Satellite choice
ON-DEMAND FILM Me And Earl And The Dying Girl, BT TV, Skyy Store, Virging
JESSE ANDREWS adapts his own debut novel in sassy, crowdpleasing style. Thomas Mann is the kid forced to hang out with terminally ill Olivia Cooke — and finding true friendship.
FOOTBALL Liverpool v Arsenal, 7.15pm, BT Sport 1
MIGHT this be Arsenal’s year? Mesut Ozil’s wizardry has boosted their confidence, despite a recent 4-0 setback against Southampton.
NEW SCANDI-DRAMA
Occupied, 9pm, Sky Arts
RUSSIA invades Norway and kidnaps its Prime Minister (Henrik Mestad) in this thoughtprovoking new Norwegian drama. It’s based on an idea by Jo Nesbo (Headhunters) and set in the near future, during an energy crisis.
HISTORY Empire Of The Tsars: Romanov Russia With Lucy Worsley, 9pm, BBC4 THE middle part of Worsley’s colourful history focuses on Catherine the Great, a self-educated German who married into the Romanov dynasty, and worked her
way ruthlessly to the throne. Catherine was an enlightened ruler whose championing of the smallpox vaccine — she took it herself first, which was revolutionary — saved many lives, but she ruled a serf economy with the power of a despot.
CRIME DRAMA-LITE
Bones, 9pm, Pick
THE Freeview premiere for season four of this U.S. drama, in which its brains-and-brawn duo, Bones (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz, pictured), go to Oxford University for a conference — and then on to London for a case.
AFFECTED BY WAR The Homefront, 9pm, PBS America
HONEST and affecting new documentary about the impact of military service on the families of members of the U.S. armed forces. While it’s purely focused on Americans, these stories of sacrifice and loyalty are common to all nations with a volunteer army. ‘This is a family business,’ says one of the military men interviewed.
PERSONAL WOES
Too Ugly For Love?, 9pm, TLC
THE sensitive British series about singletons with hidden conditions returns for a new run. Among the 12 whose dating adventures it follows is beautician Chloe, who wears a wig to cover her alopecia. ‘It’s the first and the last thing I think about every day,’ she says. Surely, someone can look past it?
SQUASH Tournament of Champions 10pm, BT Sport 2
RUNNER-UP in 2015, Yorkshire’s Nick Matthew is seeded number two as the best squash players in the world gather again in the Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal, New York.
WWII MOVIE Hope And Glory, 11.05pm, Sony Movie Channel
SEBASTIAN RICE-EDWARDS is Billy, the kid having a fine Boy’s Own adventure in John Boorman’s refreshingly unsentimental World War II tale. Being only ten, Billy is far too young to understand the true horrors of war. (Sky 323)