24 Hours in A&E
9pm, Channel 4
Time flies when you are wading through gore, heartache and life-affirming tales from inside the casualty department, and so this medical obs-doc reaches the end of its latest series, and its 200th episode overall. This week’s instalment highlights the elements that makes it so watchable, bookending medical traumas (a potentially broken pelvis and a possible brain injury) with human stories, such as that of the reliable receptionist Julie, who tries to relieve patients’ anxieties despite some recent upsetting personal challenges of her own. Hannah J Davies
Danger Mouse: Melted
6pm, CBBC
Danger Mouse must face the music when Pink Dawn (Morwenna Banks) is inspired by the new ice-themed musical Melted to melt the caps and flood the world. This is doubly irksome for our hero, as he hates musicals (“Implausible, silly nonsense”). Might it also be because he once humiliated himself at a singing contest? Ali Catterall
Mary Berry’s Christmas Party
8.30pm, BBC One
Newsreader Huw Edwards, sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson and comic Joe Lycett join Mary to prepare dishes for a festive feast, from beef with brandy sauce to a limoncello trifle. Great TV, although we do have to endure Lycett’s claim that what he likes on Christmas Day is six Weetabix in a bowl of cream. Mike Bradley
Long Lost Family Christmas Reunion
9pm, ITV
Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell invite 120 people reunited by this series to come together to celebrate Christmas. Real emotions are on display as some guests meet family members for the first time and one reminds us: “In life, it’s not important what you have. It’s who you have.” MB
Judy, Frank & Dean: Once in a Lifetime
9pm, Sky Arts
Just hearing an ill-fated but defiant Judy Garland belting out When You’re Smiling is worth the entrance fee to this 1962 TV special, in which she is joined by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. They led troubled lives but all maintain an immaculate showbiz facade undimmed by time’s passing. David Stubbs
People Just Do Nothing
10pm, BBC Two
The flawless comedy says goodbye without excessive fanfare, although a farewell tour of Brentford landmarks brings out how deeply Beats loves his awful mentor, Grindah. Meanwhile, Asim Choudry shows why he is the breakout star of the series as Chabuddy G slides incompetently into the tech-repair business. Jack Seale
Film choice
Hitchcock (Sacha Gervasi, 2012), 1.20am, Film4
Sacha Gervasi’s portrait of the complex and creepy but, lest we forget, great director covers the stress that went into the making of Psycho. Anthony Hopkins is a Hitchcock beset by self-doubt, while Helen Mirren, as his loyal wife, Alma, never falters – despite his obsession with Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johannson). Paul Howlett
Live sport
World Cup alpine skiing 5pm, Eurosport 1. From Alta Badia in Italy, featuring the men’s parallel giant slalom.
Championship football: Derby County v Nottingham Forest 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event. Local rivals face off in the race for promotion.
American football: Carolina Panthers v New Orleans Saints 1am, Sky Sports Main Event. NFL action.
