BEST BETS
• Gwen, a personal shopper for a work-obsessed single father, is dismayed to see how little time her client, Charlie, spends with his 8-year-old son, in the TV movie A Gift Wrapped Christmas. Meredith Hagner and Travis Milne star. (Showcase at 6) • Director Ron Howard makes a rare foray into documentaries with The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The TouringYears, which traces the early years of the Fab Four, from their first club dates in their native Liverpool, England. (CTV at 8) • In X-Men:Days ofFuturePast, cast members from the movie franchise’s various editions merge, so both Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy can be Professor Xavier, and Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender both can play Magneto. (Global at 8) • An aircraft worker (Robert Cummings) goes on the lam after being unjustly accused of causing a friend’s death in Alfred Hitchcock’s great 1942 thriller Saboteur. Norman Lloyd ( St.Elsewhere) also stars. (TCM at 9:15) • On a new episode of Queen oftheSouth, Teresa risks her life to save her precious book at all costs as she devises a desperate plan to escape and rescue Brenda. Epifanio acquires information that could be game-changing. (Bravo at 10) • With volcanic Mount Rainier threatening to erupt at any moment, a mysterious figure tells Karen, Joshua and their family that their only salvation lies back on that same deadly mountain on a new episode of Aftermath. (Space at 10) • A box-office hit, director Clint Eastwood’s 2014 drama American Sniper tells the fact-based story of Chris Kyle (Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper), a rodeo rider who becomes a Navy SEAL assigned to use his expert shooting skills. (M2 at 10:10)