CRITICS' CHOICE

GOOD EATING Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast Christmas Special, 8pm, Ch4

IT’S back to the cafe on the end of Southend Pier, where Jamie Oliver whips up a kedgeree and teaches The Lord Of The Rings actor Liv Tyler how to make her favourite takeaway — pork dim sum dumplings. Plus, Jimmy Doherty helps a community allotment group to cook up a storm with a wood-fired oven.

YULETIDE ADVENTURE Celebrity 5 Go In Search Of Santa Claus, 8.30pm, Ch5

JOE PASQUALE, the Rev Richard Coles, Christopher Biggins, Sue Holderness and Rustie Lee (pictured) are the five trekking through the sparkly wilderness of the Arctic Circle in this feature-length one-off special. Their adventure begins in Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland and the ‘official’ home of Santa Claus.

BOOGIE DOWN Saturday Night Fever — The Ultimate Disco Movie, 9pm, BBC2

STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Bruno Tonioli is joined by Barry Gibb and John Travolta, among others, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1977 blockbuster that introduced the world to the joys of disco and saw Travolta and the Bee Gees catapulted to superstardom.

FILM CHOICES An Ideal Husband, 1.20pm, BBC2

OSCAR WILDE’S scandalous Edwardian comedy is beautifully handled by Oliver Parker’s stellar cast, including Minnie

Driver, Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore. The rat-a-tat dialogue remains crisp, the wit intact, and Rupert Everett (pictured with Blanchett and Driver) is at his deliciously diabolical best as the aristocratic idler.

Bridget Jones’s Diary, 10.40pm, STV

BASED on the novel by Helen Fielding, this is less rose-tinted than other romcoms in its portrayal of life for modern-day single girls such as Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger). It shows how not all women go through life with grace and poise — and roundly celebrates that fact.