8pm, Stargate Atlantis, Sky1
Atlantis may have reached the end of the line last week, but Sky are very kindly lessening the blow with a series of ‘best of’ episodes, beginning tonight with this goodie from series two, in which McKay gets trapped in a sinking Puddle Jumper, and has to call upon the help of a hallucination-induced Sam Carter. The episode reveals the sillier side of McKay, and Amanda Tapping gets to wear a strictly non-regulation pink jacket in his dream world. Thankfully, real help is also on the way courtesy of Sheppard and Zelenka.
9pm, Battlestar Galactica, Sky1
NEW SERIES The final half of the final series has finally come around. It’s been a long time coming, but now that it’s here there’s something rather bittersweet about knowing we’re building towards the end. Five years is a long-time commitment! Well, in the world of TV shows anyway… Starbuck is mulling over the ominous predictions of the Cylon Hybrid, while Adama, Roslin and the Cylons must come to terms with the discovery that Earth is a desolate wasteland.
9pm, CSI, Five
Nick and Catherine investigate the apparent suicide of a young bride-to-be, Grissom hauls himself into work after a woman is found battered to death, and Sara makes herself useful, working on a case involving a rape victim’s husband who is charged with murder after pulling the plug on his comatose wife’s life support machine. It’s a poignant episode, with lots of not-so-subtle relationship-esque symbolism. We’re starting to count the weeks till the arrival of Laurence Fishburne.
