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SEASONAL SPECIALS The Green Green Grass, 6pm, Drama
LOTS of old festive specials are on Drama this week, including two of this Only Fools And Horses spin-off from 2005 and 2006, opening with an invitation to Switzerland for Boycie (John Challis). On Yesterday at 9pm, look out for the Porridge specials from 1975 and 1976.
FOOTBALL Aston Villa v Liverpool, 7.30pm, Sky Football & Main Event
THE Reds have a Club World Cup match tomorrow, and so will be fielding a depleted side in this League Cup quarter-final tie. Can Villa’s talisman Jack Grealish help the home side to take advantage?
A BRUSH WITH FAME A BRUSH WITH FAME Celebrity Portrait Artist Of The Year 2019, 8pm, Sky Arts
JAMES FLEET, Anneka Rice (pictured), Jenny Eclair and Mark Gatiss are among the familiar faces picking up the paintbrush in this special new contest. Their sitters are Olympian Denise Lewis and actors Laurence Fox and Martha Plimpton.
MEOW-SICAL SHOW Cats: The Musical, 9pm, Sky Arts
ELAINE PAIGE is the once glamorous Grizabella in this 1998 filming of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s wildly successful musical. It was tweaked for film and is shorter than the stage version, but remains the same fluffily enjoyable triumph of style and character over plot that it always was.
AS PREDICTED? Romesh’s Look Back To The Future, 9pm, Sky One
AT THE beginning of 2019, Romesh Ranganathan asked his celebrity friends to predict what would happen over the next 365 days. So, at the end of what has felt like an unpredictable 12 months, how did they do? Find out tonight as Romesh drily compares prediction to reality.
HISTORY LESSON Charles I: Killing A King, 9pm, BBC4
IN A well-told new three-part follow-up to her series Charles I: Downfall Of A King, Lisa Hilton (pictured) shows us what led to the execution of the monarch. At the core of this story is an unresolvable clash: Charles believed he was answerable only to God, and refused to negotiate with Parliament.
SECRETS & SCANDALS Delicious, 10pm, Pick
SKY’S nicely filmed drama about poisonous relationships ends its first series on Freeview as Gina tries to keep a revelation from her daughter, Teresa (Tanya Reynolds), who is the show’s most sympathetic character. Knowing the truth could make Teresa’s life a lot easier, but then, no one on this show likes to make things easy.
FREEVIEW ROMCOM Just Friends,, 11.15pm,p, 5Star
RYAN REYNOLDS stars as a womanising record executive. As an overweight schoolboy, he was hastily dispatched to the ‘friend zone’ by the object of his affection, played by Amy Smart (pictured with Reynolds). Reuniting as grown-ups, he realises he still has feelings for her in this funny and unsentimental romcom.
ON-DEMAND MOVIE Angel Has Fallen, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
THE third of the . . . Has Fallen films is probably the second best of the series. Gerard Butler returns as embattled Secret Service agent Mike Banning, who is framed for an assassination attempt on the U.S. President.