Satellite choice
RUGBY UNION Bath v Wasps, 2.30pm, BT Sport 1
THE Recreation Ground is the venue for what could be a crucial Premiership clash in the race for a play-off place. Bath have been in fine form since the post-lockdown restart, and will be hoping to make it four wins in a row tonight.
TENNIS U.S. Open, 4pm, Amazon Prime
WHILE defending champions Rafael Nadal and Bianca Andreescu will be absent from this year’s Grand Slam at Flushing Meadows, world number one Novak Djokovic will be going for his fourth U.S. title, and Andy Murray is a wild-card entry.
FAIRYTALE ANIMATION Snow White And The Red Shoes, 6.20pm, Sky Premiere
THE shoes in this twist on the tale turn a curvier Snow White into a textbook princess, while the seven dwarves are instead seven cursed princes.
BIDS FOR FREEDOM Alcatraz: The Greatest Escapes, 7.30pm, PBS America
INTERVIEWS with inmates and guards bring this new, two-part collection of escape accounts to life.
Of particular interest are the stories of Jolene Babyak, the daughter of an ex-associate warden, who lived on the Rock as a child. Ends tomorrow.
LONDON MOVIE Blue Story, 8pm, Sky Premiere
BRITISH drama set in South London, where postcodes dictate gang rivalry. Micheal Ward and Stephen Odubola are friends whose lives are marked by violence and tragedy.
COOKING CONTEST My Restaurant Rules New Zealand, 8.30pm, W
LOCAL restaurants vie to be the best in a new contest with a charming, homespun feel. Our first destination is Waiouru, nearly 2,600 feet up and with a population of 800 — incuding Tyson and his mother, Denise, who run the Rustic Eating House.
ON-DEMAND FILM Centigrade, Virgin Movies
IN AN agonisingly tense drama based on real events, a young expectant couple are trapped in their car by a blizzard in Norway — and things get steadily worse.
POP SPECTACULAR 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, 9pm, MTV
KOREAN boy band BTS will perform their Englishlanguage single Dynamite at the first awards show in New York since the pandemic. Also on stage at the outdoor show are Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and The Weeknd. (Sky 126, Virgin 134)
MOTOR TRADE Wheeler Dealers, 9pm, Discovery
A NEW series for the show in which Mike Brewer picks up a cheap(ish) car, then asks Ant Anstead to fix it up. Mike’s choice here is a 1969 Datsun with a red velour interior, and the technical detail from Ant on the work that follows is interesting — but there’s something a bit cold about the banter between the duo.
DIFFERENT FOLKS Wife Swap USA, 10pm, E4
FAMILIES from almost comically different backgrounds swap a parent in this returning series. Easy-going mum Nikki Mullis, whose idea of cooking is takeaway from McDonald’s, gets a shock when she moves in with the Nigerian Akinbodes, where home cooking and discipline are key — the children even bow to their mother.
DRAMA REPEAT Cleaning Up, 11pm, ITV3
IN AN ITV drama from 2019 that could be regarded as peak Sheridan Smith, the actress delivers a typically gutsy performance as a cleaner who finds a lucrative — but illegal — way of making money from the stock market. Sam (Smith, pictured) is a mum-oftwo in the throes of a bitter divorce, so the stakes are high. Continues nightly.