Satellite choice DARK DRAMA

ANIMATED ADVENTURE Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa, 4.45pm, Sky Premiere

YOUNG Leonardo Da Vinci is the star of this cheery animation, a brave and inventive boy who sets off on a quest for lost treasures.

ACTION THRILLER Brothers In Arms, 6.15pm, Sky Premiere

JAI COURTNEY stars as one of a tight-knit group of friends and U.S. Marine Corps reservists. When one of them is arrested, the brothers fight back.

ROYLE TOUR Ricky & Ralf’s Very Northern Road Trip, 8pm, Gold

RALF LITTLE calls his and Royle Family co-star Ricky Tomlinson’s new travelogue a ‘two-bob version of The Trip’, but it’s a nicer show to watch than that tense comedy. Their warm memory- and chat-filled tour marks Tomlinson’s 80th birthday, and the first stop is in Blackpool.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE Inside The Ambulance, 8pm, W

IT’S amazing the amount of banter and cases that fit into an hour of this show following the West Midlands Ambulance Service. In this new series, Kathy Tinsley treats a man who stabbed a police dog (the dog was fine). ‘We’re not here to judge, we’re here to treat,’ she comments.

43RD PRESIDENT George W. Bush, 8.45pm, PBS America

GEORGE W. BUSH’S Presidency was defined by the 9/11 attacks, and this two-part profile (concluding tomorrow) opens on that — before cutting back to his hard-drinking youth for contrast. It goes on to unpick how ‘Dubya’ followed in his father’s footsteps.

I Know This Much Is True, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

MARK RUFFALO (pictured) gives a tour de force performance as identical twins in this new HBO drama based on a novel by Wally Lamb. Be prepared, because there’s not much light in this six-part series — it’s a tragedy about betrayal and forgiveness, and would be hard to endure were it not for Ruffalo.

U.S. JUSTICE Trial By Media, Netflix

AMERICAN courtrooms can be media circuses, and this new series explores the impact that attention has on justice. There are some remarkable characters including, in part one, lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, who has a surprising number of portraits of himself, and whose opening statement in one case was 150 minutes long.

TOUGH DETECTIVE Bancroft, 10pm, ITV3

SARAH PARISH plays the complex cop in a dark, four-part ITV drama that begins a nightly repeat from the start. Detective Superintendent Bancroft, a single mum, seems calm on the surface — but still waters run deep, and she isn’t above bending the rules to get the job done.

PR PROFESSIONALS Flack, 10pm, W

ROBYN looks like death warmed up in the penultimate part of the PR drama, in which she staggers from one situation to another, burning bridges as she goes. Amanda Abbington (pictured) gives a highly entertaining guest performance as a monstrous actress, whom we don’t see quite enough of, so let’s hope she’s back for next week’s finale.

FREEVIEW MOVIE Sweet Sixteen, 11.05pm, Film4

KEN LOACH’S drama marks the debut of Line Of Duty’s Martin Compston. He’s the young Scottish lad trying to avoid the life of drugs and crime that led to the ruin of his imprisoned mother.