Satellite choice
GOLF PGA Tour Championship, 6pm, Sky Sports 4
WINS in two out of three of this year’s FedEx Cup tournaments — the BMW Championship and The Barclays — have sent Jason Day to the top of the world rankings. Can the Aussie find the perfect finish to his excellent season by claiming the title of Tour champion with victory in this final FedEx Cup event, in Atlanta, Georgia?
FILM COMEDY COMEDYDRAMA DRAMA
Pride, 8pm, Sky Drama
THERE are two sets of issues-lite in this rousing Britcom, based on a true story. Dominic West and Joseph Gilgun are among the gay Eighties activists lending their support to striking miners, and a supporting cast full of recognisable faces includes the likes of Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton (pictured centre).
LIVE MUSIC Vintage TV Sessions, 8pm, Vintage TV
TERRY CHRISTIAN presents a new live session from Islington, with singer-songwriter Midge Ure, Norway’s Katzenjammer, Sixties legends The Troggs, plus singer Camille O’Sullivan. (Sky 369, Virgin 343, Freesat 505)
MATHS INSIGHT The Secret Rules Of Modern Living: Algorithms, 9pm, BBC4
ALGORITHMS are everywhere — whether you realise it or not. Marcus du Sautoy presents this one-off exploring a world of processes that underpin modern technology — they run search engines, for example — and which have also been used to perform calculations for thousands of years.
GARDEN CHALLENGE Titchmarsh On Capability Brown, 9pm, More4
ALAN continues his mission to bring to life a lost Capability Brown landscaping design for Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. But it’s not going to be cheap. Earlier efforts to realise Brown’s visions at Belvoir almost led to bankruptcy . . .
SILENT COMEDY
Brilliantman!, 9pm, Sky Arts
ANOTHER treat from the Sky Arts Physical Comedy season, a silent comedy written by and starring Kevin Eldon (pictured with Johnny Vegas) as a trundling council worker with a superhero alter ego called Brilliantman. Focusing on the challenges of expediently changing into a superhero suit, it also features a sinister puppet parrot. A superb reel of sight gags, costume changes and canny intertitles.
TERRORIST ATROCITY Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris, 10pm, More4
DOCUMENTARY piecing together the events of last January, when the French capital was rocked by a series of terrorist acts, beginning with the murder of 12 employees of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The days that followed shocked and unsettled the world.
ROLLING STONE Keith Richards: Under The Influence, Netflix
‘YOU’RE never grown up,’ reflects Keith Richards at the start of this profile from Morgan Neville, the director of 20 Feet From Stardom (also excellent, also on Netflix). What shines through from the start is Richards’s love and knowledge of music; Tom Waits compares him to an archaeologist.
COP THRILLER
Dirty Harry, 10.40pm, TCM
A CLASSIC from director Don Siegel that should make the day of any crime genrelover. Clint Eastwood is unforgettable as the original Seventies vigilante cop in a thriller fizzing with menace.