Premier League Football: Leicester City v Liverpool
7pm, BT Sports 1
While Suárez’s exit was always likely to hinder Liverpool’s title chances, no one expected this: six defeats in 12 matches and a side that last season were the most dynamic in the league suddenly looking short of purpose. Improvement is needed if the club want to maintain Champions League football. Winning here against a Leicester side that have seen the points largely dry up since their remarkable 5-3 win over Manchester United looks nigh on essential. Gwilym Mumford
Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners
8pm, Channel 4
The season of goodwill is also one of anxiety and meticulous scheduling for compulsive cleaners. Lynsey sets aside a whole weekend to prepare for Christmas, and that includes bleaching her baubles in boiling water. Mark can’t bear tinsel, and spaces his tree decorations exactly one handspan apart. Amanda – who gives her children weekly Dettol baths – steam-cleans her synthetic tree. Elsewhere, former participants revisit the homes of people they helped in previous episodes; not everyone’s doing well. Bim Adewunmi
The Missing
9pm, BBC1
The pre-titles sequence here is very much a cause for a collective “oh dear” as the consequences of Tony’s actions sink in. It’s episode six of this eight-part agony-fest and things get worse and worse. If James Nesbitt has to express any more anguish, his eyebrows will be on his cheeks. Emily’s drab 2006 bob reflects her inner collapse as the couple head for Calais and, ultimately, home. And, back in the present day, there is at least some brief relief from all the howling. When is it Christmas again? Julia Raeside
Secrets Of The Castle With Ruth, Tom And Peter
9pm, BBC2
Enthusiasm for ochre, extreme lime-washing and a whole load of silly headgear: it’s time for Ruth, Tom and Peter to start decorating their castle. It may look like an ambitious episode of Grand Designs but there are historical facts to be learned along the way. Peter sorts out the privy and reveals that it was formerly known as the “garderobe” as it was such a good place to keep clothes. Tom lovingly paints it, and Ruth cooks up some burnt sienna for the walls. Hannah Verdier
17 Kids And Counting
9pm, Channel 4
Here’s another chance to eavesdrop on the lives of the Radfords – Noel, Sue and their huge brood – as we follow the family over the course of a year. The couple’s oldest children are now finding their way in the big wide world, with 19-year-old Sophie, who has already moved out, preparing to make Noel and Sue grandparents for the second time, and Chloe heading off to university, where she will study child development. Meantime, the couple get set for another new arrival. Sadly, tragedy lies ahead. Jonathan Wright
Psychobitches
9pm, Sky Arts 1
You can’t knock the spirit of this comedy, in which Rebecca Front’s furrow-browed therapist attends to history and fiction’s most eccentric women. But despite the gusto of the performances, the gags the sessions are built on don’t always live up to them. Tonight sees Bonnie Parker scheduling sessions around her crime sprees and a Lucille Ball convinced her real life is being televised. It seems to work better when the joke is madder and more incongruous, the last series’ Pam Ayres/Sylvia Plath hybrid being the best example. Rachel Aroesti
Life Is Toff
10pm, BBC3
Last in the tongue-in-cheek documentary series about the Fulford children: posh youngsters set to inherit their parents’ vast Devon estate. Arthur is giving sister Matilda a driving lesson on the front lawn while Humphrey gets fit for army officer training and Edmund helps out with the guided tours. They’re all soon to fly the nest. “I’ll miss the little bastards,” admits Daddy Fulford. “I might have to get another dog,” he snorts, another handful of capillaries bursting in each already florid cheek. Goodbye, Fulfords. JNR
Imagine – Colm Tóibín: His Mother’s Son
10.35pm, BBC1
Alan Yentob meets the Irish novelist on the publication of what may be his most personal work to date: Nora Webster, a novel inspired in large part by his own childhood. The film depicts an intriguingly divided character: a big-hearted bon viveur who applies rigorous discipline to the creation of thoughtful meditations on heartbreak and loneliness. Fiona Shaw, Anne Enright and Nick Hornby help illuminate what Tóibín describes as “the business of dragging things up from yourself”. Andrew Mueller
