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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Alexi Duggins, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: Alison Hammond and Richard E Grant host this year’s Baftas

 Alison Hammond at last years Baftas.
Alison Hammond at last years Baftas. Photograph: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images

British Academy Film Awards

7pm, BBC One

Never mind the nominees: the genius pairing of Richard E Grant and Alison Hammond as hosts is enough to guarantee a fun affair at this year’s prestigious event. Edward Berger’s German drama All Quiet on the Western Front has an impressive 14 nominations, while Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett are up for best actress, and Paul Mescal is in the running for his second Bafta. Hollie Richardson

Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs

8pm, BBC Two

Liz Bonnin heads for the remote and often punishingly hot wilds of Wyoming to join a team of palaeontologists digging up a dinosaur graveyard. Across two episodes, the skeletons of allosaurus, diplodocus and friends, plus some of their present-day descendants, offer clues to a new understanding of Jurassic life. Jack Seale

Vera

8pm, ITV1

That hat and mac combo come in very useful tonight as Brenda Blethyn opens the final episode of her latest run as detective Vera Stanhope by battling torrential rain to rescue an abandoned baby. Will she be able to figure out what happened to its dead mother? Our money’s on murder. Alexi Duggins

The Gold

9pm, BBC One

“Every day, more of that gold will be getting turned into money – and we’re not doing anything about it.” The stylish if somewhat sluggish in parts Brink’s-Mat drama continues: a “gold chain” is set up to smelt the bullion, but Kenneth shouldn’t get too cocky. HR

Go Hard Or Go Home

9pm, BBC Three

“How do you get fit and stop being a pisshead?” Seb is one of the eight twentysomethings who have signed up for “four weeks of pain” under the eye of fitness expert Paul Olima. The contestants will be trained by elite athletes, known as the Warriors, to complete nearly impossible tasks on an island, with a winner named at the end. HR

Ukraine from Above: Secrets from the Frontline

10pm, Channel 4

Often lost in the fog hovering over the Russian invasion of Ukraine are the accounts of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things, such as the hobbyist teenagers and pop stars striking key targets with military drones or using 3D printers to fashion domestic drones into weapons. Marking a year since the “special operation”, this documentary tells their stories. Ali Catterall

Film choice

Once Upon a Time in the West, 2am, Sky Cinema Greats

Once Upon a Time in the West.
Once Upon a Time in the West. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Alamy

The apotheosis of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western period, his 1968 film is almost self-consciously epic. There’s that title for starters, plus the Monument Valley locations, Ennio Morricone’s dramatic score and its tale of good v evil set against the building of the railroads across America. Leone’s masterstroke is the casting of perennial nice guy Henry Fonda as the baddy – his cool blue eyes and soft voice add to his menace as the right-hand man of a train company boss. Charles Bronson, by contrast, has little to do as the good guy but play his harmonica and shoot straight. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Women’s International Football: England v Italy, 2.25pm, ITV1 The second match in the four-team Arnold Clark Cup at the CBS Arena. England also play Belgium on Wednesday at 7.45pm on ITV4.

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