Satellite choice
TEEN TALE Mystic, 5pm, CBBC
THERE’S edge and wit to this new drama, in which a grieving London teen (Macey Chipping, pictured) has been forced by her mum to move to rural New Zealand. She hates it until she forms a bond with a horse,horse which is where the show’s heart comes from; a good few laughs come from her reaction to the bumpkin lifestyle.
TENNIS SUCCESS Unraveling Athena, Amazon Prime
UNIQUE film about what it takes to become a women’s tennis champion, from kid to adult, with very personal contributions from Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova and Caroline Wozniacki.
WARRIOR QUEEN Mystic Britain, 8pm, Smithsonian
CLIVE ANDERSON and Mary-Ann Ochota go in search of the truth behind Boudica in this new episode. Mary-Ann learns about the role of a sacred rabbit in the ancient Briton’s life, while Clive rides a chariot with an ‘experimental historian’.
CLIMBING HIGH Expedition Everest/ Lost On Everest, 8pm/9pm, National Geographic
THE first of these two new one-offs follows scientists trying to install the world’s highest weather station on Everest. The second is a quest to see if George Mallory and Andrew Irvine managed to summit the mountain before they disappeared on it in 1924.
FILM DRAMA The Parts You Lose, 8pm, Sky Premiere
AARON PAUL is the fugitive who hides out on a remote farm, and makes an unlikely friend in the deaf boy who lives there with his parents (Scoot McNairy and Mary Elizabeth Winstead).
ALTERNATE HISTORY The Plot Against America, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
THIS quietly horrifying new HBO drama imagines a World War II-era U.S. where fascism is on the rise, and Jews steadily find life more and more uncomfortable. It’s very much grounded in daily life, which makes it feel all the more real. John Turturro and Winona Ryder (pictured) star.
TRUE CRIME Murder Masterminds, 9pm, Crime + Investigation
THERE’S something about this U.S. show that really makes you sit up and take notice. It all feels so incredibly urgent. Tonight’s new case is the murder of Ryan Poston by his ex-girlfriend, Shayna Hubers, who danced and sang in the police interview room. (Sky 156, Virgin 209)
FREEVIEW MOVIE Deadpool, 9pm, Film4
A CRUDE, energetic and ever so slightly heart-warming origin story for Marvel’s sweariest superhero. Ryan Reynolds is the mercenary motivated by love to find a cure for his terminal illness, and winding up both blessed and cursed.
ON-DEMAND THRILLER Above Suspicion, BT TV Store/Virgin Movies
IN A based-on-truth thriller, Game Of Thrones’s Emilia Clarke excels as a self-destructive redneck involved in an affair with an FBI agent (Jack Huston) who visits her small Kentucky town.
ON A ROLL United Skates — Storyville, 10pm, BBC4
THIS is a documentary that will take you by surprise with its depth and artistry. It tells the story of devoted black roller skaters in the U.S., and how their arenas are being shut down. But they keep skating, however they can, and some of the footage of that is almost like ballet.