Satellite choice MUSICAL COMEDY
EPIC ADVENTURE An Elephant’s Journey, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere
AGEING and ailing, circus elephant Flora is due to be put down, but the circus owner’s 14-year-old daughter Dawn (Jenna Ortega) has other ideas and rescues the animal. Now, all that stands between them and the safety of the elephant preserve is more than a hundred miles of woods, one raging river and a pair of ruthless elephant hunters. David Arquette co stars.
FOOTBALL LA FC v LA Galaxy, 8pm, Sky Football
THE latest edition of the ‘El Trafico’ derby comes from the Banc of California Stadium. Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be looking to extend Galaxy’s unbeaten run against their city rivals.
DOCUMENTARY The Good Nazi, 8pm, Yesterday
THIS documentary tells the story of Karl Plagge, who protected Jews by giving them work permits and housing families together at a forced labour camp in Lithuania. The film hears moving testimony and visits the camp — now a block of flats, where people still live.
POLICE DRAMA Special Branch, 9pm, Talking Pictures TV
FIRST shown between 1969 and 1974, this ITV drama follows the work of Scotland Yard’s antiterrorist and espionage forces with a gritty, low-key style. The cast over the years included George Sewell and Paul Eddington, and this is the first of a weekly repeat from the start. Continues daily.
NEW SERIES Instinct, 9pm, Sky Witness
ALAN CUMMING returns as CIA officer turned professor turned sleuth Dylan — only, at the start of season two, he’s suspended from working at the NYPD because of his maverick ways. Soon, though, he’s helping with the case of a tycoon turned into a ‘corpsicle’ by her own cryo chamber.
TRAIN TRACKS The World’s Most Beautiful Railway, 9pm, More4
‘IT’S HOW trains used to be,’ reflects one of the crew of the Union Of South Africa, a 1937 steam train that we follow out of Edinburgh Waverley in part one of this restful new series. ‘Number nine’ takes a leisurely pace, but, as one passenger notes, that really gives you time to take in the stunning landscape.
ACTION FILM Kingsman: The Secret Service, 9pm, Film4
THERE’S a touch of Bond and The Avengers of the 1960s to Matthew Vaughn’s energetic homage. Taron Egerton is the lad embracing his destiny; Colin Firth is the secret service agent teaching his charge some new skills.
Amusical, 9pm, Comedy Central
COMEDIANS present their own takes on the musical classics in a breathless extravaganza based on a stage show, and hosted with pizzazz by its creators, Kiri Pritchard McLean and Jayde Adams (pictured). London Hughes sings Cats, and Frank Skinner dresses up like Little Orphan Annie.
FEMALE PERSPECTIVE The Power Of Women, 10pm, Sky Arts
POWERFUL women trade thoughts in this new series, and the first to do so are Ruby Wax and Helena Kennedy QC. Wax talks about her challenging parents, and Baroness Kennedy recalls growing up in a tenement in Glasgow, and being top of the class a lot.