9.00 Andre Rieu — Love In
Maastricht A concert by the
violinist in his home town.
10.00 Andre Rieu — How It All
Began The life and career
of the Dutch violinist.
11.00 Comedy Legends Barry
Cryer looks back on the
career of Norman Wisdom.
12.00 Best Of Portrait Artist Of
The Year 2021 Highlights.
1.00 Cats — The Musical A
production of the show, with
Elaine Paige and John Mills.
3.00 Kipps — The New Half
A Sixpence Musical
A production of the
reinvention of the musical,
written by Julian Fellowes.
5.30 Bob Dylan — 30th
Anniversary Concert A
performance from 1992
celebrating the singer’s
career, featuring the likes of
Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed,
Johnny Cash and Eric
Clapton performing
classic Dylan numbers.
7.30 Andre Rieu — Wonderful
World: Live In Maastricht
The Dutch violinist and
composer’s annual
concert in his home town.
10.30-12.20 Freddie Mercury
— The Tribute Concert The
1992 concert at Wembley
Stadium in honour of
the Queen frontman.11.20 Pride And Prejudice
Adaptation of Jane Austen’s
classic novel, with Colin Firth.
(1/6) 12.35 Pride And
Prejudice Elizabeth receives
a marriage proposal.
1.50 Pride And Prejudice
Charlotte accepts a marriage
proposal. 3.00 Pride And
Prejudice Elizabeth rejects
Darcy. 4.10 Pride And
Prejudice Elizabeth grows
closer to Darcy. 5.20 Pride
And Prejudice Bingley
proposes to Jane.
6.35 Last Of The Summer Wine
8.00 Jonathan Creek A police
officer becomes a murder
suspect. (Series 4, ep 5)
9.20 Jonathan Creek The
disappearance of a figurine
triggers tragic events.
10.40 Judge John Deed (S3, ep 4)
12.40-4.00 Kavanagh QC
11.00am FILM: Battle Of The
Bulge Stars Robert Shaw.
(1965, PG; includes FYI Daily)2.20 FILM: The War Wagon
(1967, U; includes FYI Daily)4.25 FILM: The Shootist (1976,
PG; includes FYI Daily)6.30 FILM: The Sons Of Katie
Elder Stars John Wayne.
(1965, U; includes FYI Daily)9.00 FILM: High Plains Drifter
(1973, 18; includes FYI Daily)11.15 FILM: Space Cowboys Stars
Clint Eastwood. (2000, PG;
includes FYI Daily)
1.50 The Protectors The Contessa
is held captive by a killer.
2.25 Rescue — River Deep,
Mountain High Insights.
2.50-3.00 Unwind Relaxation.5.55pm Four In A Bed The final
visit is to the New Court Hotel
in Usk. 6.25 Four In A Bed
The B&B owners find out
what they have been paid
and settle some scores.
7.00 Christmas At Highclere
Castle A behind-the-scenes
look at life in Highclere
Castle at Christmas. (1/2)
8.00 The Great British Dig —
History In Your Back Garden
The team tries to uncover a
Roman fort in Falkirk.
9.00 24 Hours In A&E A boy is
rushed in after falling from a
swing; and a 62-year-old
woman is treated having
broken her wrist at a family
party. 10.05 24 Hours In A&E
A man with motor neurone
disease is rushed to St
George’s with sepsis.
11.10-1.20 Father Ted Comedy.5.45pm FILM: Wonder Woman
Stars Gal Gadot and Chris
Pine. An Amazon princess
leaves her isolated island
during the First World War,
aiming to bring the conflict
to an end. Electrifying
fantasy adventure. (2017,
12; includes FYI Daily)8.30 FILM: Skyfall Stars Daniel
Craig, Javier Bardem and
Judi Dench. James Bond
hunts the mastermind
behind a terrorist attack on
MI6, and discovers a former
agent with revenge in mind.
Terrific adventure. (2012,
12; includes FYI Daily)
11.20 Family Guy Peter claims
Chris is dying to avoid a
healthy diet. (S2, ep 3)
11.50-12.20 Family Guy
Peter opens up his own food
truck business. (S15, ep 16)7.00pm CHOICE New Year’s
Day Concert From Vienna
Highlights of the performance,
staged at the Musikverein.
(See Critics’ choice)
9.00 Ultimate Number Ones
Including tracks by Donna
Summer, John Lennon, Spice
Girls and Culture Club.
10.00 Inspector Montalbano The
detective investigates when
the body of a woman is found
in the municipal archives
where she worked. (Series 7,
ep 1; Italian with subtitles)
11.50 Jet Set A look back at the
heyday of the jet set, from
the 1950s to the 1970s,
when the rich and famous
fascinated the public as they
flew around the world.
12.30 How Auld Lang Syne Took
Over The World The global
popularity of Burns’ poem.
1.30 TOTP2: Party. Performances.
2.15-3.15 Ultimate Number Ones
6.00 Coronation Street Soap.
10.20 An Audience With Victoria
Wood Comedy monologues.
11.35 Poirot One of Hastings’
friends is killed. (Series 3, ep 1)
1.45 FILM: Carry On Matron
Stars Sid James, Kenneth
Williams and Hattie Jacques.
A gang of crooks tries
to infiltrate a maternity
hospital. Funny. (1972, PG)3.30 FILM: Carry On Abroad
Stars Sid James. British
holiday-makers arrive in the
Spanish resort of Elsbels.
Poor comedy. (1972, PG)5.15 FILM: Carry On Camping
Stars Sid James and Bernard
Bresslaw. Two men hatch a
plan to lure their unsuspecting
girlfriends to a nudist camp.
Bawdy comedy. (1969, PG)
7.00 Midsomer Murders With John
Nettles. A fatal explosion at a
haulage yard proves a
difficult case for Barnaby.
9.00 Midsomer Murders
With Neil Dudgeon. Barnaby
and Winter investigate a
mysterious club for geniuses.
11.00 A Is For Acid Fact-based
crime drama, with Martin
Clunes and Keeley Hawes.
1.10 Victoria Drama. (S3, ep 8)
2.15 Unwind Daily relaxation.
2.30-6.00 Teleshopping Goods.4.10pm Terry Pratchett’s The
Abominable Snow Baby
Animated adaptation of the
story about a grandmother
who adopts a 14-foot tall
monster at Christmas.
4.45 FILM: The Devil Wears Prada
Stars Meryl Streep and Anne
Hathaway. A magazine
editor makes her trainee
assistant’s life a nightmare.
Glossy satire. (2006, PG)7.00 Gogglesprogs Young TV
viewers appraise coverage
of the general election.
8.00 Celebrity Gogglebox 2021
Memorable moments of the
year, featuring some of the
country’s favourite celebrities
critiquing shows including
Masked Dancer, First Dates
and The Handmaid’s Tale.
9.00 Gogglebox 2021 Highlights
of the past year’s episodes.
11.05-12.10 Naked AttractionFILMS
SKY CINEMA PREMIERE
7.15am Daisy Quokka — World’s
Scariest Animal (2020, U) 8.50 Peter
Rabbit 2 (2021, U) 10.30 CHOICE The
Croods — A New Age (2020, U; see
Film choice) 12.20 The Suicide Squad.
Supervillains and a rag-tag bunch of
cons at Belle Reve prison join a secret
task force. (2021, 15) 2.40 Think Like A
Dog (2020, PG) 4.20 Peter Rabbit 2
6.00 The Croods — A New Age 7.45
The Suicide Squad. Details as 12.20pm.
10.05 Fatman. A 12-year-old hires a
hitman to kill Santa Claus after receiving
coal in his stocking. (2020, 15) 11.50
Young Hearts (2020, 15) 1.20 Think Like
A Dog 3.05 Naked Singularity (2021, 15)
4.50 Sky Cinema Preview 5.40-7.15
Daisy Quokka — World’s Scariest Animal
SKY CINEMA THRILLER
2.35pm Panic Room (2002, 15) 4.30
Jack Reacher (2012, 12) 6.45 Inception.
A hi-tech thief enters a corporate heir’s
mind to implant an idea he will think is
his own. (2010, 12) 9.15 Hell Or High
Water. A divorced father and his
former con brother try to save their
family ranch. (2016, 15) 11.00 Legend.
Biopic of the Kray twins. (2015, 18)
1.15-3.40 GoodFellas (1990, 18)
ENTERTAINMENT
GOLD
7.05am Dinnerladies 7.55 Citizen Khan
9.05 Only Fools And Horses 1.20
Murder, They Hope 2.20 The Vicar Of
Dibley 5.55 Vicar Of Dibley — Inside
Out 8.00 The Vicar Of Dibley. Alice and
Hugo’s baby is christened amid chaos;
and David asks Geraldine to marry him
9.00 Murder, They Hope. A turf war
between two bakers leads to food
poisoning at an amateur dramatic
society 10.00 Absolutely Fabulous. Five
episodes of the comedy series 1.15 We
Have Been Watching 2.30 Citizen Khan
3.30-4.00 Absolutely FabulousSKY COMEDY
6.00pm Modern Family 9.00 And Just
Like That. Sex And The City revival
catching up with the lives of Carrie,
Charlotte and Miranda 10.00 Dan
Soder — Son Of A Gary. Stand-up in
which the comic discusses drug dogs
at the airport and the customer-service
generation 11.15 Insecure 12.00 Amy
Schumer — Live At The Apollo 1.15
Silicon Valley 4.10-5.00 Modern FamilySKY WITNESS
6.00pm Nothing To Declare 8.00
Caught On Dashcam. Road disasters9.00 Private Eyes. When a writer on the
cusp of fame and fortune is threatened
just as another famous person drops
dead, Angie, Shade and Tex uncover a
world of jealousy and greed 10.00 Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit 12.00 The
Equalizer 1.00 Caught On Dashcam
2.00-6.00 Nothing To DeclareW
5.00pm DIY SOS — The Big Build
9.00 FILM: The Girl With The Dragon
Tattoo. Stars Daniel Craig. A disgraced
journalist and a troubled hacker
uncover a conspiracy 12.10 Women
Behind Bars. With Trevor McDonald
1.10-3.00 One Born Every Minute5 STAR
4.10pm FILM: The Mask 5.10 FILM:
Jackie Chan’s The Medallion 7.00 FILM:
Jackie Chan’s The Forbidden Kingdom
9.00 FILM: Days of Thunder. Stars Tom
Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Motor racing
drama 11.15 FILM: Cape Fear 1.50
101 Near Misses 2.55 Judge Judy
3.45-4.00 Entertainment News
5 USA
6.00pm Murder, She Wrote 9.00 Jesse
Stone 10.55 Grey’s Anatomy 11.55 Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit 1.50 Law
& Order: Criminal Intent 3.35-4.00
Criminals — Caught On CameraSKY CINEMA GREATS
6.00am Holiday Inn. An entertainer
retires to a farm, but boredom sets in.
(1942, U) 7.45 Legend. Biopic of
gangsters the Kray twins. (2015, 18)
9.30 Lawrence Of Arabia. A British
Army officer tries to unite the Arab
nations against the Turks. (1962, PG)
1.15 CHOICE Heat. A dogged
detective tackles a career criminal.
(1995, 15; see Film choice) 4.05
Legend. Details as 7.45am. 5.45
Legends Of The Fall. A man’s fiancée
moves into his remote family home.
(1994, 15) 8.00 Lawrence Of Arabia. As
9.30am. 11.35 Heat. Details as 1.15pm.
2.35 Munich. Israeli assassins hunt
down the orchestrators of the 1972
Olympic hostage crisis. (2005, 15)
5.30-6.00 Sky Cinema PreviewSKY CINEMA WIZARDING WORLD
3.10pm The Philosopher’s Stone (2001,
PG) 5.45 The Chamber Of Secrets. A
serpentine power attacks Hogwarts’
students. (2002, PG) 8.30 The Prisoner
Of Azkaban. The wizard learns a fugitive
sorcerer is looking for him. (2004, PG)
10.55 The Goblet Of Fire. The wizard is
chosen to represent Hogwarts in a
tournament. (2005, 12) 1.35 The Order
Of The Phoenix (2007, 12) 3.55-6.30
The Half-Blood Prince (2009, 12)FILM4
11.00am Wonder Park (2019, PG) 12.45
Dragonheart. A knight forms an
alliance with the last remaining dragon
to rid the land of a tyrant. (1996, PG)
2.50 We Bought A Zoo. A struggling,
widowed father takes over ownership
of a dilapidated zoo. (2011, PG) 5.10
Goodbye Christopher Robin. Biopic
about the life of Winnie the Pooh
creator AA Milne. (2017, PG) 7.15
Jumper. Fanatics hunt a man who
teleports. (2008, 12) 9.00 Venom. A
man gains superhuman strength when
his body merges with an alien organism.
(2018, 15) 11.10 Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The vampire count searches for his
reincarnated bride in London. (1992,
18) 1.45-3.50 Daybreakers (2009, 15)TALKING PICTURES TV
2.05pm One Million Years BC (1966,
PG) 4.20 Daleks’ Invasion Earth —
2150 AD (1966, U) 6.00 Scotland Yard
6.35 I’m All Right Jack. A dim-witted
man gets a job at his uncle’s weapons
factory, and is manipulated by both
the workforce and the management.
(1959, U) 8.45 Brokedown Palace. Two
women end up in jail after being used
as drug mules. (1999, 12) 10.50-12.35
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Stars Peter
Fonda. Crime adventure. (1974, 15)94 19 December 2021
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