Satellite choice
RUGBY UNION
South Africa v Canada, 10.45am, ITV4 THE Springboks lost their opening game to New Zealand, but it would be one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history if they were defeated by the Canucks.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE
The Secret Life Of Pets 2, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies THIS animated comedy feels like Toy Story with animals, has a good voice cast — including Kevin Hart and Harrison Ford — and improves on the original.
ICONIC WRECK
Titanic: Stories From The Deep, 8pm, Yesterday IN THE film Titanic, Victor Garber played the doomed ship’s designer; now, he hosts an absorbing new series hinged around items related to the vessel. These include its recovered steam whistles and a gift to officer Harold Lowe inscribed to ‘the real hero of the Titanic’.
LAST-EVER EPISODE
Elementary,y, 9pm,p, Skyy Witness THREE years have passed since Sherlock’s ‘death’. Since then, Joan (Lucy Liu, pictured with Jonny Lee Miller) has, much like the original Watson, written a book about their adventures. But some news about Moriarty serves to reunite the duo in a rushed but moving series finale.
PRECIOUS METAL
Gold Rush, 10pm, Discovery THERE’S a fresh crisis in the Klondike as this cheerfully overthe-top reality series about grizzled gold prospectors begins its new, tenth season. There are more mining crises tomorrow, as a new series of Gold Divers gets under way at 8pm on Discovery.
ZOMBIE LAUGHS
Zomboat!, 10pm, ITV2 THE Walking Dead is a popular show, but it’s also a rather depressing one. So, the day after the new series starts, step forward Zomboat! as the antidote — a very silly new comedy about zombies taking over Birmingham. Those fleeing include Jo (Downton’s Cara Theobold, pictured), who believes a canal boat escape is the answer, hence the title.
LITERARY GREAT
E.M. Forster: His Longest Journey, 10pm, Sky Arts THE writer of Howards End and A Passage To India died at the age of 91 in 1970, and it was only then that anyone was allowed to turn his books into films. During his life, he always refused permission. This measured new profile gives great detail on that life and his struggle with homosexuality.
FILM ROMCOM
Cruise, 10.15pm,, Skyy Premiere LIKE an X-rated redo of Grease, without the songs. Emily Ratajkowski is the good girl enjoying being bad with Spencer Boldman (picturedtured with Ratajkowski) over one, hot, steamy summer in 1987.
NEW COMEDY
The Amelia Gething Complex, BBC3 (via iPlayer) AMUSINGLY self-aware mix of sketch and flatshare comedy, built around the YouTube star. The best jokes flow from social awkwardness.
FILM ROMCOM
The South Bank Show Originals, 11pm, Sky Arts MELVYN BRAGG reflects on an interview conducted at the Oxford home of Philip Pullman in 2003. A large part of their conversation is given over to Pullman’s collection of fantasy novels His Dark Materials, a BBC adaptation of which is due to start on November 3.