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BBC1 BBC2 ITV
6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Saturday
Kitchen Live: Countdown to
Christmas 11.30 Mary Berry: Love to
Cook (r) 12.00 Football Focus 1.00pm
BBC News; Weather 1.15 Bargain Hunt
(r) 2.00 Escape to the Country (r)
2.30 FILM Maleficent (PG, 2014)
A fairy is betrayed by her ambitious
human lover, and plots to get
revenge on him by cursing his
daughter. Fantasy adventure starring
Angelina Jolie. See Film Choice
4.00 Final Score 5.10 BBC News 5.20
BBC Regional News; Weather 5.30
Superman & Lois 6.10 The Weakest
Link Strictly Special. New series.
New host Romesh Ranganathan
presents a Strictly special of the quiz,
with contestants including Anton Du
Beke, Janette Manrara, Catherine
Tyldesley and Dr Ranj Singh7.00 Strictly Come Dancing: The
Final Tess Daly and Claudia
Winkleman host the final of the
pro-celebrity contest, which
sees the three remaining
couples perform a routine of
their own choosing, one set by
the judges and one last show
dance. As usual Shirley Ballas,
Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi
Mabuse and Anton Du Beke
will be reviewing their efforts,
but only the viewers’ votes
will count to determine the
winner. Last in the series.
See Viewing Guide9.00 Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
Gemma Collins, Dara O Briain,
Fred Sirieix, Rochelle Humes,
Lorraine Kelly, Jordan Banjo
and Liam Charles help the
contestants take on the colossal
wheel and answer questions10.05 BBC News10.20 Weather10.25 Match of the Day Gary Lineker
presents highlights of the latest
Premier League fixtures,
including Manchester United v
Brighton & Hove Albion at
Amex Stadium and West Ham
United v Norwich City at
London Stadium11.50 The NFL Show Highlights of
Thursday night’s game12.20am FILM The Lost Boys
(15, 1987) A teenager discovers his
new home town is plagued by a
vampire biker gang. Comedy horror
starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason
Patric and Dianne Wiest 1.55 Weather
for the Week Ahead 2.00 BBC News6.25am Britain and Ireland: Our Wild
Adventures (r) 7. 2 5 Blue Peter: Our
Big Christmas Cracker! 7.55 FILM A
Christmas Story (PG, 1983) Family
comedy starring Peter Billingsley
9.25 FILM King of Kings (U, 1961)
Biblical epic starring Jeffrey Hunter
12.00 Nigella’s Christmas Table (r)
1.00pm Mary Berry’s Country House
at Christmas (r) 2.00 FILM Great
Expectations (PG, 1946) Drama
starring John Mills (b/w) 3.55 Charles
Dickens and the Invention of
Christmas (r) 4.55 Flog It! (r) 5.30
Chris & Michaela: Under the
Christmas Sky. Chris Packham and
Michaela Strachan go in search of
nature’s greatest celestial wonders (r)
6.30 FILM Whisky Galore! (PG, 2016)
Comedy starring James Cosmo,
Eddie Izzard and Naomi Battrick6.00am CITV 9.25 ITV News 9.30
James Martin’s Saturday Morning at
Christmas 11.40 John and Lisa’s
Christmas Kitchen 12.40pm ITV News;
Weather 12.55 Ninja Warrior UK (r)
1.55 FILM Johnny English Reborn
(PG, 2011) A bumbling former secret
agent is lured out of seclusion to foil
an attempt to assassinate the premier
of China. Spy comedy sequel starring
Rowan Atkinson, Gillian Anderson and
Rosamund Pike 3.55 The Chase: The
Bloopers. Bradley Walsh presents a
compilation of outtakes and laughs
from the quiz show featuring regular
chasers the Governess, the Beast, the
Vixen, the Sinnerman and the Dark
Destroyer (r) 5.00 The Brits Are
Coming 6.00 Rolling In It: Christmas
Special. With Anton Du Beke, Ranvir
Singh and Catherine Tyldesley7.00 ITV News7.15 Regional News; Weather7.30 Moneyball More contestants
take part in the game show
hosted by Ian Wright,
answering questions to try to
bank money by dropping a
ball from the Launcher on
to an amount of cash8.30 The Chase Celebrity Special
Mark Chapman, Gillian Joseph,
Ryan Sidebottom and Fred
MacAulay answer general
knowledge questions and work
as a team to take on a Chaser
and secure a charity prize9.30 Paul O’Grady’s Saturday Night
Christmas Line Up A festive
edition of the comedy chat and
game show in which Paul is
joined by Dame Joan Collins,
Paddy McGuinness, Sunetra
Sarker and Julian Clary10.35 The Jonathan Ross Show
Bradley Walsh, Roisin Conaty,
Andrew Garfield and Tom
Hollander join Jonathan for a
festive edition of the chat show11.40 ITV News11.55 Strictly the Real Full Monty (r)1.10am Teleshopping 3.00 FYI Extra
3.15 Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road
Adventure. Joanna travels across the
Central Asian states of Uzbekistan
and Kyrgyzstan (r) (SL) 4.05 Unwind
with ITV. 5.05 Lingo. Lee and Kristie
and Derek and Rose compete (r) (SL)8.00 The Snow Wolf: A Winter’s Tale
Dramatised natural history film,
following an alpha female wolf
in the Dolomite mountains.
A tragic sequence of events
forces the wolf to flee her
pack while pregnant (r)9.00 Madonna at the BBC
A look back at a selection of
magical Madonna moments on
a range of BBC shows — from
her first Top of the Pops
appearance with Holiday in
1984, right up to the present
day. See Viewing Guide10.00 FILM Desperately Seeking
Susan (15, 1985) A housewife
becomes fixated with the antics
of a fugitive temptress — but
her fascination leads to a
mix-up when she loses her
memory. Comedy thriller
starring Rosanna Arquette,
Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark
Blum and John Turturro.
See Film Choice11.40 FILM Madonna: Truth or Dare
(18, 1991) Behind-the-scenes
documentary following the pop
star’s 1990 international tour1.35am-2.40 Impeachment: American
Crime Story. Monica must face the
group of members of the public
making up the grand jury judging the
impeachment case. They hear things
that shock them, though the intimate
matters are an afterthought (r)7.00 Christmas at Chatsworth
House The aftermath of the
pandemic finds the estate keen
to win back visitors. The year
2021 also marks the Duke and
Duchess’s 20th anniversary8.00 48 Hours to Victory Dermot
O’Leary, Arthur Williams and
Lucy Betteridge-Dyson examine
Waterloo, one of the most
famous battles in history,
as it unfolded over 48 hours
in 1815. Last in the series.
See Viewing Guide9.00 FILM The Equalizer 2 (15, 2018)
Robert McCall divides his time
between cab driving and
looking after a young man who
is mixing with a bad crowd.
When a CIA friend is murdered,
the former black ops agent sets
out to avenge her death, and
winds up fighting for survival in
his hurricane-battered home
town. Action thriller starring
Denzel Washington, Pedro
Pascal and Ashton Sanders11.20 FILM Daddy’s Home 2 (12,
2017) Having settled their
differences, Brad and Dusty
must deal with their intrusive
fathers during the holidays.
Comedy starring Will Ferrell1.20am FILM American Woman (15,
2018) A woman seeks the answers
behind her daughter’s disappearance
while raising her grandson alone.
Drama starring Sienna Miller 3.10
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (r)
4.00 Hollyoaks Omnibus (r)Channel 4 Channel 5
6.00am Cheers (r) 6.55 The Big Bang
Theory (r) 7.40 The Simpsons (r) 9.40
The Bear (r) 10.15 We’re Going on a
Bear Hunt (r) 10.45 Father Christmas
(r) 11.20 The Snowman (r) 11.55 The
Snowman and the Snowdog (r)
12.30pm Live Heineken Champions
Cup Rugby Union: Harlequins v
Cardiff (Kick-off 1.00). Lee McKenzie
presents all the action from the Pool B
encounter in the second round of
fixtures, held at Twickenham Stoop
3.15 Jamie: Keep Cooking at
Christmas. Jamie Oliver shares a
recipe for a festive sausage roll tear ’n’
share wreath (r) 3.50 FILM Bee Movie
(U, 2007) Animated comedy with the
voice of Jerry Seinfeld and Renée
Zellweger 5.40 Channel 4 News.
Including sport and weather 6.00 A
Lake District Farm Shop at Christmas6.00am Milkshake! 10.25 SpongeBob
SquarePants (r) 10.50 Entertainment
News on 5 11.00 Friends (r) 12.00
FILM A Sugar and Spice Christmas
(PG, TVM, 2020) Romantic comedy
starring Jacky Lai and Tony Giroux
1.55pm FILM Surviving Christmas
with the Relatives (PG, TVM, 2018)
Festive drama starring Joely
Richardson and Gemma Whelan 4.10
FILM Journey Back to Christmas (PG,
TVM, 2016) Festive fantasy starring
Candace Cameron Bure and Oliver
Hudson. 5.55 FILM Scrooge: A
Christmas Carol (PG, 1951) A hard-
hearted skinflint is taught the error of
his ways by a succession of spectral
visitors. Adaptation of Charles
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, with
Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Kathleen
Harrison and Jack Warner (b/w)7.35 Charles Dickens with Gyles
Brandreth Gyles Brandreth
travels across Britain visiting
the places that inspired one
of Britain’s most famous
storytellers — Charles Dickens.
See Viewing Guide9.00 FILM The Full Monty (15, 1997)
Six unemployed men from
Sheffield decide to become
strippers for one night only in a
bid to raise extra money.
However, with no dancing
experience and far from
perfect physiques, the men
rely on the unique selling
point of complete nudity to
impress the punters. Comedy
starring Robert Carlyle, Mark
Addy, Tom Wilkinson, Hugo
Speer and Paul Barber10.50 FILM Kinky Boots (12, 2005)
A man inherits a struggling
shoe factory and finds
salvation for his business in a
drag artist’s need for custom
footwear. Comedy drama
starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel
Edgerton and Nick Frost1.00am The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show 3.05 Me & My Addiction (r)
4.15 The Highland Midwife (r)
5.05 House Doctor. A converted
chapel in Yeovil, Somerset (r) (SL)
5.30 Peppa Pig (r) (SL) 5.35 Fireman
Sam (r) 5.50 Fireman Sam (r)Angelina Jolie is Maleficent (2.30pm) Great Expectations (2pm) Johnny English Reborn (1.55pm) 48 Hours to Victory (8pm) Chiwetel Ejiofor stars (10.50pm)