The Night Manager
9.05pm, BBC One
It’s been nearly a decade since one of the BBC’s biggest dramas – and #Hiddlebum. After teaming up with Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) to take down arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), soldier turned hotel manager turned MI6 recruit Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) is finally back. He’s living a simple life as “Alex Goodwin” and running a low-key surveillance unit in London, when his world explodes after spotting a man connected to Roper. As trouble quickly ramps up, the murder of a friend sets Pine on a mission that leads to a violent new player, the Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). Hold tight for the ultimate new year fireworks. Hollie Richardson
Wild London
6.30pm, BBC One
He may have met the most magnificent animals across the globe, but David Attenborough still gets a huge thrill from spotting foxes in a Tottenham allotment. Even the pigeons hobbling around Hammersmith station brighten up his day. In this documentary, the conservationist celebrates the capital’s critters. HR
The Great New Year Bake Off
6.40pm, Channel 4
Here’s a first for Bake Off: baker besties from past series will team up in pairs to compete for the new year’s cake stand. Val and Selasi, and Giuseppe and Rahul, are a few of the familiar faces working together on a showstopper that creates their favourite Christmas film in biscuit form. HR
The Traitors
8pm, BBC One
Now in its fourth series, and with the smash-hit celebrity edition still on our minds, there was a chance The Traitors would have paused for a bit of a breather. But who are we kidding? Claudia Winkleman’s treacherous competition is still all we’re going to be talking about during January – so cosy up and get ready to meet the new contestants. HR
Red Eye
9pm, ITV1
She racked up the air miles in series one but DS Hana Li (Jing Lusi) is very much on terra firma as ITV’s twisty thriller returns. A crisis at the US embassy in London – where Li has beef with the security chief (Martin Compston) – means jurisdictional headaches as she tries to collar a killer and avert an aviation terror threat. Graeme Virtue
Shedites
10.35pm, BBC One
A new comedy drawing on the talents of the cast of Mrs Brown’s Boys. Brendan O’Carroll, Danny O’Carroll and this show’s writer, Paddy Houlihan, play men who gather in a shed in a village in Ireland to while away their time and perhaps do something useful. Can they win a charity race using a bike they built from spare parts? Phil Harrison
Film choice
28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, 2025), 6.30am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s zombie-like horror saga returns – 18 years later – with the first in a trilogy set in a Britain quarantined from the rest of Europe. Rather than being all running and dying (though there is a fair bit of that), this one follows humanity as it tries to protect the remnants of civilisation in the aftermath of the raging infection. Spike (Alfie Williams) lives with his mum, Isla (Jodie Comer), and dad, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), on the fortified isle of Lindisfarne. But forays to the mainland lead all three into danger. And what is Ralph Fiennes’ mysterious doctor up to in the woods? A thrilling, visceral revisit to a dystopia where, despite everything, glimmers of hope remain. Simon Wardell
