Digital choice
TEST CRICKET South Africa v India, 7.30am, Sky Main Event & Cricket
CAPTAIN Dean Elgar guided the hosts to a series-levelling victory with an unbeaten 96 on the final day at the Wanderers. Now, the decider gets under way at Newlands in Cape Town.
WILDERNESS LIVING Ice Airport Alaska, 8pm, Smithsonian
EIGHTY per cent of communities in Alaska are off the roads, so cargo flights are essential to keep the state running. This new, returning series meets the people who keep Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport operational — here, it’s struck by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake.
DETECTIVE DUO Dalziel & Pascoe, 8pm, Drama
IN THIS first episode, Dalziel (Warren Clarke) insults Pascoe for being the first to pronounce his name right first time (‘Dee-el’). The downto-earth detective thinks Pascoe (Colin Buchanan) is too clever for his own good, and it’s this friction that makes the pair so fun.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Resistance: 1942, Sky Store/Virgin
ALSO known as Burning At Both Ends, this thriller stars Cary Elwes and hinges around a desperate radio broadcast in occupied France.
LOS ANGELES COPS The Rookie, 9pm, Pick
ESCAPED prisoners are on the loose in this new-to-Freeview episode of the slick LAPD drama, and a bunch of gun-toting vigilante yahoos aren’t helping. One of the fugitives those idiots definitely aren’t catching is Caleb (Sean Maher), and it’s down to Officer Nolan and his newly honed skills of empathy to make headway there.
ALIEN ENCOUNTER Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies, 9pm, Sky History
HAVE aliens visited Earth? The Red Dwarf star investigates, along with space journalist Sarah Cruddas (both pictured), in a new series that opens on the ‘Welsh Roswell’ of 2016. Witness Caz Clarke recalls an aerial dogfight, and how she was warned off sharing her story with threats of a car accident.
FREEVIEW FILM Joe, 9pm, GREAT! Movies
NICOLAS CAGE’S career has been patchy, but this gritty, understated drama gives him one of his better roles to date. Cage stars as Joe Ransom, a loyal if taciturn ex-con with a violent past, who lends a helping hand to a troubled boy (Tye Sheridan).
WELSH MANSION Charlotte Church’s Dream Build, 9pm, Really
CHARLOTTE CHURCH (pictured) has sunk her life savings into the £1.5 million mansion Rhydoldog House — once home to Laura Ashley — which she plans to turn into a healing retreat and wedding venue. It’s a mammoth task, and the singer’s ‘fluid’ approach to planning may not be an asset.
MARTIAL ARTS MASTER I Am Bruce Lee, 10.30pm, Sky Arts
THIS insightful one-off profile documents the life of actor and martial arts icon Bruce Lee, who died in 1973 at the age of just 32. Family and friends shed light on the man behind the myth, and explain why his light still burns bright nearly 50 years after his death.
DUTCH CRIME Undercover, Netflix
THE return of a Dutch police thriller that starts with an undercover couple, and builds with every season.