Satellite choice
ONE-DAY CRICKET Royal London One-Day Cup, 1.55pm, Sky Sports 4
COVERAGE from the last day of North Group matches, as Worcestershire and Yorkshire vie for the top spot and passage straight through to the semi-finals next month. The second and third placed sides will face a quarterfinal against a South Group team, whose fixtures conclude tomorrow.
FOOTBALL Manchester City v West Bromwich Albion, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1 PEP GUARDIOLA will be confident of three points here — all-but guaranteeing a Champions League berth — as City have beaten the Baggies in their past ten Premier League meetings, scoring 28 goals. PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE Manchester By The Sea, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
ONE of 2016’s best dramas also has a deft comic touch. Casey Affleck is the grief-wracked janitor suddenly finding himself the guardian of a teenager.
COMICS’ CONTEST Taskmaster, 9pm, Dave
THE competing comedians are instructed to ‘make the highest splash’ in the first of this week’s amusing challenges; it involves a bucket, a bowling ball and a very wet Alex Horne. Back in the studio, the banter is continuing to provide a lot of laughs — more, sometimes, than the challenges.
CASTING A SPELL The Magicians, 9pm, 5Star
FANTASY dramas often take themselves too seriously, but not The Magicians. It starts its sweary season two finale by ruthlessly taking the mickey out of itself, before barrelling into a story that puts magic itself in peril and ends in an exciting place.
INSPIRING SCENERY Tate Britain’s Great British Walks, 9pm, Sky Arts
AN ENTIRE wing of Tate Britain is devoted to the landscapes of J.M.W. Turner, so Cerys Matthews has plenty to explore in this episode. Matthews then goes on a walk through London and, rather bravely, paints a picture without removing her expensive-looking jacket.
DYNAMIC DUO Nate And Jeremiah By Design, 9pm, TLC
THE couple (pictured) are on a mission to save Americans trapped in costly home renovations they can’t afford to finish, starting with a family who are living in a construction zone. Nate and Jeremiah really seem to care, and that’s what sells this show. (Sky 125, Virgin 167)
FREEVIEW THRILLER Closed Circuit, 9pm, Film4
LEGAL conspiracy thriller starring Rebecca Hall and Eric Bana (pictured) as lawyers defending a man accused of causing mass deaths in a terrorist bombing at a busy London market. It gets tricky when MI5 is implicated, and the film hurtles from promising to implausible all too quickly.
PANEL GAME 8 Out Of 10 Cats, 10pm, E4
AISLING BEA and Rob Beckett return as team captains, and Jimmy Carr as host, for a new series of the raucous panel show that uses opinion polls as fuel for quick-fire gags. The show has been going since 2005, and Carr is the only constant in its cast.
AUSSIE FILM DRAMA Drown, 10.10pm, Sky Premiere
COMPLEX relationships in an all-male environment are explored in this sun-soaked drama. The men are chiselled, athletic professional life-savers, and close bonds and rivalries form.