Satellite choice
FUNNY FILM Class Rank, 4.10pm, Sky Premiere
OFFBEAT comedy, directed by actor Eric Stoltz. Skyler Gisondo and Olivia Holt star as two highschool outsiders who join forces in an attempt to take control of the local school board of education.
FOOTBALL Arsenal v Newcastle United, 7pm, Sky Premier League & Main Event
THE Gunners seem to be improving at just the right time as they continue to push for a top-four finish, and while Newcastle’s form has also improved of late, they haven’t won away since December.
MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Raisin, 8pm, Pick
THE first in an eight-part, weekday run of Sky’s frothy and feather-light mysteries based on the books by M.C. Beaton. Here, the bolshie big-city PR-turned-village sleuth (Ashley Jensen) looks into the murder of a rambler, with the help of her friend Roy (Mathew Horne).
WEST COUNTRY Devon And Cornwall, 9pm, More4
SOOTHING new series about the area and the people who love living there. One of its most incredible sights is man-made: the Minack Theatre, hewn out of the cliff and maintained by the cheery Lynn Batten, who is also a church warden and ‘occasional organist’.
ENGLISH TRADITION For Folk’s Sake: Morris Dancing And Me, 9pm, BBC4
UNEXPECTEDLY spiky and completely mesmerising new documentary from the masterly Richard Macer, about the wrangling over whether women should be allowed to take part in morris dancing in the UK. Morris has long been a male preserve, and there are plenty who wish it to remain so.
HORSING AROUND Celebs On The Ranch, 9pm, 5Star
AMID a sea of reality stars, Jenny Powell (pictured) makes for a rare island of class in this new ranching reality contest. The flamboyant Louie Spence is also there and he’s honest as to why: ‘I need the money, I need the exposure.’ There’s a lot of aimless chat at the start, but the horses bring out the best in everyone.
FACT-BASED DRAMA Snowden, 9pm,p Film4
JOSEPH GORDON-GORDONLEVITT (pictured) gives a top-notch performance as Edward Snowden, the self-confessed computer geek who blew the whistle on America’s intelligence gathering — and promptly went into hiding. A barnstorming drama from director Oliver Stone, bristling with tension and intrigue.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE The Old Man & The Gun, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
ROBERT REDFORD plays a gentlemanly bank robber in his immensely charming movie swansong, which is based on a true story. That performance sits at the heart of a film that takes its time, but is never slow.
WAR CRIMINAL The Trial Of Ratko Mladic — Storyville, 10pm, BBC4
DURING the five-year trial of Bosnian Serb warlord Ratko Mladic, 592 witnesses were called to prove the case against him for genocide and crimes against humanity during the Yugoslav Wars of the Nineties. This new documentary meets the lawyers behind this hugely important trial.