Satellite choice
WORLD SUPERBIKES Highlights, 9.15am, British Eurosport Footage from the Netherlands of the fourth round of the Superbike World Championship season. Northern Ireland’s Jonathan Rea goes in to the race leading the pack.
STARRY MATINEE
Pal Joey, y, 1.45pm,p , 5USA A GLOSSED-up Hollywood take on John O’Hara’s cynical novel and its subsequent stage rendering. Frank Sinatra is the womaniser who gets his fingers well and truly burned by fiery Rita Hayworth.
FANTASY FILM Bell, Book And Candle, 5.05pm, Film4 MERE months after the release of Vertigo, Kim Novak and James Stewart reteam for an altogether less cerebral story. Here, Novak is the 20th-century witch willing to sacrifice her power for the love of a mortal man . . .
NEW TRAVELOGUE Nigel Marven’s Cruise Ship Adventure, 8pm, Watch THE enthusiastic wildlife expert jumps on a Caribbean cruise liner in Miami, then hops off at each port — to find remarkable animals and share the experience with those on board. First up: sea turtles in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It’s a jolly ride and an unusual idea for this type of show.
‘GOES SLOW’ SEASON All Aboard! The Canal Trip, 8pm, BBC4 THE Goes Slow season continues with this simple presentation of a two-hour canal boat journey. It plays rather like meditative wallpaper, with no voiceover and occasional facts about the canal popping up on screen.
JOEY’S VOTE Joey Essex — General Election, 9pm, ITV2 ED MILIBAND, Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg all talk to the ex-TOWIE star in this new oneoff. Joey’s naive perspective makes for typically entertaining viewing, but will it encourage the young to vote?
HORROR SERIES Penny Dreadful, 10pm, Sky Atlantic THIS atmospheric reinvention of Victorian horror characters returns for a slightly flat new, second season, with wolfman Ethan (Josh Hartnett, pictured with Eva Green) appalled d at the carnage wrought by his dark side — although he doesn’t have much time to dwell on it. Still, his storyline is much less interesting than that of the monster (the excellent Rory Kinnear), which involves a trip to a sinister waxworks . . .
FREEVIEW HORROR
Wrong Turn, 10.20pm, 5H SLASHER fans should get a kick out of this bonkers caper, which combines elements from several much better horror flicks. Eliza Dushku and Jeremy Sisto are among the kids lost who knows
where and up for the chop.
NEW BBC COMEDY Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment,
10.30pm, BBC3 ONE of two mad new comedy shows on BBC3 this week (see also Murder In Successville, tomorrow), this mix of stories, music and audience interaction is hosted by Nick Helm (BBC3’s sitcom Uncle). On stage, Helm (pictured) veers between swagger and tortured introspection — offstage, in clips of preproduction, he’s wondering if it’s all going to go badly wrong.