Satellite choice
T20 CRICKET India v England, 10.30am, Sky Sports 2
KANPUR hosts the first of three T20 games. The last short-format game England played was not one to remember — they lost at home to Pakistan in September, by nine wickets — but their thrilling last-over victory in the final 50-over match on Sunday will have provided a timely confidence boost.
FILM MATINEE Tunes Of Glory, 1.05pm, Spike
ALEC GUINNESS and John Mills clash in Ronald Neame’s military drama. Guinness is the whiskydrinking commanding officer of a battalion in Scotland, unwilling to surrender control to his replacement (Mills). In its examination of class, this was way ahead of its time. (Freeview 31, Freesat 141, Sky 160, Virgin 154)
FOOTBALL Hull City v Manchester United, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
THERE’S still a glimmer of hope for Hull and new coach Marco Silva, but with a 2-0 lead from the first leg of this EFL Cup semi-final, Jose Mourinho will be the happier of the two Portuguese bosses.
CUTE CANINES The Secret Life Of Puppies, 8pm, 5Star
THE puppies start to adjust to life in the human world in part two of this incredibly sweet show, as they leave their litter mates behind and head to their new owners. Leaving old friends behind is made easier by the fact that they’re now the centre of attention.
HISTORY REVISION British History’s Biggest Fibs, 9pm, BBC4
FOR her new series, Lucy Worsley (pictured) takes some of our nation’s defining events and strips out the mythology to reveal what actually happened. She starts with the Wars of the Roses, to which the phrase ‘history is written by the victors’ soon starts to feel relevant.
SUB-ZERO THRILLER Fortitude, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
SKY’S Arctic drama returns in simpler form for season two. It’s more of a horror thriller, with a story that hints at cannibalism in the remote town of Fortitude, home to such new characters as a hardy fisherman (Dennis Quaid, pictured). All ten parts are available from 10.05pm on Sky On Demand and Now TV.
POOL SHARK Ronnie O’Sullivan’s American Hustle, 10pm, History
THE snooker star and his friend Matt Smith (pictured) make an unassuming and thoroughly likeable pair for this new series. They travel the U.S., chatting to pool hustlers (including one fantastic character called ‘Kid Delicious’) before Ronnie tries his hand at hustling.
COMEDY DRAMA Urban Myths, 10pm, Sky Arts
THE second in Sky’s new series of comic tales couldn’t sound more quirky if it tried, but it’s sweet to watch. It charts an imagined friendship between the writer Samuel Beckett (David Threlfall) and the schoolboy who would grow up to be Andre the Giant, the famous professional wrestler.
MONSTER MOVIE Frankenstein, 10pm, Sky Premiere
INVENTIVE modern retelling of Mary Shelley’s novel. It’s told from the point of view of the Monster (Xavier Samuel), who is left to fend for himself in present day Los Angeles.