A History of Ancient Britain
9pm, BBC2
Stone Agers were the first Me Generation: thinking less about their ancestors than themselves and their place in the cosmos. The windswept Neil Oliver investigates sacred Neolithic monuments of Britain and Ireland, discovering Stonehenge has less to do with the summer solstice than mid-winter, and picks over some enigmatic carved-stone objects – amusingly called "enigmatic carved-stone objects", as archaeologists haven't yet worked out what they actually are.
Ali Catterall
The Real King's Speech
9pm, Channel 4
A timely companion to the lauded The King's Speech – a fine movie, but essentially a Richard Curtis version of history. This documentary reveals a story less cosy, but nonetheless compelling. With access to the correspondence between the stammering George VI and his unorthodox Australian speech therapist, this film builds a narrative at least as gripping as its fictionalised version, as well as an affecting portrait of a king who didn't want the job but, unlike his equally reluctant brother Edward VIII, chose to step up.
Andrew Mueller
The Model Agency
10pm, Channel 4
Documentary series about the Premier model agency in London. It plucks tiny proto-women from theme parks and shopping centres, tags them and returns them to the wild. Then, when they're 16, it comes back, picks them up and drops them thousands of miles away from home, immediately putting immense pressure on them to non-specifically "do well". Tonight, the agents are stressing about a new British model who's having second thoughts about her fledgling career in New York. If you launch a tiny, shivering bird from its nest this early, what do you expect?
Julia Raeside
Lucrezia Borgia Live: The Director's Cut
7.30pm, Sky Arts 1
Director Mike Figgis, best known for Leaving Las Vegas, turns his hand to opera. His interpretation of the English National Opera's production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia has not been universally applauded – (the Observer described it as a "strange nothingness") but this broadcast from the London Coliseum will at the very least showcase the talents of English soprano Claire Rutter in the title role and American tenor Michael Fabiano as her son. Paul Daniel conducts. AM
Romancing The Stone
9pm, BBC4
Alistair Sooke brings his story of British sculpture into the modern age – a time when artists looked to other cultures for inspiration, broke established rules and stopped making things themselves when the concept, not the sculptor's skill, became all powerful. He begins at the turn of the 20th century with the likes of Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein, skipping through the modernism of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth et al, before alighting on the "living sculpture" of Gilbert and George and, inevitably, the anti-sculpture of Damien Hirst. It's quite a journey.
Martin Skegg
The Office: An American Workplace
10pm, Comedy Central
With the "dream team" (Ryan and Pam) now assembled, the Michael Scott Paper Company is ready for business. Tragically, the only office they could afford is under Dunder Mifflin's lavatories, with the soil pipe running by their desks and an air vent that, hellishly, allows Michael to eavesdrop on Toby's restroom phone calls about the merits of the TV show Damages. Above them, Jim still isn't getting on with the new boss, while Dwight and Andy compete for the affections of new receptionist Erin.
Phelim O'Neill
