Satellite choice
T20 CRICKET
Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders, 3pm, Sky Sports 1
THOUGH Mumbai — with England’s Jos Buttler — topped the league, they lost to Rising Pune Supergiant in the first play-off match. Now, they need to see off the winners of Wednesday’s third v fourth eliminator if they are to meet Pune again in Sunday’s final.
MOTOR SPORT
Rally de Portugal, 7pm, BT Sport 3
THE sixth round of the 2017 World Rally Championship comes from Portugal, where British driver Kris Meeke won last year. He followed that victory with a stunning debut win by a British driver in Finland in the fastest WRC round ever.
NEW YORK SITCOM
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Netflix,
CHEERY apocalypse cult survivor Kimmy is off to college in the new, third season of this snappy U.S. comedy. She’s trying to move on, but there’s also the small matter of that husband-shaped cliffhanger to resolve from season two . . .
COMIC-BOOK ACTION
Suicide Squad, 8pm, Sky Premiere
A VAST cast of bad guys and gals (including Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, pictured) cause havoc in this DC Comics adventure in which super villains become superheroes.
WILDERNESS LIFE
The Last Alaskans, 9pm, Quest
THE first episode of a stark and eerily beautiful reality series about the remaining families permitted to live in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — an area one-fifth the size of Germany. It’s an unusually straightforward, sincere account of a disappearing way of life.
FRENCH DRAMA
Spin, 9pm, More4
THERE is only so much a good spin doctor can do when his President refuses to think of the greater good. Is it time for Kapita to find an easier, happier life? As the President’s wife says to him in this series finale, paraphrasing Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice: ‘Those who embrace only shadows will know only the shadow of joy.’
CRIME FIGHTERS
NCIS, 9pm, Fox
TONIGHT’S new case is virtually X Files territory, and it’s left to the personal side of the episode to have the depth — although that starts out looking silly, too, as Quinn (Jennifer Esposito) is called to a family emergency.
17TH-CENTURY TALE
Jamestown, 9pm, Sky 1
LAST week, Sky’s ambitious New World drama dealt with witchcraft; this week, it’s the Native Americans, as the colonists are rattled by a mysterious incursion into their settlement. Amid the grim consequences, maid Mercy (Patsy Ferran, a star in the making) provides deft comic relief.
COMEDY COUPLE
Bridgetg & Eamon,, 11pm,p, Gold
THE Eighties-Eightiesset Irish comedy returns, and housewife Bridget (Jennifer Zamparelli) is longing for someone new and interesting to hang out with — cue cool U.S. couple Barbara and Mikey (Aoibhinn McGinnity and Mark Huberman, pictured with Bernard O’Shea and Zamparelli), who rock up at their local. You need a taste for odd comedy to enjoy this show, but it’s a great example of its kind.
FREEVIEW MOVIE
Snake Eyes, 11pm, Film4
VISUALLY souped-up thriller from director Brian De Palma. Nicolas Cage’s corrupt cop gets thoroughly tangled up in a conspiracy that starts at a packed boxing arena.