Satellite choice
TEEN MOVIE Dope, 4.05pm, Sky Comedy
IN THIS U.S. urban drama, three nerdy kids – who love Nineties hip-hop — must get rid of a gun and a phone that have been put in one of their bags, without getting caught . . .
FOOTBALL Leicester City v Atletico Madrid, 7pm, BT Sport 2
IT’S Champions League quarterfinal night, and after a dream start for manager Craig Shakespeare in the Premier League, Foxes fans must still wonder how far they can go.
Real Madrid v Bayern Munich, 7pm, BT Sport 3
CARLO ANCELOTTI returns to Real Madrid, where the manager is now Zinedine Zidane, the player he coached at Juventus.
CLASSIC FILM COMEDY Airplane!, 7.20pm, Film4
THE Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker dream team have enormous fun parodying disaster movies in this unmissable flight of surreal midair fancy.
MEDICAL FRONTIERS How To Live Longer: The Big Think, 9pm, BBC4
TODAY’S generation can expect to live longer than any before them, but what will their elderly years be like? This new film explores the practical and ethical questions of treatments such as gene editing in fighting the three main killers — cancer, dementia and heart disease.
NEW DRAMA The Son, 9pm, AMC
IN THE Texas of the Old West, a cattle baron (Pierce Brosnan) looks to a future beyond war, towards discovering oil under his ranch. But the West isn’t ready to be civilised, and war is coming to him in the first of a simmering and subtle ten-part saga that occasionally explodes into brutal violence. (Sky 192, BT TV 332)
CURIOUS PROFILE Passions: Damien Hirst By Harry Hill, 9pm, Sky Arts
IT’S hard to know what’s true in Harry Hill’s part-mockumentary profile of Damien Hirst, but it’s great fun and is, in its strange way, probably more informative about the spirit of Damien Hirst’s work than many apparently ‘serious’ documentaries. It also features plenty of photos of Hill in his doctoring days.
HISTORIC DRAMA Vikings, 10pm, History
FANS of The Last Kingdom should enjoy this bloody drama about the Norse invasion of England, which opens its new, fourth season with Ragnar (Travis Fimmel, pictured) on the verge of death, and dreaming of Valhalla. But surely, he has more great battles to fight? Seasons one to four are also available on demand, on Amazon Prime.
FILM CHILLER The Shallows, 11.10pm, Sky Premiere
EXPERTLY crafted thriller in which Blake Lively is a surfer stranded just metres from shore, while a hungry shark circles. Lean and nimble, it’s a nail-chomping dip in the water!
SHE’S BACK! Veep, 10.10pm, Sky Atlantic
‘THIS last year has been fun,’ says Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, pictured) through gritted teeth at the start of this new season of the piercing comedy, in which the now ex-U.S. President is trying to cash in on her legacy as the first female commander-in-chief.