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TEST CRICKET West Indies v Sri Lanka, 2.55pm, Sky Sports Mix

THE first of three Tests gets under way at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain. The sides’ only previous Test in Trinidad was a six-wicket victory for the hosts, back in 2008.

MOVING DOCUMENTAR­Y Ugly Me, BBC3 (via iPlayer)

LIANE (pictured) has body dysmorphic disorder and thinks herself so ugly that she fears being in public. This sensitive film follows her treatment.

GRITTY FILM DRAMA Lady Macbeth, Amazon Prime

FLORENCE PUGH is on dynamite form playing the wife of a brute in this 19th century-set thriller, who slowly learns to dominate all those around her, but at a terrible price.

U.S. CULTURE Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made In The USA, 9pm, BBC4

AFTER dealing with the Wild West and cities, the conclusion of Waldemar Januszczak’s lively dive into American art is focused on small towns. He explores how the Great Depression, while terrible for the economy, had a beneficial effect on art.

COMEDY CONTEST Taskmaster, 9pm, Dave

USUALLY, Greg Davies is just being mean when he criticises the efforts of the comics in the first round. This week, though, you feel his pain — they’re all terrible. Thankfully, Tim Vine gives him reason to marvel later on with his inventive approach to a parachute challenge.

REAL-LIFE ROMANCE Hollywood Couples, 9pm, Sky Arts

AS THIS first of a new series reflects, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable were a power couple who starred in more than 150 films between them. Lombard died in a plane crash in 1942, and while Gable married twice after her death, he was buried alongside her.

CRIME CAPER Get Shorty, 9pm, Sky Atlantic

NEW TV series take on Elmore Leonard’s novel, with Chris O’Dowd as a thoughtful crook who winds up making films in Hollywood. Ray Romano (pictured with O’Dowd) plays a dodgy producer in a fun show that takes a slower approach than the 1995 film.

PERIOD ADVENTURE Timeless, 10pm, E4

VIEWERS might have spotted Abigail Spencer as a guest at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, and the former Suits star is similarly well-attired for the season finale of this timehoppin­g U.S. drama. Expect sorrow and surprise in this climactic 1880s-set episode as Lucy (Spencer, pictured) and the team try to save Jiya.

FREEVIEW MOVIE Adore, 11.15pm, Film4

ROBIN WRIGHT and Naomi Watts deliver searing performanc­es as middle-aged women whose friendship is tested when each has an affair with the other woman’s son. There’s a sense that the film is not attempting to be realistic, aiming instead to engage with the women’s psyches.

LAST-EVER EPISODE The Americans, 12.05am, ITV4

THERE’S been a sense in this final season that things aren’t going to end well for Elizabeth and Philip. Tonight, in the last-ever episode — stuck in an appalling timeslot — we learn the fate of the KGB agents and of their children, one of whom is now complicit in the subterfuge.

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