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SANTA’S SECRETS Maddie’s Do You Know?: At Christmas, 5pm, CBeebies
HOW are decorations made? Why do some reindeer have red noses? Does this mean one of them is secretly Rudolph? Maddie is on a mission to find out in a sweetly informative new festive special, in which she visits a workshop and learns how Santa’s four-legged friends keep warm, too.
FESTIVE TALE A Christmas To Cherish, 6.20pm, Sky Premiere
TWEE drama, pumped full of Christmas spirit, starring Ali Liebert and Peter Porte as the couple fighting the closure of a local recreational centre.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Tenet, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
THIS brain-bending backwards thriller from Christopher Nolan would have been a huge cinema event even without the pandemic. In the end, it was pretty much the only cinema event of the year. Don’t expect to understand it, but do expect to be thoroughly entertained.
NEW U.S. DRAMA Tiny Pretty Things, Netflix
ADDICTIVE new U.S. drama set at a ballet school, run by the driven Monique (Lauren Holly, pictured), where a star student met a sticky end. It’s based on a novel, and has the potential to be a breakout hit.
U.S. HISTORY The Dust Bowl, 7.35pm, PBS America
THE dust storms that battered the U.S. plains in the Thirties — the result of overfarming — were almost biblical in scale, rolling in a mile high and 200 miles wide. ‘There is no way for it to be exaggerated,’ says a witness in this first of Ken Burns’s incredible four-parter.
WEDDING DAY Made In Chelsea, 9pm, E4
THEY’VE been talking about it since the start of the season and finally, Ollie and Gareth’s wedding day has arrived — and it wouldn’t be Made In Chelsea if it went off without a hitch, as it were. Meanwhile, romantic reassessments are under way for James and Maeva, Charlie and Verity and Sam and Zara. Who will break up?
CHILLING FINALE Evil, 9pm, Alibi
PREGNANT viewers may wish to steer clear of the season finale, in which a foetus seems to be possessed by the Devil. It’s a dramatic way to finish things off, and not the only sinister event — Leland (Lost’s Michael Emerson) has decided to step up his wooing of Kristen’s mum. There will be a second season.
RANCH SAGA Yellowstone, 9pm, Paramount
‘THIS is going to be the end of us. But we’re going to do it anyway.’ These are the kind of words you want to hear in a western, and it’s what w John (Kevin Costner, pictured) says as he heads out in the finale. What W comes next doesn’t disappoint, and a there will be a season three — but not n for everyone . . .
FREEVIEW MOVIE The Lady In The Van, 9pm, BBC4
HEARTFELT comedy drama, with Maggie Smith as the enigmatic eccentric who lived, in her decrepit van, on Alan Bennett’s leafy London driveway for 15 years. Smith is crustily magnificent; Alex Jennings co-stars as her literary ‘friend’.
LAVISH DRAMA Beecham House, 10pm, ITV3
A DAILY repeat from the start for this sumptuous drama, one of many ITV shows to be dubbed ‘the new Downton’ since that ended in 2015. It unfolds in Delhi at the end of the 18th century, and features two rival brothers of different temperaments.
FUNNY FILM One Way To Denmark, 12 midnight, Sky Premiere
COMEDY starring Rafe Spall as the man whose life is so far down the pan that he heads to Denmark, believing that prison life there would be a step up.