From festive movies to culinary delights, there's something for everyone on telly tonight.
Spider-Man: Homecoming, BBC One, 2.10pm
Homecoming is the sixth Spider-Man adventure - Holland's spin on the Marvel icon following on from Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's - in 15 years, but this portrait of the Avenger as a freshman feels like it could be the first. The suit is a great fit - for nerds and newcomers alike.
Picking up after Peter Parker/Spider-Man's show-stealing cameo in Captain America: Civil War, Homecoming finds the 15-year-old watching the clock in high school and waiting for a call from the Avengers to swing back into action. In between lessons on linear acceleration and Niels Bohr, he's been told by Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) to build up his superhero smarts "friendly neighbourhood" style. But Peter's desire to impress his mouthy mentor is hard to keep in check, and it's not longer before he's in way over his mask.
Read our 4-star review here
The Little Mermaid, Channel 4, 4.50pm
The live-action remake of the 1989 (yes, that long ago) Disney classic The Little Mermaid is very loyal to the original and will delight and entrance both young and older viewers alike.
The film's hype is due in part to the huge impact the trailer made when released nine months ago, which revealed this version's Ariel as a person of colour.
The reveal sparked extreme reactions – both drawing racist commentary leading to the ugly #NotMyAriel hashtag, and on the opposite side, black families posting heartwarming videos online of their daughters watching the trailer, visibly surprised and thrilled at the reveal.
While Disney has featured two black princesses previously (one animated and one live-action in a made-for-TV film), this is certainly the first time most of today's youngsters will have seen representation like this in a mainstream Disney movie. Read our 4-star review here
How to Cook Well at Christmas with Rory O'Connell, RTÉ One, 8.30pm
Part one of two. Rory O'Connell cooks edible Christmas gifts. He visits Fortnum and Mason's famous food halls in London, which is famous for its chocolates, inspiring the chef to make his own burnt caramel and chocolate truffles.
He then visits Café Cecilia, Dublin chef Max Rocha's restaurant in East London. Max's Guinness bread and smoked mackerel with cucumber pickle prompt Rory to make a pickled cauliflower and red onion.
The Imitation Game, RTÉ2, 9pm
In 1939, as Germany menaced the continent of Europe, Britain moved its code-breaking operations to Bletchley, a country estate, where the principal aim was to crack Germany's Enigma code. This would almost certainly guarantee Nazi defeat, as their strategies and decisions would be revealed once the code was cracked.
A number of experts were selected to work in this covert operation, using captured German machines. To compound the difficulties, the code was reset by the Germans every day so the cryptographers only had 24 hours to decipher top-secret information. They have been doing so with little success to date, as the film gets into its stride.
This is the point of entry for the 27-year old mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch). Turing is hired by Navy Commander Denniston (Charles Dance) because he is a brilliant mathematician. However, he almost fails to secure the post due to his arrogant, tactless air at the job interview.
Read our 4-star review here
The Holiday, RTÉ One, 9.30pm
If there was a prize for rehashing the most widely-used clichés and working them all into one drawn-out cheese fest of predictability then The Holiday would be favourite to claim it.
Written and directed by Nancy Meyers, who delights in silly comedy (Previous credits include Father of the Bride and The Parent Trap), this film is the kind of mindless fare that usually clogs up the television schedules over the festive period - the sort of movie that you can easily dip in to and out of every 15 minutes while flicking channels and still remain completely tuned in to the unfolding storylines, if we could call them that.
In short, British social columnist Iris (Winslet) is in love with fellow-journalist Jasper (Sewell), who is just stringing her along as he waits to announce his engagement to someone else. Across the Atlantic in sunny Los Angeles movie trailer director Amanda (Diaz) has just discovered that her live-in boyfriend Ethan (Burns) has been having an affair with his secretary. Both girls are at their wits end, fed with the trials and tribulations of life and love and not looking forward to spending Christmas alone.
Read our review in full here
