Baz Ashmawy is back with a DIY SOS: The Bigger Build Ireland special, Mairead Ronan presents Ireland's Fittest Family: Ten Years of Tears and Triumph, and Adam Driver leads a great cast in White Noise . . .
Ireland's Fittest Family: Ten Years of Tears and Triumph, 8.00pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Mairead Ronan presents the most memorable moments of the long-running series, with contributions by coaches Anna Geary, Donncha O'Callaghan, Nina Carberry and Davy Fitzgerald.
The show's been on the go for ten years now, and there have been so many ups and downs for the various families who have taken part.
Only a few will get to feature in this compilation show, so you’re guaranteed some thrills, spills and bellyaches here.
DIY SOS: The Bigger Build Ireland, 6.30pm, RTÉ One
Streaming on RTÉ Player
Baz Ashmawy presents the first of a two-part special focusing on rehousing Ukrainian refugees in six vacant terraced houses at Kingston College in Mitchelstown, North Cork.
Baz is joined by Aoife Rhattigan and Kerry Hiddleston, who oversee the design, while Brandon Duarte from MMD Construction is in charge of the build, and Diarmuid Gavin (above) plans the garden design.
The squad involves volunteers from many nationalities to build a space that will benefit the town and its community for many decades to come.
Macaque: Monkeys in the Mountains - A Dynasties Special, 8.00pm, BBC One
Narrated by the legendary David Attenborough (below), this Dynasties special sees cameras follow leadership struggles among Barbary macaque monkeys in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
The troop's new alpha has successfully led the monkeys for a year through a drought and a frozen winter, but an error of judgment places his position in jeopardy.
As mating season approaches, his allies start to turn against him, and a brutal attack sees him deposed, and banished from the group - but the new leader proves far more aggressive, giving his ousted predecessor a chance to seize his position back.
Would I Lie to You? at Christmas, 11.00pm, BBC One
Christopher Eccleston, Sophie Willan, Guz Khan and Gloria Hunniford join team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack for the game show.
Rob Brydon (below) hosts the festive fun.
This yuletide special sees them trying to hoodwink their opponents with festive fibs or facts about themselves.
Whose family hold a festive sweepstake to decide what time they will fall asleep on Christmas Day? Did one of the ex-teacher panellists really play walk-on music to impress the pupils when they entered the classroom?
White Noise, Netflix
Based on the highly acclaimed novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, this adaptation was both written for the screen and directed by Noah Baumbach. It looks the business.
Promising a mixture of the hilarious and the horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, it’s about a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life
All the while they’re grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in a rather uncertain world.
The impressive cast includes Adam Driver as professor of Hitler studies Jack Gladney, Don Cheadle as his colleague Murray, Greta Gerwig as his wife Babette.
