Satellite choice
NEW YORK MOVIE Wonder Wheel, 5.15pm, Sky Premiere
WOODY ALLEN’S drama is set in Coney Island’s amusement park in the Fifties. Kate Winslet is the put-upon wife whose stepdaughter (Juno Temple, pictured with Justin Timberlake) has got herself in deep water with mobsters. It looks impressive, but it’s far from Allen’s best work.
FOOTBALL Manchester United v Arsenal, 7pm, BT Sport 1
AFTER their thrilling 4-2 victory over Spurs on Sunday, the Gunners are bursting with confidence as they head to Old Trafford. But United beat them in both their meetings last season.
COMEDY DRAMA The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Amazon Prime
AMAZON’S Fifties drama about a Jewish housewife-turned-stand-up comic returns on brilliant, rat-a-tat form, flitting from New York to Paris to the Catskill Mountains. There’s laughter, drama and shocks as Midge wrestles with who she is to her parents, friends and colleagues, plus scenes of an almost balletic grace — including an impromptu set in a French nightclub.
DOWN UNDER Freddie Flintoff Goes Wild, 9pm, Quest
FLINTOFF starts his new-to-Freeview survival series in Australia, A where he eats wallaby guts in the company of Aboriginal hunters who let nothing edible go to waste — nothing. ‘Just as I was enjoying myself, you give g me an eyeball,’ reels Flintoff. It’s good training for I’m A Celebrity . . .
CRIME FIGHTERS Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 9pm, Universal
BENSON is looking after son Noah, who is now old enough to be irritating. ‘I want pizza,’ he pouts. She returns to work about halfway through — probably tired of his yapping — when her team get stuck on a case in which the victim refuses to say she was raped.
SURREAL LAUGHS Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out, 10pm, BBC4
REVIVALS can feel like tired echoes, but Vic and Bob’s resurrection of their spoof variety show has been a joy. They come to blows in a packed part two — and go on a ghost hunt — but the highlight has to be the return of folk duo Mulligan and O’Hare (pictured), who are raging against the scourge of residents’ parking.
ABSOLUTE POWER Making A Dictator, 10pm, National Geographic
WHAT are the conditions that lead to tyranny? Economic hardship is one answer in this opener to a flashy but thoughtful new series, which also explores the kind of people who rise up in such situations, claiming to have the answers to everyone’s problems. It’s terrifyingly simple, at a basic level.
FREEVIEW FILM The Blind Side, 10pm, 5Star
SANDRA BULLOCK won an Oscar for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy, a Tennessee woman who takes a troubled teenager under her wing, in this fact-based drama. Quinton Aaron is the teenager, Michael ‘Big Mike’ Oher, whose skills on the football field offer him the chance to escape poverty.
OLD TRAFFORD TURMOIL Too Good To Go Down, 10.30pm, BT Sport 1
THE inside story of Manchester United in the colourful post-Matt Busby, Tommy Docherty years, when the Red Devils briefly — and shockingly — slipped into Division Two. Docherty was kicked out in 1977 after it emerged he was having an affair with the club physio’s wife.