Satellite choice
FAMILY FILM Despicable Me 3, 11.10am, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere
REFORMED villain Gru is fully domesticated, a stay-at-home dad to his three daughters. Can his twin brother, Dru (pictured with Gru), lure him back to the dark side — to the delight of his loyal minions?
WEIGHTLIFTING European Championships, 4pm, Eurosport 1
NOORIN GULAM, who competes in the women’s 48kg class today, is part of a young British team at this year’s event in Bucharest in Romania. But will she buckle under pressure?
FUN SERIES FINALE The Worst Witch, 5pm, CBBC
IN THE exciting hour-long finale to series two, the girls race to fix the founding stone, while Mildred and Ethel make a surprising family discovery. This has been a terrific series — surely the BBC must be considering making a Christmas special later in the year?
SCI-FI FILM CLASSIC Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 5.40pm, Sky Greats
SKY devotes Sky Cinema Greats to the films of Steven Spielberg until April 6, and this momentous sci-fi epic, starring Richard Dreyfuss, is as good a place to start as any.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Battle Of The Sexes, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
IN A lively, layered dramatisation of the tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, Steve Carell’s Riggs is a clownish hustler (‘I’m gonna put the show back in chauvinism’), and Emma Stone is subtly sensitive as King.
SHE’S BACK! Supergirl, 8pm, Sky One
THIS high-end superhero drama returns for a new run of episodes and opens on a bleak situation. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist, pictured) is in a coma, having taken a vicious beating from Reign. As such, it’s left to the Legion of Super Heroes to hold the line against her seemingly unstoppable Kryptonian foe.
DARK DRAMA Gone, 9pm, Universal
THE missing persons drama focuses on the flaws of taxiordering apps in a strong second episode, in which a young woman disappears after a pick-up goes wrong. Investigator Kick, who is played with fire, fury and a good dose of humour by The Hunger Games’ Leven Rambin, takes no nonsense as she drives the case.
TRUE TRAGEDY Disasters That Changed Britain, 9pm, History
THE focus of the second episode is on the Zeebrugge ferry disaster of March 1987, in which the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized, killing 193 passengers and crew. It was a disaster, as James Nesbitt solemnly tells us here, that could
well have been avoided.
TRAVELOGUE Russell Howard & Mum: USA Road Trip, 10pm, Comedy Central
THE charming comedian and his mum swap jokes — and smoke and eat cannabis where it’s legal (in Portland, Oregon) — at the start of a new, second series of their amiable American road trip. ‘I’ve gone all giddy,’ reels Ninette.