Satellite choice
FILM CLASSIC The Flight Of The Phoenix, 10.10am,, More4 ROBERT ALDRICH’S adaptation of Elleston Trevor’s 1964 novel. Jimmy Stewart (pictured with Richard Attenborough) tops an impressive cast as the pilot rallying the survivors when his plane ditches in the desert.
NEW ANIMATION Disney’s Mickey Mouse, 3.25pm, Disney Channel BRAND new series of the animation starring Disney’s most famous mouse, given a bit of a modern makeover. In the opening episode, an injured Pluto is wearing a vet’s cone, so Mickey wears one, too. Total chaos ensues. (Sky 609, Virgin 724)
EURO-QUALIFIER Georgia v Scotland, 4.30pm, Sky Sports 1 THE reverse fixture last year, played at Ibrox, saw Gordon Strachan’s Scotland securing a 1-0 win. They come into this match lying third in the Euro 2016 qualifying Group D standings.
RUGBY LEAGUE Leeds Rhinos v St Helens, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 2 THE Rhinos’ form coming into this heavyweight Super 8s contest has been more consistent than that of the Saints, and Leeds captain Kevin Sinfield will be tough to hold back with yet another Super League trophy in his sights.
NEW BRITCOM
Pride, 8pm, Sky Premiere ALL the camp cliches are present and correct in this Britcom with an issues-lite theme — namely, gay support of the miners’ strike in the Eighties and the birth of the Pride movement. Right on.
WWII DRAMA
Resistance, 9pm, More4 THE second episode of the glossy French wartime drama brings home the danger of standing up to the Germans in occupied France,
especially when not everyone is on the same team. Meanwhile, Lili and the Le Gosse spend a night together at the Maison Close. Their romance might be moving fast but they are mindful that their time together could be brief.
COMEDY RETURNS
Dag, 9pm, Sky Arts NEW second series of the bone-dry Norwegian comedy about a marriage counsellor whose own personal relationships are far from functional. We find Dag (Atle Antonsen) a little worse for wear after drowning his sorrows in drink — and adopting an unorthodox approach to drying out.
ACTION THRILLER
The Fixer, 10pm, Fox THIS bold as brass four-part action thriller doesn’t hang about. Following an oil-rig disaster in the Atlantic, Ellie Molaro (Kathleen Robertson), from the National Accident Investigation Agency, is informed by a buff mystery man that the catastrophe is part of something far bigger and far uglier. It’s formulaic in the short cuts it takes but makes up for it with energy and efficiency.
LAST-EVER EPISODE Bored To Death, 12.55am, Sky Atlantic BID farewell to the cult comedy with tonight’s last-ever episode. Essentially an off-kilter bromance between its three male leads, who would have thought Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and Jason Schwartzman (pictured) would make
such a dream team?