Satellite choice
ON-DEMAND MOVIE
Finding Dory, BT TV/ Sky Store/Virgin Movies
IN THIS sweet sequel from Pixar, clownfish Nemo’s forgetful surrogate mum goes missing while looking for her parents — and he and his dad must find her.
FOOTBALL Manchester United v West Ham United, 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
JOSE MOURINHO’S frustrations boiled over last weekend as United could only manage a 1-1 draw against the Hammers in the Premier League. He’ll expect his stars to be more clinical in front of goal in tonight’s League Cup fifth-round encounter.
YOUTH MOVEMENT Ian Hislop’s Scouting For Boys, 8pm, BBC4
‘IN THE 20th century, only the Bible, the Koran and The Thoughts Of Chairman Mao sold more copies than Scouting For Boys,’ explains Ian Hislop at the start of his warm and witty documentary about Lord Baden-Powell and his Scouting movement.
TELLY TALK We Have Been Watching Xmas Special, 8pm, Christmas Gold
IN WHAT is essentially a festive celebrity Gogglebox, comic actors — including Sally Phillips and Sarah Hadland (pictured) — settle down to watch and chat over Christmas classics. As with Gogglebox, this is much more fun than it sounds.
U.S. SITCOM M The Big Bang Theory, 8.30pm, E4
AMY and Sheldon (Mayim m Bialik and Jim Parsons, pictured) are living together, but it’s only temporary — at least, that’s what t Sheldon thinks. Amy, however, is determineddt i d to extend their cohabitation experiment and, in a sweet and funny new episode, isn’t above lying to make sure that happens.
EXTREME BELIEVERS
Brainwashing Stacey: Anti-Abortion Camp, BBC3
(via iPlayer) STACEY DOOLEY joins children being trained to take part in antiabortion protests in the U.S. for the first of a new two-part film. Will this total immersion change her point of view?
ANSWER MASTERS How Quizzing Got Cool: TV’s Brains Of Britain, 9pm, BBC4
VICTORIA COREN MITCHELL and Chris Tarrant are among the hosts contributing to this light-hearted new film about a rising tide of professionalism among TV quiz contestants. It also features Judith Keppel, the first £1 million winner on Tarrant’s Who Wants
ToT Be A Millionaire.
LEGAL EAGLE Conviction, 9pm, Sky Living
DESPITE sleeping in her office and wearing pyjamas to meetings, left-field lawyer Hayes (Hayley Atwell) still manages to look and work better than anyone else on her team. She’s less at ease in her personal life, though, and is grovelling to her family and boss to make up for last week’s all too honest TV interview.
FREEVIEW FILM Starter For 10, 10pm, BBC4
EASY-GOING comedy starring James McAvoy as a poor student heading off to Bristol Uni in the Eighties. There, he falls head over heels for rich girl Alice Eve, gets a seat on a University Challenge team — and promptly mucks it all up . . .
WILDERNESS DRAMA Couple In A Hole, 11.25pm, Sky Premiere
STRANGE but intriguing drama about a traumatised Scottish couple (Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins) who go back to nature — to literally live in a hole in a French forest.