Strike: The Ink Black Heart

Monday

BBC One, 9.00pm

Private detective Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) returns with another mystery to crack, alongside his assistant Robin (Holliday Grainger).

For the sixth series, they’re at the mercy of an online troll who goes by Anomie. When one of the creators of popular cartoon series The Ink Black Heart is discovered dead in Highgate Cemetery, Robin and Strike know Anomie’s antics have gone beyond the screen and into the real world. Up against an almighty web of internet connections, Robin and Strike might have finally met their match.

Beast Games

Thursday

Prime Video

Jimmy Donaldson, otherwise known as MrBeast, moves his viral YouTube formula to Prime Video to produce a record-smashing TV show. MrBeast built his name doing challenge videos such as “Last to Leave Circle Wins $500,000”, or “I Spent 50 Hours Buried Alive”, which are exactly what they sound like, and have garnered hundreds of millions of views.

Challenges in Beast Games range from being chased by navy seals, jumping out of helicopters, to simple sack races. MrBeast has revealed the 1000 contestant series will break 40 world records, one of them being the $5,000,000 prize fund, which is the largest amount ever offered on a competition series.

The Great Celebrity Sewing Bee

Thursday

BBC One, 9.00pm

Sara Pascoe returns as host for this very festive edition of sewing bee, welcoming Eastender Kellie Bright, comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri, icon Charlotte Crosby, and H from Steps into the workroom.

As this is no ordinary episode, the four celebs will be tasked with following a pattern for an advent calendar and recycling old onesies into Christmas costumes.

Bad Tidings

Sunday

Sky, 7.30pm

Stand-up comics Lee Mack and Chris McCausland star opposite each other as two waring neighbours, Neil and Scott. Scott winds up Neil no end: he keeps his Christmas lights permanently on, swaps their bins, and he’s blind – so all the other neighbours take his side.

When Neil’s attempts at one-upmanship blows the power for the entire street, Neil and Scott are forced to hold down the fort for Christmas as everyone else makes alternate arrangements. Cue a burgling crime family who notice an entire defenceless street they can ‘reverse Santa.’ Written by McCausland and Ghosts’ Laurence Rickard and Martha Howe-Douglas, it’s sure to bring the Christmas spirit, and plenty of laughs, for the whole family.