Satellite choice

TWENTY20 CRICKET South Africa v England, 11.25am & 3.30pm, Sky Sports 2 CHARLOTTE EDWARDS leads out the women’s team in Cape Town for their second T20 international. England’s men begin their twomatch series at 3.30pm — against a side they’ll be facing again in the group stage of March’s World T20.

RUGBY LEAGUE St Helens v Sydney Roosters, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1 JON WILKIN captains St Helens in this World Club Series game. The Saints will want to erase memories of last year’s crushing 39-0 defeat by South Sydney Rabbitohs. FILM FILM COMEDY COMEDY Pitch Perfect 2, 8pm, Sky Premiere UPLIFTING sequel to the Glee-flavoured 2012 hit. This time, upand-coming starlet Hailee Steinfeld (pictured with Ben Platt) joins the likes of Rebel Wilson and Anna Kendrick to sing her heart out.

OFFBEAT ROMCOM

Love, Netflix THIS fundamentally sweet comedy from Judd Apatow is played out over ten moreish episodes (all available from today). Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust play two misfits — a cynic and a nerd — whose sad and funny story has a natural feel that steers it away from the predictable tensions of the genre.

SENIOR SERVICE Devonport: Inside The Royal Navy, 9pm, Quest THIS first of a new series takes us inside western Europe’s largest naval base as the Royal Navy’s flagship, HMS Ocean, arrives to refuel. There’s no shore leave for its likeable engineer, Petty Officer Moy, as the ship’s high-tech sewage system goes up the spout — and he’s stuck fishing unpleasant material out of pipes. Meanwhile, security is on high alert as the Prime Minister comes to visit. Let’s hope he doesn’t need the loo.

PARIS POLITICOS

Spin, 9pm, More4 ‘POLITICS is really starting to stink in France,’ says Appoline, the wife of spin doctor Simon — right before something happens that considerably worsens her mood. Meanwhile, rival schemer Ludovic pushes his political plot against President Marjorie to a new level, and Simon realises that his hands are tied when he tries to fight back. No wonder he has so much free time to flirt with the secretary-general (Aure Atika, pictured below) . . .

U.S. WHODUNIT

NCIS, 9pm, Fox TONIGHT’S entertaining new case puts Gibbs (Mark Harmon) on a collision course with a group of eccentric amateur detectives, one of whom will be familiar to fans of Arrested Development — it’s Jessica Walter, who played Lucille. She takes quite a shine to Gibbs.

BLOODTHIRSTY SAGA

Vikings, Amazon Prime THE epic-hearted drama returns for a new run, starting a day after it did in the U.S. The fourth season opens with invading Norse king Ragnar’s future in question. A new episode arrives every Friday.

ELECTRO-POP DUO Daft Punk Unchained, 10pm, BBC4 IN PUBLIC, the pioneering electronic music duo Daft Punk appear in robot masks. This stylish but unpretentious profile gives a feeling for Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, the men behind them.

SCI-FI ADVENTURE

Flash Gordon, 11.05pm, Film4 INTENTIONALLY bonkers sci-fi, inspired by the old comics and film serials. Sam J. Jones — who has never found another role that suited him so well — is the sports star blasted

into space.