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TEST CRICKET England v South Africa, 10am, Sky Main Event & Sky Cricket AFTER their 340-run defeat at Trent Bridge, will new captain Joe Root be feeling the pressure as he leads England out at The Oval for this crucial third Test? The host’s last game in South London was a tenwicket loss to Pakistan last August. TEEN TALE Jem And The Holograms, 1.30pm,p, 8.45pm,p, Sky Family AN EIGHTIES cartoon series gets updated for the social media age. Aubrey Peeples (pictured) is one of four sisters making it on the musicm scene. FUNNY FILM Breaking The Bank, 6.10pm, Sky Premiere COMEDY set in the mahogany boardrooms of a private British bank on the brink. Kelsey Grammer stars as the bank’s bungling chairman, with Tamsin Greig as his haughty wife. AFGHANISTAN REPORT ISIS And The Taliban: The Journey, 9pm, PBS America FAWZIA KOOFI is a female MP in Afghanistan who can no longer visit constituents — they must come to her; she says: ‘I expect that any moment, an explosion will happen.’ This tense documentary tours a country where stability seems a distant dream.
NEW FANTASY SERIES Midnight, Texas, 9pm, SyFy
BASED on the books by True Blood author Charlaine Harris, this is at its best when its main character — a hunky psychic (Francois Arnaud) — summons spirits from beyond. These are truly eerie moments, and his real-world adventures lack a little spark by comparison — but do involve a talking cat.
CANINE STUDY Dogs: An Amazing Animal Family, 9pm, Sky 1
IN THE final episode of his enjoyable series, Patrick Aryee is in Asia and Africa to watch wild canine species getting up to wily tricks in their natural environments. In Africa, he meets the teeny but resilient fennec fox and watches as a devious jackal has its day.
FIGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE The People’s History Of LGBTQ Britain, 9pm, BBC4
IN THE first of a two-part series, Susan Calman and Stephen K. Amos (pictured) present inspiring and at times deeply moving stories from ordinary gay Britons who came out from under the cloud of criminalisation. As liberating as the 1967 act felt, it was just the start of the story . . .
FREEVIEW MOVIE The Gift, 9pm, Film4
JOEL EDGERTON (pictured) writes, directscts and co-costars in this unsettling suburban nightmare. He plays a creepy loner who gatecrashes the lives of a well-ell-to-do couple (Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall).
BACK IN TIME Outlander, 10pm, More4
BILL PATERSON joins the cast as a lawyer with a romantic soul, who knows his poetry and proves a great companion for Claire on the road in the 1740s. Now we are out of that dark castle, the stunning Highland locations make watching this series a more pleasurable experience for us, too.
CLASSIC SITCOM Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, 10pm, Yesterday
‘SOMETIMES when I look at you, I get a bit depressed,’ says Betty to Frank (Michael Crawford) before she packs him off to a job interview in this first-ever episode. His interviewer (George Baker) soon experiences a similar sensation. Episodes two and three follow straight after.