Satellite choice
FREE ON DEMAND TV Apple TV+
FOR a limited time, Apple TV+ is offering some shows for free through the Apple TV app. The best of these is parallel universe space-race drama For All Mankind, while also included are grisly M. Night Shyamalan thriller Servant and the quirky teen period drama Dickinson. Children’s shows Ghostwriter and Snoopy In Space are also available, as is wildlife documentary The Elephant Queen.
ON THE MOVE Epic Animal Migrations, 8pm, Smithsonian
THE movements of seals, monarch butterflies and more are the subject of this new documentary. It’s full of magical sights, but especially that of huge clumps of butterflies hanging in the forest, waiting for spring warmth to waken them.
LAST-EVER EPISODE Arrow, 8pm, Sky One
THE conclusion of a show that launched the ‘Arrow verse’, a network of interconnected superhero series that includes The Flash, DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow, Supergirl and Batwoman. Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) returns for the finale, in which Oliver (Stephen Amell, pictured), after his recent sacrifice, is finally at peace.
AMAZING MACHINE Impossible Engineering, 8pm, Yesterday
THE penultimate episode takes us to the Falkirk Wheel, which lifts boats 25 metres between the Forth and Clyde and the Union Canals, to connect Glasgow and Edinburgh. It’s the only rotating boat lift in the world, and looks like something out of Westworld.
FROM THE ASHES Rebuilding Notre Dame: Inside the Great Cathedral Rescue, 9pm, BBC4
A YEAR ago today, a fire broke out at the Paris cathedral, destroying its spire and much of the roof. This new documentary has special access to the rebuilding efforts that have followed, and tells the inside story of the pioneering technology that’s been brought to bear on the restoration.
FAMILY LIFE Ferne McCann: First Time Mum, 9pm, ITVBe
THE Only Way Is Essex star returns for a new series of the frothy reality show that charts life with her daughter, Sunday, and both mother and child are approaching milestones. Sunday has entered the ‘terrible twos’, while Ferne is nearing 30 — and trying to make a long-distance relationship work.
NEW COMEDY THRILLER Run, 9pm, Sky Comedy
FLEABAG’S Phoebe Waller-Bridge has joined forces with her best friend, theatre director Vicky Jones, to create this very finely acted HBO comedy thriller. Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever (pictured) play two college exes who, 17 years later, reunite on a train and run away from their lives. Part one is an unpredictable thrill ride.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Brassed Off, 9pm, Film4
IT’S the romance, the comedy and the brass-band music that sell this miners’ strike tale. Pete Postlethwaite is the band leader, with Tara Fitzgerald’s Gloria playing a different tune.
CRIME FILM Motherless Brooklyn, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
GOOD-LOOKING and starry noir about a private eye with Tourette’s (Edward Norton, also the writerdirector), who tries to solve a murder in Fifties New York.
ROUGH JUSTICE The Innocence Files, Netflix
THE personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction are explored in this powerful nine-part documentary series from the U.S.