Today's TV tips include this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest, a Christmas movie classic and the premiere of new BBC drama The Girl Before.
Junior Eurovision 2021 Live from Paris, 3pm, TG4
Representing Ireland in this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Paris is 14-year-old Maiú Levi Lawlor from Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
Competing against 19 other countries, he will be hoping that his Irish language song Saor (Disappear) will win the prestigious event for Ireland.
His uplifting song is about teenagers emerging from the struggles of Covid lockdowns and how their spirits can never be crushed.
Can Maiú go on and claim Eurovision glory for Ireland? The nation holds its breath...
Love Actually, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
What better way to get you in the festive spirit ahead of Christmas week than to watch Love Actually for the millionth time?!
Simply the best of its kind, Love Actually is a shameless tear jerking, clichéd dramedy with more celeb cameos than the Oscars.
The film offers a sleigh-load of festive feel-good factor and a poptastic sing-a-long too. A repeat viewing that never disappoints.
Mná na bPíob, 9.30pm, TG4
A trawl through the annals of Irish traditional music shows will quickly demonstrate that the Uilleann Pipes, one of Ireland's two national instruments, was almost completely dominated by male players throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
This feature-length documentary follows renowned musician Louise Mulcahy on an exciting journey to uncover the neglected stories of a group of incredible female pipers that were airbrushed out of our cultural history.
She will meet fellow musicians and scholars who will give her a greater insight into these women and the challenges that they faced during the testing times that they lived in from the middle of the 19th century, right up to the 1950's and beyond.
Mná na bPíob also features musical performances from Louise, Michelle and Mick Mulcahy, Máire Ní Ghráda, Molly Ní Ghrada, Mary Mitchell-Ingoldsby, Rosaleen O'Leary, Heather Clarke, Marion McCarthy, Síle Friel, Jane Walls, The Rowsome family, Paddy Moloney and many more.
The Girl Before, 9pm, BBC One
Loki and The Morning Show star Gugu Mbatha-Raw leads this new BBC drama as Jane, a woman who moves into a beautifully modern house designed by mysterious architect Edward (David Oyelowo).
When she finds out the dark truth about the woman who lived in the house before her (Jessica Plummer), Edward's extensive list of rules start to feel more sinister...
The Royal Variety Performance, 9.05pm, Virgin Media One
Alan Carr hosts this year's Royal Variety Performance from the Royal Albert Hall, with musical performances by Ed Sheeran, Rod Stewart and Elvis Costello and comedy from Judi Love, Bill Bailey and Josh Widdicombe.
