The Sweet Makers at Christmas
9pm, BBC Two
A festive edition of the series in which confectioners recreate period treats while dressed in appropriate garb. The Victorians invented Christmas as we know it by curating existing traditions and placing children – and sweets, the manufacture of which had recently improved – at the heart of the party. The team start slowly with sugar mice, before experimenting with fruit-shaped chocolate and an incredible show-stopper: a boar’s-head cake. Jack Seale
Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast
8pm, Channel 4
With the weekend here, it’s time to push the culinary boat out from Jamie and Jimmy’s pierside cafe. Sarah Millican joins the cafe staff, and despite the time-pressed comic being more attuned to foods of the stab-and-microwave variety, she tries her hand at Tuscan sausage penne. Jimmy uses his crafting skills to re-engineer the ice-cream dispenser, while Jamie follows the fight to challenge the public’s perception of veal. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Brunel: The Man Who Built Britain
8pm, Channel 5
Conclusion of Rob Bell’s two-part survey of the incomparable engineer. This episode mainly concentrates on the triumphs and follies of Brunel’s final years – the SS Great Britain and SS Great Eastern, both envisaged as ships capable of non-stop voyages around half the world, both of which suffered budget blowouts as colossal as their dimensions. Brunel’s death at just 53 remains one of the most heartbreaking what-ifs in British history. Andrew Mueller
Roy Orbison: Love Hurts
9.30pm, BBC Four
It’s a measure of how ingrained the saturnine image of the Big O is that home-movie footage of him lustily bellowing Monty Python’s Philosophers Song comes as quite the jaw-dropper. Here, his children touchingly recall their sweet-natured dad, as opposed to the icon – who was self-deprecating to a fault. As his wife Barbara says: “People would ask him how he’d like to be remembered. He’d say: ‘I’d just like to be remembered.’” Ali Catterall
The Graham Norton Show
10.35pm, BBC One
Given the most we’ve seen of Luke Skywalker in recent times was a quick flash of his still-cherubic face at the very end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, space geeks will be happy to hear that Mark Hamill is among Norton’s guests this week in a studio far, far away, plugging new Wars flick The Last Jedi. He’ll be occupying sofa space with co-stars Daisy Ridley and John Boyega. Sam Smith supplies sincero-balladry with new single Pray. Sophie Harris
The Brokenwood Mysteries
8pm, Drama
No need for trauma counselling for the detectives as they chance on yet another murder in the small New Zealand community of Brokenwood. In this, the last in the series, it’s a floating corpse with a knife in the back. Turns out he was a conman. Sniffer dogs lead the investigators to an old people’s home, many of whose residents are suffering from advanced dementia. Could any of them have had anything to do with the slaying? David Stubbs
Your Worst Nightmare
11pm, ID
Investigation Discovery are not afraid to dwell in the world of crime, their grimly flowering roster of franchises now nearly as various as crime itself. Your Worst Nightmare – now beginning its fourth season – feels a little lacking in taste, the show mirroring the production values of a low-rent horror flick. Tonight’s case is as nasty as it is suburban: the murder of 19-year-old cheerleader Jodi Sanderholm in Ark City, Arkansas, after a period of stalking. John Robinson
TV films
Before I Go to Sleep (Rowan Joffé, 2014) 9pm, More4
Rowan Joffé’s daft and very entertaining thriller, based on SJ Watson’s bestseller, stars Nicole Kidman as the ever-perplexed Christine, who wakes every morning not knowing who she is, nor who the bloke sleeping next to her is. In fact, he’s her solicitous husband Ben (Colin Firth), who explains she is suffering amnesia after an accident. Well, OK, but then Mark Strong’s mysterious Doctor Nasch phones with all sorts of twisty plot developments. It’s no Memento, but Kidman is terrific. Paul Howlett
Live sport
Championship Football: Sheffield Wednesday v Wolverhampton Wanderers 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event The league leaders visit Hillsborough.
Darts: World Championship 9.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event The second day from Alexandra Palace in London.
Ashes Cricket: Australia v England 2am, BT Sport 1 The third day of the third Test match from Perth.
