Satellite choice GANGSTER’S RISE
Wartime Crime, 8pm, Yesterday
FACT-BASED FILM The Zookeeper’s Wife, 1.45pm, Sky Premiere
JESSICA Chastain (pictured) stars as Antonina Zabinski in this World War II drama. With her husband Jan (Johan Heldenbergh), Antonina used the bombed-out Warsaw Zoo to shelter Jews.
EIGHTIES MOVIE Batteries Not Included, 4pm, 5Star
SCI-FI comedy in which tiny aliens come to the aid of the vulnerable residents of an apartment building, who are being evicted with bully tactics. The aliens, which resemble toy-sized spaceships and can fix and restore anything, set about answering a desperate DIY SOS.
FOOTBALL Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United, 7.30pm, Sky Sports Premier League & Main Event
THE Hammers, under new manager David Moyes, have already beaten London rivals Chelsea and held Arsenal to a draw. Can they stand up to Spurs at Wembley Stadium tonight? NEW history series about home front crime, which makes Blitz-era London feel like the gangster movies of Martin Scorsese. When Italy entered the war, many Italians were interned in the UK, creating a vacuum in the capital’s gangs that was exploited by Billy Hill.
CARTOON KING Walt Disney, 8pm, BBC4
BOTH halves of a glossy but not uncritical documentary about the studio founder. ‘He didn’t handle criticism very well, ever,’ reflects a contributor on the divisive response provoked by such creative risks as Fantasia. A lot of interesting footage from the Disney archive fleshes out his life and times.
INTO THIN AIR Mysteries Of The Missing, 9pm, Discovery
LOST’S Terry O’Quinn lends a suitable sense of mystery as the host of this new series about planes, people and places that have disappeared. His first case is Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished on its way from Malaysia to China in 2014 and has never been found.
HARD TIME Banged Up Abroad, 9pm, National Geographic
PIETER Tritton (pictured) recounts how he slid out of his studies in Cardiff and into selling drugs, then into and out of prison and on to a smuggling enterprise out of Ecuador. This first of a new series is a wellrounded tale of bad choices, told with self-reflection by Tritton.
CLASSIC BOND Dr No, 9pm, ITV4
THE first and – until recently – arguably best of the many adaptations of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels. Sean Connery stars as 007, heading to Jamaica for a confrontation with a member of Spectre, a criminal organisation
that won’t go away.
POLITICAL DRAMA Madam Secretary, 10pm, Sky Living
SARA Ramirez (pictured), who played Torres in Grey’s Anatomy, pops up as a funky-looking and insightful strategist tonight. The Secretary of State (Tea Leoni) is dealing with a Russian problem, and Sandoval (Ramirez) gives her the inside track in less time than it takes to boil a kettle.