Satellite choice
FANTASY ANIMATION Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart, 6pm, Sky Premiere
MELANCHOLY musical fantasy from France, following a sad boy with a mechanical heart, who must never lose his temper — or fall in love.
SOCCER Arsenal v Newcastle United, 7pm, Sky Main Event & Premier League
JUST nine days since their extra-time defeat in the FA Cup, Newcastle are back at the Emirates, where Steve Bruce will be hoping his side can keep the Gunners at bay for 90 minutes once again.
SPACE ADVENTURE Star Trek: Enterprise, 7pm, Pick
A CHANCE to see this pre-Kirk Star Trek show from the start. There’s a real sense of adventure to Enterprise, because the crew and their rough diamond captain (Scott Bakula) are going into the great beyond without fancy technology, or respect from the aliens they meet.
EMERGENCY SERVICE Inside The Ambulance: Coast And Country, 8pm, W
WE RETURN to the calls and in-cab banter of the South Central Ambulance Service in Portsmouth and Oxford for tonight’s new series. First up, the team (including Melody Pooles, pictured) are called to help a woman who’s fallen off a horse, but are held up by boggy country tracks.
ON-DEMAND FILM Archive, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
FAMILIAR but slickly done sci-fi tale, with Theo James as scientist who has a hidden purpose when he creates a walking, talking, human-equivalent AI.
MUSICAL MOVIES Mark Kermode’s Secrets Of Cinema, 9pm, BBC4
MOVIES and pop music have a close relationship, from vehicles for its stars (A Hard Day’s Night, which follows) to the way a film can help a song to top the charts. Music is close to Kermode’s heart — the critic is a skiffle player.
TORONTO SLEUTH Murdoch Mysteries, 9pm, Alibi
THE new, 14th season of this cosy Canadian mystery deals with death in the world of vaudeville, and the case introduces us to rising talents Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton. Don’t miss the moment of inspiration for Chaplin’s Tramp character.
U.S. SITCOM A.P. Bio, 9pm, Sky Comedy
THE new, third season of this school comedy is just eight episodes long, but manages to pack an awful lot of wackiness into that short run. In tonight’s curtainraiser, Principal Durbin (Patton Oswalt, pictured), his chest hair freshly dyed, mans the phones while his secretary makes an awkward return to the classroom.
ILLICIT TRADE Trafficked, 9pm, National Geographic
THE journalist Mariana van Zeller explores different types of trafficking in this hard-hitting new series, from humans to wildlife to money to drugs. She starts with tigers, and chats to an imprisoned Joe Exotic, of Tiger King fame, before heading to the front line of the global black market in Thailand.
ISRAELI THRILLER The Missing File, Acorn TV
A TERRORIST attack distracts the Israeli security service from an important missing persons case in a tough eight-part drama.
ROM-COM MOVIE Benjamin, 11.05pm, Film4
BITTERSWEET romantic drama, written and directed by comedian Simon Amstell, who also penned the sitcom Grandma’s House. Colin Morgan (Merlin, Humans) stars as a film-maker failing to make connections, until he meets French singer Noah (Phenix Brossard).