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MOVIE DRAMA Amadeus, 12.35pm, Sky Drama
PETER SHAFFER’S sumptuous adaptation of his own stage hit, based on the alleged rivalry between Mozart and the lesserknown Salieri. Tom Hulce is a wild Mozart, but it was F. Murray Abraham (pictured), as his nemesis, who bagged the Best Actor Oscar — one of the film’s eight.
CRICKET One-Day Cup, 2pm, Sky Sports 2
TODAY’S last north group games — Lancashire v Durham, Derbyshire v Leicestershire, Yorkshire v Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire — are joined by the south group’s Surrey v Glamorgan.
MOVIE ANIMATION Minions, 4.35pm, 8pm, Sky Premiere
THE evil Gru’s little helpers branch out on their own in this spin-off from the Despicable Me franchise. Here, Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob head to Swinging Sixties London.
U.S. DRAMA Touch (Netflix, Season 1)
AMBITIOUS U.S. drama about a fallen-from-grace father (Kiefer Sutherland) and his autistic son, who sees patterns in life that no one else can. It’s a magical show at times, although Sutherland does spend an awful lot of time running after his son and yelling his name (‘Jaaaake!’).
DOCUMENTARY The Girl From Ipanema, 9pm, BBC4
HOME to this year’s Olympics, Rio is also the home of bossa nova. Katie Derham travels to Brazil to trace the origins of that laid-back style’s most famous song. Born in the Fifties, during a time of great change, it is a uniquely Brazilian sound — and one that travelled incredibly well.
GOING FOR GOLD Aussie Gold Hunters, 9pm, Quest
THERE’S gold in them thar hills — or, more accurately, the Australian outback. This new series follows the crews down under searching for buried nuggets of gold that will make mining the dirt — beneath a blistering, relentless sun — worth the mucky, backbreaking effort.
U.S. THRILLER Tyrant, 9pm, Fox
WHEN this U.S. thriller began, Barry (Adam Rayner, pictured) was a U.S. paediatrician visiting his paranoid dictator brother in the Middle East. Now, at the start of new season three — after a brutal civil war — Barry has replaced him as President, and finds that paranoia goes with the job.
MOVIE DRAMA Training Day, 9.55pm, Sky Select
A RAW crime thriller from Antoine Fuqua, a director known for his brutal edge. Denzel Washington plays the dirty cop who ripped up the rule book a long time ago.
HIDDEN TREASURES American Pickers, 10pm, History
NEW, ninth series of the show in which ‘pickers’ Frank and Mike trawl the garages, junkyards and shops of the U.S. on the hunt for interesting ephemera. Tonight, they meet a father-daughter team who run an overstocked auction house in dire need of a cull.
REAL-LIFE CRIME The First 48, 11pm, C+I
FIRST of a new series — showing nightly from tonight — of the gritty documentary in which we follow the same trail of evidence tracked by police. Homicide detectives in regions across America race to find a lead within 48 hours — or have their chance of catching the killers cut by half. (Sky 553, Virgin 275)