Satellite choice
TECH ICON Steve Jobs, 1.45pm, 8pm, Sky Premiere
DANNY BOYLE’S impressive biopic of computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender, pictured) charts the release of various Apple products over 14 years. Kate Winslet is Joanna Hoffman, the only person able to bring Jobs to heel.
ATHLETICS Diamond League: Brussels, 7pm, Eurosport 2
JAMAICAN sensation Elaine Thompson, who won Olympic gold in Rio in the 100m and 200m, faces a rematch against Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers in this season’s final Diamond League meeting.
FOOTBALL Reading v Ipswich Town, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1 & Mix
DUTCH manager Jaap Stam’s attack-minded Reading will look to continue their strong early-season home form, despite losing Latvian striker Deniss Rakels, to injury in their Cup win over MK Dons.
MUSICAL MASTERPIECE BBC Proms 2016, 7.30pm, BBC4
MARIN ALSOP conducts the penultimate Prom, which is entirely given over to Verdi’s Requiem. At nearly 90 minutes, this powerful musical and choral journey — first performed in London in 1875, when it was conducted by Verdi himself — is an epic experience.
VAMPIRE DRAMA The Strain, 9pm, W
AT THE start of the third season, the government has given up, and the people of New York stand alone aagainst the vampires — can EEph develop a biological weapon to wipe them out? This run is three episodes shorter than previous seasons, which should make the pace snappier.
FULL-THROTTLE TALE Harley And The Davidsons, 9pm, Discovery
DISCOVERY, home to heaven knows how many reality shows about Americans making motor vehicles, has now made a drama about the birth of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. It’s a snarling threeparter, with Game Of Thrones’s Michiel Huisman as a founder.
SO LONG, CARRIE Unforgettable, 9pm, Sky Living
IT’S been cancelled twice by the same network (CBS) and lived to tell more tales, but tonight’s episode really is the end for the U.S. drama about Carrie Wells (Poppy Montgomery, pictured), the detective with a near- perfect memory. Be warned: it leaves at least one loose end.
GUITAR HEROES Music For Misfits: The Story Of Indie, 9.30pm, BBC4
ALL three parts of this packed history of the genre defined by small, independent record labels. James Dean Bradfield and Shaun Ryder help to tell a story that goes from indie’s beginnings in the Seventies — when Buzzcocks self-released their Spiral Scratch EP — to the Nineties and the rise of Britpop.
COMEDY GOLD Fawlty Towers — Re-Opened, 9.55pm, Yesterday
THE cast are interviewed separately in an enjoyable celebration, with John Cleese revealing that screen wife Sybil’s laugh was based on real ex-wife Connie’s — and that some in the BBC felt the show would be ‘as dire as its title’. Thankfully, they didn’t have the last word.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 11.10pm, Film4
ALEC GUINNESS is unforgettable as TV’s George Smiley, but on the big screen, Gary Oldman steps capably into his well-worn shoes as the agent setting out to snare a sleeper.