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Mike Bradley, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: it's Bodyguard v Killing Eve at the Bafta TV gongfest

In the running ... Killing Eve stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh.
In the running ... Killing Eve stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh. Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

The British Academy Television Awards

8pm, BBC One

Graham Norton presides over TV’s most glamorous gongfest. Crime unites all four nominees in the drama series category – Bodyguard, Informer, Killing Eve and Save Me – while Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard), Ruth Wilson (Mrs Wilson) and Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer (the former garlanded and the latter snubbed by the Golden Globes) compete for leading actress. Elsewhere, fingers crossed for Lesley Manville for her performance in Mum. Mike Bradley

The Durrells

8pm, ITV

Writer Simon Nye tugs relentlessly at the heartstrings with a tender farewell episode of his sunny Corfu-set comedy-drama. War is looming, but are the contented if chaotic Durrell clan ready to swap paradise for Bournemouth? “We British are reluctant Europeans,” declares Louisa presciently. If she could only see us now … MB

Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge

9pm, BBC Two

Theroux visits two psychiatric units where mothers experiencing serious mental illness are allowed to live alongside their babies. An important, quietly reassuring look at conditions – including depression, anxiety and psychosis – often triggered by birth or the strains of motherhood. MB

Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge.
Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge. Photograph: Richard ANsett/BBC/Richard Ansett

Victoria

9pm, ITV

As if being queen wasn’t enough to be getting on with, Victoria has also taken on responsibility for her husband’s fragile ego. It comes to a head in this series finale as the Great Exhibition of 1851 finally opens. Meanwhile, those schemers Palmerston and Feodora have a marriage in mind – sadly not their
own. Ellen E Jones

Gotham

9pm, E4

Holy cataclysm! This Batman prequel series has always crackled with panto energy beneath a gritty exterior, and clearly all bets are off as the fifth and final season begins. Gotham City is now a lawless no man’s land carved up into villainous fiefdoms. Will teen Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) finally get that cape on? Graeme Virtue

Gene Kelly: To Live and Dance

9pm, Sky Arts

Kelly’s daughter Kerry puts it best: the original “blue-collar movie star” made audiences “think they could walk out of the cinema and dance like he could”. A charming profile of the actor, dancer, singer and director – a loafer-wearing “ordinary Joe” who injected new life into the Hollywood musical. Ali Catterall

Film choice

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Photograph: Frank Masi/AP

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, 12.10am, Channel 4

Kim Barker’s account of the Afghanistan conflict gets an irreverent adaptation. Tina Fey plays Kim Baker, sent to report because she’s the unmarried, childless one. Embedded in General Billy Bob Thornton’s unit, she is soon hooked on the thrill of combat. Funny and explosive. Paul Howlett

Sport choice

Premier League Football, 2pm, Sky Sports Main Event

The final round of fixtures, all playing simultaneously: will Manchester City let Liverpool in?

Challenge Cup Rugby League: Warrington v Wigan, 2.05pm, BBC One

Super League rivals clash.

Motor Racing: Spanish Grand Prix, 2.05pm, Sky Sports F1

Fifth round of the F1 season from the Circuit de Catalunya.

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