Satellite choice
NEW KIDS’ COMEDY The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud, 4.30pm, CITV
NEW British kids’ shows on CITV are few and far between, so this series about the misadventures of a fun-seeking northern family is to be applauded. The voice cast includes Johnny Vegas, Philip Glenister and Jane Horrocks. (Freeview 203, Freesat 602, Sky 621, Virgin 734)
CARTOON FUN Taffy/Mighty Mike, 4.30pm/5.30pm, Boomerang
TAFFY is a raccoon who pretends to be a cat, and this zany, Looney Tunes-style series is about him trying to keep that secret. Today’s other new show follows the slapstick antics of pug Mike, who doesn’t speak —and is all the sweeter as a result. (Sky 603, Virgin 730)
REAL LIVES Girls On Girls, BBC3 (via iPlayer)
FIVE women with very different lives spend a weekend learning about each other in this surprising new series. The first host is Ellen, a student nurse who is also a wife, stepmum and stripper, and has been having Botox since she was 21.
IN THE WILDERNESS The Last Alaskans, 9pm, Quest
NO TV show captures the pure glories of the wilderness better than The Last Alaskans, a series that follows the few remaining souls allowed to dwell in cabins in the vast Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. At the start of series three, it’s trapping season.
NEW DATING SHOW Singletown, 9pm, ITV2
IN WHAT amounts to an urban Temptation Island, British couples split up and move to London (‘the ultimate party city’), where ‘celebrity mentors’ Emily Atack and Joel Dommett (pictured) send them out on dates. The series continues nightly, and tonight, the singles reel at the twist — the exes are all living right next to each other.
GILDED YOUTH Made In Chelsea, 9pm, E4
LOVE is all around as this reality soap begins its new, 18th series, especially for Maeva, who has kissed both James and Miles, and is having difficulty choosing between the two. Miles has other options — he’s part of another romantic triangle that involves Freddie and his French date, Jade — and it all gets even more complicated later on.
FREEVIEW MOVIE The Manchurian Candidate, 9pm, Sony Movie Channel
JONATHAN DEMME’S clever update of John Frankenheimer’s eerie sci-fi tale, based on the novel by Richard Condon. Here, Denzel Washington is the Gulf War veteran hailed as a hero, but not really sure that he is. (Freeview 32, Freesat 302, Sky 321, Virgin 425)
NEW YORK JUSTICE Copper, 10pm, Alibi
IT’S been available on demand before, but this is the first time the spit-andsawdust drama has been on TV. Copper is set in New York’s Five Points district in 1864 — the same place and time as Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York — and stars Tom Weston-Jones (pictured) as the Irish policeman striving for order. Continues tomorrow at 10pm.
FILM THRILLER The Vanishing, 10.30pm, Sky Premiere
GERARD BUTLER, Peter Mullan and Connor Swindells star in this thriller about lighthouse keepers on the windswept Flannan Isles, who come upon a chest full of gold.