PORTRAIT ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2022

Sky Arts, 8pm

It’s time to slip back into the soothing warm bath that is Portrait Artist of the Year. This ninth series of the painting competition opens with the contestants trying to capture the likeness of jockey Khadija Mellah, presenter Nick Grimshaw and podcaster and writer Elizabeth Day, who is moved to tears by their portraits.

Premiering with a double-bill – with each episode by a neurodiverse writer – it is a charming, if saccharine romcom. of 44. In this moving documentary, he reveals the devastating impact that it’s had on his life (he remembers nothing from his career, for example), while trying to illuminate the disturbing correlation between unsafe rugby practices and a spate of former players suffering similar conditions.