Satellite choice
CLASSIC ADVENTURE
Jungle Book, 10.50am, More4
A SPLENDID version of Kipling’s classic tale, with Sabu (pictured) as Mowgli, the boy found and returned to his mother after years in the jungle being raised by wolves. All grown up, can Mowgli avenge his dead father and save his animal pals from the greed of hunters?
ONE-DAY CRICKET Glamorgan v Kent Spitfires, 1.55pm, Sky Sports Ashes
SOPHIA GARDENS hosts this match from the One-Day Cup. Captain Jacques Rudolph is one of four South Africans in the Glamorgan squad.
MUSICAL FINALE
Guitar Star, 8pm, Sky Arts
THE six-stringed talent search comes to an end tonight with host Edith Bowman overseeing the judges’ choice of overall winner — whose prize is the chance to perform at this year’s Latitude festival.
DOCUMENTARY The World’s Worst Place To Be Disabled? 9pm, BBC3
MANY programmes in the Defying The Label season have been defiant and empowering, but this report from Ghana, by disabled journalist Sophie Morgan, is a heartbreaking experience. Here, she meets disabled adults and children who suffer neglect, abuse and far worse in a country that considers them cursed.
Fighting The Blue, 9pm, PBS America
THE last of this four-part series on the Battle of Britain opens with London on fire as German bombers unleashed hell on the capital in September 1940. The destruction was immense, but Britain bounced back.
CELEBRITY SERIES
Stewarts & Hamiltons, 9pm, E!
THE latest celebrity clan to be willingly stalked by cameras is not one family, but two. The blended, predominantly blonde kin of Rod Stewart and George Hamilton, both ex-husbands of Alana Stewart (pictured with Hamilton), are not short of fascinating and infuriating characters — and George Sr is a funny guy. (Sky 151, Virgin 156)
GAME SHOW Taskmaster, 10pm, Dave
GREG DAVIES hosts a new game show that pits comedians against each other in a series of pointless tasks more whimsical than difficult — from eating a watermelon in a minute to painting a horse while riding a horse. Competitors are Frank Skinner, Josh Widdicombe, Roisin Conaty, Romesh Ranganathan and Tim Key.
MOVIE DRAMA Magnolia, 10pm, Sky Tomo Cruise
AS DARINGLY ambitious a film as you’d expect from Paul Thomas Anderson, of There Will Be Blood fame — a fiendishly complex, multistranded ensemble drama (with Tom Cruise, pictured) about life, love and coincidence.
QUIRKY COMEDY While We’re Young, Sky Store/Virgin
NOAH BAUMBACH reteams with Ben Stiller for more quietly quirky comedy. Stiller and Naomi Watts play a childless couple resolutely refusing to contemplate the ageing process.
FOOTBALL Barcelona v Chelsea, 12.55am, Sky Sports 1
THE champions of Spain take on the current holders of the Premier League title in this preseason match from the U.S. Fans will be hoping to see stars such as Barca’s Lionel Messi and Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas.