Satellite choice

ANIMATED FUN

Epic, 11.10am, 6.10pm, Sky Family WILLIAM JOYCE’S children’s tale The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs inspired this, er, epic story from Ice Age studio Blue Sky — a cute animation with a hefty environmental message.

GOLF

The Masters, 7pm, Sky Sports 4 THE opening round of the first Major of the season. No European has won this contest since 1999, but Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy stands a good chance of taking the title at the Augusta National course.

CLASSIC MOTOR

Car SOS, 8pm, National Geographic FUZZ TOWNSHEND and Tim Shaw have found a 1962 Austin Healey Sprite once raced by a team that included Steve McQueen and Stirling Moss. They plan to recondition it, so Moss (pictured with Townshend and Shaw) can take it for a spin — and that makes for a good, high-profile start to the new series.

HEART-WARMING FILM

Mrs Doubtfire, 8pm, Sky Family THE late Robin Williams plays one of his finest comedy creations — in one of his finest family films. He’s the divorcing dad dragging up in order to see his own kids, but not thinking about the consequences.

LEGAL EAGLES

The Good Wife, 9pm, More4 CARY is preparing for prison, and Matt Czuchry’s performance puts every bit of the character’s fear and frustration up on the screen. Meanwhile, Kalinda and Diane go through the wringer trying to help, and Alicia’s debate practice turns into a kind of therapy. Look out for the photo of Detective Rodriguez, which would be perfectly at home as a gag in a Naked Gun movie.

MUSICAL FAMILY

Branson Famous, 9pm, TruTV THE Mabe family run a musical revue in Branson, Missouri, and want to broaden their appeal. Hence this new reality series, which looks fairly standard until, at moments of argument, they begin to sing their points of view. The opening bone of contention is a ‘sexy’ new singer of whom Megan disapproves. (Freeview 68, Freesat 154, Sky 565)

ARCTIC THRILLER

Fortitude, 9pm, Sky Atlantic SO, HAVE the people of Fortitude been responsible for their own terrible behaviour, or was it all the fault of parasitic, prehistoric wasps? The truth is somewhere in between in the intense conclusion to a series that has picked up a loyal following for Sky. The final scenes leave the story open, if only a little.

HORROR FLICK

The Cabin In The Woods, 9pm, 5H JOSS WHEDON’S inventive horror fantasy takes a dramatic twist early on, morphing from traditional slasher into something else, as the usual trappings are revealed to be products of a high-tech puppet-master. Kristen Connolly and Chris Hemsworth star.

CLASSY DRAMA

Mad Men, 10pm, Sky Atlantic THE first of the final seven episodes opens with Don (Jon Hamm) at a crossroads, and Peggy (Elisabeth Moss, pictured with Hamm) struggling to balance work and life. This could sum up almost any episode, but Mad Men’s allure relies, more than most dramas, on the inability of its central characters to be happy.