Welcome to the first of many, many days eating turkey sandwiches. Today on telly, Squid Game, Outnumbered and The Great Pottery Throw Down all make a welcome return.
Squid Game
Netflix
Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae, The Acolyte) is back and ready to play. This time, he’s trying to take down the competition that he won in series one, not before he had to watch childhood friend Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo, Prison Playbook) sacrifice himself.
Will Gi-hun succeed in revealing what motivates the mysterious Front Man (Lee Byung-hun, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) to devise the games? And if he does, how many more people will die beforehand?
The Festive Pottery Throw Down
Channel 4, 9.00pm
Get ready to find an answer to one of life’s most pressing questions: are celebs any good at pottery? Tonight, Martin Kemp, Countdown’s Rachel Riley, Tom Rosenthal (Friday Night Dinner) and comedian Babatunde Aleshe will all be trying their hand.
The quartet will have two challenges: creating a Winter Wonderland and as many Christmas-themed wine coolers as they can. Let the games – and your dad offering unsolicited advice to the TV – begin.
Outnumbered Christmas Special
BBC One, 9.40pm
The Brockmans are back, with the kids looking even bigger and older than they did in the last festive special, which aired all the way back in 2016. Jake (Tyger Drew-Honey) is now a father himself, and realising how difficult it was for Sue (Claire Skinner) and Pete (Hugh Dennis) to be (barely) functional parents. Meanwhile, Pete has news of his own: prostate cancer, which he has to find a way to break to the kids.
Despite its darker moments, there’ll also be the usual light-hearted chaos.
“I’ve missed this,” smiles Karen (Ramona Marquez).
