The British Academy Film Awards 2019
9pm, BBC One
Joanna Lumley hosts the awards ceremony from the Royal Albert Hall. In a fitting piece of nominative determinism, The Favourite is expected to win big this year, after snaring 12 nominations last month, although it faces competition in the best picture category from Roma, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book and A Star Is Born. For those people still somehow wowed by Cirque du Soleil in the year of our lord 2019, there is good news: they’ll be performing for their third consecutive year. Gwilym Mumford
Call the Midwife
8pm, BBC One
Eight series in and Heidi Thomas’s Call the Midwife is still boundary-breaking public service broadcasting. With typical good timing, this week’s episode follows Trixie’s adventures at Dr Turner’s new cervical cancer screening clinic. Meanwhile love is in the air for Lucille (Leonie Elliot). Ellen E Jones
Endeavour
8pm, ITV
A new series of the high-quality Morse prequel opens in 1969, with Shaun Evans’s Endeavour shunted into a quiet role in the countryside. Ronnie Box has been promoted to DCI and is determined to push Endeavour to one side, but when a homeless teenager is in the frame for the murder of a missing schoolgirl it’s all hands on deck. Hannah Verdier
Discovering The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Benjamin Britten
8pm, BBC Four
“As a kid, it felt like visiting a palace,” says conductor Moritz Gnann of Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. He is on baton duty for this performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, whose members explain its genius to Katie Derham. Ali Catterall
Africa with Ade Adepitan
9pm, BBC Two
Adepitan’s African odyssey continues to balance light and darkness. Tonight, he marvels at Gabon’s wildlife, worries about the impact of palm oil, encounters a robot traffic conductor in Democratic Republic of Congo and ponders the horror of child soldiers. Occasionally slight but likeable enough. Phil Harrison
SAS: Who Dares Wins
9pm, Channel 4
This has been, by some distance, the most compelling iteration of the military training series, helped along by the introduction, for the first time, of female recruits. Its final stage looks set to be the most punishing yet, as the remaining hopefuls are put through a mock interrogation, complete with white noise and “stress positions”. GM
Film choice
The Man Who Would Be King, 1.55pm, BBC Two
John Huston’s glorious adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine as Daniel and Peachy, ex-soldiers seeking their fortune in a remote region of Afghanistan. Daniel’s descent into self-delusion is reminiscent of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in a classic adventure. Paul Howlett
Today’s best live sport
Test Cricket: West Indies v England, 1.30pm, Sky Sports Cricket
Day two of the third and final Test.
Six Nations Rugby Union: England v France, 2.15pm, ITV
The hosts look to build on their dramatic win in Dublin.
Premier League Football: Manchester City v Chelsea, 3.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event
Spurs v Leicester airs at 12.45pm.
