Sunday television & radio
MOTD Live: Women’s FA Cup Final
1.50pm, BBC One
Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur (kick-off 2.30pm). All the action from the showpiece match at Wembley Stadium, where both teams are aiming to lift the trophy for the first time.
British Academy Television Awards
7pm, BBC One
Or the Baftas, as they are more commonly known. Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan host, along with performances from Ella Eyre and dance company Rambert. Among the shows in the running for awards are The Gold, Happy Valley, Slow Horses, Top Boy,
Extraordinary, Such Brave Girls, Big Boys and Dreaming Whilst Black, while actors in the frame include Brian Cox (Succession), Dominic West (The Crown) and Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us).
The Responder
9pm, BBC One
Former Merseyside police officer Tony Schumacher’s crime drama had four nominations at last year’s Baftas, and this compelling second series ought to see it securing a similar tally in 2025. Martin Freeman is extraordinary as the Liverpool copper under intense pressure, and his group therapy isn’t going well (“What if I’m just a t**t,” he asks the mediator). Gueststarring Kevin Eldon.
Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour
9pm, BBC Two
Yes, two more celebrities off on their travels – the angle this time being that Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark are recreating the Grand Tour, which was a cultural odyssey designed to turn young 18th-century aristocrats into civilised, educated gentlemen. Rylan plays the one in need of schooling (“He doesn’t know his arts from his elbow,” as Rob puts it) as they begin in Venice. Rob conducts Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” in the church where it was first performed, while Rylan discovers the hidden side of Venice’s famous Carnival, and they both see one of the largest paintings on canvas in the world.
Red Eye
9pm, ITV1
There have now been three murders on Flight 357 to Beijing. DC Hana Li (Jing Lusi) belatedly starts to believe her prisoner, Nolan (Richard Armitage) that all is not as it seems. Back on the ground, Hana’s journalist sister Jess (Jemma Moore) regrets going to interview Sir George Chapman.
The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelation
9pm, Channel 5
Alice Roberts uncovers the ground-breaking science being used by computer scientist Brent Seales as he tries to decipher ancient scrolls found at the site of Herculaneum in Italy. Attempts
to physically open them have reduced almost all of them to dust, but Seales is combining cuttingedge scanning techniques with his own artificial intelligence software to attempt to teach a computer to read inside the scrolls without ever having to open them.
In Cold Blood
10.20pm, ITV1
In the 70s, a new treatment for haemophilia known as Factor VIII was prescribed on the National Health Service. It infected more than 1,300 people with HIV. As a public inquiry into the scandal reopens, this feature-length Exposure documentary from 2020 investigates the tragedy.
Gerard Gilbert
The Girl on the Train
6pm, Sky Cinema Drama
(Tate Taylor, 2016)
Emily Blunt stars in this tricksy thriller: an adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ 2015 bestseller with the action relocated from the UK to upstate New York. Blunt plays an alcoholic prone to memory lapses who obsesses over two couples whom she spies from a train window, then becomes a murder suspect when one of the women she spied on goes missing.
Stardust
6.30pm, E4
(Matthew Vaughn, 2007) A young romantic fool (Charlie Cox) and a grumpy, blonde princess type (Claire Danes) journey through a magical kingdom with a villainous prince and an evil witch (Michelle Pfeiffer) on their tail, and only Robert De Niro’s gay pirate to protect them.
The Mountain Between Us
11pm, Channel 4
(Hany Abu-Assad, 2017)
Idris Elba and Kate Winslet star in this mildly absurd but certainly not unenjoyable adventure drama-cum-romance, as a hunky but uptight brain surgeon and a feisty photojournalist who survive a light-airplane crash in the mountains of Utah, and will need to work together if they are to make it back to civilisation alive. Laurence Phelan