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Tuesday 7 | Primetime digital guide

BBC4

7.00pm The Joy of Painting:

Winter Specials The edge of

a winter forest

7.30 Christmas University

Challenge Teams from

Manchester and Queen’s

Belfast (2/10)

8.00 Keeping Up Appearances

Daddy gets engaged (4/6)

8.30 One Foot in the Grave

A door-to-door salesman

makes Victor see red (4/6)

9.00 dinnerladies The girls

attend their work party (5/6)

9.30 Mark Lawson Talks to Liz

Smith An interview with

the veteran actress, who

starred in The Royle Family

and The Vicar of Dibley

10.30 Play for Today: Hard Labour

A hardworking maid deals

with a demanding husband

and her unsympathetic

children. MIke Leigh’s 1973

BBC play starring Liz Smith

11.40-12.10am Mike Leigh:

This Cultural Life (3/8)

ITV3

7.00pm Heartbeat An assault

leads the police to foil an

audacious attempt to steal

antiques from Ashfordly

Hall, and Vernon tries to

persuade a woman to fund

his donkey sanctuary

8.00 Midsomer Murders The

president of an ornithological

society is found dead after

an argument about a

rare bird sighting. Guest

starring Paul Nicholls

10.00 Ruth Rendell’s Inspector

Wexford: Road Rage Dora

and the other hostages fight

to survive their ordeal, and

Wexford must search for

the inner resources to

negotiate their release (8/11)

11.40-1.55am Inspector Morse

A man accused of killing

five people is killed in

prison, prompting Morse

to investigate why the

body of one of his victims

was never actually found

More 4

6.55pm Escape to the Château

Dick and Angel continue

renovation work on their

£280,000 chateau (1/3)

7.55 Grand Designs A couple

build a family home and

workspace at an old milk

yard in London, but their

choice of unconventional,

industrial-style materials

proves challenging

9.00 How to Build: Land Rover

The step-by-step process

of creating a Land Rover

Defender, designed and

engineered in the UK and

built in the company’s new

68-acre facility in Slovakia

10.05 Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted

The chef learns about the

secrets of ancient Berber

cuisine in Morocco (2/6)

11.10-12.15am 8 Out of 10 Cats Does

Countdown Guests Jon

Richardson and Jayde

Adams take on Sean Lock

and Joe Wilkinson (4/6)

Sky Max

7.00pm Grimm The spirit of a

Native American inhabits

the body of a teenager and

wreaks revenge on the

killers of the boy’s father (R)

8.00 Golf’s Funniest Moments

Revisiting the sport’s most

amusing moments. (R)

9.00 Strike Back: Silent War

The members of Section 20

come to blows with Russian

renegades Natasha

Petrenko and Artem Orlov

as they attempt to buy

sophisticated software

designed to short-circuit

a ghost satellite (9/10) (R)

10.00 Strike Back: Silent War

Pavel plans to launch VX

missiles and put Russia at

war with the West (10/10) (R)

11.00 Dan Brown’s The Lost

Symbol Robert and

Katherine turn to Nunez for

help, while Sato interrogates

Bellamy (3/10) (R)

11.55-1.10am We’re Here (R)

Sky Atlantic

6.40pm True Blood Sookie makes

a shocking discovery that

forces her to reconsider her

involvement with Bill. Eric

and Pam forge an unlikely

alliance in their hunt for a

shared enemy, while Andy

argues with Holly (6/10) (R)

7.45 The Leftovers Nora gives

Kevin and Jill some very

unexpected news, Jill goes

on an adventure, and Laurie

makes a rash decision that

affects the Garveys (7/10) (R)

9.00 Landscapers New series.

Drama with Olivia Colman,

about the true story of a

couple who find themselves

the focus of a murder case.

See Viewing Guide (1/4)

10.05 Gangs of London Sean and

his family are forced to go

into hiding. Plus, Luan risks

his life to rid himself of Mosi,

and Floriana seizes a big

opportunity (8/9) (R)

11.10-12.15am American Rust (R)

Sky Documentaries

Sky Comedy

7.00pm Inside the Freemasons

Cameras capture one

of Freemasonry’s most

important ceremonies as

the documentary continues

to explore what it means to

be a Freemason (2/5) (R)

8.00 Urban Secrets

Alan Cumming tours the

less-celebrated sights of

Brighton, including a toy

museum and a boutique

specialising in unusual

headgear, and then goes

behind the scenes at the

Royal Pavilion (2/8) (R)

9.00 100 Foot Wave Garrett has

concerns about proposed

safety measures as the

world’s top surfers arrive

in Nazare for the WSL’s Tow

Surfing Challenge (5/6) (R)

10.00-12.30am Dettori The epic

but intimate story of the

world’s greatest jockey,

one of the most decorated

sportsmen of all time (R)

7.00pm Modern Family

7.50 Sex and the City Carrie

struggles to deal with her feelings

8.25 Sex and the City Samantha

decides to try a bold new look

9.00 Insecure Comedy drama

9.35 A.P. Bio Victor tries his

best to catch up to his peers

10.05 Miracle Workers: Oregon

Trail Comedy series (10/10)

10.30 The Tonight Show Starring

Jimmy Fallon Talk show

11.30-12.30am The Late Late Show

with James Corden Talk show

ITV2

7.00pm Superstore Amy and

Jonah become competitive when

he passes a training test (6/11)

7.30 Superstore The employees

are given a chance to win a cash

bonus if they hit a target (7/11)

8.00 Bob’s Burgers

8.30 Bob’s Burgers

9.00 Family Guy

9.30 Family Guy

10.00 Plebs (5/8)

10.30 Plebs (6/8)

11.00 Killer Camp (7/8)

11.55-12.25am Family Guy

ITV4

7.00pm The Chase Celebrity

Special With Donna Air, Amanda

Lamb, Sarah Greene and Dan Snow

8.00 Bradley Walsh &

Son: Breaking Dad (1/6)

8.30 Bradley Walsh &

Son: Breaking Dad (2/6)

9.00 FILM The Magnificent Seven

(12, 2016) A band of gunmen are

hired to save a remote frontier

town. Western remake starring

Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt

11.45-12.45am FILM A Fistful of

Dynamite (15, 1971) Western

E4

7.00pm Hollyoaks Ollie and Becky

try and put things behind them

7.30 The Bachelor Australia

Matty takes the three remaining

contestants on a series of romantic

and adventurous dates (15/16)

8.35 The Big Bang Theory

Sheldon and Amy face a dilemma

9.00 The Great Festive Bake Off

The cast of Derry Girls take part

in the second festive special

10.15 Naked Attraction Guests

include a transgender woman

11.20-12.30am Naked Attraction

Dave

7.00pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

USA With Heather Anne Campbell

7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA

With guest Jonathan Mangum

8.00 Richard Osman’s House

of Games Featuring guests Shappi

Khorsandi and Amanda Abbington

8.40 Room 101 With Joan Bakewell

9.20 QI Featuring Susan Calman

10.00 Mock the Week Christmas

Special Seasonal material

10.40 Mock the Week

11.20 Mock the Week

12.00-12.40am Mock the Week

Drama

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine

The gang searches for an explorer

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine (1/2)

Compo contemplates hang-gliding

8.00 The 39 Steps A man goes on

the run when a spy is killed in his

flat, and teams up with a suffragette

to uncover a plot that threatens

national security. Adaptation of

John Buchan’s adventure novel

starring Rupert Penry-Jones

9.50 New Tricks The team opens a

case of a palaeontologist’s murder

11.10-12.10am Bad Girls

Yesterday

7.00pm Abandoned Engineering

Abandoned projects of the space

age, including the HARP gun

8.00 Secrets of the London

Underground Tim Dunn and

Siddy Holloway explore Clapham

South deep level shelter (6/6)

9.00 Chris Tarrant: Extreme

Railways Chris travels from

Adelaide to Darwin (2/3)

10.00 Hornby: A Model World

11.00 Abandoned Engineering

12.00-1.00am The Architecture

The Railways Built (6/10)

PBS America

6.55pm In Search of Medieval

Britain Dr Alixe travels west

from Gloucester into Wales (2/6)

7.35 Back to Chernobyl Life in

the area close to the Chernobyl

nuclear disaster, 35 years on

8.50 Secrets of Orkney:

Britain’s Ancient Capital (1/3)

9.55 World War II: The Last Heroes.

American soldier Arnold Whittaker

relives his experiences (5/6)

11.00 Beautiful Serengeti (2/12)

11.35-12.15am In Search

of Medieval Britain (2/6)

Smithsonian

7.00pm Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace closely follows the

production of frozen potato waffles

8.00 The Lost Tapes The events of

Pearl Harbour are brought to life

9.00 America’s Hidden Stories

Declassified documents regarding

the attack on Pearl Harbour

10.00 The Pacific War in Colour

Personal accounts of combat in the

Pacific in the Second World War

11.00 The Pacific War in Colour

12.00-1.00am

The Pacific War in Colour

Sky Arts

7.00pm Tate Britain’s Great Art

Walks Exploring places made

famous by Stanley Spencer (1/6)

8.00 Wordsworth & Coleridge:

Road Trip with Frank Skinner

and Denise Mina New series.

The duo follow in the footsteps

of the Romantic poets. See

Viewing Guide (1/3)

9.00 The Directors (1/10)

10.00 Michael Bublé Live: Tour

Stop 148 The singer in concert

on his To Be Loved tour

11.35-12.20am Life & Rhymes

Sky Witness

7.00pm Paramedics Following the

daily work of ambulance crews

8.00 Blue Bloods Danny is asked

for a favour by a woman he jailed

9.00 Private Eyes Angie takes

Shade to her high school reunion

10.00 Criminal Minds The BAU

joins the hunt for a serial killer

11.00 The Rookie Things take

a shocking turn for Nolan as he

makes a discovery that could put

his life and career in jeopardy

12.00-1.00am Law & Order:

Special Victims Unit

Sky History

7.00pm Forged in Fire The biggest

twist in the show’s history awaits

8.00 WW2 Mystery: Foo Fighters

Documentary about mysterious

glowing orbs spotted during

the Second World War (2/2)

9.00 Pearl Harbour: Survivors

Remember Recounting the story

of the surprise Japanese attack

11.00 The Proof Is Out There (3/4)

11.30 The Proof Is Out There (4/4)

12.00-1.00am When Big Things

Go Wrong The collapse of the

I-35 bridge in Minneapolis (1/6)

Alibi

7.00pm Hudson & Rex (11/16)

8.00 Death in Paradise

A millionaire environmentalist

is shot dead on his boat (1/8)

9.00 Ragdoll With the Ragdoll

Killer hard to find, the team hunt

down the second victim (2/6)

10.00 Smother (2/6)

11.10-12.05am The Good Wife

Discovery

7.00pm Devil’s Canyon A tree

falls and crushes John’s shelter

8.00 Bitchin’ Rides A business

owner wants the team to put his

damaged 1932 Ford back together

9.00 Gold Rush

10.00 Gold Rush: White Water

11.00 Gold Rush: The Dirt

12.00-1.00am Gold Rush

Nat Geographic Comedy Central

7.00pm Friends Four editions

9.00 FILM The A-Team (12, 2010)

Four soldiers go on the run after

being jailed for a crime they did

not commit. Thriller starring Liam

Neeson and Bradley Cooper

11.00-1.00am FILM Drive Angry

(18, 2011) Action thriller starring

Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard

Gold

6.00pm Only Fools and Horses

8.00 The Vicar of Dibley

9.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys

9.40 The Royle Family: Joe’s

Crackers The clan gathers for

another uneventful Christmas Day

10.55 Miranda

11.35-12.20am Mrs Brown’s

Boys Christmas Special

W

7.00pm MasterChef USA

8.00 Inside the Ambulance

9.00 Emma and AJ Get to Work

10.00 One Born: Twins and

Triplets Following four couples

11.00 One Born: What Happened

Next? Couples from past episodes

12.00-1.00am One Born Every

Minute A woman with heart issues

7.00pm Air Crash Investigation

8.00 Thames Treasure Hunters

9.00 Ocean Wreck Investigation

Taking a look at the weaknesses

that doomed powerful warships

10.00 Ice Road Rescue

11.00 Air Crash Investigation

12.00-1.00am Airport Security:

Peru and Brazil (2/16)

FV 9/24, FS 173, SKY 116, VIRGIN 107 FV 10, FS 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 113, VIRGIN 122 SKY 108 SKY 121, VIRGIN 278

SKY 114, VIRGIN 135

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 25, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130 FV 26, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129

SKY 132, VIRGIN 126 SKY 125, VIRGIN 250, BT 322 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 317 SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 307 SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 310 SKY 109, VIRGIN 125, BT 311

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127

FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 56, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 130, VIRGIN 165 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112 SKY 123, VIRGIN 270

Sky Main Event

6.00am Live Test Cricket:

India v New Zealand

8.00 Live Big Bash League

Melbourne Renegades v Adelaide

Strikers From Marvel Stadium

11.30 The Football Show

12.00 Sky Sports News

6.00pm Live Mosconi Cup Pool

7.30 Live EFL: Portsmouth v

Sheffield Wednesday

10.15 Soccer Special Post-Match

11.00 Live: NFL Fantasy

12.00 Live: Total Access

1.00-6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Premier League

10.00am The Football Show

12.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox

1.00pm MNF Everton v Arsenal

2.45 PL Greatest Games

4.00 MNF Everton v Arsenal

5.45 PL Greatest Games

6.00 PL Review

7.00 Gillette Soccer Special

10.00 PL Review

11.00 PL Retro

1.00am PL Years

3.00 PL Greatest Games

4.00 Best PL Goals

5.30-6.00am PL 100 Club

Sky Cricket

6.00am Live Test Cricket

India v New Zealand

11.30 The Fletcher Years

12.00 Best of ICC WT20

1.00pm Big Bash League

4.30 Talking Cricket

5.00 Test Cricket

6.00 Big Bash League

9.30 Test Cricket

10.30 Talking Cricket

11.00 Test Cricket

12.00 Cricket in Mumbai

1.00am Test Cricket

2.00-3.00pm Best of ICC WT20

BT Sport 1

12.30pm BT Sport Goals Reload

12.45 Gallagher Premiership

Rugby Highlights Recent action

2.15 Rugby Tonight

3.00 The Action Woman Show

4.00 ESPN FC Football news

4.30 WWE NXT Highlights

5.30 A-League Highlights

6.30 Premier League Review

7.30 Live UCL Goals Show

10.15 Fight Week

10.45 Premier League Reload

11.00-8.00am The Ashes Live:

Australia v England The first test

BT Sport 2

5.00pm Live UEFA Champions

League A group stage match

7.45 Live UEFA Champions League

A group stage match

10.30 Champions League Tonight

11.30 The Dan Hardy Breakdown

Show The latest episode

12.00 Ultimate Goal

1.00am Live: WWE NXT

3.15 Sailing: Transat

Jacques Vabre Highlights

3.45 BT Sport Fight Night

5.45-6.00am

BT Sport Goals Reload

SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 467 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514 SKY 413, BT 459 SKY 414, BT 460

The 39 Steps

Rupert Penry-Jones stars in

a 2008 adaptation of John

Buchan’s adventure novel

Drama, 8pm

FV Freeview FS Freesat

Joe Root will lead England

against Australia in the first

Ashes Test (BT Sport 1, 11pm)