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What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Friday

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Ryan Tubridy

There's Andrea Bocelli on The Late Late Show, Graham Norton chats with Tom Hanks, a Fleetwood Mac night, Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice, and the final episodes of How to With John Wilson . . .

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The Late Late Show, 9.35pm, RTÉ One

Streaming on RTÉ Player

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (below) and his children Matteo and Virginia will be among Ryan Tubridy's guests this week.

Imelda May and Glen Hansard will talk about the famous busk on Dublin's Grafton Street for the Simon Community and how they are bringing a flavour of it to a wider audience on Christmas in Ireland with Imelda May and Friends on Sky Arts.

Comedian, writer and actor Seán Burke will bring viewers a very special Late Late Show Christmas Carol, while TikTok sensation and new Blue Peter presenter Joel M will also be in for a mixture of magic and illusion.

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The Graham Norton Show, 11.10pm, BBC One

More top talent on tap as Graham Norton gets to chat with some ace actors.

Tom Hanks (above) discusses playing the grumpiest man in America in A Man Called Otto, while Naomi Ackie talks about her role as Whitney Houston in I Wanna Dance with Somebody.

Suranne Jones talks about playing Christmas Carole in a new update of the Dickens classic and Richard Osman promotes his latest novel, The Bullet That Missed.

Plus, Rina Sawayama performs Hold the Girl.

Fleetwood Mac Night on BBC Four

Kicking off at 9pm with Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop, a documentary looking back over the band's long career.

Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that characterised their music and made them one of the most enduring acts in popular music.

Followed at 10pm by Fleetwood Mac: The Dance, a 1997 live performance by the most successful line-up of the band - Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie.

Fleetwood Mac: A Musical History follows at 11.45pm. Here, fan Edith Bowman provides a narrative overview, alongside fellow celebrity admirers who all pay tribute to the band.

Contributors include KT Tunstall, Travis' frontman Fran Healy, Toyah Willcox, Sian Pattenden and Emma Dabiri.

How to With John Wilson, 11.05pm, BBC Two

This second season of John Wilson’s superb mocumentary series is possibly even better than the first.

Tonight’s double-bill - sadly, the last of this run - begins with How to Remember Your Dreams.

After years of rooting his life in non-fiction, John Wilson drifts from the world of rational thought in hopes of finally remembering his dreams.

Then at 11.35pm he looks at How to Be Spontaneous. That’s something we all have to work on.

Though determined to let fate be his guide, the film-maker's attempt at spontaneity does not go as planned.

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The Amazing Maurice, Sky Cinema & NOW

A lively animated adventure based on one of Terry Pratchett’s wildly popular Discworld novels starring Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton and Hugh Bonneville.

Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who masterminds a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking rats and a human boy, Keith.

Going town to town, the rats pretend to infest the town and Keith uses his pipe to lead them away – all for a tidy profit.

But as Maurice and the rodents reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, they discover something sinister going on down beneath the city’s streets.

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Netflix

This is a trippy Mexican dramedy by Academy Award-winning director, writer and producer Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant and Birdman).

An acclaimed journalist and documentarian goes on an epic introspective journey to reconcile with the past, the present and his identity.

About Fate, Prime Video

Emma Roberts stars in this romantic comedy, a tale of two people who believe in love, but seem to never be able to find its true meaning

In a wild twist of events, fate puts each in the other's path on a stormy New Year's Eve and comedy and chaos ensue.

The Recruit, Netflix

A rookie lawyer at the CIA stumbles headlong into the dangerous world of international espionage when a former asset threatens to expose agency secrets.

Dance Monsters, Netflix

In this feel-good competition, amateur dancers disguised as CGI avatars bring their best moves, hoping to win $250,000 - and a second shot at their dreams.

Ending Today

The Big Narstie Show: Christmas Special, 11.05pm, Channel 4

The grime MC and co-host Mo Gilligan (above) host a special festive episode of the Bafta-winning, anarchic, late-night chat show.

Christmas-ish guests include comedian Thanyia Moore, rapper Headie One, singer Jada Kingdom and entrepreneur Steven Bartlett.

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