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Amateur painters try to capture the likeness of Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa in Portrait Artist of the Year.
Amateur painters try to capture the likeness of Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa in Portrait Artist of the Year. Photograph: Chris Lobina/Sky Arts
Amateur painters try to capture the likeness of Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa in Portrait Artist of the Year. Photograph: Chris Lobina/Sky Arts

TV tonight: the hunt for the next Portrait Artist of the Year

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Stephen Mangan fronts the latest series of the amateur painting contest. Plus: 6,000 turkeys arrive at Jimmy’s farm. Here’s what to watch this evening

Portrait Artist of the Year 2020

8pm, Sky Arts

If the nightly repeats of Bob Ross’s soothing painting tutorials on BBC Four have piqued your interest in the art form, the seventh season return of this amateur painting contest might provide the inspiration to get the acrylics out for yourself. Stephen Mangan presents, with judging from the artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, curator Kathleen Soriano and art historian Kate Bryan, as tonight’s latest tranche of painters tries to capture the likeness of Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa. Ammar Kalia

Autumn at Jimmy’s Farm

8pm, Channel 4

The work continues apace at Jimmy Doherty’s farm as his team receive a delivery of 6,000 turkeys, as well as preparing for the birth of two dozen piglets. Meanwhile, a tapir could be unexpectedly pregnant and Steve McQueen – the constantly-escaping meerkat – tries to make another run for it. AK

The Savoy

9pm, ITV

It is Bafta week at London’s fanciest hotel, which means more stage-whispering than usual about “high-profile guests”, lectures on the importance of discretion from Sean, the head butler, and directions to the not-so-secret side entrance. We never get to see any of these big Hollywood stars, of course. Ellen E Jones

24 Hours in A&E

9pm, Channel 4

Since 2011, Channel 4 has screened 15 seasons of stirring human drama from King’s College and St George’s hospitals. This show looks back at a few of the most memorable stories. They range from the harrowing (Sam’s traumatic road accident) to the cute (baby Erin and her ear wax.) Phil Harrison

Henry VIII: Rise of a Tyrant

9pm, Channel 5

Henry VIII: Rise of a Tyrant with Laurence Spellman as the king and Steve Steen as Cardinal Wolsey. Photograph: Blakeway Productions

This three-part historical series seeks to unpick the much-mythologised monarch, beginning with the story of his tumultuous childhood, which saw the deaths of his older brother and mother, as well as the controlling rule of his father. We also hear of the beginnings of his friendship with Cardinal Wolsey. AK

Love Life

10.45pm, BBC One

The competent romantic drama – it’s nice, but honey you can do so much better – continues, with Darby (Anna Kendrick) reminiscing about a stalled high-school fling. Cue a retro flashback that never escapes genre cliches, followed by a modern day marriage story laden with the same malaise. Jack Seale

Film choice

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Key Largo. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros

Key Largo (John Huston, 1948), 7.35am, TCM Movies

Gangsters and goodies holed up in a Florida Keys hotel with a hurricane brewing: the atmospherics are highly charged in Huston’s screening of Maxwell Anderson’s play, and the cast cranks up the electricity. Edward G Robinson is rotten Rocco, Claire Trevor his drunken moll, Humphrey Bogart an ex-army officer mulling over whether to take on the baddies or stay out of trouble, and Lauren Bacall an ineffably cool young widow. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Indian Premier League Cricket: Delhi Capitals v Rajasthan Royals 3pm, Sky Sports Main Event. T20 match from Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Cycling: Scheldeprijs 3.30pm, Eurosport 2. Coverage of the one- day race.

Uefa Nations League Football: Finland v Republic of Ireland from 4.30pm; England v Denmark from 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event.

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