If it started a bit later, John Ford’s groundbreaking Western (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 7.30am FoxClas) would have made the cut, if only for its non-linear storytelling, and despite having Da Dook in a lead role. For the sci-fi OCD set, HBO Plus screens the quite good Jurassic Park (10.35am) and two of its five ho-hummish sequels (12.45 midday, 2.55pm).

Today’s Number One Film:

Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 2.05pm MaxPrime. Watch this if you liked Pan’s Labyrinth, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride or Kill Bill Vol I. The kind of musical you’d expect Tim Burton to make:

If it started within BC on TV’s 6pm-10pm primetime, Malcolm McDowell’s greatest role in Stanley Kubrick’s magnum opus would have got the nod (**A Clockwork Orange BEST FILM OF THE DAY, 10.30pm Max). For those who might be open to admitting that there might just be more to music than is contained in soca and dancehall, the DIRECTV channel offers opera star Placido Domingo (9pm) followed by the world’s most successful living guitarist (Eric Clapton: Slowhand at 70, 11pm).

Today’s Number One Film:

*The Hangover, 7.15pm HBO Plus. Watch this if you liked Desperado, Pineapple Express or Fight Club. As action-packed as Zombieland, as off the wall as Pineapple Express and with a script as intelligent and almost as funny as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, this could be the best road trip film since Sideways.

Ten years ago, almost to the day – Friday fell on the 27th in 2007 – I wrote this about one of the most distressing events in West Indies cricket; ten years later, it’s much easier to see it as one of the major – perhaps the first – stepping stone to where we are now, with Louis XVI fiddling while Rome burns, to mix examples from the past that aptly sum up the future of West Indies cricket.

FORMER West Indies captain and still world record-holding batsman Brian Lara (whom everyone apart from the West Indies selectors expected to hang around for at least another six months or 47 Test runs) timed his announcement of his retirement from international cricket as immaculately as his exquisite late cut, given the current position of West Indian cricket

If BC on TV could be sure nothing would be cut – it screens on a “movie” channel that cuts words and blurs images – one of the most imaginative horrors ever shot (The Cabin in the Woods, 9pm Stun) would have got the nod.

Today’s Number One Film:

Shallow Hal, 6.20pm Cine Canal. Watch this if you liked Easy A, Click or The Truman Show. Bobby & Peter Farrelly forego their usual repugnant-but-hilarious comedy (Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) and come as close as they ever will to sensitive in this story about a superficial man tricked into seeing inner beauty, not its outer from.

Today’s Number One Film:

A Clockwork Orange, 7.40pm Cinemax. Watch this if you liked Blade Runner, American History X or Children of Men. His best film, for many people, Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel has the same ending as the US version of the book