Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Gabon v Burkina Faso, 3.45pm, Eurosport 1
THE Africa Cup of Nations hosts — with Borussia Dortmund’s PierreEmerick Aubameyang and Sunderland’s Didier Ndong in their squad — take on Burkina Faso, who won their group to get into the finals and were runners-up in 2013.
ENCHANTING DRAMA The Worst Witch, 4.30pm, CBBC
CBBC’s series is doing a great job of being TV’s answer to the Harry Potter films. In this week’s new episode, Mildred (Bella Ramsey, pictured) settles into the routine of witch school and sets about choosing her familiar (a cat) and learning how to ride a broom. Neither task goes smoothly.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Ben-Hur, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
THE chariot race is truly impressive in this CGI-heavy remake, starring Jack Huston as the slave Ben-Hur and Morgan Freeman as the wise man who trains him. Everything else is seven steps behind the 1959 Charlton Heston classic.
COMEDY CLIPS We Have Been Watching, 8pm, Gold
MAXINE PEAKE and Diane Morgan, Craig Charles and Robert Llewellyn, Nigel Planer and Adil Ray and James Acaster and Nish Kumar settle down for a night in front of the television for hilarious clips of Blackadder, Only Fools And Horses and Outnumbered.
CRIME FANTASY Lucifer, Amazon Prime
BRITAIN’S Tom Ellis makes for a charming and very slightly vulnerable Devil as the second season of this U.S. detective drama begins a new run of episodes. Lucifer’s mum is still in LA and is making life difficult for him. A new episode arrives every Tuesday.
CAPTAIN SLOW James May: The Reassembler, 9pm, BBC4
JAMES MAY reassembles the 195 parts of the 1963 Dansette Bermuda portable record player. But, as always, it’s not the rebuilding process that makes this series so much fun, but James’s reminiscences about his past, here taking us through his teenage years and his musical influences.
EYE FOR A DEAL Salvage Hunters, 9pm, Quest
DREW PRITCHARD returns for a new series, scouring Britain for collectibles. His first stop is a treasure-trove indeed — the Lancashire home of John Nolan, an antiques dealer who is retiring and selling off his collection. ‘At one time, I had over 90,000 items,’ says John, who doesn’t want his children to have to deal with it all.
LOS ANGELES A&E Code Black, 9pm, W
THERE’S high drama for Dr Ethan Willis (Rob Lowe, pictured) and the team at Angels Memorial Hospital when members of a cult who survived a mass suicide attempt are rushed in for treatment. Mario, meanwhile, decides to try to connect with his late father’s girlfriend.
FREEVIEW FILM The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, 9pm, Film4
LILY COLLINS (pictured) stars in this young-adult fantasy about a band of demon-hunters. It has an air of Buffy The Vampire Slayer — but without the clever writing.
ITALIAN DRAMA The Wonders, 10pm, Sky Premiere
ITALIAN-language coming-of-age tale about an eccentric, chaotic beekeeping family in Tuscany. Teenager Gelsomina is the busy worker bee, helping her family hive to flourish.