Pick of the day: Motherland
Nice enough, but will Sharon Horgan and her team of talented collaborators on this usually one-sided high school sitcom repeat the unexpectedly sentimental ending to their latest Christmas special? Either way, viewers are in for a painfully funny treat as Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) has a packed room that also includes Liz and Kevin (Diane Morgan and Paul Ready). Across the road, Meg (Tanya Moody) begins to question her marriage and becomes addicted to alcohol, while Amanda (Lucy Punch) is forced to bite the bullet while spending the day with Johnny’s ex-husband and his new wife. Oh, and Ann welcomes her mom and cousins - 32 in all.
Our Big Christmas in Yorkshire
This gathering of people from Yorkshire Channel 5 is akin to the formation of a rock supergroup. So we have Jane MacDonald, Amanda and Clive Owen and relatives. Our farm in Yorkshireplus Julian Norton and Peter Wright Yorkshire veterinarian and Friday at the farm with Rob and Dave Nicholson. There is also a detailed look at how the people of Harrogate prepare for Christmas.
MasterChef Christmas Celebrity Cooking Show
Gregg Wallace and John Thorode present the first of two holiday episodes. In this first edition of the Happy Mondays app, Bez, track and field champion Ivan Thomas, pop star Josh Cuthbert and opera singer Leslie Garrett compete for the Celebrity MasterChef Golden Whisk trophy, with last year’s champion Judy Love joining the tasting.
Gardeners’ World Winter Deals
That’s all the gardening programs until spring, when Monty Don shows you how to store dahlia bulbs, plant clematis, and grow plants in containers for winter color and fragrance. Pine trees aren’t just for Christmas these days, as Nick Bailey showed during a visit to Great Dixter in East Sussex.
Little Red Riding Hood: Little by little
Another series of fairy tales by David Walliams showing what happened to Little Red Riding Hood after the big bad wolf. About 50 years later (and now played by Samantha Bond), our heroine has become a famous “wolf hunter” and her hometown has become a tourist trap. Walliams speaks himself, and the cast also includes John Thomson and Britain has talent Star Jack Carroll.
All Creatures Great and Small Christmas Special
It’s Darrowby’s first wartime Christmas, a young Jewish evacuee has taken up residence at Skeldale House, and everyone is trying to make the most of it. Mrs. Pumphrey (now Patricia Hodge as,
after the death of Diana Riggs, of course) there is a new kitten, and farmer Richard Alderson arrives.
play a particularly grumpy Santa Claus.
A Christmas Ghost Story: Count Magnus
The action takes place in 1863. Mark Gatiss’ latest adaptation of the Mr. James ghost story stars Jason Watkins as a scientist named Mr. Wrexhall. During a trip to Sweden, he becomes obsessed with the long-dead founder of an aristocratic family who made a strange journey to the Holy Land for the most wicked things.
Source: I News
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