Satellite choice
BEDTIME STORIES CBeebies, 6.50pm
DOLLY PARTON (pictured) is the latest famous face to read a story, and, as founder of a programme that promotes childhood literacy (Imagination Library), she is very well-qualified. Tonight, Dolly is reading Dog Loves Books, the story of a dog with his own book shop.
FOOTBALL Tottenham v West Ham United, 7.30pm, Sky Football
FOUR-TIMES League Cup winners Spurs host West Ham in this fourthround tie at Wembley Stadium. Dele Alli scored in Spurs’ 1-0 win over Barnsley to get this far.
LEARNING MEDICINE Junior Doctors, BBC3 via iPlayer
NEW series that follows seven junior doctors as they tackle the shift from theory to practice — which can involve them cracking open their phones to swiftly search for things they’ve forgotten, while on the wards. How long will Emeka retain his admirable desire to dress his absolute best for a messy job?
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Gifted, Sky Store, Virgin
DELIGHTFUL U.S. drama about the custody battle over a gifted child between her uncle (Chris Evans) and grandmother (a brilliant Lindsay Duncan).
NEW FANTASY SERIES Inhumans, 9pm, Sky One
THIS new comic-book adaptation follows a squabbling ‘royal family’ of superpowered characters. Inhumans had a rocky ride to U.S. TV — it started as a film — and you can feel that in the shoddy production, but there are fun bits, including a huge teleporting dog, and Game Of Thrones’s Iwan Rheon as one of the royals.
FUN & GAMES Taskmaster, 9pm, Dave
IT’S the semi-final of this highly amusing series, and Bob Mortimer and Sally Phillips (pictured) are both looking like strong contenders for the final. Tonight’s fabulous clash features a Winter Olympics-style task that includes the immortal line: ‘You may only use items in the caravan to secure your coconuts.’
NEW COMEDY THRILLER Bounty Hunters, 10pm, Sky One
JACK WHITEHALL stars as the well-spoken Barnaby in Sky’s new comedy thriller, an academic sort who is forced into an awkward alliance with a tough New York bounty hunter (Rosie Perez, pictured with Whitehall). This comes about after Barnaby makes a serious hash of running his dad’s antiques dealership.
FOLK REUNITED Long Lost Family Australia, 10pm, Really
MORE from this new series of the poignant and joyful Aussie version of the family reunion show, hosted by Chrissie Swan and Anh Do. Twenty-eight-year-old Shane has never known his birth mother and now, having children of his own, has decided to try to find her.
FILM CHILLER A Dark Song, 11.15pm, Film4
A SUPERNATURAL drama that, while deeply atmospheric, is far removed from the usual trappings of the horror genre. Catherine Walker and Steve Oram are a grieving mother and an occultist, alone in a house performing an exhausting ritual.