Here's to a great night for the Irish at the Bafta Film Awards 2024, someone's facing elimination on Dancing with the Stars, new drama Blackshore continues, and there's plenty of gaelic football action on TG4 . . .
Pick of the Day
Bafta Film Awards 2024, 7.00pm, BBC One
Could be quite a night for the Irish here.
Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan (below) and Paul Mescal are among the BAFTA nominees who will attend the star-studded awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre.
Murphy and Keoghan are both nominated in the Best Actor category for their turns in Oppenheimer and Saltburn, respectively.
All of Us Strangers' Andrew Scott was a notable omission from the Best Actor shortlist but will be in attendance at the ceremony as a presenter, alongside co-star Mescal, who is nominated for the Supporting Actor prize.
The Emma Stone-starring dark fantasy Poor Things, produced by the Dublin-based Element Pictures, has received 11 nominations, among them Irish producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe and cinematographer Robbie Ryan.
David Tennant hosts the annual movie awards ceremony, while Samantha Morton is receiving this year's Bafta Fellowship, and the show features music from Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Clara Amfo and Alex Zane will be on hand reporting from the red carpet, while the nominees for EE Rising Star Award, voted for by the British public, are Phoebe Dynevor, Ayo Edebiri, Jacob Elordi, Mia McKenna-Bruce and Sophie Wilde.
New or Returning Shows
Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Here’s another look at an infamous time in recent British history.
Forty years on, a year in the lives of 15 men and women on the front line of the miners' strike, using a combination of archive footage and personal testimony.
The documentary hears from those who went on strike, those who went to work, as well as former police officers who stood on the front line.
There’s also the daughter of a striking miner, a woman who kept the soup kitchen open as her four sons were arrested and two brothers who became divided by the walkout.
The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II with Dan Cruickshank, 8.00pm, BBC Four
Seriously, give this a chance.
It’s a documentary exploring the aesthetic styles associated with Ludwig II of Bavaria, the king who was considered to be handsome and loved by his people.
Dan Cruickshank investigates the mock-medievalism of Neuschwanstein castle (above) and the complex design of Herrenchiemsee, to assess how they are key to learning more about the enigmatic ruler.
Neuschwanstein survived two world wars, and was misused by the Nazis as a warehouse for looted art. At the end of the Second World War, US troops reached the castle and these days is on the list of must-see sights for GIs stationed in Germany.
Disney fans may also recognise it.
Don’t Miss
Dancing with the Stars, 6.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
The celebrity dance contest continues into the seventh week of this season and by the end of proceedings we’ll know the name of the fourth elimination as the latest departing celebrity dancer is voted off the show.
Dancing on Ice, 6.25pm, Virgin Media One/UTV
The remaining seven celebrities perform to songs which mean something very special to them, plus the cast celebrate the 40th anniversary of Torvill & Dean's Olympic gold-winning Bolero.
The duo head up the ice panel alongside dance supremo Oti Mabuse and guest judge, American figure skater Johnny Weir. Presented by Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern.
Blackshore, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
The cop drama from the creators of Smother - starring Lisa Dwan as DI Fia Lucey, a laser- focused, ambitious detective who is haunted by her tragic past - continues.
As the mysteries deepen, and with the murder victim's daughter missing, Fia is in a race against time.
New to Stream
Dashcam, Sky Movies & NOW
Annie Hardy, Faith Kiggundu, Seylan Baxter and Amar Chadha-Patel star in director Rob Savage’s 2021 horror.
At the start of the pandemic, an indulgent and self-deluded livestreaming improv musician abandons LA for London, steals her ex-band mate's car, and makes the wrong decision to give a ride to an elderly woman who is not what she seems.
Sport
GAA Beo, 1.15pm, TG4
A trio of games this afternoon opens with Tyrone v Galway (Throw-in 1.45pm).
Micheál Ó Domhnaill presents coverage of the fixture in Division One of the Allianz Football League from Healy Park, Omagh
That’s followed at 3.30pm by Kildare v Armagh (Throw-in 3.45pm) at Cullen Park, and then there’s deferred coverage from another game.
Sunday Cinema
Zulu, 3.10pm, RTÉ One
This 1964 historical drama’s been on telly a gazillion times, but it’s always worth a watch.
Starring Michael Caine, Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, Nigel Green and Chief Buthelezi, it features narration by Richard Burton.
An upper-class soldier and his fellow officer stationed at Rorke's Drift in 1879 discover they have been cut off after the destruction of the main British army column in the area.
They must rally their small force of 140 men against the might of 4,000 Zulu warriors advancing on their position.
Family Flick
Coco, 2.55pm, BBC One
Magnificent, life-affirming animated fantasy, featuring the voices of Anthony Gonzalez and Gael Garcia Bernal.
It’s all about a Mexican boy who longs to be a guitarist, despite his family hating music.
During the Day of the Dead festivities, he gets transported to the land of the dead, and with the help of a cunning skeleton, hopes to find his ancestor and learn the secrets of his family's history.
