Satellite choice
ON-DEMAND MOVIE
The Personal History Of David Copperfield, BT TV/Sky Store (buy & keep only)/Virgin Movies ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S vibrant retelling of Dickens’s tale features a huge and absolutely cracking cast — Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Tilda Swinton among them — and Dev Patel is superb as Copperfield.
FOOTBALL’S BACK!
Aston Villa v Sheffield United/ Manchester City v Arsenal, 4.30pm/8pm, Sky Premier League & Main Event AFTER a three-month shutdown, the Premier League is back in action with the first pair of matches in a jam-packed six-week fixture list. With ten games to climb out of the relegation zone, Villa will be hoping they can start with a win.
CRIME FIGHTERS
Hawaii Five-0, 7pm, Pick THE Freeview premiere of season nine of this high-adrenaline reboot may feel familiar to fans of the original show as it’s a remake of Cocoon, the 1968 pilot. When McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin, pictured) learns of the death of an old CIA friend, he’s sure it’s no accident, and puts a daring plan in motion to smoke out the truth.
LOST BOAT
Shipwreck Secrets, 8pm, Yesterday THE penultimate instalment of this investigation series takes us to Lake Erie in the U.S., where a 19th-century schooner has been found beneath the waves. Could this be the fabled Lake Serpent, which is said to have sunk there in 1829? If so, it could plug a big gap in local history.
CAUTIONARY TALE
Make Me Famous, BBC3 (via iPlayer) REGGIE YATES has written this disturbing one-off drama about life after the show for reality stars, which is available on iPlayer before it comes to BBC1 next week.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Shock And Awe: The Story Of Electricity, 8pm, BBC4 THE last of this brain-tingling series from the scientist Jim Al-Khalili. His focus overall is how electricity has shaped our society and, in the final episode, he turns to the discovery of electromagnetism, looking at the work of James Clerk Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz and others.
MURDER CASE
Cruise Ship Killers, 9pm, Crime + Investigation THIS week’s onboard investigation is a sad one, but also a real puzzler. Young divorcee Sadie was a friendly, outgoing passenger on a cruise from Hong Kong to the U.S., with the family of the professor for whom she was an assistant. She didn’t make it to port alive — but luckily for detectives, she kept a diary. (Sky 156, Virgin 209)
COTSWOLDS SLEUTH
Agatha Raisin, 9pm, Sky One AGATHA is branded an ‘amateur’ by local newspaperpaper the Mircester Times, and sets about trying to prove the opposite in a case involving death threats and dancing. Patsy Kensit (pictured) pops up as a spurned tango dancer, while Anna WilsonJones plays Agatha’s posh, angry client to absolute perfection.
FASHION ICONS
The September Issue, 9pm, Sky Documentaries OSTENSIBLY a documentary about the making of a 2007 issue of American Vogue, this turns out to be a riveting study of two British women — steely editor Anna Wintour and creative director Grace Coddington, who appears to be the only person on the magazine able to contradict Wintour. (Sky 114, Virgin 277)
JAPANESE MOVIE
First Love, 10pm, Sky Premiere CRIME thriller from prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike. Violent but energetic, it follows a terminally ill boxer who fights for the freedom of a woman enslaved by yazuka.