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CRICKET England v Australia, 12.30pm, Sky Cricket & Main Event
EOIN MORGAN’S side currently top the one-day rankings, and they’ll want to show the Aussie why that’s the case as this three-match series gets under way at Old Trafford.
FOOTBALL Watford v Middlesbrough, 7pm, Sky Football, 7.30pm, Main Event
THE Championship season kicks off at Vicarage Road. Can new Hornets manager Vladimir Ivic get Watford straight back to the Premier League?
MUSIC MAESTROS BBC Proms 2020, 8pm, BBC4
THE ridiculously talented KannehMason siblings, cellist Sheku and pianist Isata, perform a specially recorded recital of Barber, Bridge and Rachmaninov. They also continue the 250th anniversary celebrations of Beethoven’s birth with his Cello Sonata In C Major.
NEW COMEDY The Duchess, Netflix
KATHERINE RYAN’S parenting comedy has shades of Motherland, although it feels more like a walking stand-up routine than a sitcom. ‘The Duchess’ is her character’s perceptive daughter in a show that softens as it goes on, and co-stars Aussie comic Steen Raskopoulos (pictured with Ryan) as the sensitive boyfriend.
MOTORSPORT MOVIE Le Mans 66, 8pm, Sky Premiere
YOU don’t have to be a paid-up petrolhead to enjoy this sports drama, in which U.S. motor company Ford takes on the might of Ferrari. Matt Damon and Christian Bale star. GERMAN DRAMA 23 Cases, 9pm, More4
WHEN serial killer Maximilian Rapp confesses to 23 murders, everyone seems pleased. Everyone, that is, except Detective Tara Scholl (Shadi Hedayati), who caught him, and thinks he might be covering for someone else. This swaggering new drama, which has a touch of NCIS about it, follows her investigation.
9/11 WITNESS Portraits From Ground Zero, 9pm, Sky History
ANDREA BOOHER was one of the few photographers who had access to Ground Zero shortly after the 9/11 attacks, and the photos she took — dust swirling in the sunlight — have an eerie quality. For this moving new one-off, she speaks to the people she photographed at the time.
DARK HUMOUR Why Women Kill, 9pm, Alibi
THIS comedy drama from Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives) is a lot of fun. It follows three women from different decades, who are connected through having lived in the same Pasadena mansion. Lucy Liu (pictured with Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste), Jack Davenport and Baywatch’s Alexandra Daddario lead the cast.
FREEVIEW FILM Rain Man, 9pm, 5Star
REPRESENTATIONS and awareness of autism have come a long way, but this drama was ground-breaking at the time. Tom Cruise is the man trying to bond with his estranged brother (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant with a gift for numbers, to get his hands on an inheritance.
U.S. CULTURE Soul America, 9.30pm, BBC4
PART two tracks the differing ways musicians such as James Brown and Isaac Hayes reacted to the summer of 1967, which saw 159 uprisings by black Americans. It also takes in the rise of blaxploitation cinema, with the films Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and Shaft.