Satellite choice
GOLF The Open, 6.30am, Sky Golf & Main Event
THE long and demanding Carnoustie links course hosts the Open for the first time since 2007, when Sergio Garcia lost out to Padraig Harrington after an epic four-hole play-off.
FILM DRAMA An Ordinary Man, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere
BEN KINGSLEY is a general, wanted for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, who forms an unlikely friendship with the ‘maid’ (Hera Hilmar) who comes to clean his latest hideout.
RUGBY LEAGUE Wigan Warriors v St Helens, 7.30pm, Sky Arena
SECOND plays first in this Super League clash. The sides played out a thrilling match back in March, when Warriors overcame a tenpoint first-half deficit to take the lead, before Regan Grace’s try sealed a 21-18 victory for Saints five minutes from the final whistle.
PAST MYSTERIES
Forbidden History, 8pm, Yesterday JAMIE THEAKSTON’S history series returns with a big question: ‘What really happened to Jesus?’ Jamie is on the case in Jerusalem, and if you can get past the epic music that accompanies his every move, there’s an interesting look at Jesus in a historical context.
NEW YORK LAWYERS Suits, Netflix
THIS eighth season of the slick U.S. legal drama arrives one day after it began in the U.S. and is the first not to feature Mike (Patrick J. Adams) and Rachel (the Duchess of Sussex). A new episode arrives every Thursday.
U.S. SITCOMS Young Sheldon/Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 8.30pm/9pm, E4
ROMANCE is in the air as both of these U.S. comedies reach their season finales. In the prequel to The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon draws up his first-ever relationship contract; in the cop comedy, it’s Amy and Jake’s wedding day. Both shows will be back.
FASCINATING FACTS Size Matters, 9pm, BBC4
WHY is everything the size that it is? Why is our planet not the size of Jupiter, or a bumblebee not the size of a bus? This is the kind of reality-busting thought experiment BBC4 is good at and, in this first of a new two-parter, Hannah Fry (pictured) asks plenty of questions and gives us thoughtprovoking answers.
KING OF EGYPT Tut, 9pm, 5Select
IN THIS saga of scheming, swords and sex, the young Pharaoh discovers life beyond the three advisers who dominate his boyhood. Ben Kingsley is on mesmerising form as the most powerful of the trio in a twoparter that resembles Game Of Thrones. (Freeview 54, Freesat 133, Sky 153, Virgin 152)
COMEDIANS’ CHAT John Bishop: In Conversation With, 10pm, W
YOU don’t hear many silences on chat shows, or on TV in general — people are afraid of them m — but there’s a poignant one in tonight’s new interview with Paddy McGuinness (pictured withh Bishop).Bishop) It comes quite suddenly, when he thinks about shuttling between separated parents as a child.
SPY TALE Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 11.40pm, ITV4
GARY OLDMAN is wonderful as understated secret agent George Smiley in this sterling adaptation of John le Carre’s 1974 novel. It is pleasingly cool and restrained, tricky and sombre — a welcome change of pace from the hijinks of other, more action-led spy sagas.