Jools’ Annual Hootenanny
11.20pm, BBC2
Veteran entertainer and all-round groovy fella Jools Holland returns to provide his regular aural epilogue to the year. Guest performers joining him to usher 2016 politely out of the door include Chaka Khan, Seasick Steve and gender-fluid French hitmaker Christine and the Queens. John Cooper Clarke is on hand with a poetic postscript to the year, while the Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards appear to beckon 2017 on board. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
6.20pm, BBC1
Mischief Theatre’s superb play within a play receives a welcome transplant to TV. The conceit: a hapless community theatre group stages JM Barrie’s classic, only for things to go… well, you can probably guess. The gags – fluffed lines, broken props – come thick and fast, all meticulously crafted and very funny. Ludicrously good fourth wall-breaking fun, much unlike actual panto. Thesp luminary David Suchet puts in a game stint as narrator. Luke Holland
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
8pm, Channel 4
With most of Not Only But Also wiped back in the 1970s (“Good housekeeping,” sighs BFI rchivist Dick Fiddy, wistfully), here are some recovered Dagenham Dialogues and other sketches (including a camp skit with Barry Humphries) that haven’t seen the light of day for 50 years. Introduced by Rob Brydon and celebrated by the likes of Richard Ayoade, Ronnie Wood and the duo’s producer, Dick Clement, they’re a rare treat. Ali Catterall
Alan Carr’s New Year Specstacular 2016
9pm, Channel 4
Carr warms up the stay-at-home NYE crowd with two hours of chat with good-humoured celebrity guests. If the idea of party games with Danny Dyer and Sinitta isn’t enough to lure you in, Will Mellor, Gemma Collins, Greg Rutherford and Laura Whitmore are also in attendance. Keith Lemon will likely joust for centre stage, while Professor Green heads the musical guestlist. Guaranteed to be more entertaining than queuing to get into your local. Hannah Verdier
Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
9pm, BBC4
The title here refers to the amount of time Dawn French had spent on the planet before she attempted her first solo show in her mid-50s. It was worth the wait: French’s standup contains the sort of searing honesty and laugh-out-loud moments that come with no longer particularly giving a fig what people think. Expect riffs on life lessons and things French “knows to be true”. Recorded during its final West End run back in October. Jonathan Wright
CBeebies Bedtime Story
6.50pm, CBeebies
The nightly ritual for parents and pre-schoolers usually has a readily recognisable face doing their bit in the soft chair. However, on special occasions it goes properly A-list, as it does this evening for the award-winning You Must Bring A Hat by Simon Philip and Kate Hindley. Reading it aloud, flanked by his sleepy dog Woodstock, is none other than Tom Hardy. They return for more tales in the New Year. Jack Seale
André Rieu Double Bill
7.30pm, Sky Arts
Rieu’s populist take on the classics has lost none of its power to polarise so, depending on one’s views of the unabashedly mulletted violinist, this could be the New Year’s Eve of your dreams or a brutalisation you will confess anything to escape. Up first is a concert in Hanover, including a guest turn by Russell Watson, followed by a performance in Vienna, featuring selections by Strauss, Lehár and Stolz, among others. Andrew Mueller
Film choices
Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010) 6.35pm, Film4
Uniquely among the horde of Marvel/DC comic-book adaptations, Iron Man is more exciting when the superhero is in his civvies. The titanic battles between the metal-clad hero and his Russian foe (Mickey Rourke’s twisted giant Ivan Venko) are all very well, but Robert Downey Jr is inspired as the eccentric billionaire Tony Stark, who confounds the Pentagon top brass. He blasts the Iron Man movies towards the heights of the genre. Paul Howlett
The Eagle Has Landed (John Sturges, 1976) 3.20pm, BBC2
Adapted from a Jack Higgins novel, Sturges’s last film focuses on a German attempt to kidnap Churchill from a Norfolk village during the second world war. Robert Duvall’s Colonel Radl conceives the plan; Michael Caine’s Steiner leads it; and Irish nationalist Donald Sutherland helps out (his Oirish accent, and Caine’s cockney German, are incidental joys). PH
The Witches of Eastwick (George Miller, 1987) 11.40pm, W
Jack Nicholson is Daryl Van Horne, “a horny little devil” dreamed up by sultry trio Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer to banish their Eastwick ennui; but he proves rather too stimulating. A spellbinding, sexy comedy, retaining the latent threat of John Updike’s clever novel, though the overheated finale is disappointing. PH
Today’s best live sport
Scottish Premiership Football: Rangers v Celtic 11.30am, Sky Sports 5 An Old Firm derby from Ibrox (kick-off 12.15pm).
Premiership Rugby Union: Bath v Exeter Chiefs 2.30pm, BT Sport 2 Coverage of the 12th-round encounter (kick-off 3pm).
Premier League Football: Liverpool v Manchester City 5pm, BT Sport 1 The Reds host the Citizens at Anfield.
