Satellite choice
FENCING World Championships, 2.50pm, Eurosport 1
HUNGARY’S capital city, Budapest, plays host to this year’s fencing world championships. British number one Richard Kruse has a serious chance of a medal in the foil.
COUNTRY VET All Creatures Great And Small, 4.20pm, Drama
THIS gentle adaptation of James Herriot’s Thirties-set tales begins a repeat from the start. Christopher Timothy plays the new arrival at the surgery of the eccentric Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy). Channel 5 recently announced that it was reviving the series.
WESTERN COMEDY Damsel, 6pm, Sky Premiere
OFFBEAT comedy western starring Robert Pattinson as a pioneer who travels — with a drunk and a miniature horse called Butterscotch — to marry his love (Mia Wasikowska).
FREEVIEW MOVIE Big Stone Gap, 6.55pm, Film4
SET in the Seventies, this warm romantic comedy is based on a novel by director Adriana Trigiani. Ashley Judd (pictured) is the seemingly happily single Ave Maria Mulligan, whose life is turned upside down by the death of her mother, a loss compounded by the contents of a letter that has been left for her.
AFTER NO. 10 How To Be An Ex-Prime Minister, 9pm, BBC4
IN THIS light-hearted documentary, which first aired when Tony Blair stepped down, Michael Cockerell tells the story of how Prime Ministers have coped with life after No 10. So, who did commercials for Cheshire cheese? And who never had a single happy day after leaving 10 Downing Street?
DRAMATIC FINALE Big Little Lies, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
AFTER last week’s hearings — in which most of Celeste’s dirty laundry was aired in court, triggering some long-awaited character development for Bonnie — season two’s seven-part run comes to a close as Celeste (Nicole Kidman) and Mary Louise (Meryl Streep) clash head on.
HOME FRONT Living In The Shadow Of World War Two, 10pm, More4
THIS fascinating new three-part historical documentary, full of archive footageg and interviews, explores e life during d World War II from the point of view of the home front, People might have been far from the fighting — though the children pictured left are watching a Battle of Britain dogfight over Kent — but b that didn’t mean they didn’t see plenty of action a — or have to make big sacrifices.
MOVING ON Divorce, 10pm, Sky Atlantic
THINGS have been relatively easy for Frances and Robert so far this season, but a parenting problem throws a spanner into the middle of his new marriage in this episode. Splitting up isn’t easy for anyone and, in its final season, this show is displaying that with deftness.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Ben Is Back, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
THIS moving drama, about a drug-addicted son and his parents, really gives Julia Roberts room to stretch her dramatic legs as the mother trying to keep him on the right track after rehab.