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GOLF DP World Tour Championship, 7am, Sky Golf & Main Event
RORY McILROY won the WGCHSBC Champions to make it four titles in 2019. He’ll want to finish in style in Dubai in the season’s final tournament, which he won in 2012 and 2015.
FUNNY FILM The Knight Before Christmas, Netflix
A 14THCENTURY knight timetravels to present-day Ohio in this goofy romcom, which stars Josh Whitehouse and Vanessa Hudgens (pictured).
FREEVIEW MOVIE Houseboat, 3pm, Film4
WHEN a widower (Cary Grant) offers a charming stranger (Sophia Loren) a job looking after his children, they embark on a rocky ride to true love aboard a rickety old houseboat.
JERSEY DETECTIVE Bergerac, 4.25pm, Drama
JOHN NETTLES’S DS Jim Bergerac, a recovering alcoholic with an eye for the ladies, was a firm favourite in many households in the Eighties. Fashioned as a replacement for Trevor Eve’s Shoestring in 1981, the series ran for ten years, and begins a weekday repeat from the start here.
ROCK ’N’ ROLL Talking Pictures With Marty Wilde, 4.30pm, Talking Pictures
THE singer performs a tribute to Eddie Cochran in this interview filmed at the Renown/Talking Pictures film festival. Marty appeared in four movies, starting with the 1959 thriller Jet Storm and ending with the 1974 musical Stardust.
Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand, 9pm, BBC4
IN 2003, a terminally ill Bob Monkhouse performed a night of comedy to an audience of comedians in a pub. This now legendary set, first broadcast over Christmas 2016, swings between jokes, poignant insights and tales of other comics, and has a dark edge.
NEW YORK CRIME Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 9pm, 5 USA
THE new-to-Freeview 18th season of this reliable U.S. crime drama kicks off in high-stakes style. A boy draws a gun on Benson (Mariska Hargitay) in Central Park, leading the detective to a terrorism plot.
Then, a revelation about the boy’s mum puts Benson at odds with Barba over how to proceed.
CELTS V ROMANS Britannia, 9pm, Sky Atlantic
‘YOU know what a Messiah is? I’ve met quite a few,’ breezes Roman General Aulus in this new episode as, out in the woods, Cait (Eleanor Worthington Cox, pictured) — Britannia’s own potential Messiah — struggles with the prophecy about her. And her mentor isn’t being nearly as much help as he thinks.
NEW COMEDY Romesh Presents, 11pm, Sky One
ROMESH RANGANATHAN curates a new series of experimental shorts from comedians. Tonight’s double bill opens with the mischievous Rosie Jones and guest Tom Allen; then, it’s the turn of Colin Hoult, who stages a spoof twist on Who Do You Think You Are? with Harvey from So Solid Crew.
WESTERN ACTION The Kid, 11.25pm, Sky Premiere
THE story of outlaw Billy the Kid and lawman Pat Garrett gets a twist courtesy of Rio, a 14-year-old boy fleeing domestic abuse. Dane De Haan and Ethan Hawke (pictured) star.