Critics’ choice

British Academy Film Awards 2018

(BBC1, 9pm-11pm)

It’s the start of a new era for Britain’s premier film awards ceremony - long-standing host Stephen Fry has quit, and will be replaced by Joanna Lumley. Whether she can replicate his sharp wit remains to be seen, but those dulcet tones should

Homeland

(Channel 4, 9pm-10.15pm)

New series. The espionage drama returns for a seventh season. Saul and the 200 other federal employees detained after the attempt on the President-elect’s life are still in prison, while the new head of state’s administration continues to come under scrutiny. Starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin.

In Order of Disappearance (BBC4, 10pm-11.50pm)

Premiere. A snow plough driver refuses to believe that his son’s death was caused by a heroin overdose, and goes in search of his killers. His investigation leads to him becoming a feared vigilante and sparking off a gang war. Dark comedy thriller, starring Stellan Skarsgard. thecouriermagazine go down well with viewers. The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s offbeat romance, leads the way with 12 nominations, but it has some stiff opposition from the likes of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Call Me By Your Name. The sentimental may hope that Daniel Day-lewis wins Best Actor for his final film role in Phantom Thread.

The First Brit: Secrets of the 10,000 Year Old Man (Channel 4, 8pm-9pm)

Documentary following scientists at the Natural History Museum and University College London studying Britain’s oldest human remains. The complete skeleton was unearthed in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, more than 100 years previously.

Father Ted

(More4, 10.05pm-11.10pm)

Clare Grogan guest stars as a feminist protest singer who visits Craggy Island and talks gormless Dougal into giving her the parochial house while Ted is out judging a local beauty contest. Comedy, starring Dermot Morgan, Ardal O’hanlon, Frank Kelly and Pauline Mclynn.