Satellite choice
CRICKET Lancashire v Hampshire, 3.30pm, Sky Sports Ashes
LIVE day/night action from the ECB 40. Michael Carberry was the star of the show when these sides last met in the competition, after he hit 150 not out for the defending champions against Lancashire.
CLASSIC MOVIE
The Ladykillers, 5.10pm, Film4
THE classic Ealing comedy that stars Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and a host of other greats. When a gang of robbers lodge with an old lady as they plan a job, little do they know what lies ahead . . .
CYCLING USA Pro Challenge, 9pm, British Eurosport
LIVE Stateside coverage of the second stage of this increasingly prestigious event. Young American Joe Dombrowski looks set to be in action for Team Sky in front of his home supporters.
WEDDING BELLS Don’t Tell The Bride, 9pm, BBC3
THE popular series in which grooms plan the wedding — right down to the dress — returns for a new run. As usual, the couple’s desires are opposite: ex-rebel Levi, who still swaggers as if he were Liam Gallagher, wants a huge wedding, while well-behaved Jade (pictured with Levi) wants a small one. Will she appreciate his plan to hold the ceremony at Stoke City football ground?
SERIES FINALE
Starlings, 9pm, Sky1
THE second series concludes on the day of Bell and Reuben’s wedding, when a string of miniature disasters (more practical than emotional) threatens to derail it altogether. The drama is overstretched in the run-up, but everyone looks great, and the payoff in the final third is good fun. Also, the true romance of the episode doesn’t quite lie where you’d expect.
MEDICAL DRAMA
Body Of Proof, 9pm, Alibi
THE pacier final season continues with Kate spending an awful lot of time in her underwear after she meets a dodgy Russian at a party. The next day, Sergei comes in handy at the office when a girl dies — perhaps too handy . . .
HISTORY King Alfred And The Anglo-Saxons, 9pm, BBC4
MICHAEL WOOD (pictured) concludes his series on three AngloSaxon rulers with the monarch who united England: Aethelstan, a cclever leader reregarded by foforeigners as our eequivalent of CCharlemagne, the fifirst Holy Roman EEmperor. AAethelstan’s story is frfrom such a remote titime that the very fact of its telling is enough to set the imagination racing.
CHEEKY COMEDY
Badults, 10pm, BBC3
ONE of the boys becomes the office ‘head of cool’ in this penultimate episode of the gleefully puerile comedy. He doesn’t have much to live up to — you’ll understand when the old one turns up — but then, achievement isn’t the strong suit of the Badults.
MOVIE COMEDY The Invention Of Lying, 10pm, ITV2
THE broadest of comedies from our very own Ricky Gervais — who writes, directs and stars. Here, Gervais plays Mark Bellison, a chap who discovers a whole new way of communicating in a world where people seem to have no problem with the naked truth.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE
Compliance, Virgin Movies
BASED on true events, this brilliantly executed drama follows the workers of a fast-food restaurant who are duped by a hoax caller pretending to be the police. His motives for taking his prey to such humiliating places are as perplexing as the compliance of those he involves.