Satellite choice
SPORTS DRAMA Rage, 2.10pm, Sky Premiere
IN THIS baseball melodrama, Ethan Hawke is the brutish father pushing his son to unacceptable limits in his desire to turn him into a successful pitcher.
FOOTBALL Atalanta v Everton, 5.30pm, BT Sport 2
THE Toffees find themselves in a tricky Europa League group along with French side Lyon and Atalanta from Italy, where they get their campaign under way this evening. Then, Arsenal welcome FC Cologne to the Emirates (8pm).
GOLF BMW Championship, 6pm, Sky Sports Golf
THIS third of four FedEx Cup play-off events was won in 2016 by Dustin Johnson in Indiana. This year’s event is in Illinois, after which the top 30 in the standings go on to compete in the Tour Championship.
FREEVIEW FILM The Secret Life Of Bees, 6.50pm, Film4
DAKOTA FANNING is the South Carolina girl fleeing abuse to restart her life in a surrogate family of black women. Sentimental but empowering.
EPIC ROMANCE Outlander, 9pm, More4
JAMIE has been remarkably accepting of Claire’s revelation that she’s a time traveller. Just as well, as it spares us a lot of arguing, and they get to have such lovely conversations as they do here — she regales her sweet Highlander with stories of what it’s like to fly in a plane. ‘And they just stay aloft like birds?’ he marvels.
POP SUPERSTAR Mariah’s World, 9pm, 4 Music
AMID the showboating and glamour of Mariah Carey’s reality series, there are glimpses of something deeper: ‘We did not grow up this way,’ says Mariah as, in this first part, she and her nephew chat on a boat that’s bigger than some schools. (Freeview 18, Sky 362, Virgin 337)
WHEN IN ROME Bromans, 9pm, ITV2
‘EIGHT 21st-century lads are transported to the Roman Empire to see if they can cut it as gladiators.’ This reality show sounds like something Alan Partridge might dream up, but it is quite the spectacle. The ‘lads’ are joined for this experience in Roman living by their girlfriends (including Nicole, pictured with Brandon).
GOOD SPORTS A League Of Their Own, 9pm, Sky 1
THE joy of this panel show is in the camaraderie of host James Corden and the regular panellists and the heights of sheer silliness this allows them to scale. As it returns for series 12, challenges include leaping between moving platforms, 15m up.
COMEDIANS’ CHAT John Bishop: In Conversation With David Walliams, 9pm, W
WALLIAMS (pictured with Bishop) is the first guest in a new run, and the show is at its sweetest when Bishop brings Walliams’s proud mum, sitting in the audience, into the conversation. There’s a family feeling to the evening in general — two of Bishop’s sons are in the credits, on the production team.
SURVIVAL CHALLENGE Ed Stafford: Left For Dead, 9pm, Discovery
THE ex-British Army man is dropped into the wild and given ten days to reach civilisation in this new series. Ed is in Madagascar for the first expedition, followed by a drone that takes some stunning aerial footage of his steadily worsening predicament.