Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Hoffenheim v Manchester City, 5.15pm, BT Sport 3
AFTER slipping up at home against Lyon, with the suspended Pep Guardiola watching from the stands, City will need to up their game today. And at 7pm on BT Sport 2, Manchester United, who won their first game, are at home to Valencia.
NINETIES SITCOM As Time Goes By, 6.40pm, Drama
A REPEAT from the start for the romantic reunion comedy starring Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench, whose characters first met during the Fifties — and were parted by his posting to Korea. In episode one, the couple are reunited by his memoir.
MUSIC MAKERS Treasures Of The British Library, 8pm, Sky Arts
NICOLA BENEDETTI (pictured) had completed grade eight on the violin by the time she was nine. She has great skill, but also a great passion for the music, and that’s plain to see as she uses her episode to delightedly delve into the working life of the composer Edward Elgar.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Dusty & Me, Sky Store/Virgin Movies
SWEET and very British underdog tale of a young man and his greyhound in lateSeventies Yorkshire. Luke Newberry and Ian Hart play a hopeful son and his father.
COURT CONSULTANT Bull, 9pm, 5 USA
IN TONIGHT’S new-to-Freeview episode, the jury expert revisits an old case in which the police didn’t cover themselves in glory. Bull is trying to put a wrong right, and it’s a good story, but what really sets this episode apart is what happens when Chunk (Chris Jackson) closes his eyes, about 12 minutes in. You won’t see it coming.
PIRATE DRAMA Black Sails, 9pm, History
LONG L JOHN SILVER is in a precarious position as the final season takes another brutal b step forwards. Meanwhile, on the more civilised side of Nassau, Max displays more of the wily pragmatism that has made her one of the show’s most successful characters. Will it be enough for her to make it out alive?
FREEVIEW FILM Sherlock Holmes, 9pm, ITV2
GUY RITCHIE directs Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson in this excitably overstyled romp. Dark games are afoot in Victorian London when the fiendish Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) mysteriously returns from the grave — and resumes his killing spree.
ROMANTIC COMEDY Social Animals, 9.50pm, Sky Premiere
IN THIS romcom about life’s imperfections, Noel Wells (pictured with Josh Radnor) playsays a young woman whose life is going downhill. Things look up when she meets a kindred spirit, but he comes with a catch.
ANCIENT NATION Greece With Simon Reeve, 10pm, BBC4
IN A two-parter first shown on BBC2, Reeve explores this ‘beautiful and troubled country’, beginning on the islands. While there is plenty of emphasis on the troubles — mass migration, money and more — the sight of glittering tavernas in the ports at night is a balm for the soul.
GOING FOR GOAL Football Genius, 10pm, ITV4
TIM VINE (pictured) gamely dons a referee’s kit as the host of a nicely thought-out football quiz in which teams answer different levels of questions to play different types of shots in a simulated game. Vine is good with the contestants, too, riffing puns off his conversations with teams representing Leicester City and Charlton Athletic.