Satellite choice
(Thursday, 8pm, Sky 1). Here, the fastest man alive — Barry (Grant Gustin) — is wondering whether he should reveal his secret identity to Patty (Shantel VanSanten, pictured below with Gustin), and contending with the villain Turtle, who drains people of their speed.
NEW TO FREEVIEW A Place In The Sun: Winter Sun, 3pm, Home THE property channel launches on Freeview today, taking the slot formerly occupied by Dave Ja Vu. Look out for the very first episode of this holiday home search hosted by Laura Hamilton. (Freeview 25, Sky 196, Virgin 281)
NEW DRAMA
Thirteen, BBC3 (via iPlayer) FIVE-part drama that opens with the escape of a woman (Jodie Comer) who has apparently been held, chained in a cellar, for 13 years. Is her story all it seems? And how will her family handle her return? This opener makes a good case for coming back next week to find out. (Also on Sunday, 10pm, BBC2)
FOOTBALL Bournemouth v Southampton, 7pm, BT Sport 1 DUTCH midfielder Jordy Clasie is coming into form for the Saints, who have had good wins over West Ham and Manchester United. Tonight, they visit their local rivals.
SUPERHERO SERIES
The Flash, 8pm, Sky 1 THE upbeat superhero series is back, in a week that also sees the return of sister show Arrow (Wednesday, 8pm, Sky 1) and the start of spin-off DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow MOVIE DRAMA
Pride, 9pm, Sky Select UPLIFTING, issues-lite Britcom fare in the Made In Dagenham mould, this tells the story of gay activists’ support of striking miners in the Eighties. George MacKay and Dominic West star.
AN ACTOR’S LIFE David Harewood’s F Word, 9pm, Sky Arts IN THIS new film, David Harewood talks to Olivia Colman, Naomie Harris and his old Homeland mucker Damian Lewis about the importance of failure in acting. This looks rather selfindulgent to start, but there are some good insider stories.
BRITISH BIRDS The Last Seabird Summer?
9pm, BBC4 OVER the past 15 years, the number of seabirds in Scotland has dropped by 40 per cent.cent Why is this happening, and can anything be done to stop it? Adam Nicolson (pictured) investigates our relationship with these marine birds in the first of an engaging new two-parter. NEW COMEDY Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters, 10pm, Sky Atlantic ALAN asks whether the sale of jackets on Phil Collins’s No Jacket Required tour was irony or hypocrisy in another pinsharp new episode, which is at its height when he interviews an exgangster (Richie Campbell). The DJ also drops a couple of clangers that succeed in keeping the station’s legal team busy.
MOVIE THRILLER
Zulu, 10.10pm, Sky Premiere NOT to be confused with the 1964 classic, Jerome Salle’s crime thriller charts much more recent struggles in South Africa’s past. Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker are the detectives discovering the wounds of apartheid are far from healed.