Satellite choice
COMING-OF-AGE TALE The Great Gilly Hopkins, 2.20pm, Sky Premiere
SPIRITED Gilly (Sophie Nelisse) refuses to settle into her new foster home in this unsentimental comedy drama, bolstered by Glenn Close and Kathy Bates.
FACT-BASED FILM Frost/Nixon, 4.10pm, Sky Greats
ADAPTATION of Peter Morgan’s play dramatising a meeting of two titans. Michael Sheen is a tenacious David Frost, while Frank Langella is menacing as disgraced U.S. President Richard Nixon.
XMAS SPECIAL L Blue Peter: It’s Christmas!, 5pm, CBBC
THE cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang perform, and viewers arrive in the studio for a good old festive singsong around the tree in this special new episode. Plus, a deeper look at the vegetable traditionally rejected by children at Christmas — the Brussels sprout.
RUGBY UNION Bath v Cardiff Blues, 7pm, Sky Sports 2
BATH suffered a 28-3 defeat when these sides met on Saturday in the European Rugby Challenge Cup, having rested their England stars George Ford and Jonathan Joseph. They’ll be out for revenge at the Recreation Ground tonight.
DARTS World Darts Championship, 7pm, Sky Sports Mix & Darts
ALEXANDRA PALACE is the venue for this raucous event, now a firm festive favourite. Scotland’s Gary Anderson starts his bid for a third straight title tonight.
WATERY WONDERLAND River In The Sky, 8pm, NatN Geo Wild
WHEN the Amazon river is swollen by rainfall, parts oof the rainforest become submerged for months at a time, and the inhabitants must adapt to their suddenly watery world (pictured). This awe-inspiring new documentary explores how they do it. (Sky 528, Virgin 264)
COMIC-BOOK ACTION DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow, 8pm, Sky 1
THE final night of a four-evening Heroes v Aliens spectacular that, as a whole, has been more fun than many a superhero blockbuster at the cinema. This episode centres on the time-- hopping Legends, one of whom — Heat Wave — has struck up an entertaining banter with Supergirl.
PAY-PER-VIEW MOVIE David Brent: Life On The Road, BT TV/Sky Store/Virgin Movies
RICKY GERVAIS’S Brent, now a travelling sales rep, spends his pension on a band tour for a comic revival that offers more laughs than many TV-to-film transfers.
SERIES FINALE The Young Pope, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
SKY’S complex series has never sold itself short for the sake of crowd-pleasing dramatic fireworks, and this understated finale is perfectly in keeping with that. As the Pope calmly deals with both friend and foe, one question hangs over it all: Will he ever allow himself to be seen in public?
PARANORMAL DRAMA Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, 10pm, ITV Encore
A REPEAT for this spine-tingling mix of fact and fiction, set in Twenties London. Rafe Spall (pictured with Cara Theobold) drives the whole thing with a mesmerising performance as a reallife ghost-hunter, called in to investigate when the wife of an MP turns up naked on the streets. Is she sick or possessed?