International Hockey: England v Belgium
8.30am, Sky Sports 2
Live coverage from Bhubaneswar, India of England’s final pool A game in the Hockey Champions’ trophy. It will have been a match marked from the outset as a must-win; the other two teams in England’s group are the always-competitive Pakistan, and Australia, who have played in eight of the last 10 finals, and won six, including the last five on the bounce. Belgium are no pushovers though, having won silver at the European Championships last year. Andrew Mueller
The Flash
8pm, Sky1
The boyish charm of speedy protagonist Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) helps to differentiate The Flash from the deluge of superhero-themed offerings on our screens. Season one continues with a touch of the classic DC crossover: Barry is zapped of his powers by the electricity-hoarding Blackout (Michael Reventar), but can he regain them in time to stop the Clock King (Robert Knepper) of Arrow fame in his tracks? With hostages’ lives hanging in the balance, it’s down to Dr Wells (Tom Cavanagh) and co to jumpstart our hero. Hannah J Davies
The Missing
9pm, BBC1
For all its harrowing compulsiveness, many viewers will greet the eventual end of The Missing with relief – eight episodes feels almost cruelly protracted. Tonight it’s the penultimate in the series, which begins with the shocking abduction of another boy, this time French, shortly after that of Oliver. A key witness in the affair lays down a condition to Tony, Emily and Julien before agreeing to disclose vital evidence, while Tony is convinced he must come clean about past misdeeds. David Stubbs
My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas: Tinsel And Tiaras
9pm, Channel 4
The slightly problematic documentary series rears its head again for an early taste of what some might call offbeat Christmas cheer, and some might call exploitative poverty porn. There’ll be weddings involved, of course – the gaudiness of nuptials in the Traveller community being what this series is built around, with a Christmas-themed one featured here. Elsewhere, we’ll meet a budding entrepreneur who is planning a Traveller-exclusive festive party. Rachel Aroesti
Kids’ Hospital At Christmas
9pm, Channel 5
Even if you think you’re tough enough to withstand the thought of anxious parents pacing the floor while a brass band plays Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas inside the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, there’s only a small chance you’ll make it through this without crying. With patients desperate to go home for Christmas, doctors are doing their utmost to give them some respite from hospital life. Meanwhile, fingers are crossed as surgeons perform a risky transplant with a mum donating a kidney to her daughter. Hannah Verdier
Our War: Goodbye Afghanistan
9pm, BBC3
As the British army withdraws from Afghanistan, soldiers who were there look back. As ever with the Our War strand, their reminiscences are accompanied by battlefield footage of gun battles and IED blasts, which gives the stories the veterans tell a terrible immediacy. Nevertheless, it’s the words and sometimes haunted faces of the infantrymen that linger longest. In the rush of combat, we learn, “you kind of feel invincible”, while the sight of broken bodies is like a scene from “some bad Vietnam movie”. Jonathan Wright
The Secrets Of Quantum Physics
9pm, BBC4
Tracing a path from the 1800s to the jazz age and the hippy era, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores one of the most bizarre and contentious disciplines in science: quantum physics. In the first of a two-parter, our affable host attempts to explain its particulars (“Let me be quite clear about how weird this is”) via some vaudevillian analogies – including playing a hand of cards with the Devil – in order to try to make sense of something that frankly bears more relation to Lewis Carroll. Bewildering stuff. Ali Catterall
Brian Pern: A Life In Rock
10pm, BBC2
Follow-up to BBC4’s spoof rockumentary, starring Simon Day as Peter Gabriel. Sorry, as Brian Pern, the ex-frontman of progressive rock band Thotch. Brian has been persuaded by his manager (Michael Kitchen) that a bankable way forward for him and his former bandmates is a new “jukebox musical” of Thotch music, in the vein of We Will Rock You. Paul Whitehouse and Nigel Havers are great as Brian’s colleagues, but it’s surely Gabriel who comes out of this best, for not trying to sue. John Robinson
