Satellite choice
FILM COMEDY
Hubie Halloween, Netflix
GOOFY comedy co-written by Adam Sandler, in which he stars as a childlike oddball who saves his town from real horrors at Halloween.
TEXAS TALES
Lone Star Vet, 8pm, Nat Geo Wild
LETHARGIC emu Beepers is brought in for treatment in this first of a new Texas reality series, although the prospect of being poked at by a vet seems to perk the creature up. ‘Adrenaline is a hell of a drug,’ remarks Dr Thielen as she wrangles Beepers. (Sky 165, Virgin 264)
SURGICAL WHIZZ
The Good Doctor, 8pm, Pick
DAVID SHORE created the Hugh Laurie series House, and he’s also behind this U.S. medical drama. Like House, it has an engaging performance from a Brit at its centre — Freddie Highmore, as autistic savant surgeon Shaun Murphy — and this is a weekday repeat from the start.
NEW MOVIES London Film Festival, BFI Player, from 6.30pm
AROUND 50 movie premieres will be available to rent online until October 18. Look out for conartist comedy
Kajillionaire (tonight, 9pm), starring Westworld’s Evan Rachel Wood. Tomorrow, there’s Phyllida Lloyd’s inspirational drama Herself (6.30pm). On Friday, there are two standouts: Shirley Jackson biopic Shirley (6.30pm), with Elisabeth Moss as the U.S. author; and Relic (8.45pm), starring Emily Mortimer as a daughter dealing with her mother’s dementia.
THE PLOT THICKENS
Harlan Coben’s Safe, 9pm, 5Star
MORE secrets emerge in part two of this glossy and tangled Britishset thriller as we flash back to the night of Jenny’s disappearance. Back in the present, dad Tom (Michael C. Hall) is desperately searching for her, but keeps hitting brick walls. If you’re desperate to jump ahead, this is also on Netflix.
TOP COP Tommy, 9pm, Alibi
EDIE FALCO stars as Abigail Thomas, the first-ever female chief of the LAPD, in this new, 12-part drama. There’s a lot of information laid out about ‘Tommy’ in this first episode — she’s gay, divorced, loves New York pizza — and rarely is it done with subtlety, but Falco gives the character a depth that makes this worth a look.
BEYOND THE BINS
The Secret Life Of Landfill, 9pm, BBC4
YOU wouldn’t expect a documentary about rubbish to be so interesting, but this dive into how our landfills are made — and what previous generations considered not worth keeping — is a real archaeological education. Here’s another chance to learn about this surprising world.
CRIME CAPER
American Hustle, 9pm, More4
DIRECTOR David O. Russell is reunited with his Silver Linings Playbook star Bradley Cooper for this black comedy, inspired by a real-life FBI sting operation of the late Seventies. Cooper plays federal agent Richie DiMaso, who offers a deal to a pair of cunning con artists (Christian Bale and Amy Adams).
FUNNY STORY
Urban Myths,y, 10pm,p, Skyy Arts
WHEN he was young,young Les Dawson moved to Paris to be a writer, but wound up playing piano in a brothel. Sky’s returning comedy anthology takes that story and gently unrolls it, with John Bradley (Game Of Thrones) as a vulnerable Dawson, and Steve Pemberton as a wise stranger (both pictured).