Satellite choice
FOOTBALL Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea, 7pm, Sky Football & Main Event
THE fourth round of the League Cup gets under way with a London derby. Tottenham talisman Harry Kane was in the Spurs side who lost 2-0 to Chelsea in the final of this competition back in 2015.
MURDER MYSTERY Miss Marple, 8pm, Drama
NOT every episode is great, but as a whole, this series, starring Joan Hickson, is hard to equal — she is unquestionably the best Miss Marple. Here, the sleuth with ‘a mind like a bacon slicer’ is looking for a killer with a fondness for nursery rhymes in A Pocketful Of Rye.
UPCYCLING EXPERT Restoration Workshop, 8pm, Yesterday
GARY raids the bins at a helicopter museum in Weston-super-Mare tonight, and comes out with some rotor blades that he thinks might make a nifty coffee table. He’s also treated to an up-close look at a craft that was once part of the Queen’s Helicopter Flight.
DETECTIVE TALE Midsomer Murders, 8pm, ITV3
THIS is the lively episode in which it’s revealed that DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) was once a spy. It all starts with a cricket match, an eccentric ex-spymaster (Peter Davison) and a woman who is both spy and WI — and then takes us back to the heady days of Cold War Berlin.
PHOTO PROJECT Rankin’s 2020, 8pm, Sky Arts
THIS has been an extraordinary year by any standard, and the photographer Rankin wants to document it with help from the public. He’s received 10,000 images and, each week, will choose the best — as well as offering tips that anyone can use to improve their photography.
TEXAS DRAMA 9-1-1: Lone Star, 9pm, Sky Witness
THEY’RE having a lot of fun with Rob Lowe and his famously agedefying looks in this emergency services drama, in which he plays a health-obsessed firefighter. ‘Every six months, I get my scalp injected with a drug that promotes hair growth,’ announces Strand (Lowe, pictured) to his staff tonight.
CRIME FAMILY Prodigal Son, 9pm, Sky One
JESSICA (Bellamy Young), who has spent years drinking to forget the actions of her serial killer husband, is finally coming to terms with reality, and the impact of it all on her profiler son. It’s good timing — it’s Christmas in this new episode of the dark U.S. drama, but murder is never far away . . .
HORROR FLICK Open 24 Hours, 10pm, Sky Premiere
GRIM horror starring Vanessa Grasse as Mary White, a deeply troubled woman who attacked her serial killer boyfriend. The killing, however, is far from over.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Departure,p 11.45pm,p Film4
LANGUID drama with Juliet Stevenson as Beatrice, who heads to the south of France as she struggles to cope with the end of her marriage, while her 15-year-old son, Elliot (Alex Lawther, pictured with Stevenson), is confused about his sexuality. Matters get more complicated when a young man catches both their eyes.
ON-DEMAND THRILLER Ava, Sky Store/Virgin Movies
A KILLER goes off script and annoys her employer in a standard action thriller lifted by a hugely impressive cast, namely Jessica Chastain (the killer, Ava), Colin Farrell (her boss), John Malkovich (her mentor) and Geena Davis (her mum).