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FOOTBALL Wolverhampton Wanderers v Chelsea, Amazon Prime, 5.30pm
WOLVES and Chelsea will both be looking to bounce back after 1-0 defeats on Saturday, to Villa and Everton respectively — and victory for the Blues would see them joining Spurs and Liverpool at the top of the table on 25 points. Manchester City v West Bromwich Albion follows at 7.30pm.
FELINE FRIEND A Christmas Gift From Bob, Amazon Prime
SMILE-INDUCING festive sequel to A Street Cat Named Bob, the true story of a busker’s friendship with a cat.
SEASONAL SONGS A Kylie Christmas, 7pm, Sky Arts
KYLIE MINOGUE’S first festive album — Kylie Christmas — forms a big chunk of this glitzy concert filmed at the Royal Albert Hall. The set is rounded out by her considerable back catalogue, and Kylie (pictured) has the audience on their feet from the first number, It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
AN ACTOR’S LIFE Babs, 8pm, Drama
LIVELY Barbara Windsor biopic, first shown in 2017, that has the ultimate stamp of approval: an appearance from its subject, who sadly died last week. Windsor had reason to be pleased, what with the excellent Samantha Spiro and Jaime
Winstone playing her at different ages — a duo who easily paper over the occasional cracks in the script.
Transplant, 9pm, Sky Witness
JOHN HANNAH plays the no-nonsense head of the emergency department in a pacy new Canadian medical drama, and he has an eventful first episode — someone drills a hole in his head. It’s for medical reasons, of f course, and that someone is Dr Hamed (Hamza Haq, pictured), a refugee from Syria in need of a job.
COUNTRY PILE The Secrets Of The National Trust With Alan Titchmarsh, 9pm, 5Select
ALAN arrives in Somerset for the last episode. He’s at Tyntesfield, a Victorian Gothic revival estate that was once home to William Gibbs, who ploughed his fortune into its renovation. (Sky 153, Freeview 55, Freesat 133, Virgin 152)
FREEVIEW MOVIE About Time, 9pm, 5Star
AS YOU might expect, Richard Curtis (Four Weddings And A Funeral) goes heavy on the love and light on the logistics of time travel in this fantasy romcom. Likeable Domhnall Gleeson plays Tim, a young man who uses his remarkable gifts to fix his love life and woo Mary (Rachel McAdams).
PM’S CHOICE Favourite Things: Margaret Thatcher, 10.20pm, BBC4
IIN 1987, Russell Harty vvisited Margaret TThatcher at 10 Downing Street and asked what she held most dear. One oof her choices is a poem by Rupert Brooke,B who died during World War I, which the Prime Minister reads. It’s called The Great Lover, and is all about our love for ordinary and familiar things.
WAR STORY The Rifleman, 10.20pm, Sky Premiere
A MASSIVE hit back home, this Latvian World War I epic follows 16-year-old Arturs and his brother, Edgars, as they join their marksman father to fight the Germans.
FESTIVE FILMS Mark Kermode’s Christmas Cinema Secrets, 10.50pm, BBC4
THE critic unpicks the key to a successful Christmas movie. His journey takes him to unexpected some genres — horror and action — as well as the more traditional ground of It’s A Wonderful Life and assorted Scrooges.