Satellite choice
CARTOON CAPERS Looney Tunes, 6pm, Boomerang
NEW adventures for Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other familiar characters are showing every weekday. The look is classic, with the occasional slight modern twist, and the humour has a similar feel. (Sky 603, Virgin 730)
SPEEDWAY Speedway of Nations, 6.30pm, BT Sport 1
BELLE VUE Stadium is the venue for this second of two race-offs in this pairs event, with three of the seven teams progressing to Friday’s final in Poland. Can GB’s Craig Cook and Tai Woffinden make the home crowd proud?
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Darkest Hour, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
GARY OLDMAN won an Oscar for his rousing performance as Winston Churchill in a film that isn’t quite worthy of it. The focus is on Churchill’s campaign against elements in the British government who wanted peace with Hitler.
YOUNG BRITS My Obese Life, 9pm, 5Star
‘I’M ALWAYS questioning, “Why me, why is he still with me?”’ says 24-year-old Naomi (pictured), who worries that her weight will drive away her boyfriend, whom she’s been with since the sixth form. Naomi is one of three young women whose concerns make for sad viewing in this new documentary.
LONDON CRIME Bulletproof, 9pm, Sky One
AS THIS movie-style police drama continues, Pike’s father — who also happens to be his boss — tells him to steer well clear of the Sharp case. Pike (Ashley Walters) is having none of it, though. ‘Just let us do our job,’ he rages, before ignoring his dad’s orders entirely and following a lead.
FREEVIEW THRILLER 10 Cloverfield Lane, 9pm, Film4
UNSETTLING thriller in which Mary Elizabeth Winstead is unsure if John Goodman is her saviour or her jailer. It shares the same sci-fi Earth-in-peril
universe as 2008’s Cloverfield.
IMAGE-OBSESSED Dietland, Amazon Prime
DARK new U.S. drama set in the beauty industry, which is presented as a warzone between those committed to upholding its glossy standards, such as editor Kitty (Julianna Margulies), and those who want to tear it all down. In part one, overweight agony aunt Plum learns how divided the two camps are. A new episode arrives every Tuesday.
HARROWING DRAMA The Tale, 10pm, Sky Atlantic
IN A new, one-off drama from HBO, Laura Dern (pictured with Isabelle Nelisse) plays a woman investigating the memory of a childhood relationship that turns out to be much darker than she thought it was. Ellen Burstyn costars in a very finely acted tale of memory, identity and child abuse.
LOS ANGELES A&E Code Black, 10pm, W
THIS medical drama takes itself seriously, so it’s a nice change of gear for it to open with a full songand-dance number. The trigger for all this razzmatazz is a recently arrived patient who has visions.
NEW YORK STORY Most Beautiful Island, 10pm, Sky Premiere
SET in New York City, this tense thriller follows an immigrant (Ana Asensio, who also writes and directs) as she is sucked into a seedy, dangerous world — with unpredictable results.