Satellite choice
NEW U.S. DRAMA Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, 2pm, Sony Channel
PILOT of the based-on-fact U.S. drama about a deaf FBI agent, starring the deaf actress Deanne Bray (pictured), who later appeared in Heroes. Sue works with a once-abused dog who is ‘a bit schizophrenic’ and doesn’t like loud noises, but still manages to solve crime. More every weekday.
FILM COMEDY The Devil And Miss Jones, 4.05pm, Talking Pictures TV
COMEDY about a millionaire department store boss (Charles Coburn) who goes undercover and back to the floor to try to catch out some union activists. Posing as a shoe salesman, he meets sweet Spring Byington, who might just be his soul mate.
REST AND RELAX Mindful Escapes, 7pm, BBC4
MEDITATIVE new series anchored in the concept of mindfulness, the idea of being there in the moment. The camera sweeps through peaceful forests and beneath the sea’s waves in the first of a narrated, nightly four-part soothe-athon that starts by inviting us to be aware of our breath.
DOCUMENTARY Africa Turns The Page: The Novels That Shaped A Continent, 9pm, BBC4
THOUGHTFUL new journey through the history of African novel writing, starting with the way it set itself in opposition to such dehumanising portraits as Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness. David Olusoga looks at the work of Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, and others.
CULINARY TOUR Ray Winstone’s Sicily, 9pm, Blaze
THE actor’s new, geezerish stride around Sicily includes ruminations on Odysseus, with whom Ray feels a kinship, having also worked away from family in the past. He also considers the history of the Mafia — or rather, he sends someone else to do it, which seems fitting. (Sky 164, Freeview 63, Freesat 162, Virgin 216)
DOING TIME Banged Up Abroad, 9pm, National Geographic
A NEW series of the gripping docudrama featuring more dramatic true-life cases. The first episode is the story of Peter Bleach, a law-abiding arms dealer who thought he was working undercover for British intelligence but found himself rotting in an Indian prison after a dodgy deal.
DATING SHOW Love Island USA, 9pm, ITV2
THE Americans, undaunted by coronavirus, have forged ahead with their own version of Love Island by filming it under quarantine in a luxury Las Vegas hotel. This new, second season begins a nightly run tonight.
ACTION THRILLER Face/Off, 9pm, Sony Movies
NICOLAS CAGE and John Travolta swap facial identities in John Woo’s big-hitting actioner. Cage is a terrorist, with Travolta as the FBI agent who is driven to sci-fi extremes to get his man.
ESPIONAGE DRAMA Spooks, 11.20pm, Drama
THE spy drama, from 2002, begins a weeknight repeat from the start. When it began, Spooks was proof that we could do slick action on the same scale as the Americans, and its habit of regularly killing off characters kept it sharp. Peter Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes (pictured) and Lisa Faulkner (well, for a brief time at least) lead the cast.