Satellite choice
FREEVIEW CRACKER
The Iron Giant, 3.20pm,p Film4
RETRO-flavoured animation, based on Ted Hughes’s 1968 novel The Iron Man and directed by Brad Bird — the man behind The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Hogarth is the ordinary youngster making an extraordinary new friend.
U-21 FOOTBALL England v Germany, 7.30pm, BT Sport 1
AN ENGLAND team that romped to qualification for Euro 2015 take on one of their biggest rivals in Middlesbrough.
SPORT MOVIE
Jerry Maguire, 8pm, Sky Drama
HE’S descended into unforgivable schmaltz of late, but Cameron Crowe’s early films were undeniably great. This is his booming breakthrough — part sports flick, part romcom.
EARLY DENTISTRY Drills, Dentures And Dentistry, 9pm, BBC4
NEW history from Joanna Bourke that embraces early dentistry’s deserved horrific reputation, skipping through terrifying cartoons of extractions with the soundtrack of a horror movie. There are some good stories: in 1815, false teeth became more affordable in London when the teeth from the dead at Waterloo flooded the market, but these sets would rot in the mouth — and so, apparently, began the trend for ladies to carry fans. To ward off the stench . . .
TRUE-CRIME FILM Tales Of The Grim Sleeper, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
IN HIS new film, Nick Broomfield talks to friends of alleged LA serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr, who is accused of ten murders across two decades. It steadily becomes a portrait of a community, and is all the more fascinating as a result.
STORYVILLE My Mother The Secret Baby, 10pm, BBC4
DAISY ASQUITH delves into the story of her Catholic grandmother, who conceived a child out of wedlock after a dance in County Clare in the Forties. This was a great shame, and she went away to have the baby in secret. That child was Daisy’s mum, who was adopted and grew up in Stoke-on-Trent — and here, she goes with Daisy to Ireland in search of her father. What follows is an absorbing, surprising portrait of family connections.
A MUSIC STORY Northern Soul, 10.05pm, Sky Premiere
A LOVE letter to the music scene of the Seventies from newcomer Elaine Constantine. Elliot James Langridge and Josh Whitehouse are the bored lads finding a sense of belonging.
COMEDY-DRAMA
Bluestone 42, 10pm, BBC3
THE upbeat Ellen (Laura Aikman, pictured) tries to bring some girly fun into Bird’s life in this new episode of the carefully written military comedy. It’s a struggle — and arguably causes more stress than the looming Taliban attack.
MOB FILM Road To Perdition, 11.10pm, Film4
SAM MENDES’S evocative noir thriller — where morality is anything but black-and-white. Tom Hanks is a mob enforcer, and a father with a hard road ahead of him.