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Entertainment
Gwilym Mumford, Mark Jones, Bim Adewunmi, Andrew Mueller, John Robinson

TV highlights 17/10/2014

Don Cheadle and Donis Leonard in House of Lies.
Don Cheadle and Donis Leonard in House of Lies. Photograph: Michael Desmond/SHOWTIME

Stand Up To Cancer
7pm, Channel 4

An evening of comedy and music in support of the laudable initiative. Much of C4’s entertainment arsenal is out in force, including the stars of The Last Leg. There are also some intriguing pair-ups, including Richard Ayoade helping Andy Murray to find someone to play the latter in a film of his life. Gwilym Mumford

Secrets from the Sky
8pm, ITV

While an octocopter might sound like a mode of transportation used by a CBeebies character, it’s actually a remote-controlled helicopter. Historian Bettany Hughes and archaeologist Ben Robinson use the technology to piece together stories locked in landscapes that would be unfathomable viewed from terra firma, starting with a look at Cornwall’s Tintagel Castle. Mark Jones

Not Going Out
9.30pm, BBC1

It’s a new series for the gag-heavy sitcom starring and co-written by Lee Mack. Lee and Lucy’s night at the cinema ends in a mugging at the hands of a teen gang, and they make away with Lucy’s bag (containing mostly knitting). The incident, in which Lee is utterly useless, plunges him into a crisis of his own masculinity. He joins a boxing gym and takes on a trainer, with predictably terrible results. Even when the plot feels a little thin – as here – the one-liners are still pretty solid. Bim Adewunmi

Jeff Lynne’s ELO At Hyde Park 10pm, BBC4

Footage of last month’s ambitious, acclaimed performance before a 50,000-strong crowd in London’s Hyde Park, the first live outing under the Electric Light Orchestra name in nearly three decades. Lynne’s motives for putting the show back on the road are understandable: ELO, though influential, had become lumbered with a reputation as hopelessly unfashionable dad-rockers, partly down to the patronage of Alan Partridge. Andrew Mueller

House of Lies
10pm, Sky Atlantic

Spin doctor drama House Of Lies returns, and with the economy out of the toilet, Marty (Don Cheadle) has launched his own management concern, Kaan & Associates, and he’s off to China to pursue an organic grocery store client and its CEO (guest star Daniel Stern). Jeannie (Kristen Bell) is now in charge of her very own pod at Galweather, while Clyde (Ben Schwartz) is starting to regret his decision to stay on and work for Marty’s ex-wife, Monica, at Kinsley. Bim Adewunmi

OtherwOrld
11pm, BBC3

One of a series of “taster” comedy pilots hatched by BBC3 earlier this year, OtherwOrld isn’t really one that does the channel any favours. The idea? We’re on another planet, a place not hugely unlike Earth (but one with aliens) to the extent that even the low-rent sketch show staples, crowbarred hopefully into an overarching theme, are fairly familiar. There’s a bit about pandas having sex that is better than that description might lead you to believe but, otherwise, the best you can say about this is that it’s mercifully short. JR

SPORT CHOICE
Cricket: India v West Indies
9.55am, Sky Sports 2

Coverage of the fourth match of the five-game series at Dharmasala’s Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium. The Windies’ tour of India didn’t get off to the best of starts, with the thumping form of their Bangladesh tour undermined by a pair of defeats to India A in Mumbai. The difficulty of their task is ramped up further by the exclusion of Kolkata Knight Riders off-spinner Sunil Narine, whose bowling action has been deemed to be illegal. MJ

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