Satellite choice

SNOOKER Six-Red World Championship, 9am, British Eurosport 2

LIVE coverage from Bangkok of this slimmed-down snooker tournament that features just six red balls per frame. Among the familiar faces competing is defending champion Mark Davis.

MOVIE COMEDY The Pink Panther, 4.10pm, Sky Comedy

THE sequels just got sillier and sillier, but Blake Edwards’s original treads the fine line between comic thriller and parody with ease. Peter Sellers (pictured with Capucine) is just perfect as clumsy Clouseau.

KIDS’ ADVENTURE

Nowhere Boys, 5.30pm, CBBC NEW mystery series from Australia about four boys who go on a forest trek and return to a changed town. To say how it’s changed, exactly, would spoil it — but the story develops well, and the script wisely remains rooted in the lives of its characters.

WOMEN’S CRICKET England v South Africa, 6pm, Sky Sports 2

THE first of two matches between these sides comes from the Essex County Ground. Charlotte Edwards captains the England team in what is a repeat of the semi-final of this year’s Women’s World Twenty20.

COURTROOM COMEDY

Boston Legal, 7pm, Universal

TWO things set this brilliant U.S. legal drama apart: first, the sheer fun of James Spader and William Shatner as its central double act; second, the deceptively intelligent speeches the characters are given to deliver in court. It begins a weekday repeat from the start here.

MOVIE MUSICAL

Chicago, 8pm, Sky Drama

CHOREOGRAPHER turned director Rob Marshall’s jazzhands adaptation of Bob Fosse’s subversive musical. Renee Zellweger (pictured) and Catherine Zeta-Jones are the pair doing time.

PANEL SHOW Duck Quacks Don’t Echo, 8pm, Sky1

STEPHEN MANGAN, Davina McCall and Paddy McGuinness banter over the truth of ‘facts’ in this mucky but fun returning series. Mangan proposes that men are less able to finish tricky tasks in the presence of attractive women, which prompts a tale from McGuinness that leaves Davina hiding behind her hands.

CREEPY DRAMA

Twin Peaks, 10pm,, Syfy yy

WEIRD TV can start to look almost normal after a few years. Yet, two decades on, Twin Peaks is still fiendishly unsettling, right from the first bars of the theme tune. The meandering plot — creator David Lynch didn’t plan for an ending in the conventional sense — actually heightens the tension. It begins a weekday repeat tonight.

A POET RECALLED Return To Betjemanland, 9pm, BBC4

A.N. WILSON commemorates the death of John Betjeman (30 years ago, back in May) with this sterling new documentary. He travels to the places that shaped the poet and broadcaster — Oxford, Cornwall, London, Somerset, Berkshire — to explore the contradictions in his life and the memories of his childhood.

FOOTBALL DRAMA

Green Street, 12am, ITV4

ELIJAH WOOD says ‘No more Mr Nice Guy’ in this gritty look at the violence that surrounds football, where fights are arranged by fans to express their masculinity. Wood is the American student who gets sucked in.