Satellite choice
ONE-DAY CRICKET England Women v Australia Women, 10am, Sky Sports Ashes
THE women’s Ashes series — now decided by a points system — kicks off with this encounter from Taunton. Can Charlotte Edwards guide England to another win?
FANTASY ADVENTURE The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, 7.45pm, E4
AFTER The Lion, The Witch AAnd The Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis’s third published Narnia chroniclechroni gets the big-screen treatment — and a suitably lavish affair it is, too. Ben Barnes (pictured) returns as Caspian — the king in crisis.
ANIMATED FAIRYTALE Frozen, 1.25pm, 8pm, Sky Disney
DISNEY’S juggernaut hit based on Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved fairy story The Snow Queen. Anna is the princess who won’t let it go when rogue magic rips her family apart.
HIGH-SCHOOL DRAMA
Mean Girls, 8pm, Sky Drama
THE dangers of the high-school clique is the subject of Tina Fey’s sassy comedy, inspired by Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees And Wannabes. Lindsay Lohan tops an up-and-coming cast.
CRIME COMEDY
Undercover, 9pm, Dave
OVER the past five episodes of this British crime comedy, Daniel Rigby’s Chris has not proven himself to be an especially effective undercover asset as he has bedded in with the Armenian Mafia. The series ends with Chris in immediate need of improvement as Zoe (Sarah Alexander) is captured. Meanwhile, Lara has a double bill of big news.
SCI-FI DRAMA
Falling Skies, 9pm, Fox
THE final series of the sci-fi drama finds plenty of fighting spirit remaining in the humans and their allies. Troubling news from Cochise brings everyone together, but an angry Pope isn’t feeling like a team player.
REAL-LIFE DRAMA Me & My New Brain, 9pm, BBC3
ANOTHER moving and empowering film in the Defying The Label season. Four years ago, Charlie Elmore (pictured) suffered a brain injury while snowboarding. She follows the journeys of others like her who fought back to make remarkable, if not complete, recoveries.
PIRATE DRAMA
Black Sails,, 10pm,p, History y
TOBY STEPHENS as Captain Flint (pictured) is a suitably crafty anchor in this pirate drama, but he has a match in gutsy tavern owner Eleanor (Hannah New), whose head for strategy is far superior to that of most of the men. Surely an alliance can’t be far away?
WARTIME DRAMA
Suite Française, BT TV, Virgin
JEWISH author Irene Nemirovsky’s posthumously published novel, about forbidden love in wartime, is given a lavish treatment. Michelle Williams is the French PoW’s wife who falls for a German officer in spite of herself.
ZOMBIE DRAMA
Z Nation, 10pm, Pick
THE grisly U.S. zombie drama makes its UK debut. It’s set three years after the first infection and civilisation is on its knees. The main twist on the zombie apocalypse format is that there is a solitary survivor of the zombies’ lethal bites — and he holds the key to a cure and to humanity’s
salvation.