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British Academy Television Awards
Tomorrow, BBC1, 7pm
Comedy pals Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, right, team up to host the biggest night in television from London’s Royal Festival Hall.
The evening looks set to be a memorable one for Jack Lowden.
The actor’s spy comedy-drama
Slow Horses and fact-based Brink’s-mat robbery drama The Gold are going head-to-head for the coveted Best Drama Series.
Both have sti competition, however. They are up against the acclaimed third and nal series of Sally Wainwright’s crime drama Happy Valley, as well as the fth and nal season of crime drama Top Boy.
Lowden himself is up for Supporting Actor for his work on Slow Horses.
Other categories include Leading Actor and Leading Actress, with Succession’s Brian Cox and Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire among the nominees.
Hannah Waddingham’s Home for Christmas is a front runner in the Best Entertainment category and Celebrity Race Across the World is vying for a Factual Entertainment trophy.
While the past year saw the return of Big
Brother, it has failed to make the cut in the Reality nominations – instead Banged Up, Married at First Sight, My Mum Your Dad and Squid Game: The Challenge all ght it out.
But which three will be eliminated before one takes home a trophy?
The Gathering Tuesday, Channel 4, 9pm
The production company behind Line of Duty, Vigil and other edge-of-your-seat thrillers has also backed this new six-part drama, the rst original TV project from writer Helen Walsh.
It stars small screen newcomer Eva Morgan as Kelly who, by day, is a dedicated gymnast with a real prospect of representing Team GB. By night, however, she puts herself at risk as a free-runner.
Her life is turned on its head when, during a
party on her native Merseyside, Kelly is viciously attacked.
It’s suspected her assailant is a member of the free-running group she hangs around with, but as we’re about to see, social media and parents with their own agenda are going to make unearthing the truth di cult.
The Remains of the Day: The Read with Steve Pemberton Tomorrow, BBC Four, 8.55pm
Bafta-winning actor Steve Pemberton takes time out from the nal series of Inside No 9, as well as competing on Channel 4’s Taskmaster, to perform Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Prizewinning 1989 novel. The story is told through the lens of stoic head butler Stevens, who has a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a
ctitious stately home near Oxford. He re ects
on his time there in the years leading up to Second World War. The 1993 lm adaptation, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards.
The Fortune Hotel
Monday, ITV1, 9pm
What would you get if you crossed The Traitors and Deal or No Deal? Probably something that resembled ITV1’S new reality game show.
Hosted by Stephen Mangan, it sees 10 pairs of contestants checking into a hotel in the Caribbean. On arrival, they are given a briefcase – eight are empty, but one contains a dreaded Early Checkout card, and one holds the jackpot of £250,000.
In each episode, the pairs have a chance to work out who has which case through a series of challenges, which culminate in a swap in the Lady Luck bar.
Whoever ends up with the Checkout card will be
heading home, but can the contestants with the cash manage to throw the others o their scent and keep hold of it until the end of the game?
Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Tonight, BBC1, 8pm
Sweden must have been especially thrilled when Lauren won the Eurovision Song Contest last year with Tattoo. Not only did it bring their winning total to seven, equalling Ireland as the most successful country in the contest’s history, it also allowed them to host this year, the 50th anniversary of Abba giving them their iconic rst win with Waterloo.
The show comes from Malmo Arena and is hosted by singer and two-time Eurovision presenter Petra Mede alongside Swedish-born Hollywood star Malin Akerman. Graham Norton provides the commentary, and the United Kingdom’s hopes rest on Olly Alexander, right, and his song Dizzy.