The Godfather

Channel 5, 3.15pm

Not a film of the Avengers comic book character, that’s on its way as soon as Scarlett Johansson has her baby apparently, but another made-for-TV movie (there aren’t many films to choose from this week due to the Commonwealth Games coverage) starring Elizabeth Berkley as a woman suspected of being behind a series of murders of wealthy men by her new fiance’s suspicious best mate.

Channel 4, 11.40pm

The Commonwealth Games can’t be the reason for the screening of this less-than athletic comedy, directed by Friends star David Schwimmer. Simon Pegg is an overweight security guard who is desperate to win back the woman he jilted at the altar while she was heavily pregnant five years before. When he finds she has a new boyfriend, fitness fanatic Whit, he decides to enter the same charity marathon and beat him.

ITV, 9.30pm

Hayden Christensen makes the final leap from Jedi Knight to Darth Vader in this concluding part of Star Wars’ opening trilogy. When the Jedi Council refuses to give Anakin Skywalker the rank of Master, he turns to the Dark Side for succour. Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman also star.

Film4, 9pm

Marlon Brando won an Oscar, which he refused to collect, for his role as Don Corleone, the head of a Mafia family engaged in a bitter feud with rival clans. But it’s Al Pacino’s Michael, desperately seeking to avoid the family way of life, that gives the first of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic trilogy its emotional heart.

Apocalypto

BBC2, 11.15pm

Mel Gibson’s fast-paced historical adventure set against the backdrop of the decline of the Mayan civilisation. A young tribesman hides his pregnant wife and son in a well when his village is ransacked by a rival tribe and its people carted off to the city as slaves. Escaping his captors, he has to make his way back to his village before the rainy season arrives to drown his young family.