Dickensian

BBC One

7pm

On Christmas Eve, Jacob Marley, money-lender and partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is visiting clients to collect their outstanding debts. His first stop is the Old Curiosity Shop, where old Grandfather is keeping vigil beside the desperately sick Little Nell.

Meanwhile gang-master and pimp Fagin has arranged for street girl Nancy to visit Marley for his evening’s entertainment.

Things take a nasty turn for the money-lender though, and as the clock chimes 9pm, Marley’s dead body is found lying in the snow.

Continues at 8.30pm.

 

Peter & Wendy

ITV

8pm

Oscar-nominated Stanley Tucci stars as the dastardly Captain Hook in this retelling of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan.

Twelve-year-old Lucy Rose is a patient in modern day Great Ormond Street Hospital awaiting treatment for a serious heart condition. The day before she goes into surgery, she reads Peter Pan to fellow children in the hospital, and continues to think of the story’s characters as she drifts off to sleep that night. The story moves back and forth between Lucy’s daily struggles and the fantasy land of Neverland.

 

Inside Lego at Christmas

Channel 4

8pm

More than half of all Lego sales happen in the final three months of the year, as families across the world snap up the plastic bricks in time for Christmas.

This documentary follows the success of The Secret World of Lego, going behind the scenes at the family-owned superbrand.

The programme also follows the Addis family, who have built a giant Lego sculpture in their living room every December for the past two decades.

 

And Then There Were None

BBC One

9pm

As stellar cast including Anna Maxwell Martin (Death Comes to Pemberley), Toby Stephens (Black Sails) and Aidan Turner (Poldark) stars in this adaptation of the best-seliing crime novel of all time from queen of mysteries, Agatha Christie.

As Europe teeters on the brink of the Second World War, ten strangers are coaxed down to the isolated Soldier Island off the Devon coast by Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen.

After it emerges that none of the guests have actually set eyes on the Owens since they arrived, they realise the true reason for their visit to the island: they are to be executed one by one.

As the island is cut off from the mainland by awful weather, they wonder where the killer might be hiding, and whether the murder is standing among them.