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ONE-DAY CRICKET Kent v Somerset, 1.55pm, Sky Cricket / 2pm, Sky Main Event
KIWI quick bowler Matt Henry has already helped Kent to three County Championship wins in a row. Today, they face Somerset in their second home game.
ON-DEMAND CRACKER
Early Man, BT TV Store, Sky y Store, , Virgin g DELIGHTFUL Aardman comedy set during a Stone Age football game, with the voices of Eddie Redmayne and Timothy Spall.
CLASSIC WESTERN True Grit, 3.50pm, Film4
CHARLES PORTIS’S 1968 novel is narrated by young Mattie Ross, but this first film version is all about John Wayne as Marshal Rooster Cogburn — and the Duke is on Oscar-winning form.
RELICS REVISITED Abandoned Engineering, 8pm, Yesterday
A WIND tunnel in Farnborough, which played a critical role in developing RAF fighters during World War II, is explored in this new edition. Also visited is a cannon nicknamed ‘the Hippopotamus’, originally placed in the mountains to defend Italy in 1916.
MODERN WOES Killed By My Debt, BBC3 via iPlayer
HARROWING drama about the cycle of debt that buries a young self-employed worker on a zerohours contract. It’s based on a true story, and the dehumanised manner in which it presents debt collection is horrifying.
A STAR’S PASSION Steve McQueen: Desert Racer, 9pm, PBS America
THERE wasn’t a motorcycle chase in the original script for The Great Escape — it was the idea of Steve McQueen, such was his love of bikes. This profile details that passion, and his friendship with stuntman Bud Ekins, who performed the jump at the end of the 1963 film.
THRILLER FINALE The Blacklist, 10pm, Sky One
THE season finale of this ever twisting U.S. thriller is not an episode that fans (or even casual viewers) will want to miss. Liz has been kidnapped in order to force Reddington’s (James Spader, pictured) hand, and this high-risk move triggers a chain of events that will make season six look rather different.
U.S. DRAMA Code Black, 10pm, W
BRACE yourselves, because you’ve never seen anything as heroic as Rob Lowe’s exArmy doctor, Ethan Willis (pictured), in the opening minutes of this returning LA medical drama. He barrels headlong into a firefight, and things don’t slow down much later on: ‘I never saw a doctor hit a patient before,’ remarks a colleague.
TOP NEW SERIES Africa’s Great Civilisations, 10pm, BBC4
IN AN impressive new, six-part series, Henry Louis Gates Jr explores the story of Africa. ‘The roots of every family tree trace to Africa,’ announces Gates as he begins his march through 200,000 years of the history of the cradle of humanity, visiting some remarkable architecture
along the way.
COMEDY FLICK The Brits Are Coming, 10.30pm, Sky Premiere
CRIME comedy in which married con artists — played by Tim Roth and Uma Thurman — plan a jewellery heist in Los Angeles. The fabulous cast also includes Parker Posey and Stephen Fry.