Satellite choice
TENNIS
Paris Masters, 10am, Sky Action & Main Event THE battle for world number one goes on. Roger Federer is doubtful for this tournament, but Rafa Nadal is set appear in this indoor event before the World Tour Finals.
TRUE-TALE MOVIE
Loving,g, 1.55pm,p, Sky Premiere POWERFUL, fact-based ddrama starring Ruth Negga (pictured) aand Joel Edgerton as the Lovings, who, in 1967, won a landmark civil rights case that changedchan laws banning interracial marriage.
ORIGINAL RE-RUN
Remington Steele, 4pm, 5 USA THE real private eye in this Eighties series wasn’t Steele (Pierce Brosnan), it was Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist). When potential clients turned their noses up at hiring a female gumshoe, Holt invented Steele as her boss . . .
TODAY’S WORLD
Bowe Bergdahl vs The United States, 9pm, BBC4 IN 2009, U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl left his post in Afghanistan, and was captured by the Taliban. He was returned to the US in 2014, and has since pleaded guilty to desertion. Sean Langan — also once a Taliban hostage — gets the inside story from Bergdahl and his parents.
SUPER-ACTIONER
Transformers: The Last Knight, BT TV Store, Sky Store, Virgin ANTHONY HOPKINS gives a fun performance in this Arthuriantinged adventure for Michael Bay’s belligerent robots!
PET HAVEN
Vet On The Hill, 9pm, More4 THE return of the upbeat series that follows an Australian vet in London. A ‘celebrity dachshund’ has liver disease in episode one, and Scott Miller must do what he can to help — also tonight, the Aussie makes a surprising discovery during surgery on a large cat.
FANTASY DRAMA
Preacher, 9pm, AMC DOMINIC COOPER stars in a scrappy, B-moviestyle adaptation of the comic-book series that jumps around in place and time. As it begins, Cooper plays the Texas preacher who is trying, unsuccessfully, to escape a violent past. If you’d like to see more, two seasons are available on demand, on Amazon. (Sky 192, BT TV 332)
NEW VIEW
John Torode’s Asia, 9pm, Good Food THE chef is overcome with emotion at the start of his new series. He’s at the Golden Temple in India, where 100,000 100000 people are fed every day, for free — it’s all funded by donations, and delicious. ‘I’ve never felt anything like this before,’ marvels Torode (pictured) at a joyful experience.
COMEDY CRACKER
Ghosted, 9.30pm, ITV2 EXCEPTIONALLY silly new U.S. comedy that pairs Parks And Recreation’s Adam Scott with The Office U.S.’s Craig Robinson (near left, with Scott) as an ex-college professor and an ex-LAPD cop who suddenly become paranormal investigators. It’s essentially a comedy X Files, an odd-couple show that riffs heavily on the Eighties.
CHILLER
The Ghoul, 10.45pm, Film4 IN THIS slowburning British psychological thriller, Tom Meeten is the detective going undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist. The quality supporting cast includes Alice Lowe.