CRICKET: THE HUNDRED
Manchester Originals v London Spirit, 2.30pm, 6pm, Sky Main Event, The Hundred & Mix THE ORIGINALS’ previous match was curtailed by rain, but the one point for a no result was enough to leave them at the top of the table. Can captain Carlos Braithwaite’s side stay on track for the final with victory against London Spirit, who have yet to record a victory in the competition?
WELL TRAINED
Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog, 8pm, Nat Geo Wild THE MexicanAmerican dog trainer, whose teeth are brighter than the sun, helps to transform a feisty pitbull in this new series. The breed’s violent nature is a myth, he says — ‘It’s not the breed, it’s the human behind the dog.’ (Sky 165, Virgin 264)
FILM THRILLER
We Still Say Grace, 8pm, Sky Premiere HORROR thriller in which a backwoods family, ruled over by a wrathful religious fanatic (Bruce Davison), take in three strangers whose car has broken down.
SPORTS STORIES
Untold, Netflix THIS high-end, five-part sports series starts with the untold story of an extraordinary on-court brawl in 2004 — between not just two NBA teams, but their fans as well. A new episode arrives every Tuesday.
BELOW DECK
My Floating Home, 9pm, More4 THIS week’s new episode of the offbeat property show introduces us to 21-year-old Harry Smith (pictured), who bought a Seventies canal boat for £4,500 during his student days in Birmingham. The aspiring entrepreneur and inventor now has a £1,000 budget to upgrade his floating home.
BON VOYAGE!
Write Around The World With Richard E. Grant, 9pm, BBC4 RICHARD E. GRANT’S jolly, bookinspired travel series arrives in the south of France. Here, Grant travels with a donkey in the Cevennes — while reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes — before heading off to Marseilles, a setting for The Count Of Monte Cristo.
SERIAL KILLER
Ivan Milat: Buried Secrets, 9pm, C+I IN THE Nineties, Ivan Milat murdered seven backpackers in Australia. But could he have been responsible for taking even more lives? This new true-crime series suggests that his first victim could have been Keren Rowland, back in 1971. (Sky 156, Virgin 209)
STAND-UP COMEDY
Philly Philly Wang Wang, Netflix
THE comic Phil Wang looks at love, politics and his British-Malaysian heritage for this stand-up special.
FUNNY ANECDOTES
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, 10pm, Dave SARA PASCOE and Adrian Edmondson are two of Alan’s guests in this new episode, and their stories are worth watching all by themselves. Pascoe (pictured below left with Edmondson, Davies, Laura Smyth and Tez Ilyas) recounts her experience of performing stand-up at Hugh Grant’s birthday party; Edmondson recalls the time he was kissed by Joni Mitchell.
TELLY MEMORIES
What We Were Watching: Summer TV Classics, 11pm, BBC4 GRACE DENT has a grand old time exploring the sights, sounds and schedules of the great British summer. From travel programmes of the Sixties and Seventies to the disastrous BBC soap Eldorado, here are the shows that brought sun into our homes.