Satellite choice

CURLING World Championships, 9am, Eurosport 2 SCOTLAND’S men’s team have already played South Korea, Norway and Russia; up next are Japan and Canada.

TENNIS Katowice Open, 12 noon, Eurosport 2 AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA is the local favourite, but she has yet to win this event.

FAMILY FILM Alexander..., 2.50pm,p, Skyy Disneyy

THIS energetic family comedy — based on Judith Viorst’s awardwinning books — makes terrific entertainment for younger viewers. Ed Oxenbould (pictured) is the kid having a really, really bad day.

HEARTY COOKING The Pioneer Woman, 3pm, Food Network REE DRUMMOND is one of a growing number of food bloggers whose dishes are lapped up by TV audiences, too. It’s hearty, homely food from an ‘accidental country girl’ who knows her stuff.

COOKERY CHALLENGE

Battlechefs, 7pm, W DEBRA STEPHENSON, Alex James and Jenny Eclair — a MasterChef veteran — are among the competing celebrities in this eccentric new series. They’re on the good ship Britannia, cruising the coast of Spain, while Marco Pierre White coaches them with surprising gentleness. Whom will he select to be head chef on the first night?

DOCUMENTARY The Real King’s Speech, 8pm, Yesterday The 2010 Colin Firth film was Hollywood’s account of the vocal struggles of shy King George VI, who unexpectedly took the throne in 1936. This documentary features archive footage to tell a less glossy — but no less fascinating — story of Lionel Logue’s groundbreaking therapy.

KNOW HOW James May: The Reassembler, 9pm, BBC4 SLOWLY but surely, James May (pictured) sets about putting things back together. Over the next three nights, he will be laying out on his workshop table the component parts of three mechanical objects — a lawn mower, a rotary dial telephone and an electric guitar — and painstakingly rebuilding them.

ROMAN COMEDY

Plebs,, 10pm,p, ITV2 THE historical comedy returns for a third series, and the goofy, sexobsessed young Romans are desperate to get tickets to the ‘beast shows’. Marcus is sidetracked by a beautiful animal rights activist from Gaul, while Grumio saves Juno the goat from the dinner table of lippy landlady Maureen Lipman (pictured).

MOVIE HORROR Sleepy Hollow, 11.15pm, Film4 TIM BURTON’S grand retelling of the classic Washington Irving horror story, and his third film to feature pal Johnny Depp — who is perfectly cast here as Ichabod Crane, the unorthodox lawman on the trail of an allegedly headless horseman. Christina Ricci is the beautiful aristo who might be at the centre of the mystery.