Satellite choice
TENSE FILM DDRAMA
All About Eve, 4.10pm, Sky Select MASTERLY drama about the understudy, Eve (Anne Baxter), who has designs on the success of the woman who b befriends her, ageing actress Margo (Bette Davis, pictured with Gary Merrill).
FILM COMEDY
What’s Up, Doc?, 5.50pm, TCM PETER BOGDANOVICH’S sparkling tribute to the old screwball comedies sees Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal as the verbally duelling would-be lovers.
RUGBY UNION
Heineken Cup: Ulster v Leicester, 7pm, Sky Sports 1 RAVENHILL hosts this opening Pool Five fixture from the first weekend of the European Cup. Ulster’s mostly Irish squad has a smattering of foreign talent, including South African team captain Johann Muller.
MUSICAL
Glee, 8pm, Sky1 THE climax of a two-part series five opener and tribute to The Beatles sees the school in a major tizzy as they prepare for the prom. There’s a surprise nomination that heats up the competition, while in New York, Rachel (Lea Michele) makes a new friend.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Makers: Women Who Make America, 9pm, PBS America EPISODE two of this illuminating series reaches the Seventies, when feminism was roaring loud and clear. The comeuppance of Bobby Riggs at the hands of Billie Jean King is especially satisfying, but similar battles of the sexes were taking place in the home, and in the hearts and minds of women who saw their horizons broadening dramatically.
SEMINAL SOUND
Tubular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story, 9pm, BBC4 THE story of Oldfield’s ground-breaking 1973 album is more than an unlikely success story for a shy 19-year-old from Reading. This documentary meets Oldfield (pictured) at his home in the Bahamas, and hears from, among others, Richard Branson, who launched his Virgin record label with the album. A studio performance from 1974 follows.
ESPIONAGE DRAMA
The Blacklist, 9pm, p Sky y Living g AFTER last week’s explosive opener, this bighitter of a new series gets down to business. Hotshot FBI profiler Elizabeth h Keen (Megan Boone, pictured) takes to the field — steered by delightfully duplicitous Red Reddington (James es Spader), Spader) who still has many cards left to play.
CONSPIRACY THRILLER
Orphan Black, 9pm, BBC3 SHADOWY forces start to make their presence felt in this fifth episode of a series that continues to fulfil its early promise. Both Sarah (as Beth) and soccer mom Alison are forced to ask who of those near to them they can trust, while Sarah’s lies to those closest to her come home to roost.
TARANTINO FLICK
Django Unchained, 10pm, Sky Premiere ANOTHER revenge-fest from the master of stylised violence, Quentin Tarantino. Having dished it out to Hitler in Inglourious Basterds, here he has Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz teaching slave-owner Leo DiCaprio a lesson. Foxx is undeniably a powerful presence as Django, the freed slave on a mission to rescue his wife, but Waltz, once again, manages to steal the show with another riveting performance.