Satellite choice
FREEVIEW WESTERN Shane, 3.25pm, Film4
IN THIS influential western, Alan Ladd stars as the mystery gunslinger coming to the aid of a beleaguered town — years before Clint Eastwood’s man with no name did the same.
AUSSIE DRAMA Hearts And Bones, 6pm,p, Skyy Premiere
SET largely in Sydney Sydney, this drama follows the unlikely friendship that forms between a war photographer (Hugo Weaving) and a refugee from South Sudan (Andrew Luri).
BIG BEASTS Mystery Of The Ice Age Giants, 8pm, Smithsonian
COULD early humans have hunted such creatures as the mammoth to extinction, or was the change in climate responsible for their demise? This new documentary sifts the evidence, and reconstructs human life at the time.
SUNKEN FLEET Shipwreck Secrets, 8pm, Yesterday
IN 1944, the U.S. launched a massive attack on the Japanese base at Truk lagoon in the Pacific and, as a result, more than 60 shipwrecks lie on the sea bed. This new edition is largely a history of what happened, topped off with a dive to investigate a mysterious new discovery.
NEW YORK DOCTORS Lenox Hill, Netflix
THE work of four doctors at the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan’s Upper East Side is followed in this engaging, pre-Covid-19 documentary series.
FAMOUS FAMILIES Celebrity Gogglebox USA, 9pm, E4
REGULAR Gogglebox may be off our screens until September, but we still have both this and the British celebrity variant (Friday, 9pm, Ch4) to tide us over. The Osbournes are a highlight here: Sharon and Kelly are sharply vocal, while Ozzy sometimes looks as if he’d rather be asleep.
COSY CRIME Agatha Raisin, 9pm, Sky One
ASHLEY JENSEN’S village sleuth (pictured) is back for a new series, which starts with a cracker of a case — the haunting of grand Ivy Hall. Is someone trying to force the owner out? It’s a pleasure to see this frothy show back on our screens, and in a form that places it closer to Scooby-Doo than Miss Marple.
FINAL VOYAGE Cruise Ship Killers, 9pm, Crime + Investigation
SHELLY and Will were divorced, but still lived together for the sake of parenting convenience and, in this new instalment of the U.S. true-crime show, he surprises her with a cruise — from which she doesn’t return. A tangled situation is revealed in this reconstruction. (Sky 156, Virgin 209)
INTENSE THRILLER We Hunt Together, 10pm, Alibi
CAN anything possibly justify the trail of destruction wrought by Freddy (Hermione Corfield) throughout this unconventional crime drama? That’s the question hanging over this penultimate episode, which features an unusual role for Death In Paradise’s Kris Marshall. Ends tomorrow.
FUNNY FILM Game Night, Amazon Prime
IN AN action comedy way smarter and funnier than the Hollywood average, Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman play a couple whose love of games leads to something very real.