Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Real Madrid v Chelsea, 7pm, BT Sport 2
CHELSEA head to Madrid for the first leg of their Champions League semi-final. Thomas Tuchel will be hoping his side can at least come away with an away goal, which could give the Blues a crucial edge back at Stamford Bridge next week.
FASCINATING SCIENCE Beyond The Elements, 7.50pm, PBS America
PLAYFUL new three-part exploration of the chemical reactions that make everyday life tick. To start, David Pogue reveals how scientists are trying to increase the efficiency of photosynthesis — which is surprisingly haphazard — and increase crop production. Continues daily.
RACING HERITAGE
Secrets Of The Transport Museum,, 8pm,p, Yesterday y
WE’RE at Brooklands for one of the Napier-Railton’s rare outings. Just a handful of people are allowed to touch the 1933 24L racer, among them museum trustee Georgina Wood (pictured), who puts it through its paces after a few false starts.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE The Last Photograph, BT Film Store/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
DANNY HUSTON stars in and directs a drama with an arty attitude, but a really effective approach to emotion. It’s about the grief of a London bookstore owner (Huston) for his son, and turns on the theft of an important image.
BOND CAR
Car S.O.S., 9pm, More4
THE Lotus Esprit S1 hit the peak of cool when James Bond drove one underwater in The Spy Who Loved Me. Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend are the right vintage to appreciate that and, in this new-toFreeview episode, are most excited to be restoring one. This Esprit is very far from glamorous, though, and hasn’t started for 20 years.
FUNNY GAMES Guessable?, 9pm, Comedy Central
LOU SANDERS (pictured) is always a boon on a panel show, because you can never be sure how far she’s going to take a joke. She’s joined by Chris Kamara, Alex Jones and Kerry Godliman on Sara Pascoe’s freewheeling comedy guessing show, which is particularly suited to her talents.
EIGHTIES DRAMA Midnight Caller, 9pm, Forces TV
THIS atmospheric U.S. drama was a star-making role for Gary Cole as Jack Killian, an alcoholic police detective turned problemsolving talk radio host. In this double bill, he has a caller hellbent on murder-suicide. (Freeview 96, Freesat 165, Sky 181, Virgin 274)
FAR NORTH The Last Alaskans, 10pm, DMAX
FEW shows about Alaska really capture the feeling of living there, but this series about thee few who call the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge home is an exception. At the start of season three, Heimo (pictured) reminisces about bringing up his children in the wild. (Freeview 38, Freesat 150, Sky 172, Virgin 171)
FILM FRIGHTS The Call, 10.40pm, Sky Premiere
HORROR film royalty Tobin Bell (the Saw franchise) and Lin Shaye (Insidious) star in this creaky, Eighties-set scary movie in which teens unleash hell via
an old-school telephone line.
FREEVIEW WESTERN True Grit, 11.05pm, Film4
THE Coens’ remake of the 1969 classic stars Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn. The film belongs as much to Hailee Steinfeld’s Mattie, the girl out to avenge her father’s murder.