Satellite choice
FAMILY FILM
The Witches, Amazon Prime/BT TV Store
ANNE HATHAWAY revels in the role of the Grand High Witch in an elaborate new take on the Roald Dahl tale, which has bypassed a cinema release.
ANIMATED ACTION
Blood Of Zeus, Netflix
LIKE a dark Ulysses 31, this epic animated series chronicles a battle between demons and the son of Zeus.
FOOTBALL
Marseille v Manchester City, 7pm, BT Sport 2
LAST season’s Ligue 1 runners-up host City for the second round of Champions League Group C matches, in what will be the firstever meeting between the sides. Meanwhile, Liverpool host Danish Superliga champions Midtjylland (7.15pm, BT Sport 3).
BENEATH THE WAVES
Drain The Oceans, 8pm, National Geographic
OPERATION Crossroads was designed to figure out the realities of atomic warfare, and involved using nuclear weapons to sink a lot of ships at Bikini Atoll. This interesting new episode digitally drains the waves to reveal more than 12 wrecks, including an aircraft carrier.
SPOOK HUNT
Ghost Adventures, 9pm, Really
ZAK BAGANS certainly ups the ante for this new Halloween edition of his enjoyably over-the-top spookhunt, which follows the paranormal adventurer to Romania in search of none other than Dracula himself. He’s especially good at getting sinister stories out of the locals.
U.S. CRIME
Prodigal Son, 9pm, Sky One
JESSICA (Bellamy Young), who has less sense than you want her to, really places a target on her back in tonight’s high-tension new episode. Events include a ransom demand, an explosive on-air interview and some terrible pottery by her serial killer ex, Martin (Michael Sheen).
COMEDIAN’S IDOL
Noel Coward By Julian Clary, 9pm, Sky Arts
JULIAN CLARY has admired Noel Coward since he was a child and, more than a decade ago, even managed to buy the playwright’s old house. Clary pursues the history of his idol here, and this jolly quest takes him from Joan Collins to Twiggy (pictured with Clary) and on to Coward’s work for British intelligence.
TEEN COMEDY MEDY
Banana Split, , 9.45pm, Sky Premiere
AFTER a painful breakup, highschooler April (Hannah Marks) makes an unlikely friend in her ex-boyfriend’s new squeeze (Liana Liberato, pictured with Marks and Dylan Sprouse).
GRITTY DRAMA
Just A Boys’ Game: Play For Today, 10pm, BBC4
NINE years before Rab C. Nesbitt, Gregor Fisher co-starred in this 1979 Play For Today about a man living in the shadow of his ailing grandfather, once said to be the hardest man in Greenock. The sense of menace that comes off the screen is immediate and entirely convincing.
EX-CONS
Love After Lock Up, 10pm, TLC
AS THIS uncomfortable but weirdly compelling U.S. reality series continues, Cheryl and ex-con Josh have a tense discussion about marriage. Meanwhile, the truth of the post-prison relationship between Vince and Amber becomes all too clear — she’s just not interested in him. (Sky 133, Virgin 167)
HORROR FILM
St Agatha, 11.35pm, Film4
NUNS are up to no good in this moderately creepy U.S. horror thriller, set in the Fifties. Pregnant Mary (Sabrina Kern) takes refuge in a convent run by a moody mother superior (Carolyn Hennesy), where she suffers a horrifying ordeal.