Satellite choice
MASTER QUIZZERS Jon Snow’s Very Hard Questions: The Final, 8pm, More4
THERE’S £5,000 waiting for the winner in the final, in which the two remaining teams try to answer very hard (and very long) questions from Jon Snow. Given the stakes, the pressure not to trade points for clues here will be even higher than usual.
FILM THRILLER The Wolf Hour, BT TV Store/Virgin Movies
ATMOSPHERIC if not wholly satisfying psychological thriller about a tormented writer (Naomi Watts) in the hot New York summer of 1977.
WARTIME FOOTAGE Harry Birrell Presents Films Of Love & War, 9pm, BBC4
THIS documentary was shown last week on BBC Scotland, and now has a national premiere on BBC4. Harry Birrell was born in Paisley in 1918, and took his cine camera with him to film World War II, and plenty more besides.
CANADIAN COPS Rookie Blue, 9pm, 5 USA
IN THE Freeview premiere for the sixth and final season of the soapy Canadian police drama, the love life of Officer McNally (FBI’s Missy Peregrym) is about to get even more complicated after a surprise revelation from her boyfriend, Sam (Ben Bass). Meanwhile, the trail of a sex offender goes cold.
SMALL-TOWN DRAMA Sharp Objects, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
ANOTHER chance to see this HBO drama based on the debut novel by Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn, which tells a story that slowly reveals the reality of a twisted family situation. Amy Adams stars as a broken-down reporter, dispatched to write about a murder in her home town.
INSPIRING STORY Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, Netflix
INSPIRATIONAL and eye-opening documentary that follows the story of a camp ‘run by hippies’ for disabled youths in the U.S. in the early Seventies.
DEADLY DUO Hitmen, 10pm, Sky One
DARK new comedy starring Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc (pictured) as assassins, the driving joke of which is that they’re barely competent and quite needy. Look out for some good guest stars, such as W1A’s Jason
Watkins and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford, and for the moments where the show’s darkness takes on a real sharpness.
GHOST INVESTIGATOR The Lowe Files, 10pm, Blaze
ROB LOWE (pictured) has seen a lot of ghost-hunting on TV (‘I love those shows’), and wants to know how much of it is fake. So, for this new-toFreeview series, the absurdly goodlooking actor goes on a road trip with his two sons to find out. They are joined by ‘spiritual intermediary’ Shaman Jon. (Freeview 63, Sky 164, Freesat 162, Virgin 216)
FREEVIEW MOVIE White Mischief, 10.05pm, Talking Pictures TV
EXOTIC true-crime drama, set in colonial Kenya in the early Forties. Charles Dance stars as the bedswapping Earl of Erroll, with Greta Scacchi as his gold-digging lover.
FRENCH CINEMA Through The Fire, 11.15pm, Sky Premiere
DRAMA about a Parisian firefighter (Pierre Niney) who suffers devastating, life-changing burns. The film follows his efforts to rebuild his life and his identity.