TV Picks: New Year's Day
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
BBC One, 6:45pm
It wouldn’t be Christmas without a Doctor Who special.
Torvill and Dean
Top TV picks: Christmas Day
Call the Midwife
BBC One, 7.45pm
The much-loved period drama Call the Midwife is back for another well-stuffed Christmas special.
Writer Heidi Thomas provides Christmas cheer, as the sisters at Nonnatus House look after four orphans and a new born baby, and are treated to a baby ballet show.
Torvill & Dean
ITV, 9.15pm
William Ivory’s biographical drama charts the winning careers of young and gifted ice skaters (and future Dancing on Ice judges) Jayne Torvill (Poppy Lee Friar) and Christopher Dean (Will Tudor).
ITV announces Torvill and Dean biopic
The film has been written by prominent writer of film, television and theatre William Ivory (Made in Dagenham, Burton and Taylor), and will be directed by Gillies MacKinnon (Hideous Kinky, Small Faces)
Dramatising the story of Jayne Torvill and Chris Dean’s partnership, it will feature a host of British acting talent.
The story follows the pair’s motivations for taking to the ice, as Torvill found confidence in her dancing, and Dean channelled his anger from his parents’ separation into skating.