Satellite choice OUT IN THE COLD
HEROIC birds Red, Chuck and Bomb make an alliance with old foes the pigs (including Leonard, pictured with Red) when both of their islands are targeted by an eagle armed with ice balls.
WAR FACTORY
Abandoned Engineering, 8pm, Yesterday
IT’S taken a few weeks, but this series finally has its feet firmly back on familiar ground — the Nazis. The first abandoned site we visit in this new episode is an eerie ex-factory in Poland, which was used by Hitler to make explosives on a vast scale during World War II.
ON-DEMAND ROMCOM
One Way To Denmark, Sky Store/Virgin Movies
PLEASING British romcom with a dark streak, in which downon-his-luck Herb (Rafe Spall) decides to rob a bank to get himself thrown into a luxurious Danish prison.
LOGGING ON
Barnwood Builders, 9pm, DMAX
THIS new series fits a cosy niche. A team (led by Mark Bowe, pictured) travel the
U.S., looking for old log cabins, then rebuild them into modern homes with a frontier heart. Tonight, they’re in Tennessee, and find a cabin with many different styles layered on top. (Freeview 37, Freesat 150, Sky 172, Virgin 171)
LIVING IN THE PAST
Outlander, 9pm, More4
ROGER remains trapped with the Cherokee in the miserable penultimate episode, and the outlook for this luckless man is grim — surely, Jamie will find him eventually? Meanwhile, miles away, the pregnant Brianna travels to confront her rapist, with Jamie’s words about the futility of revenge rattling in her head.
FREEVIEW MOVIE
Sweet Country, 9pm, Film4
AUSTRALIAN western, set in the Northern Territory in the late Twenties. Sam Neill stars as a fair, egalitarian ranch owner; around him, the tension between the white settlers and indigenous Australians erupts into violence. Beautifully shot, touching and powerful.
Arctic Alone, 10pm, Sky History
TEN contenders, try to survive for 100 days and win $1 million in a new series that opens with a quote about solitude from Aristotle. It isn’t always easy to hang on to a philosophical approach, especially when you’re freaking out about bears in the middle of the night.
COMEDY RETURNS
In The Long Run, 10pm, Sky One
IDRIS ELBA’S warm comedy based on his Eighties London childhood returns for a new, third series, and the family have a visitor: Walter’s mum (Ellen Thomas). Walter (Elba, pictured above right with Sammy Kamara, Jimmy Akingbola, Thomas and Madeline Appiah) worries she’ll be disappointed in their lives in the UK, but — at least at first — she seems more distracted by the opportunity to watch Knight Rider.
AFTERLIFE LAUGHS
The Good Place, 10pm, E4
MICHAEL’S undercover outfit is hilarious — it’s the most conspicuous thing on screen. But his wardrobe choices might all be irrelevant now anyway as the judge (Maya Rudolph) has figured out what Michael (Ted Danson) and Janet (D’Arcy Carden) are up to down on Earth with Eleanor and the gang.