PICK OF THE DAY

Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards 2022

6PM, BBC1 ★★★★ Richard Ayoade hosts the awards from London’s Royal Festival Hall. Nominees include Time, Gogglebox, An Audience With Adele

(pictured) and Strictly Come

Dancing. It’s a Sin, Russell T. Davies critically-acclaimed decade-spanning drama about the AIDS epidemic, leads the pack. The Channel 4 smash hit series earned 11 nominations; six in the TV awards and five in the craft awards, including director: fiction, mini-series, and five in the performance categories.

Great Lighthouses Of Ireland

6.30PM, RTÉ ONE ★★★★ A new run of the series that shares the stories of Ireland’s lighthouses and the men and women who lived and worked in them begins with the structure at Fastnet, off the Co Cork coast.

Eden: Untamed Planet

7.10PM, BBC2 ★★★ The secrets of the few remaining regions that are isolated from the rest of the world and have been largely protected from the most damaging effects of human interference. The first edition heads to Borneo.

17 Days In The Crucible

10PM, VIRGIN ONE ★★★ Profile of Irish snooker star Ken Doherty, who won the World Championship in 1997 when he beat Stephen Hendry 18-12, and reached the final in both 1998 and 2003, where he lost to John Higgins and Mark Williams respectively.