Premier League Football: Everton v Queens Park Rangers
7pm, Sky Sports 1
QPR exited the relegation zone for the first time since September last weekend, with a win over fellow strugglers Burnley. Their task now is to remain out of the bottom three. First up, a trip to Goodison Park, where an Everton side who have struggled to balance domestic and European duties await. Toffees midfielder Gareth Barry can receive the unwanted accolade of being the first player to receive 100 yellow cards in the Premier League era with a booking here. Gwilym Mumford
Wild Weather With
Richard Hammond
9pm, BBC1
This miniseries has made strong cases for different elemental forces, but this week temperature is pitched as the big one. It is variations in temperature, after all, that create thermals. And it’s thermals that create the dust storms that can deposit Saharan dust on your car bonnet in Bristol, 2,000 miles away. The big demonstrations are a bit yobbish, but on a smaller scale are pretty effective. John Robinson
Bette Midler: One Night Only
9pm, ITV
Since performing showtunes at a gay bathhouse in New York in the 70s – with Barry Manilow on keys, no less – Bette Midler has specialised in raw emotion. There are also frequent moments of pure kitsch, such as her her piano-ballad cover of TLC’s Waterfalls on new album It’s The Girls! It’s all earned her millions of fans globally, and she acknowledges her UK contingent with this TV special, where renditions of Wind Beneath My Wings et al are interspersed with chats with host Joanna Lumley. Expect PG-rated sauce. Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Gotham
9pm, Channel 5
When assassins descend upon Wayne Manor looking for witnesses to the Wayne murders, Sean Pertwee’s excessively cockney Alfred fends them off, while Selina and Bruce flee for the city. Were they sent by the dastardly Dick Lovecraft? With trust slowly building, Selina shows Bruce Gotham’s seedy underbelly, as Alfred and Bullock use strong-arm tactics and underworld connections to find them. Meanwhile, Falcone is looking to root out who was responsible for the armoury robbery, and suspects that he has a mole in his ranks. Ben Arnold
Russell Brand: End The Drugs War 9pm, BBC3
The issue of drugs has been something that Russell Brand has been notably vocal about, probably because of his own history of addiction. Here, he examines the UK’s drugs and substance abuse policy; when compared to other countries’ methods, is the status quo really the best option? He travels to Birmingham to see the dangers of street addiction first-hand, and meets Nick Clegg to discuss what the government can do and what it is actually willing to do. Bim Adewunmi
Bullseyes And Beer: When Darts Hit Britain – Timeshift
9pm, BBC4
In the 1970s and 1980s, stepping up to the oche went from being a gentle pub pastime to a national obsession. How did this occur? A Timeshift doc as impressive as a nine-dart finish outlines why television was key here – in particular the way the cameras allowed viewers to see every flicker of doubt and moment of triumph at close quarters. Contributors include Bobby George, John Lowe and aficionado Martin Amis. Followed by Arrows, a 1979 film profiling a then 22-year-old Eric Bristow. Jonathan Wright
The Office Xmas Party
9pm, ITV2
New doc series following three businesses as they plan their staff Christmas knees-ups. Tonight, the employees of a sex toy warehouse in Essex get ready to let their hair down and drink too much in order to put on the inappropriate display undoubtedly required by an ITV2 film crew. Well, imagine if you worked at a sex toy warehouse, what would you do to relieve the tedium of forklifting around big pallets of dildos? Future episodes feature a property company and the team that runs a mansion house. Julia Raeside
Steph And Dom Meet Nigel Farage
10pm, Channel 4
Pointless half-hour stunt filler featuring the posh ones from Gogglebox hosting (no one says why) the leader of Ukip for an evening. They tip booze down his neck – and at one point, his trousers: he doesn’t complain. They smoke, guffaw and talk in innuendo. Then the programme ends. They do briefly get down to asking him some intelligent questions sitting on a step in the garden, hammered on champagne. But it’s short-lived. A giant waste of everyone’s time. JNR
