Satellite choice
LIVE HOCKEY Ireland v England, 1.30pm, BT Sport 1
IN their final group game in the World Cup in India, Ireland need a draw or a win against the old enemy to progress in the tournament. Expect a tension-filled afternoon...
FILM FANTASY Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle, Netflix
ANDY Serkis is the king of motioncapture performances – Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings, Caesar in Planet Of The Apes – and he directs this mesmerising Jungle Book adaptation, which uses motion capture very well. The voice cast includes Serkis as Baloo and a fang-drippingly sinister Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan.
FUNNY MOVIE Dumplin’, Netflix
IN A heartfelt comedy driven by the music of Dolly Parton, Jennifer Aniston stars as a beauty pageant legend who’s the mother of an overweight daughter (Danielle Macdonald, pictured with Aniston).
Their lives both change when her daughter decides to compete in a pageant, but on her terms.
SCI-FI ACTION Maze Runner: The Death Cure, 8pm, Sky Premiere
CONCLUSION of the Maze Runner trilogy, in which Dylan O’Brien and the other ‘Gladers’ rally to the rescue of one of their own.
A STAR IS BORN... Barbra Streisand: Becoming An Icon, 9pm, BBC4
AFTER an unhappy flirtation with acting classes (‘She’s a pain in neck and she has no talent,’ noted a teacher), Barbra started singing in clubs. News of her voice spread, triggering a meteoric rise at the age of just 18. This new profile tells that story with style.
U.S. COPS Women On Patrol, 9pm, Lifetime
THIS new series follows the work of female law enforcement officers in the US as they act with admirable diplomacy on calls about domestic violence or ‘drunk or high people doing stupid stuff’. It’s unusually frank for a US show of its kind, and takes the viewer to all kinds of places.
HOMICIDE SQUAD The Detail, 9pm, 5 USA
IN Medium, David Cubitt played a noble detective who kept his feelings under the hood. In The Detail, he plays a noble detective who keeps his feelings under the hood – and in tonight’s compelling new episode, Price (Cubitt, pictured with Angela Griffin) moves centre stage as a killer he failed to catch resurfaces.
BAND PROFILE Roxy Music: A Musical History, 10pm, BBC4
A CELEBRATION of the band founded after Bryan Ferry placed an advert in Melody Maker in 1971 (‘quality musicians only’), this lively new programme features stories and observations from Sadie Frost, Shaun Ryder and Ana Matronic. There’s plenty of music, too.
IN THE LINE OF FIRE Hunting Isis, 10pm, History
THIS real-life series feels like an inside track on history, so it’s on the right channel. After air strikes hit a Syrian town, Western volunteer PJ moves in with the Kurdish militia to drive out the remains of Isis. It’s what comes after that hits hardest as the emotional residents return.