Satellite choice
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Minari, BT Film Store/ Sky Store/Virgin
THIS authentic and quietly funny tale of a Korean-American family’s new start on an Arkansas farm comes to premium home rental. It’s an Oscar contender, and miles from the crass comedy it could have been.
HOSPITAL DRAMA Chicago Med, 8pm,p Skyy Witness
PERSONAL and professional are so tightly bound up in this U.S. medical drama. Tonight, Manning’s mother falls ill, and she is torn by treatments offered by her romantic competitors Halstead and Marcel — while Choi (Brian Tee, pictured) leads the world’s shortest job hunt for a new doctor.
CAKE CONTEST Best Baker In America, 8pm, Food Network UK
CHERYL was shockingly shown the door last week, and the final four in tonight’s penultimate instalment are all men. So, there’s testosterone in the air as the quartet set to work on their mini mirror glaze cakes, and Andy jokes about crushing a rival’s dreams of victory in the final.
DARK THRILLER Antebellum, 8pm, Sky Premiere
A BRUTAL exploration of slavery, this thriller stars Janelle Monae as a modern-day academic who is transported back to a darker age as a slave on a Louisiana plantation.
MUSIC MAKER Fleetwood Mac’s Songbird: Christine McVie, 9pm, BBC4
THIS profile of Christine McVie tells the story of Fleetwood Mac from her perspective, from the heady Seventies and Eighties to her departure in 1998 and return in 2014 for the On With The Show tour. The film makes you realise how big her contribution to the band really was.
BENEATH THE WAVES Drain The Oceans: Deep Dive, 9pm, National Geographic
THIS first of a new series digitally drains ‘the middle sea’ — the Mediterranean — to reveal the stories of ancient empires. Experts such as the classicist Michael Scott provide insight as we learn about a naval clash between the Romans and Carthaginians.
NEW COMEDY Dollface, Disney+
WANDAVISION’S Kat Dennings (pictured) stars in a smartly scripted U.S. comedy with some clever ideas up its sleeve. Dennings plays Jules, a newly-single woman who finds that reconnecting with her old girlfriends is more complicated than she imagined.
JET SET MYSTERY The Flight Attendant, 9pm, Sky One
CASSIE touches down in Rome in part three of this Hitchcockian U.S. thriller, and there are clues dropped about the secret life of her friend Megan (Rosie Perez), but Cassie is too distracted to notice. Her mind is on Alexander’s memorial service, which she blunders through mostly on drunken instinct.
ASSASSINATION PLOT The Dissident, Amazon Prime
THIS stunning, real-life thriller of a documentary gives the inside track on the assassination of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.
GRAMMY WINNER The Great Songwriters, 10pm, Sky Arts
A NEW series begins with Rickie Lee Jones, the American singer-songwriter with a career that has spanned many styles and five decades. She’s picked up two Grammy awards along the way and, here, talks about her process and performs tracks, including Chuck E’s In Love.
FREEVIEW FILM Overlord, 10.45pm, Film4
DURING World War II, U.S. paratroopers land behind enemy lines, and witness grisly Nazi experiments on French villagers. Wyatt (son of Kurt) Russell stars.