Satellite choice
WILDLIFE RIVALS Gangs Of Lemur Island, 7pm, Sky Nature
REMEMBER Meerkat Manor? This new series on Sky’s new nature channel is like that, but for lemurs on Madagascar. We meet two rival groups, the ‘easy-going’ Museum gang and the Ruins lot, for whom ‘order and discipline are a way of life’. (Sky 130)
MOVIE REUNION Bad Boys For Life, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
AFTER a 17-year gap, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as the buddy-cop duo in a fun sequel that riffs on ageing.
DANCE STARS Men At The Barre — Inside The Royal Ballet, 9pm, BBC4
RICHARD MACER is always a film-maker worth watching, and he’s got a great subject here: the lives of a new ‘golden generation’ of male ballet dancers (such as Steven McRae, pictured) and how the ridicule their career once attracted is fading. Among the stars he talks to is Vadim Muntagirov, a Russian sensation known as ‘Vadream’.
WHEELER DEALER Salvage Hunters — Best Buys, 9pm, Quest
TOUGH negotiations is the theme for this compilation as Drew Pritchard visits dealer Sam Coster in Norfolk, who is looking forward to ‘a bit of a barter with an old chum’. When Sam watches this episode, you can imagine him slapping his knee in frustration over one particular deal.
FRAUD INVESTIGATION McMillions, 9pm, Sky Documentaries
THE highlight of launch day for Sky Documentaries is HBO’s quietly thrilling series about an undercover FBI operation into fraud in the McDonald’s Monopoly game. Agent Doug Mathews, a man who could ‘talk to a wall and get it to respond’, tells the tale. (Sky 114)
THRILLER FINALE Run, 9pm, Sky Comedy
PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE’S taxidermist plays a key role in the finale of HBO’s thriller, which ends in a way that will frustrate some. The show’s strongest point has always been the subtle relationship between Billy and Ruby, though, and that is very much to the fore as the police circle closer, and Ruby makes a decision.
SPAGHETTI WESTERN The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, 9pm Paramount
SERGIO LEONE’S Dollars trilogy reaches a peak with this epic western, which has three bounty hunters — Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach — chasing a stash of Confederate gold. A tour de force of rugged storytelling. (Freeview 31, Sky 150, Virgin 187)
ACCUSERS’ TESTIMONY Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, Netflix
THE focus of this startling new, fourpart documentary is the voices of Epstein’s accusers, who talk about their experience of sex trafficking.
GRIPPING CRIME TALE We Hunt Together, 10pm, Alibi
BOTH unsettling and refreshing, this new crime drama sees the story from two sides — the duo of detectives who investigate a murder and the pair of killers who committed it. The back and forth between worn DS Franks (Eve Myles, pictured) and ever positive boss DI Mendy has a unique fizz.
FRENCH FILM The Wolf’s Call, 10.30pm, Sky Premiere
TENSE submarine thriller about a terrorist plot to trick the French into launching a nuclear attack. Aboard the sub, a brilliant sonar officer uses his hearing to save the day.