Satellite choice
ONE-DAY CRICKET England v New Zealand, 10.20am, Sky Sports 1
ENGLAND’S women beat the Kiwis in Derby in a warm-up game three weeks ago. Victory there today for either team would guarantee them a semi-final place. The same goes for Australia and India, who play today at Bristol (10am, Sky Sports 2).
MURDER MYSTERY Agatha Christie’s Poirot, 6.55pm, ITV Encore
FIVE LITTLE PIGS was first shown in 2003 and is one of the classics — it even ends in a drawing room. The ‘pigs’ are murder suspects Poirot interviews in the hope of correcting an injustice, and one of them is a stockbroker played in delicious style by Toby Stephens.
LOVINGLY CRAFTED Handmade: By Royal Appointment, 7.30pm, BBC4
JOHN HUNTER LOBB is the head of John Lobb shoes, which has been family-owned in London since 1866. Their success is a testimony to that long, skilled tradition (‘It’s not an exact science, it’s a craft’), but it doesn’t come cheap — prices go into the thousands. This portrait of their work is captivating.
HORROR THRILLER The Girl With All The Gifts, 8pm, Sky Premiere
A ZOMBIE tale with a twist, set in a dystopian future Britain and starring Sennia Nanua (pictured) as a plucky hybrid girl who might know how to save the world. Gemma Arterton plays her teacher, while Glenn Close is a sinister scientist.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Certain Women, Sky Store/Virgin Movies
SOFTLY-SPOKEN drama weaved around the stories of four women — Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and Lily Gladstone — and set against the sparse beauty of Montana.
LISTEN CAREFULLY . . . Sound Waves: The Symphony Of Physics, 9pm, BBC4
DR HELEN CZERSKI provides a guide to the sounds we can hear and those we can’t in this series. There are some thrilling discoveries — with a stethoscope, she hears a sound from a tree that could mean it is thirsty — and a scientific look at the incredible soprano voice of Lesley Garrett.
FREEVIEW FILM Jaws, 9pm, ITV4
FANTASTIC storytelling, an unforgettable score and creaky low-tech special effects merge brilliantly in Steven Spielberg’s terrifying shark tale. Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss are the intrepid trio setting out to snare themselves a great white.
CYCLING COMEDY Pharmacy Road, 10pm, Sky Atlantic
HYSTERICAL mockumentary from HBO, which imagines a 1982 Tour de France in which almost every rider was using drugs. It’s ridiculous in the best sense and full of a cast going for broke — Orlando Bloom, Andy Samberg, John Cena and Freddie Highmore (pictured), along with Dolph Lundgren, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Bacon and . . . Lance Armstrong.
SPORTING RIVALRY The Dressing Room, 10pm, W
THE stakes are high in Blackwood, South Wales, as the two sides who share a clubhouse — Blackwood Stars and Blackwood RFC — are playing each other for the first time. ‘If we lose, it’ll be a nightmare. I don’t think we’ll live it down,’ despairs ‘Quiche’, who is out with injury in the jaunty penultimate episode.