Satellite and Cable: Pick of the Day

SINCE HER starring role in Good Will Hunting, Minnie Driver has become one of our most sought-after actresses in Hollywood. She shows why in Grosse Pointe Blank (10pm Sky Premier), an engagingly off-beat, black comedy from George Armitage. She plays a woman being wooed by her former childhood sweetheart, a professional assassin (John Cusack, right) back in town for the first time in 10 years for a school reunion. All the while, he is being trailed by a rival killer, Mr Grocer (Dan Aykroyd).

The conflicts in the former Yugoslavia began after the death of General Tito. Biography (9pm History Channel) tonight examines the life of the man born Josip Broz, who led the National Liberation Army against the Germans in 1941, and became Prime Minister of Yugoslavia in 1946.