The Masked Singer: Christmas Special<\/p>\n
7.30pm, ITV1
The most wonderfully bizarre singing contest is back for a festive special \u2013 and some panto icons have been called in to help the judges. Su Pollard, Christopher Biggins, Lesley Joseph and Basil Brush will give clues about which celebrities are singing behind the masks. Instead of \u201cTake it off\u201d there will surely be shouts of \u201cOh no it isn\u2019t!\u201d Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n
The Repair Shop at Christmas<\/p>\n
7.30pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
This starry trip to the barn of miracles features none other than Helen Mirren, whose broken cello boasts an incredible backstory. It was one of a handful of possessions that the late UK-based theatre director Martin Landau had with him when he fled Nazi-held Berlin for Britain as a child. Hannah J Davies<\/p>\n
The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2025<\/p>\n
7.45pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Four more novice celebrity potters take to the wheel to make an unholy mess and, hopefully, have some fun. This year\u2019s intrepid Christmas crafters are Amber Gill, Colin Murray, Sarah Hadland and Tim Vine \u2013 they\u2019re challenged with making reindeer water bowls and a north pole scene. Phil Harrison<\/p>\n
Lesley Garrett at the BBC<\/p>\n
8pm, BBC Four
From her orchestral festive selection of movie music in 2004 to her appearance on the Perfect Day Comic Release fundraiser, the virtuosic Yorkshire soprano has enjoyed a career full of big moments on the BBC. Here, she revisits a few of them. PH<\/p>\n
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Christmas Special<\/p>\n
9pm, ITV1
Will any celebrity be able to beat Stephen Fry\u2019s \u00a3250,000 win earlier this year? It\u2019s the record to top in the special edition of the quiz show, and comedian Katherine Ryan and Celebrity Traitor\u2019s star Joe Marler are going to give it a good go. Jeremy Clarkson hosts. HR<\/p>\n
All Her Fault<\/p>\n
9pm, Sky Atlantic<\/p>\n
Claustrophobic \u2026 All Her Fault. Photograph: Peacock\/Sarah Enticknap<\/p>\n
This claustrophobic kidnapping drama has cleverly tracked the physical and psychological unravelling of a family after the disappearance of their son. As the finale arrives, there\u2019s resolution as Marissa (Sarah Snook) is forced to deal with hard realities about her nanny \u2013 but also her husband. PH<\/p>\n
Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2025<\/p>\n
9pm, Channel 4
Jimmy Carr\u2019s annual recap of the year is back, filled with TV star cameos, schoolkids and a memoir reading from Charles Dance. Those testing their 2025 knowledge are Jonathan Ross, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Ryan, Nick Mohammed, Roisin Conaty and Lou Sanders. PH<\/p>\n
Film choices<\/p>\n
Trust (Carlson Young, 2025), Paramount+
In which Sophie Turner plays a Hollywood television actor who retreats to a cabin after a scandal, despite the fact that rule No 1 of Hollywood is never, ever retreat to a cabin. What follows is a tense survival thriller in which Turner\u2019s Lauren Lane finds herself up against just about everything: thieves, a peeping tom Airbnb owner and an obsessive ex with access to hitmen. Carlson\u2019s Young\u2019s film is remarkably silly, but if you\u2019re in the mood you\u2019ll probably have fun with the sheer claustrophobic paranoia of it all. SH<\/p>\n
Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025), Sky Cinema Premiere
With his latest, Oscar-worthy film, Ryan Coogler storms the territory occupied by Jordan Peele: twisting genres in startlingly original ways to shed light on the African American experience. It begins as an immersive historical drama centred on the Black community of Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1932. Michael B Jordan doubles up as gun-toting twins Smoke and Stack, who return from Chicago with a plan to open a juke joint. Miles Caton is their young cousin Sammie, a talented blues guitarist who\u2019s there for opening night, as is Smoke\u2019s hoodoo-practising wife Annie (Wunmi Mosaku). But then Jack O\u2019Connell\u2019s malevolent Remmick appears and the film tips into the supernatural. In a world where evil is human as well as demonic, the threatened partygoers have to decide which is the lesser. SW<\/p>\n
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, 2025), Netflix<\/p>\n
Seymour Hersh in Cover-Up. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n
Seymour Hersh may be a near-legendary investigative journalist in the US, but he\u2019s a most reluctant interviewee (\u201cI barely trust you guys,\u201d he warns the film-makers at one point). However, Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus have managed to tease out a series of fascinating insights into a career that has taken him from Vietnam to Iraq via the dirtiest corners of the CIA. He is so dogged that he quit a prestigious job at the New York Times so he could investigate corporations such as the one that owned his own newspaper. Inspirational. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n
Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017), BBC One
Citizen Kane may be called the greatest movie ever, but there\u2019s a strong case for Paddington 2 being the most perfect. A glorious balance of wackiness and sentimentality, this is the film where national treasure Paddington is wrongly imprisoned while Hugh Grant has the time of his life hamming it up around him as an actor turned villain. The real trick, however, is how deftly the film manages to suspend itself in air with its irrepressible sense of kindness. It will make you cry. It will make your children cry. It made Nicolas Cage cry in a film once. See? Perfect. SH<\/p>\n
Live sport<\/p>\n
Premier League football: Man United v Newcastle, 7.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event At Old Trafford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Masked Singer: Christmas Special 7.30pm, ITV1 The most wonderfully bizarre singing contest is back for a festive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-211472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}