Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Chelsea v Manchester United/ Liverpool v Arsenal, 7pm, Sky Main Event/Sky Football
TWO cracking last-16 ties in the League Cup. Can Unai Emery see off Liverpool, whom the Gunners last beat in 2015, and take a step closer to winning his first trophy with Arsenal. And can Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stay on track for his first silverware as United manager?
HOME RENOVATION Property Brothers: Double Down, 7pm, W
THE property brothers are Drew and Jonathan Scott (pictured), a likeable set of twins from Canada, who offer renovation advice and regularly mock each other. For this first of a new series, the brothers help a family who encounter nasty surprises on a fixer-upper. Continues every weekday.
TEEN TERROR Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, 8pm, Nickelodeon
THIS daily, three-part Canadian tale of teens taking on a creepy carnival was too scary to be shown here at first — it had to be edited and will still be too much for small children. That said, it’s a thrilling ride, with the kind of production values you don’t always see in kids’ TV. (Sky 604, Virgin 712)
SUPERHERO SERIES Arrow, 8pm, Sky One
THE comics of the DC universe have made better TV than they have films, and this is the start of the final season for a show that’s been one of the best. Season eight is Arrow’s most ambitious, too, as it places Oliver in the middle of the mammoth Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover story from the comics.
FUNNY GAMES Taskmaster, 9pm, Dave
IN WHAT must surely be a first, host Greg Davies is impressed by every single contender’s efforts in the initial challenge — even David Baddiel, who is languishing in last place. Baddiel certainly goes on to pull out all the stops tonight, but will it be enough to scrape himself off the bottom of the leaderboard by next week’s final?
ART SLEUTHS Britain’s Lost Masterpieces, 9pm, BBC4
PAINTINGS lie unseen in storage rooms all across the country, and Emma Dabiri and Bendor Grosvenor (pictured) want to bring them into the light. Here, the duo visit the Bodleian library in Oxford, where Grosvenor may have discovered an uncredited work by the artist Pompeo Batoni.
CLIFFTOP ASSAULT D-Day At Pointe Du Hoc, 9pm, PBS America
THERE are many stories to tell from D-Day, but the assault by U.S. Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc is one of the most extraordinary. David McCallum narrates this account of what many thought would be a suicide mission to scale 100ft cliffs and destroy German artillery.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Deadpool, 9pm, Film4
SUPERHERO shenanigans for grown-ups — rude, sweary and bloody. Ryan Reynolds plays the wisecracking mercenary who goes super after trying an experimental cure for cancer.
ITALIAN CRIME TALE Dogman, 10.50pm, Sky Premiere
A CRIME drama for fans of director Matteo Garrone’s 2008 film Gomorrah. Marcello Fonte is the dog groomer in a depressed coastal town, who deals cocaine on the side.
HORROR FLICK Midsommar, Virgin Movies
THIS deeply unsettling film is set at a pagan Swedish festival; it places a relationship break-up at its core, and stars Florence Pugh. The director, Ari Aster, also made 2018 horror Hereditary.