SATURDAY 23

Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone

(2001) PG 1.35PM, ITV

The movie franchise based on J.K. Rowling’s charmed bestsellers shows over the festive period, starting with this film in which Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry explores his magical destiny.

Frozen

(2013) PG 2.50PM, BBC1

Disney’s musical fairytale animation is a gleaming story of love and redemption that will warm the cockles of hearts young and old. Elsa is the princess with a magic touch, who is in dire need of a helping hand from her sister.

Mildred Pierce (1945) PG

3.10PM, BBC2

A bitter tale of maternal sacrifice, based on a novel by James M. Cain and starring an Oscarwinning Joan Crawford (above). Ann Blyth is the ungrateful daughter whose desire for wealth and status costs her mother (Crawford) dear.

Despicable Me

(2010) U

4.30PM, ITV

Felonious Gru is the supervillain star of this intrepid animated franchise. After he adopts three orphans, Gru’s role as father figure leads to a drastic melting of his diabolical heart.

Hidden Figures (2016) PG

5.50PM, SKY PREMIERE

PREMIERE Fact-based drama about the African-American women who burst through Nasa’s glass ceiling during the space race – in a 1960s US society still blighted by segregation. Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer star.

Bill

(2015) PG 6PM, BBC2

PREMIERE The Horrible Histories team put ink in their quills to tell the absurd, funny and deceptively educational story of how young Shakespeare (Mathew

Baynton, above) got started.

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) 12

10.35PM, BBC2

Chilling melodrama with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as the spiteful sisters going head to head.