Satellite choice
BRITISH FILM DRAMA Tunes Of Glory, 2.45pm, 5Spike
ALEC GUINNESS is the whiskydrinking commanding officer of a battalion in Scotland, unwilling to surrender control to his replacement (John Mills). In its examination of class, this was way ahead of its time. (Freeview 31, Freesat 141, Sky 150, Virgin 154)
SCI-FI ADVENTURE 2036 Origin Unknown, 6.20pm, Sky Premiere
KATEE SACKHOFF stars as an astronaut who, with an AI computer, investigates a craft on Mars that appeared to travel faster than light.
FOOTBALL Manchester City v Burton Albion, 7.30pm, Sky Football & Main Event
JAKE HESKETH’S goal against Middlesbrough booked League One Burton’s place in the League Cup semi-final. Now, the Brewers travel to City for a first-leg tie against a side who just beat Championship outfit Rotherham 7-0 in the FA Cup.
MAGIC SISTERS Charmed, 9pm, E4
MAGGIE, Macy and Mel (Sarah Jeffery, Madeleine Mantock and Melonie Diaz, pictured), suddenly discover they are witches — and must save the world — in this reboot of the U.S. drama, which leans into feminism for its themes and has a nice way with a joke when things turn serious. In this first episode, the ‘charmed ones’ are coming to terms with their powers.
FLYING CREATURES Animal Airport, 9pm, More4
THERE’S a unit at Heathrow Airport that deals with around 200,000 animals a year — and that’s not just cats and dogs. In the first of this new series, a pair of penguins miss their flight, and 10,000 bees cause problems for the staff.
U.S. CRIME Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 9pm, 5 USA
YATES, the serial killer who first popped up in sister series Chicago PD, is in prison — but could he have a copycat? Rollins goes out on a limb to investigate in the first of a compelling two-parter — based on a real-life case — that opens the
new-to-Freeview 17th season.
FLIGHT CREW LA To Vegas, 9pm, Paramount
IT WOULD probably have been better as a film, but this new U.S. sitcom, set on the flight between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, has some bright points, among them Dylan McDermott as an alcoholic pilot who tells passengers, ‘This is your captain and friend.’ (Freeview 54, Sky 159, Virgin 188)
COMPETITIVE COOKING Hell’s Kitchen, 9pm, ITV2
GORDON RAMSAY swaggers his way through another series of his combative cooking contest, but this one — the 18th — comes with a twist. Half of the show’s contestants are veterans in disguise, and half are first-timers. Which of them will seize the impressive prize: a job as executive chef at Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Las Vegas?
BRITS ABROAD Living The Dream, 9pm, Sky One
THE return of Sky’s light drama in which a Yorkshire family move to Florida to run a caravan park. Things seem stable at the business now, so Mal (Philip Glenister, pictured with Lesley Sharp) has time to become paranoid — and decides to buy a gun. What follows doesn’t take the path you might expect.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Searching, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
A DAD digs into his missing daughter’s life through her laptop and discovers he barely knows her. John Cho (Star Trek) plays the father, and Debra Messing (Will & Grace) is the detective in a well-handled thriller that unfolds almost entirely on computer and phone screens.