Today's picks include a look back on 2022 with Callan Kicks the Year, new period drama Marie Antionette, and a documentary about GAA legend Anton O'Toole . . .
Callan Kicks the Year, 9.25pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
2022 brought horrors that no one should ever experience; from giant queues at Dublin Airport to seeing the inside of Leo Varadkar’s fridge.
Callan Kicks the Year returns to give events in Ireland and abroad their annual seeing to, in this comedy news review.
Michael Flatley’s Blackbird, Ed Sheeran’s Irish tour and the rise of Joanne McNally all feature in this essential look back on 2022’s most bizarre and OMG moments.
Oliver Callan’s character classics Leo, Micheál and Eamon return with Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou covering the political year from Robert Troy’s 11 gaffs to the rotating co-Taoiseachs. David McWilliams kicks the housing disaster and Dáithí Ó Sé hits the heatwave.
Des Cahill investigates the big Irish sports story of 2022 – the chilling Cody-Shefflin hurling handshake that launched a thousand memes. The show also tries to make sense of Britain’s year when it said bye-bye Boris and hello disasTruss Liz.
Plus, Francis Brennan and the Healy-Raes chat through all the perma-crises in between; from Elon Musk to turf, the cost of living, Wagatha Christie, and how everything wrong is now Putin’s fault.
Marie Antoinette, 9.00pm, BBC Two
Created and written by Deborah Davis (The Favourite), Marie Antoinette tells the story of the incredibly modern and avant-garde young queen.
Barely 14 years old when she is forced to leave Vienna to marry the the Dauphin of France, she must produce a Bourbon heir to secure the alliance between France and Austria.
Free, independent and feminist ahead of her time, the fearless queen is played by German actress Emilia Schüle, who previously featured in Berlin Station.
Anton O'Toole - Finscéal de Shaol GAA, 9.20pm, TG4
This documentary profiles the much-loved 'Blue Panther', Dublin gaelic football legend Anton O’Toole.
O'Toole was pivotal to the Dubs iconic team that sparked off a gaelic football revolution in the capital.
The revealing documentary is crafted with insight into the growth of this heritage in the city and the voluntary sporting organisation that's so much a part of Irish culture.
Told against the backdrop of relevant historical events, it also shows how sport relates to society in general including diversity and inclusion.
And there’s more sport in Tackling the All Blacks (6.30pm, RTÉ One), which goes behind the scenes of the Ireland rugby team's history-making tour of New Zealand last summer.
Prince Andrew: The Musical, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Here’s something a bit different, an all-singing, all-dancing satirical biopic charting the rise and fall of the Duke of York.
With seven hilarious original musical numbers and revealing archive footage, the Duke of York's downfall gets a West End-style treatment.
Andrew goes from 1980s’ British war hero to present-day royal outcast amid damaging allegations and an ill-advised Newsnight interview.
Written by and starring Kieran Hodgson, with Emma Sidi, Munya Chawawa and Harry Enfield (above).
There’s music of a different kind in Madonna at the BBC (9.55pm, BBC Two), a look back at a selection of magical Madonna moments on a range of BBC shows - from her first Top of the Pops appearance in 1984, right up to the present day.
Donal's Festive Party, 8.00pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Donal Skehan presents a guide to entertaining over the Christmas period, sharing tips and tricks on how to make catering for a crowd easy and how to do as much as possible in advance.
For his canapé table, he has contemporary twists on classics, with filo prawn cocktail and an easy cheese fondue, while the main is a crowd-pleasing, make-ahead festive chicken tagine with a jewelled herby cous cous.
Dessert is a baked Alaska with a cherry and honeycomb centre,served with sparklers fizzing on top.
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