FILM CHOICES

The Road, 11.35pm, BBC1 JOHN HILLCOAT’S haunting postapocalyptic drama, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, is a chilling vision of a world in total collapse. Father and son (Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee) are ghosts scavenging for food and shelter — both in short supply — and finding little hope of salvation.

What Maisie Knew, 12.35am, Ch4 JULIANNE MOORE and Steve Coogan are the warring, divorcing parents of six-year-old Maisie (Onata Aprile, pictured), who struggles to comprehend the adult angst around her. A beautiful, touching and astute update of Henry James’s late-Victorian novel of the same name.