically incorrect bunch in the business. Mind you, Hannah isn’t exactly conventional either, and neither is her boss, who takes an unusual interest in a case tonight.
CRIME-FIGHTERS NCIS: New Orleans, 9pm, Fox
PRIDE (Scott Bakula) is often called back to the field from his ivory tower, and it’s become a running joke of this show. That happens again at the start of this new, sixth season as a Navy bomb goes missing — but this time, for once, he doesn’t look so pleased to be back.
SURFING SLEUTH Reef Break, 9pm, Alibi
THIS show is set in a U.S. coastal town, but it’s filmed in Australia, which partly explains the slightly otherworldly feel. The other part of that explanation is that extreme things happen all the time — here, a flight from Hawaii is hijacked, and local l surfer Cat (Aussieborn Poppy Montgomery) leaps into action.
SALSA S BEAT Huey H Morgan’s Latin Music Adventure, 9.30pm, BBC4
IIN TONIGHT’S final part, aabout the salsa of Puerto Rico and New York, Huey is beaming from ear to ear to meet somes musical heroes — El Gran Combo, known as the ‘Rolling Stones of Latin music’. They have sold more than 150 million records worldwide, and are still led by Rafael Ithier, now 93.
FOOD & LAUGHS Big Zuu’s Big Eats, 10pm, Dave
THE last guest is Taskmaster champion Lou Sanders, and Big Zuu knows she’s a ‘big-time vegan’. Lou says she also likes Cornettos and jawbreakers, and introduces Zuu to spirulina, a type of algae that she likes. ‘Hopefully, we don’t have to get that out of a pond,’ says the chef.
SINGER’S STORY Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones, 11pm, BBC4
‘THERE was a very driven man underneath,’ says son Alex Orbison of his dad in this compelling profile, which is told in Roy’s voice and forms a picture of a remote, serious and intense figure — ‘a complicated cat’, as producer T Bone Burnett puts it.