Film & Television
Family favourites, entertainment galore and festive frights
The season’s television schedule is jam-packed with classic films, Christmas specials and intriguing once-off programmes. Here are Ben Haugh’s picks of the best things to curl up to over the holidays
Today
His Dark Materials, BBC1, 7pm
The third and final series of the fantasy drama based on the trilogy of novels by Philip Pullman returns. This series is based on The Amber Spyglass, featuring parallel worlds and a war for heaven fought in the sky between angels and witches. Perfect for Christmas, then.
Litvinenko, Virgin Media More, 9pm
David Tennant stars in this drama based on the 2006 poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko. The ...
