Satellite choice
GOLF European Open, 10am, Sky Sports 4
GRAEME MCDOWELL tops the list of names competing at Bad Griesbach in Bavaria, which goes into day two this morning.
THE NEXT GENERATION Disney’s Descendants, 5.30pm, Disney Channel
LIVE-action movie in which the progeny of some of Disney’s bestknown villains try to prove that blood needn’t be thicker than water. So, how will Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay (the kids of Maleficent, Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil and Jafar) get on with the children of Aurora, the Fairy Godmother, Cinderella and Mulan? (Sky 609, Virgin 724)
FOOTBALL Fulham v Queens Park Rangers, 7pm, Sky Sports 1
STRIKER Charlie Austin stayed on at QPR despite summer interest from other clubs, but will have his work cut out in tonight’s west London derby away at Craven Cottage.
POP LEGEND Hot Chocolate At The BBC, 10pm, BBC4
WITH his unusual voice and smooth delivery, Hot Chocolate front man Errol Brown (pictured), who died earlier this year, was one of the biggest pop stars of the Seventies and Eighties. This archive compilation features the group’s greatest hits, including It Started With A Kiss and, of course, You Sexy Thing.
RETURNING SERIES
Justified, 10pm, Spike
NEW, fifth series of the dependable Southern crime drama based on stories by Elmore Leonard. Timothy Olyphant returns as Raylan Givens, the cunning U.S. Marshal who this week deals with dangerous contraband, from cane sugar to human kidneys. (Freeview 31, Freesat 141, Sky 160)
CONSPIRACY DRAMA
The Fixer, 10pm, Fox
THE concluding episode of this diverting four-part conspiracy thriller puts Ellie (Kathleen Robertson) and Carter (Eric Dane) in an inevitable race against time to stop another manmade catastrophe — this time, at a liquid-gas facility.
CRIME FLICK The Drop, 10pm, Sky Premiere
THRILLING gangster fare — adapted from a story by writer Dennis Lehane — which sounds overly familiar, but has more than enough sass to carry it. Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini are the pair mixed up with some very bad people.
MOVIE THRILLER
Basic Instinct,, 10.10pm, 0.0p, More4
COP Michael Douglas dallies with the wrong woman again in Paul Verhoeven’s notorious erotic thriller. The lady in question is Sharon Stone (pictured with Douglas) — a crime novelist who may or may not have killed her lover.
CRAZY COMEDY
House Of Fools, 11pm, Gold
VIC REEVES and Bob Mortimer had already rejigged the quiz show into something silly and surprising. Here, they do the same to the sitcom. Their oddball energy is complemented by visitors to their humble houseshare — notably Morgana Robinson’s lightly lecherous neighbour, Julie, and Matt Berry’s downright strange Beef.
MOVIE SCI-FI
Source Code, 11.25pm, Film4
AFTER the success of debut Moon, Duncan Jones offers up another fiendishly twisty sci-fi flick. Jake Gyllenhaal is the soldier fighting on a very different front line from the one he’s been used to.