Satellite choice
ONE-DAY CRICKET England Women v South Africa Women, 12.30pm, Sky Cricket, Main Event and Mix
KATHERINE BRUNT’S career-best 72 not out was the only bright point for an off-the-pace England in their seven-wicket defeat at Worcester on Saturday. This second of three oneday matches comes from Sussex’s County Ground in Hove, with the final game in Canterbury on Friday.
FIRE FIGHTERS London’s Burning, 3pm, Drama
ITV’S popular drama, which ran for 14 series, begins a repeat run, starting with the 1986 TV-movie pilot. As we join up with Rambo (Jerome Flynn) and the brave men of Blue Watch, they are joined in their ranks by — gasp! — a woman.
SUPERHERO FLICK Black Panther, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
THIS thrilling Marvel adventure boasts some inventive action scenes and an unusually sympathetic (if weirdly named) nemesis for Black Panther — Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan.
SITCOM FAMILY Life In Pieces, 8.30pm, Comedy Central
EACH episode of this sharply written, Modern Family-style U.S. comedy follows four stories from three generations of the same clan, and features a sprawling cast that includes Dianne Wiest and Colin Hanks (pictured right with Zoe Lister-Jones). This new, second run adds a very unusual couple to the mix.
NEW U.S. COMEDY Champions, Netflix
CUTE sitcom from Mindy Kaling, in which a free-living gym owner is suddenly reintroduced to his Sex And The City-loving teenaged son after a visit from his highschool sweetheart (Kaling). The show is disjointed, but there are some well-written gags.
CRIME FIGHTERS Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 9pm, 5 USA
THIS emotional finale to season 16 deals with the tense trial of Johnny D, who is the biological father of Noah — the child Benson is in the process of adopting. This episode is also a turning point for Amaro, who is looking for promotion in the NYPD.
SUB-ZERO SAGA The Terror, 9pm, AMC
THE sailors are marching south in the last two episodes of this based-on-truth Arctic drama, and the outlook is bleak. ‘What are we willing to eat next?’ asks one as difficult choices begin to loom. Crozier (Jared Harris) insists that his men take the noble road, but is that sustainable? (Sky 186, BT TV 332)
THE KING Elvis Presley: The Searcher, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
YOU could argue that the world doesn’t need another film about Elvis (pictured), but this new, two-part HBO profile is a spellbinding experience. It is produced by his ex-wife, Priscilla, focuses on the man, not the myth, and conjures an absorbing atmosphere by keeping all its interviewees off-screen.
FREEVIEW MOVIE The Departed, 10pm, ITV4
FILM buffs and critics breathed a collective sigh of relief when Martin Scorsese finally collected an Oscar for this magnificent crime thriller — a remake of 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are the cops whose fates are intertwined.
FILM THRILLER American Satan, 11.55pm, Sky Premiere
STRUGGLING to make it big, a rock band strike a deal with a mystery man — a deal that, in true Faustian style, will cost them dear. Real-life rocker Andy Biersack takes centre stage.