Satellite choice

TENNIS Rotterdam Open, 10am, Sky Sports 3

LIVE day-two coverage of this ATP Tour event from the delightfully named Ahoy Rotterdam complex.

MOVIE COMEDY Employee Of The Month, 6pm, Sky Valentine

DAFT, but watchable, comedy, with Dane Cook and Dax Shepard as the rivals — in love and shelf-stacking — fighting over a pretty colleague.

MOVIE DRAMA The Madness Of King George, 6.50pm, Film4

ALAN BENNETT adapts his own play about the colourful later life of George III for the screen. Nigel Hawthorne (pictured) tops the cast as the rambunctious royal.

FOOTBALL Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur, 7.15pm, BT Sport 1

A TREAT from Anfield for fans of the Premier League. The teams last met in the league in August, with Liverpool winning that game 3-0.

SUPERHERO DRAMA

The Flash, 8pm, Sky1

AS THIS U.S. superhero series returns with new episodes, the Flash is challenged by Captain Cold and Heat Wave. This nefarious duo is played by Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell (the brothers from Prison Break) and adds an enjoyably unapologetic evil to an otherwise upbeat show.

PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Dracula Untold, BT TV, Sky Store, Virgin Movies

DRACULA reimagined as a superhero origin story, but with a painfully straight face. Luke Evans is Vlad, but Charles Dance steals the show in his brief appearances.

DYSTOPIAN DRAMA

The 100, 9pm, E4

THERE’S a steady drip of developments in this week’s new episode, as the reason for the acid fog is revealed and the situation inside Mount Weather becomes dangerous for those on both sides. Lincoln is back, although he’s not the man he was — while the hobbled Raven comes into her own in the field and even manages a smile.

ANCIENT HISTORY Cleopatra: A Timewatch Guide, 9pm, BBC4

IN AN interesting new documentary, Vanessa Collingridge sifts the BBC archive — both documentary and drama — to explore how our perceptions of Cleopatraleopatra have changed. The ruler’s relationships with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar come in for special scrutiny.

NEW COMEDY

Uncle, 10pm, BBC3

THE comedy about a layabout musician (Nick Helm) and his uptight nephew (Elliot SpellerGillott, pictured with Helm), begins its second series with a restraining order separating the two. There’s a lot going on here, from the poignant undertow of its characters to the sudden musical numbers, and it’s more about funny situations

than jokes.

DOCUMENTARY The Chinese Mayor, 11pm, BBC4

THIS new documentary captures the realities of life and politics in the Chinese city of Datong with extraordinary immediacy. A former imperial capital, Datong became the most polluted city in China, but its mayor wants to turn it into a cultural powerhouse.