Satellite choice
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Shaun The Sheep, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
TV’s fluffy favourite gets his own big-screen spin-off, courtesy of Aardman. Shaun and friends are off to the big city — and, just as you’d expect, the gag rate is bewilderingly high..
ATHLETICS Diamond League:: The Golden Gala, 7pm, British Eurosport 2
LIVE coverage from Rome of this prestigious meeting. Highlight of the night could be the women’s 100m hurdles, which looks set to feature fierce rivals Brianna Rollins, Dawn Harper Nelson and Sally Pearson.
GOLF The Memorial, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 4
AN INVITATIONAL event on the PGA Tour. Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama won this tournament in 2014, after beating South Koreaborn Kevin Na in a play-off to claim his first-ever Tour title.
FILM DRAMA The Remains Of The Day, 8pm, Sky Great Brits
MERCHANT IVORY’S typically elegant adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, with Anthony Hopkins as the butler determined to remain loyal to his master — whatever the cost. Emma Thompson is the housekeeper failing to turn his head until it is too late.
STRANGE TOWN
Waywardy Pines, 9pm, Fox
TTHE sheriff is dead, which means we no longer have to put up with those awful scenes of him slurping ice cream. It’s bad for Burke, though — it makes him the new lawman. This eepisode also introduces Mrs Fisher of the creepy Wayward Pines AcademyAcademy, a role that was expanded after the writers saw Hope Davis’s (pictured) performance and wanted more. If you’re waiting for answers, they’re coming next week.
BUILDING HISTORY Tales Of Irish Castles, 9pm, Yesterday
SIMON DELANEY is the amiable host for a new series that begins in the 12th century, with the arrival of high-tech Anglo-Norman forces in Ireland — and the buildings that followed their success.
LEGAL EAGLES
The Good Wife, 9pm, More4
DIANE, Cary and Alicia come under fire for past events in a new episode that features some exciting bursts of energy and wheels within wheels. It is dominated by the guest appearance of Ron Rifkin as Spencer Randolph, civil rights lawyer extraordinaire, who makes everyone go weak at the knees. Even Eli is intimidated.
BRIT FLICK
Exam, 9pm, Sony Movie Channel
AN IMPRESSIVE debut from Brit Stuart Hazeldine, this stylish lowbudget thriller uses the kind of restrictive set that Alfred Hitchcock would have revelled in. Jimi Mistry is among the candidates taking the job interview from hell.
EX-CON LAWMAN
Banshee, 10pm, Sky Atlantic
PEOPLE are always changing in this violent small-town drama, but rarely for the better. At the start of the new, third season, fake sheriff Lucas Hood has the police department following his corrupt lead, and encounters two formidable new foes — a no-nonsense Marine colonel and a tribal gang with a penchant for high-powered bows.
GHOST HUNT
Most Haunted, 10pm, Really
YVETTE FIELDING (pictured) is convinced she’s seen a ghost by the end of this opener to a new run of the atmospheric spook-hunt. She’s at the Tivoli Venue in Buckley, north Wales — where a fire claimed the life of a projectionist in 1945 — and is joined by Glen Hunt, self-described voice of the sceptical viewer, and a suitably dressed demonologist.