Satellite choice
MOVIE MATINEE The Long Gray Line, 1.10pm, Film4
JOHN FORD’S biopic stars Tyrone Power as Irish immigrant Marty Maher and Maureen O’Hara as his wife, Mary. Maher’s military career proved that the American Dream was open to all.
SUPER-SOAP Dynasty, Netflix
PACEY, 21stcentury remake of the glitzy Eighties soap that, sadly, doesn’t feature any of the original stars. Look out for Alan Dale (pictured with James Mackay) as the steely Carrington family fixer in a slick opener full of betrayals and secrets. A new episode arrives every Thursday.
RUGBY UNION Pau v Gloucester, 7pm, Sky Sports Action & Main Event
GLOUCESTER get their European Challenge Cup campaign under way in south-west France, where they could be lining up against former England and London Irish flanker Steffon Armitage.
HIT U.S. COMEDY The Big Bang Theory, 8.30pm, E4
THIS hugely popular comedy opens its new, 11th season with a big moment — Sheldon proposing to Amy. It’s a sweet scene, even if Sheldon nearly ruins it simply by being himself. Stephen Hawking and Laurie Metcalf (Sheldon’s mum)
make guest appearances.
EPIC ADVENTURE Outlander, 9pm, More4
IF YOU thought last week was hard going, there are scenes in tonight’s season one finale — flashbacks to the cell — that are worse. Claire is feeling guilty about all the horrors that Jamie endured inside, but what will she do next? If you want to jump ahead and watch season two, it’s available on demand on Amazon Prime.
NEW SITCOM GameFace, 9pm, E4
ROISIN CONATY (pictured) plays a boozy, out-of-work actress who thinks of no one but herself. She’s dimly aware of that failing, though, which gives the viewer a sliver of sympathy in this six-part series. Being Human’s Damien Molony co-stars as a driving instructor who is drawn to her.
SCI-FI LAUGHS Red Dwarf, 9pm, Dave
THE ‘boys from the Dwarf’ (none of whom are under 50, but they wear it well) are back for a new series that opens with a classic Red Dwarf plot — the crew arrive on a seemingly abandoned space station where strange events then occur. The strangest thing here being Lister jamming with Adolf Hitler on the guitar.
TRUE CRIME Murder Maps, 9pm, Yesterday
THE return of this atmospheric series that uses place as a starting point to investigate murders from the past. To begin, the wonderfully theatrical Nicholas Day introduces the case of a torso found at Brighton train station in the summer of 1934.
FANTASY FUN Zapped, 9.40pm, Dave
THE inventive British comedy following an office temp into a topsy-turvy fantasy world returns for a fun new series. Brian (James Buckley, pictured) is no genius, but many of the inhabitants of Munty are either stupid, selfish or both — a fact that works against Brian when they try to break him out of prison in this first episode.