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T20 CRICKET: Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Birmingham Bears, 6pm, Sky Cricket & Main Event
HARRY GURNEY’S four for 17 helped the Outlaws to wrap up victory in last year’s T20 Blast final. They start their defence at Trent Bridge in a repeat of that final.
FILM THRILLER American Made, 8pm, Sky Select
TO MARK Independence Day in the U.S., films with ‘American’ in the title show all day. Here, Tom Cruise stars as a pilot getting mixed up with both the CIA and drugs kingpin Pablo Escobar.
PRIZE-GIVING The South Bank Sky Arts Awards, 8pm, Sky Arts
THE TV drama field at this year’s ceremony, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, is particularly strong and sees the BBC’s Line Of Duty and Howards End facing Netflix’s The Crown — which picked up a Bafta for Vanessa Kirby’s performance as Princess Margaret in May.
SUPERHERO STORY Agent Carter, 8pm, Paramount Network
THE Paramount Network launches at 1pm and will be home to glossy U.S. TV and movies. The big draw of its first night is the Freeview premiere of the post-war Marvel adventure, with Hayley Atwell as Carter — who fights sexism and helps rich cad Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper). (Freeview 57, Sky 159)
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Lady Bird, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
A TENDER and funny comingof-age drama that digs deep into a mother-teenage daughter relationship. Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan star.
LEGAL WHIZ Conviction, 9pm, Pick
IN THIS new-to-Freeview legal drama from the U.S., a fast-living lawyer — described as ‘lightning in a bottle’, she also happens to be the daughter of an exU.S. President — is blackmailed into taking a do-gooding job overturning wrongful convictions. Hayley Atwell (pictured) plays that lawyer and gives the part a depth that it could easily lack.
THE U.S. OF A. Rich Hall’s Working For The American Dream, 9pm, BBC4
THE acerbic comic digs into the history of the American Dream for his interesting new film, puncturing myths as he goes and opening with the arrival of the Puritans. This immigrant group believed hard work led to personal salvation, and that useful attitude was hardwired into the American spirit.
AMERICAN FAMILY This Is Us, 9pm, More4
SEASON one of this high-class U.S. family drama — the heir to Thirtysomethinging and Brothers & Sisters — opened on the 36th birthday of three siblings. The new, second season opens on their 37th, as Randall (Sterling K. Brown, pictured)ed) wants to adopt a child, while in the past, his adoptive parents reel from a fight.
FINAL CHALLENGE Taskmaster, 9pm, Dave
IT’S the final, and Liza Tarbuck remains in front; Asim Chaudhry — in joint last with Alice Levine — has yet to win an episode. Will that change here? The last challenge is a corker and produces a moment for Alex Horne that seems to leave him profoundly changed. It’s also the source of that squeal in the show’s opening credits.
FREEVIEW FILM Last Holiday, 9pm, Talking Pictures
BELIEVING he has only weeks to live, Alec Guinness’s quiet, modest salesman cashes in his life savings and decides to live it up in a swanky hotel until the bell tolls. Written by J.B. Priestley, it’s a wry and ironic black comedy.