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What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Sunday

It could be a big Bafta night for Martin McDonagh
It could be a big Bafta night for Martin McDonagh

There's a potential big Irish night at the British Academy Film Awards, more bother on Smother, another elimination on Dancing with the Stars, Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs - and vintage Robin Hood!

Pick of the Day

British Academy Film Awards, 7.00pm, BBC One

Richard E Grant (below) hosts the annual awards show from the Royal Festival Hall in London, while Alison Hammond is on hand to catch up with the winners and losers backstage.

For the first time ever, the evening culminates in a live broadcast to reveal the final four category winners.

All Quiet on the Western Front leads the nominations with a total of 14, closely followed by Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once with 10 each, and rock 'n' roll biopic Elvis, which has nine.

Don’t Miss

Smother, 9.30pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

Things are really hotting up as this family saga continues its third and final season.

Paul has successfully convinced Val to cut herself off from her family due to their toxic influence, but she struggles to stick to his advice.

Meanwhile Jenny and Anna travel to Donegal to investigate Grace's death themselves and while there they make a shocking discovery.

Dancing with the Stars, 6.30pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

Doireann Garrihy and Jennifer Zamparelli (below) present the latest round of the contest, as the couples dance again and a celebrity dancer is eliminated from the competition.

Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry and Arthur Gourounlian judge the efforts and give their verdicts.

New or Returning Shows

Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs, 8.00pm, BBC Two

This two-parter sees Liz Bonnin (below) joins an international team of palaeontologists in the remote badlands of Wyoming as they investigate a mysterious dinosaur graveyard.

Packed with over a dozen skeletons including predators such as the fearsome Allosaurus and giants like Diplodocus, as well as fossilised plants and footprints, the site is a treasure trove that is helping to change the way the Jurassic era is seen.

The evidence also helps the team to answer why so many dinosaurs came here, and what killed them in such great numbers 150 million years ago.

Ukraine from Above: Secrets from the Frontline, 10.00pm, Channel 4

A year after Russia's invasion, this documentary charts the heroic efforts of Ukraine's people to defeat Russia's army in a war that's often been fought and observed from the air.

Military strategists use satellite data to plan their next move and investigators gather images from space to reveal suspected Russian war crimes, while drone photography of key locations from before and after the war demonstrate the scale of destruction.

New to Stream

Brian And Charles, Sky Cinema & NOW

David Earl, Chris Hayward and Louise Brealey star in this oddball comedy from director Jim Archer.

Suffering a deep depression, and with no one to talk to, Brian is a lonely and rather unsuccesful inventor in rural Wales.

One day while scavenging scrap, he comes across a mannequin's head, which inspires him to attempt to create an artificially-intelligent robot, though he is unable to activate it.

That night, during a thunderstorm, Brian discovers his activated robot wandering outside of his workshop, and Brian brings it into his house.

The next day, he discovers that the robot has thought itself the English language, and calls itself Charles Petrescu.

Sunday Cinema

The Adventures of Robin Hood, 2.05pm, BBC Two

Swashbuckling adventure at its finest, with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains all giving it loads in this 1938 classic.

It's a Technicolour treat.

An outlawed nobleman living deep in Sherwood Forest recruits a band of merry men to steal from the cruel Norman aristocracy and redistribute the wealth to the downtrodden peasants.

But they soon face a more pressing task - stopping the evil Prince John and his ally Sir Guy of Gisborne from seizing King Richard's throne.

The Mule, 11.00pm, BBC Two

Drama, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Bradley Cooper and Laurence Fishburne.

Earl Stone, an award-winning horticulturist and Korean War veteran, is facing financial ruin.

The Illinois octogenarian is estranged from his ex-wife Mary and daughter Iris for always putting work before family

In an attempt to put things right, he becomes a courier for a Mexican cartel.

The Witches of Eastwick, 11.30pm, BBC Two

Fantasy comedy based on John Updike's novel, with Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon.

Three single women dabble in magic to conjure up the perfect lover, and unintentionally summon Satan himself, who seduces them one by one.

They come to realise the danger the lecherous devil presents and decide to end their relationships, but the infernal rogue does not take kindly to rejection.

Family Flick

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, 2.15pm, BBC One

Animated comedy, with the voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes and Amalia Vitale.

When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organisation can capture her.

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