Satellite choice
ROWING Henley Royal Regatta, 1.30pm, BT Sport 2
DAY three of the world’s most famous regatta. The boaters will be out in force and the Pimm’s will be flowing among the crowd beside the Thames as the two-abreast knockout races continue over the course of one mile, 550 yards.
T20 CRICKET England v India, 5pm, Sky Cricket, Mix & Main Event
KULDEEP YADAV’S five for 24 and Lokesh Rahul’s 101 not out humbled England’s previously rampant T20 side at Old Trafford on Tuesday. Can Eoin Morgan inspire his men to a series-levelling victory at Cardiff?
SIXTIES MOVIE Cash On Demand, 6.05pm, Talking Pictures
GEM of a British film noir in which Andre Morell stars as a crook who kidnaps the wife and child of a bank manager (Peter Cushing). It’s part of a devilish, more complex plan.
UPLIFTING DRAMA Anne With An E, Netflix
THE return of this heartwarming and very finely filmed Canadian drama, based on the novel Anne Of Green Gables and set at the end of the 19th century. Anne (Amybeth McNulty, pictured) is a spirited orphan whose love of life — despite the obstacles it places in her path — lifts all those around her, especially the ageing siblings who take her in to help at their farm.
CRIME FIGHTERS The Persuaders!, 8pm, True Entertainment
ROGER MOORE plays Lord Brett Sinclair, whose surname rhymes with debonair, while Tony Curtis is Danny Wilde, the crude, up-byhis-bootstraps American. These two playboys (pictured) come together to fight crime in an amusingly ridiculous Seventies series that
begins a repeat here.
DISASTER FLICK Geostorm, 8pm, Sky Premiere
WEATHER goes bad in this goofy sci-fi disaster movie. When satellites intended to prevent natural disasters malfunction, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish and Gerard Butler leap into action.
ACTION ADVENTURE Hooten & The Lady, 9pm, Pick
SKY’S adventure yarn is best enjoyed by not just suspending your disbelief, but by burying it in the back garden. Here, events conspire to bring Hooten and the lady together in Rome on a quest for an ancient book. There, Jane Seymour lounges in bars, playing the lady’s mum.
MUMBAI THRILLER Sacred Games, Netflix
SENSITIVE viewers, beware — Netflix’s new Indian drama opens with a dead dog. What follows is an atmospheric twist on crime drama, based around a Mumbai detective (Saif Ali Khanm, pictured) and a crimelord who steadily learn that their rivalry is a small part of something much bigger.
EIGHTIES MEMORIES Smashing Hits! The 80’s Pop Map, 10pm, BBC4
MIDGE URE and Kim Appleby take a fun trip down memory lane to meet the new wave of bands who dominated the charts during one of the most flamboyant decades in pop. Gary Kemp reflects on the rise of the New Romantics, while Clare Grogan recalls how Spandau Ballet and Altered Images used to play each other at five-a-side football in Glasgow, along with ‘whoever else was touring’.