Formula 1: Australian Grand Prix
Sunday, Sky F1, 4.30am (start 6am)
This early morning race in Melbourne always separates the die-hard fans from the casuals. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen have one win apiece, while Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton remains well off the pace. GT
Golf: The Masters
Sunday, Sky Golf, 3pm
The idyllic greens of Augusta National seem almost out of place amid the charged chaos of the final round at the Masters. The neutrals are rooting for Tiger Woods, whose magnificent chip on the 16th changed the face of golf. World No 1 Scottie Scheffler and US Open winner Jon Rahm are among the favourites to claim the green jacket. The two leaders tee off last. GT
Football: Manchester City v Liverpool
Sunday, Sky Main Event, 4pm (kick off 4.30pm)
It looked like Manchester City had the Premier League title sewn up. But through a combination of their own patchy form and Liverpool’s resurgent brilliance, these rivals are separated by one point. They meet at the Etihad, with the rivalry between Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp brought into even sharper focus. Both are in Champions League quarter-final action on Wednesday (second legs), with City away to Atlético Madrid (BT Sport 2, 7pm) and Liverpool hosting Benfica (BT Sport 3, 7pm). On Tuesday, Chelsea are at Real Madrid (BT Sport 2, 7pm), while England’s Lionesses face Northern Ireland in the World Cup (BBC Two, 7.30pm). GT
Gentleman Jack
BBC One, 9pm
Suranne Jones gets through another herd’s worth of boot leather as the redoubtable, restless 19th-century mine owner and modern queer icon Anne Lister, as she continues to stride confidently around Yorkshire, sweeping all before her. We rejoin Lister two years into her romantic union with fragile, lovelorn Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle, back on Sunday nights on BBC One just a week after the end of Peaky Blinders), working her way towards installing her at the renovated Shibden Hall, bringing their sizable estates together and getting as close to a marriage as the time and society would then allow. Her obstacles include Walker’s smothering relatives (the returning Stephanie Cole, Peter Davison and Amelia Bullmore), an uppity new footman (James Thackeray), a sister (Gemma Whelan) with a cough – never a good sign in a period piece – and mounting debts as progress on the new mine is hindered by errors and incompetence. While Jones is reliably excellent, vulnerability bubbling under this force of nature, writer Sally Wainwright is as careful not to waste a wonderful ensemble, and the late appearance of Lydia Leonard as Walker’s spurned lover suggests torrid times ahead. A triumph. GT
The Lonely Londoners: the Read
BBC Four, 8pm
Samuel Selvon’s 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners offered a rare glimpse into the lives of working-class black immigrants in the capital. Danielle Vitalis narrates this patchwork of characters from the Windrush generation, directed by Yero Tim-Bui. GT
Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship
BBC Two, 9pm
Charles Moore concludes his assessment of Transatlantic Cold War relations with an incisive examination of diplomacy stretched to breaking point. As the Iron Curtain began to fall, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were divided in their approaches to easing the process along. GT
SAS: Who Dares Wins
Channel 4, 9pm
Rudy Reyes, former US Marine, contributor to the BBC’s documentary series Once Upon a Time in Iraq and star of HBO’s superb miniseries Generation Kill, brings former Navy Seal Remi Adeleke to join Jason Fox and Billy Billingham as they challenge a new batch of recruits, beginning with crossing a ravine on a rope and escaping a room filling with CS gas. GT
Alvin Ailey: a Legend of America Dance
BBC Four, 9pm
Poor, black and gay, Alvin Ailey overcame prejudice and addiction to found a pioneering dance troupe in 1958, at the age of just 27. In the three decades that followed, before his tragic death from Aids, he worked to articulate black American life in dance, inspiring generations. This affecting, uplifting documentary tells his story alongside that of Lazarus, the tribute show for Ailey choreographed by Rennie Harris. GT
The Olivier Awards 2022
ITV, 10.15pm
Cabaret, Anything Goes and Life of Pi lead the resolutely mainstream list of nominations for the annual British theatre beanfeast, with Robert Lindsay, Jessie Buckley and Lily Allen up for individual acting awards. The highlights are rounded up here, in the always safe hands of host Jason Manford. GT
The Cane Field Killings
Channel 4, 10.30pm
A novel setting of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and punchy performances elevate this eight-part crime thriller, as Kim Engelbrecht’s criminal profiler, a survivor of child abduction, pursues a serial killer. Iain Glen’s hopeful parolee and Khayalethu Anthony’s sleazy suspect muddy the waters nicely. GT
Easter Parade (1948) ★★★★
BBC Two, 12.20pm
With timelessly charming performances, terrific dance routines, and 17 original songs by Irving Berlin, it’s no wonder this movie – the only on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Judy Garland – was widely trumpeted as “the happiest musical ever made”. It’s a gorgeous Technicolor vision of a world in which no man leaves the house without top hat and tails; all the women, meanwhile, swan around in fabulous gowns and Easter bonnets.
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) ★★★
BBC One, 1.50pm
James Bobin, of the Muppets films, replaces Tim Burton as director for this sequel to 2010’s Alice in Wonderland that updates the visuals and makes Wonderland look good enough to eat. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) steps through the mirror to save the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp). The Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) is sidelined, but still steals the show. Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman and Barbara Windsor provide voices.
Whiplash (2014) ★★★★★
BBC Three, 9.45pm
A young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) at a New York music academy is singled out by its most demanding tutor, Terence Fletcher (an Oscar-winning performance from JK Simmons), for future greatness. Simmons plays Fletcher as a drill sergeant in a black turtleneck, against Teller’s obsessively dedicated prodigy. The film hurtles into a gripping final act, that builds towards one of the most satisfying finales in modern cinema.
