{"id":345999,"date":"2026-01-01T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345999\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:17:08","slug":"new-years-day-tv-tom-hiddlestons-huge-return-in-the-night-manager-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345999\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Day TV: Tom Hiddleston\u2019s huge return in The Night Manager | Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Night Manager<\/p>\n

9.05pm, BBC One
It\u2019s been nearly a decade since one of the BBC\u2019s biggest dramas \u2013 and #Hiddlebum. After teaming up with Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) to take down arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), soldier turned hotel manager turned MI6 recruit Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) is finally back. He\u2019s living a simple life as \u201cAlex Goodwin\u201d and running a low-key surveillance unit in London, when his world explodes after spotting a man connected to Roper. As trouble quickly ramps up, the murder of a friend sets Pine on a mission that leads to a violent new player, the Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). Hold tight for the ultimate new year fireworks. Hollie Richardson<\/p>\n

Wild London<\/p>\n

6.30pm, BBC One
He may have met the most magnificent animals across the globe, but David Attenborough still gets a huge thrill from spotting foxes in a Tottenham allotment. Even the pigeons hobbling around Hammersmith station brighten up his day. In this documentary, the conservationist celebrates the capital\u2019s critters. HR<\/p>\n

The Great New Year Bake Off<\/p>\n

6.40pm, Channel 4
Here\u2019s a first for Bake Off: baker besties from past series will team up in pairs to compete for the new year\u2019s cake stand. Val and Selasi, and Giuseppe and Rahul, are a few of the familiar faces working together on a showstopper that creates their favourite Christmas film in biscuit form. HR<\/p>\n

The TraitorsClaudia Winkleman in series four of The Traitors. Photograph: BBC\/Studio Lambert\/Cody Burridge\/Matt Burlem<\/p>\n

8pm, BBC One
Now in its fourth series, and with the smash-hit celebrity edition still on our minds, there was a chance The Traitors<\/a> would have paused for a bit of a breather. But who are we kidding? Claudia Winkleman\u2019s treacherous competition is still all we\u2019re going to be talking about during January \u2013 so cosy up and get ready to meet the new contestants. HR<\/p>\n

Red Eye<\/p>\n

9pm, ITV1
She racked up the air miles in series one but DS Hana Li (Jing Lusi) is very much on terra firma as ITV\u2019s twisty thriller returns. A crisis at the US embassy in London \u2013 where Li has beef with the security chief (Martin Compston) \u2013 means jurisdictional headaches as she tries to collar a killer and avert an aviation terror threat. Graeme Virtue<\/p>\n

Shedites<\/p>\n

10.35pm, BBC One
A new comedy drawing on the talents of the cast of Mrs Brown\u2019s Boys. Brendan O\u2019Carroll, Danny O\u2019Carroll and this show\u2019s writer, Paddy Houlihan, play men who gather in a shed in a village in Ireland to while away their time and perhaps do something useful. Can they win a charity race using a bike they built from spare parts? Phil Harrison<\/p>\n

Film choice<\/p>\n

28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, 2025), 6.30am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n

A visceral revisit \u2026 Jodie Comer in 28 Years Later. Photograph: Miya Mizuno<\/p>\n

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland\u2019s zombie-like horror saga returns \u2013 18 years later \u2013 with the first in a trilogy set in a Britain quarantined from the rest of Europe. Rather than being all running and dying (though there is a fair bit of that), this one follows humanity as it tries to protect the remnants of civilisation in the aftermath of the raging infection. Spike (Alfie Williams) lives with his mum, Isla (Jodie Comer), and dad, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), on the fortified isle of Lindisfarne. But forays to the mainland lead all three into danger. And what is Ralph Fiennes\u2019 mysterious doctor up to in the woods? A thrilling, visceral revisit to a dystopia where, despite everything, glimmers of hope remain. Simon Wardell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Night Manager 9.05pm, BBC OneIt\u2019s been nearly a decade since one of the BBC\u2019s biggest dramas \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-345999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}