The Brit Awards 2015
8pm, ITV
Last spotted hosting the Brits in 2001, and now returned looking exactly the same, Ant and Dec present the 35th edition of the UK music industry’s biggest and most hideous bash, live from London’s O2. Nominations-wise, Sam Smith is the frontrunner, with five category nods, followed by Ed Sheeran and George Ezra (four noms apiece), while live performers will include the godlike Taylor Swift, Madonna – back at the Brits after 20 years to promote her album Rebel Heart – and Take That, back, it seems, for good. Ali Catterall
Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power
8pm, BBC2
New series in which Amanda Vickery documents the battle for female equality, which is still going on today. Wife sales, torture implements to gag “unruly” ladies and a lack of financial rights are just some of the horrific ways in which women were oppressed in the 18th and 19th centuries. More heartening are the heroines of the pre-suffragette days, such as Kitty, Duchess of Queensberry, who spent hours banging on the doors of the House of Lords. At 10pm tonight, Up the Women concludes. Hannah Verdier
Wolf Hall
9pm, BBC2
It’s a measure of how good Wolf Hall has been that it’s difficult to imagine there’ll be a better TV drama this year. We finish with darkness enveloping a trapped Thomas Cromwell, as he faces up to just how dependent he’s become upon the favour of monstrous Henry. As Anne Boleyn’s execution looms, its inevitability only increases the horror, especially when Cromwell comments on why Anne keeps looking up as she goes to her death: “She thinks there’s still hope.” Wolf Hall: The Inside Story follows on BBC4. Jonathan Wright
The People’s Strictly for Comic Relief
9pm, BBC1
Celebrity specials are far from uncommon, but how often do members of the public get to take part in contests usually reserved for soap stars and athletes? This Strictly spin-off sees just that, as six contestants nominated for their charity work – among them an MS campaigner and the founder of a children’s theatre company – are inducted into the world of Lycra and Latin dances for Red Nose Day. Episode one introduces us to the first three contestants. Hannah J Davies
Picasso: Love, Sex And Art
9pm, BBC4
A previous study of Pablo Picasso’s relationship(s) with women, the Modern Lovers’ 1976 cult hit Pablo Picasso, suggested that despite the artist’s philandering, he was “never called an asshole”. This terrific film – essentially a lecture illustrated with the recollections of people who knew him – implicitly suggests that this was unlikely. Women were a lifelong preoccupation, on canvas and off, although the film’s recitation of his love life does rather leave one wondering where he found time to paint. Andrew Mueller
My Husband’s Not Gay
10pm, TLC
One-off doc following a group of Mormons who refuse to acknowledge their sexual orientation. Jeff, Pret and Curtis are married to women and view being gay as a lifestyle choice, while single pal Tom is also keen to enter into a heterosexual relationship. Although the programme was met with condemnation in the US – where more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for it to be canned – it succeeds in outlining the difficulties and delusions of its subjects, rather than colluding with the latent homophobia of their way of life. HJD
The Big Fish Off
8pm, ITV4
Team captains Ali Hamidi and Dean Macey continue laughing all the way to the (river)bank in this latest instalment of their celebrity fishing jamboree. Lining up for the battle of men versus fish tonight are former N-Dubz frontman and controversy enthusiast Dappy and Made in Chelsea participant-turned-budding sea angler Ollie Locke. While the pair may have been housemates in the Celebrity Big Brother bungalow, the banks of the Thames in Oxford prove to be a less than communal location. Mark Jones
Today’s best live sport
• Live ATP Tennis
Day three of the ATP 500 event in Dubai (3pm, Sky Sports 3)
• Live Uefa Champions League: Bayer Leverkusen v Atlético Madrid
Last year’s surprise package and the reigning La Liga champions Atlético visit Germany (7.40pm, Sky Sports 1).
• Cricket World Cup: Afghanistan v Scotland
A clash of the underdogs in Dunedin as the preliminary stages continue (10pm, Sky Sports World Cup).
• Live College Basketball
East Carolina Pirates v Connecticut Huskies (12noon, BT Sport 2).
