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BEST PICTURE Nomadland, Disney+
FRANCES McDORMAND (pictured) lived in a van and acted with real nomads to make this portrait of living on the roads, for which she won the Best Actress Oscar on Sunday. There’s a sense of romance to their open lives, but also a grief to their motives for taking to it. it The movie as a whole — which also won Best Picture and Best Director for Chloe Zhao — is so finely made that it just feels like reality.
SEMI-FINAL BBC Young Musician 2020, 7pm, BBC4
THE Covid-delayed semi-final receives an airing at long last, with the final itself to follow on BBC4 and Radio 3 over the weekend. Anna Lapwood introduces top-notch performances from the five category winners, three of whom will win places in the final.
RUGBY UNION Leicester Tigers v Ulster, 7.15pm, BT Sport 2
TWO tries from Harry Potter helped to put the Tigers into a European Challenge Cup semi-final for the second year in a row. Can they make it all the way to the final this time?
FOOTBALL Southampton v Leicester City, 7.30pm, Sky Main Event & Premier League
LEICESTER came from behind to beat Crystal Palace 2-1 on Monday, and the Foxes will be keen for another victory at St Mary’s tonight to close the gap on second-placed Manchester United to two points.
ROYAL INSIGHT Meghan & Harry: Recollections May Vary, discovery+
EXPERTS in body language, linguistics and forensic psychology put the Duke and Duchess of Sussex under the microscope for this new one-off, which focuses on clips from that Oprah interview, and other public appearances.
KITCHEN CONTEST Best Baker In America, 8pm, Food Network
THERE’S tension for Max during the strawberry shortcake challenge when the judges disagree with his approach to pickles. This seems to shake him to the core, and the zealous Floridian has to visibly steady himself for the challenge that follows.
NEW U.S. DRAMA The Mosquito Coast, Apple TV+
JUSTIN THEROUX and Melissa George star in Apple’s impressive drama based on the book by Justin’s uncle, Paul. They play parents who are always looking over their shoulder, but why? In part one, you can feel the net closing in. After an opening double bill, new episodes follow every Friday.
MAVERICK DETECTIVE Ice Cold Murders: Rocco Schiavone, 9pm, More4
ROCCO (Marco Giallini) is the kind of detective you rarely see without a cigarette, and you can hear the effect in his rumbly voice; it almost falls outside the audible spectrum. The Italian has been exiled from Rome to work cases in the mountains for this new series, which makes a charismatic start.
FUNNY FILM An American Pickle, 9pm, Sky Premiere
OFFBEAT comedy with Seth Rogen as the eastern European Jewish immigrant who is preserved in a vat of pickles in 1919 and wakes up a century later in New York.
NEW SCI-FI Intergalactic, 9pm, Sky One
IMAGINE a solid sci-fi B-movie with a serious special effects budget, then expand it to an eight-part series, and you’ve got Intergalactic. It’s the story of female convicts on the run from an ecologically ruined Earth, and one of them, Ash (Savannah Steyn, pictured), used to be a police officer. Look out for lots of fun little bits of technology on the way.