Satellite choice
FILM DRAMA Captain Phillips, 3.20pm, Sky Action
TOM HANKS is the captain keeping his head when his container ship is hijacked by pirates in this blend of action and real-life terror from Paul Greengrass — a film-maker who knows how to handle both.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Real Madrid v Juventus, 7pm, Sky Sports 1 & 5
THE second leg of this semi-final should be a real cracker. Madrid got that vital away goal in Turin, but the Italian side have formidable strength in depth.
WWII STORIES Britain’s Caribbean Heroes, 9pm, BBC4
THE stories of Caribbean volunteers during World War II are celebrated in this new mix of archive footage and stories. Winston Murphy and Victor Brown were the only black men on a merchant navy oil tanker, and are reunited here.
FREEVIEW COMEDY
21 Jump Street, 9pm, ITV2
ORIGINALLY an Eighties TV drama that helped to launch the career of Johnny Depp, the concept — of young cops going undercover in a school — is revived for this update. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are the chalk-andcheese duo, fresh out of police academy and hunting drugs in high school.
SITCOM SERIES END
You, Me & Them, 10pm, Gold
THE series two finale is about nuptials, but not just those of Lauren and Ed (Eve Myles and Anthony Head). Ed’s heavily caffeinated, blue-sky wedding planning provides the comic highlight.
NEW ADULT DRAMA
The Affair, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
UNCOMFORTABLE new U.S. drama — which already has a Golden Globe to its name — that presents the story of an affair through the eyes of a man (Dominic West) and a woman (Ruth Wilson, pictured with West), both of whom are looking for a way out of their lives. The situation seems cut and dried when you see it from his perspective, but, when the view shifts to her, the differences between their memories suggest that something else is going on.
COMEDY SERIES Murder In Successville, 10pm,p, BBC3
GREG JAMES is the celebrity sleuth for one of the best episodes of this high-velocity comedy whodunit. Among the suspects are the Reverend Gary Barlow (Colin Hoult), casino kingpin Justin Bieber (Cariad Lloyd) and strip club owner Mary Berry (a commanding Frances Barber). A tight, joke-rich episode that could stand to run longer than half an hour, and includes some remarkable ‘urban’ singing from Greg James.
U.S. MUSICAL DRAMA
Nashville, 10pm, E4
AT THE start of its new, third season, this U.S. primetime soap is packed with emotional dilemmas. Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) is lost in man-related misery and chops off her hair, then is reminded about her big movie audition — while Rayna (Connie Britton) has to decide between two men.