Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Chelsea v Bayern Munich, 7pm, BT Sport 2
FRANK LAMPARD was the Chelsea captain when they beat Bayern to win their sole Champions League title, back in 2012, so memories will be stirred tonight as he now takes on the German side as manager.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Official Secrets, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
IT’S hard to make journalism riveting on screen, but this starry true-life drama, about a whistleblower who called out dirty tricks in the run-up to the Iraq War, does a fair job. Keira Knightley gives a subtle performance as memo-leaking GCHQ employee Katharine Gun.
HISTORY LESSON Royal History’s Biggest Fibs With Lucy Worsley, 9pm, BBC4
THE defeat of the Spanish Armada is seen as the starting point for British imperial power, and it’s a terrific underdog story, full of colourful heroes and villains — but how true is it? Here, Lucy Worsley sifts fact from fiction, to fascinating effect.
EIGHTIES SERIES Reilly: Ace Of Spies, 9pm, Talking Pictures TV
ITV’S drama based on a Russian-born, real-life spy who worked for the British begins a rare weekly repeat from the start. It’s underplayed in the style of a classic Le Carre drama and, in part one, Reilly (Sam Neill) is detained by local authorities in 1901 Baku — in what is now Azerbaijan.
CHILLING TALES The Twilight Zone, 9pm, Syfy
THE opener to Jordan Peele’s new series is Nightmare At 30,000 Feet, a twist on a 1963 episode from the original show. In a solid story that takes some unbearably tense turns, Big Little Lies’ Adam Scott stars as a troubled reporter who becomes convinced that
his flight is doomed.
SPECIAL FORCES Strike Back: Vendetta, 9pm, Sky One
THE final season of Sky’s all-gunsblazing drama starts as it means to go on, with a shoot-out conducted to the strains of Nessun Dorma. Jamie Bamber (pictured) stars as Colonel Coltrane, who is following orders he doesn’t understand in the pursuit of a sinister package. Plenty more gunplay follows.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Beetlejuice, 9pm, 5Star
ALEC BALDWIN and Geena Davis are the kindly ghosts haunting their old home in an effort to get rid of the obnoxious family who move in. Tim Burton’s delightfully quirky horror comedy features a scene-stealing turn from Michael Keaton as the grubby freelance ‘bio-exorcist’ of the title.
BIG DAY The Weddingg Fixer,, 10pm,p, W
TOP wedding planner Sarah Haywood brings her skills to ordinary Brits in this new series, and the first clients are models Adam and Daniel (pictured with Haywood). Adam is a ‘slight perfectionist’ and certainly has a sense of humour about that, but remains fixated on getting every detail right: ‘If things aren’t right, my mother would spot it.’
FILM FRIGHTS I Still See You, 10pm, Sky Premiere
SUPERNATURAL thriller set in the aftermath of an explosion that leaves its victims as ghosts, referred to as ‘remnants’. Bella Thorne is one of the living haunted by the dead.