What's on? TV highlights for Tuesday Dec 12

See how wealthy people squander money in The World’s Most Expensive Presents, both Motherland and Sick Note come to an end, while Charlie Bird revisits the Stardust Disaster.

Pick of the day

The World’s Most Expensive Presents, 9.00pm, Channel 4

When money is no object for the wealthiest people on the planet, the UK has a network of high-end suppliers of luxurious goods ready to gift-wrap their desires.

Many of us delighted in unwrapping our first bike on Christmas Day, but what if that new set of wheels was a 24-carat gold-plated bike worth €300,000?

And when you're a wealthy family with a million-dollar watch to surprise your son with, what do you do? You commission a 'cake artiste' to produce a surprise reveal at his exclusive Los Angeles birthday party.

And if your Christmas social calendar is filled with glitzy parties, it follows that your pet dog should also dress to impress in a €50,000 ball gown.

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New or Returning Shows

Food Unwrapped Does Christmas, 8.00pm, Channel 4

Jimmy Doherty, Kate Quilton, Matt Tebbutt and Dr Helen Lawal as they reveal astonishing surprises behind favoured festive grub, from the mystery of why Christmas puddings last so long to the perfect stuffing for the turkey.

Jimmy visits north-west America to check out the latest non-meat treat for Christmas day: tofurkey, and finds himself on a wild turkey chase in a town overrun with them.

Meanwhile, Matt searches for the best accompaniment to real turkey, and visits Britain's biggest manufacturer of sage and onion stuffing.

Here's a previous trailer to set the mood:

Ending Tonight

Motherland, 10.00pm, BBC Two

Here’s the season one finale of the excellent Graham Linehan, Sharon Horgan, Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh-written comedy about the trials of motherhood in modern London.

Julia’s child-care problems are solved after she finds the perfect Nanny - but her friendship with Liz is strained.

Amanda is keeping a low profile after Kevin blurted out her secret. Liz visits Lee’s new partner to give her some advice. The school caretaker is in hospital but the Mums have lost their ringleader and there’s nobody to organise a card.

Sick Note, 10.00pm, Sky One

Things get too much for Rupert Grint’s Daniel as the dark comedy reaches its conclusion. But is he finally about to fess up?

Daniel is feeling overwhelmed. The side-effects of his ‘treatment’ are getting to him and he’s begun seeing mysterious dark figures in the shadows.

Everyone’s got something to hide, but one person can’t stay quiet any longer. Is it time for Daniel to come clean?

The A Word, 9.00pm, BBC Two

Season two of this a BBC drama television series based on Israeli series Yellow Peppers and follows a five-year-old boy and how his dysfunctional family cope with the revelation that he has autism.

An End of Year Show at Joe’s old school brings his whole family together, but can they remain the family he knows?

New to Download

Manhunt: Unabomber, Netflix

This eight-part drama stars Paul Bettany, Sam Worthington, Mark Duplass, former Sex and the City star Chris Noth and our own Brian F O’Bryne.

Faced with few clues and an increasingly panicked public, the FBI calls on a new kind of profiler to help track down the infamous Unabomber, Theodore John Kaczynski.

In case you’re unaware, he’s an American mathematician, anarchist and domestic terrorist. A mathematical genius, between 1978 and 1995 killed and injured in a bombing campaign that targeted people involved with modern technology.

Don't Miss

After the Headlines - Charlie Bird, 9.35pm, RTÉ2

This week Charlie Bird revisits the awful fire on St Valentine’s night 1981, when the Stardust nightclub in Dublin was engulfed in flames and 48 young people lost their lives.

Most of the victims came from just a few areas of north Dublin and the communities of Artane, Kilmore and Coolock were changed forever.

Charlie was a young reporter at the time and was sent to the scene that night. What he saw there and in the days and weeks that followed have stayed with him ever since.

He now goes back to meet some of the survivors and families of the victims. All these years later many are still grieving and still fighting for justice.

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