Jane Andrews drama The Lady arrives tonight with Mia McKenna-Bruce earning praise
A new four-part drama about jane andrews begins tonight, with Natalie Dormer as Sarah Ferguson and Mia McKenna-Bruce winning strong notices for her performance.
Jane Andrews drama led by Natalie Dormer and Mia McKenna-Bruce
The Lady tells the story of Jane Andrews, the former dresser to Sarah Ferguson, and opens with a working-class Jane trying to fit into a royal world while managing worsening mental health. Natalie Dormer plays Sarah Ferguson with aplomb, and excellent rising star Mia McKenna-Bruce excels in the role of Jane. The real Jane Andrews was convicted for murdering her boyfriend, a fact the drama centres on as it unfolds across four parts.
Baftas night and the films to watch
Tonight’s awards coverage includes One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme and Hamnet as the most nominated films of the night. British contenders I Swear, The Ballad of Wallis Island and Pillion are also in the frame, and the ceremony coverage is hosted by Alan Cumming. Viewers are warned to watch out for a performance by KPop Demon Hunters during the broadcast.
Sports fixtures: Premier League, Women’s FA Cup and Six Nations
Football and rugby fill the daytime schedule: Nottingham Forest v Liverpool kicks off at 1pm on Sky Sports Main Event, followed by Tottenham v Arsenal at 4. 25pm. The Women’s FA Cup fifth-round match Chelsea v Man Utd is at 1pm on TNT Sports 1, with Liverpool v Everton at 4pm on Channel 4. Six Nations rugby France v Italy is at 2. 20pm on ITV1 from Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille.
Classical concert in Lisbon and Winter Olympics closing moments
A concert in Lisbon features the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Aziz Shokakimov performing Ravel’s La Valse, Debussy’s La Mer and the symphonic poem Vltava by Bedřich Smetana. On the Winter Olympics front, coverage has ranged from a biathlete’s confession of infidelity to the giddy highland fling on the ice by Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson, and the closing ceremony at the Verona Arena is set to hand the 2030 baton to the French Alps.
Late-night film, a tense penultimate episode and the quiz final
Film fans can catch Breathless at 12. 35am on Talking Pictures TV; Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic follows Jean-Paul Belmondo’s impulsive, on-the-run Michel wooing Jean Seberg’s American student Patricia across Paris. On drama, the penultimate episode of one series finds Saintly Simon confiding in Ralph and suffering hallucinations while Jack’s rival faction—"I’m bored of worrying about being cruel … it’s time to get whacks in"—slides into murderous groupthink; "Kill the beast. Cut his throat. Spill his blood …" The TV quiz narrows from 12 brainboxes to the final four under Alan Carr and Susie Dent, beginning with a complex mathematical maze and then a memory game based on the periodic table; ambulance technician Ollie, who could remember every number plate on her estate as a child, faces those rounds tonight.
The evening’s schedule centres on the new four-parter The Lady and the Baftas coverage hosted by Alan Cumming; viewers can tune in to see the first episode of the Jane Andrews drama and follow the awards and sport listed above.
