There are great pals, adventures in space and time, and nail-biters on offer...
The Hairy Bikers: You'll Never Ride Alone
9:00pm, BBC Two
In this documentary, Si King celebrates the life of his best friend and fellow Hairy Biker Dave Myers who died in February at the age of 66 after a battle with cancer. Over 45,000 bikes joined King on a memorial journey from London to Myers's hometown of Barrow-in-Furness in June - and now you can be the pillion passenger. En route, King picks out key moments from 25 years of one of TV's best duos, and there's also previously unseen footage. "It was a very special show to pull together," he says. "Full of nostalgia, laughs, and celebration of my best friend and his life". A lovely job, guaranteed.
EastEnders
7:30pm, RTÉ One, BBC One
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— BBC EastEnders (@bbceastenders) December 11, 2024
We're counting down to the carnage of the Christmas Day special, described by the BBC as a "wrecking ball" of an episode. Tonight, things get complicated for Cindy (Michelle Collins) when a recording detailing her affair with Junior falls into the wrong hands... As for what's ahead on 25 December, star Collins says: "It's always a classic [episode] and it was a classic last Christmas, so it's great to be involved in this one. I think the episode this year is a real EastEnders classic, so I'm really excited to be a part of it." Only two sleeps to go...
Doctor Who: The War Games
9:00pm, BBC Four
Christmas came a bit early for Doctor Who fans this year. In November, they were told that they would soon be able to watch the second Time Lord's "never-before-seen" regeneration into the Third Doctor as a classic 1969 story received the colour treatment and became a feature-length adventure. "The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land in a battlefield that appears to be a World War I military zone - but all is not as it seems," said the Beeb. Now, sit back and watch the passing of that intergalactic baton from Troughton to fellow actor Jon Pertwee. You'll be doing some time travel in your own head too...
The Mothman Prophecies
RTÉ Player
If it's chills before the bed you're after, then stream this 2002 movie. Based on real-life tragic events in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1960s, which became the subject of John Keel's book of the same name, The Mothman Prophecies mixes fact and fiction to create a superior supernatural thriller that takes an eerie, almost hypnotic look at the big questions hovering around people's lives. Richard Gere plays a reporter who finds himself becoming the story as he tries to unravel a mystery, helped in his quest by a local cop (Laura Linney). Director Mark Pellington also made the Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins-starring conspiracy thriller Arlington Road - another one worth tracking down.
Boiling Point
4OD
An edge-of-the-seat film - set in a restaurant. Boiling Point has more tension than most thrillers, and you'll be doing well to find a more immersive movie experience this side of 1 January. Filmed entirely in one take, director Philip Barantini and co-writer James Cummings' searing study of the workplace and its diverse personalities sees Stephen Graham leading a superb cast as close-to-breakdown chef Andy Jones. Watching the dominoes fall in real-time here is a reminder for the year ahead that as bad as things get, they can always be worse. You'll see yourself in these characters - and their reactions - as the lid comes off everything that they've piled into the pot. There's also a spin-off BBC series available on the RTÉ Player - another sit-down you can't afford to miss.
