TV tonight: a favourite fairytale with a delicious twist



Keeping the wolves astatine bay … Luciana Akpobaro successful Red Riding Hood: After Ever After. Photograph: Gary Moyes/© King Bert Productions/Sky UKKeeping the wolves astatine bay … Luciana Akpobaro successful Red Riding Hood: After Ever After. Photograph: Gary Moyes/© King Bert Productions/Sky UK

Red Riding Hood goes off-piste successful amusive ain household fantasy. Plus: Alison Hammond heads to the Riviera to look however the different fractional of lives. Here’s what to observe this evening

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After

8pm, Sky Max

Little Red Riding Hood is each grown up and nevertheless bringing wrong the tourists to Wolferton on with her earthy wolf burgers. But erstwhile she sends her granddaughter, Red Riding Boots, retired astatine the hunt, a omniscient owl (voiced by utilizing Dawn French) tells her ma quality isn’t precise blessed astir each the wolves being killed – truthful Boots makes a determination to caput disconnected connected an escapade to store them. A amusing ain household fable with immoderate casual laughs. Hollie Richardson

Another delicate MR James mentation from Mark Gatiss, aided with the assistance of a precise crippled Jason Watkins. He is voluble nineteenth-century flâneur Mr Wraxhall, nosing crossed the documents of a noble Swedish ellipse of relatives. Despite a fewer weird vibes from his big (MyAnna Buring), helium volition go passionate astir unearthing the existent communicative successful the backmost of a cursed ain household tomb. Graeme Virtue

The magic of This Morning’s Alison Hammond is that she volition chat to a Hollywood movie superstar with the aforesaid lukewarm temperature, wit and simplicity arsenic she would with the postie. That puts her successful existent stead for this low-stakes nevertheless high-entertainment documentary, wherein she explores however the 1% lives successful the French Riviera. “My mum perpetually said successful nary mode to talk astir currency … but are you doing decently for your self?” she casually asks a boutique proprietor who sells luggage for £68,000. Later, she spits retired a mouthful of caviar and says she’d opt for a spot of food to nibble connected arsenic an alternative.HR

Full location … Anna Maxwell Martin arsenic Julia successful Motherland. Photograph: Natalie Seery/BBC/Merman

As ever, a blessed antidote to festive sentimentality: the Motherland pack are having a mostly (and recognisably) fraught Christmas. Julia has an awkward implicit residence of visitors on with Liz; Meg has acquired a contiguous from her hubby that has made her uncertainty the rules of her marriage; and Amanda is caught on with her ex. Satisfyingly bitter. Phil Harrison

Greg Davies’s Paul “Wicky” Wickstead returns arsenic this sharp, silly achromatic drama receives a Christmas special. As ever, Wicky is supremely unsentimental astir his enactment arsenic a transgression offense-scene cleanser: tonight, it’s Christmas Day nevertheless our leader finds himself going done the aftermath of carnage astatine an ice-cream parlour. Still, helium mightiness get a delectable peach melba retired of it …PH

Married comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont present a -component unsocial of the meta drama exploring what it's acold similar residing with Richardson, oregon astatine the slightest the drainingly fastidious antheral who bureaucracy his comedian personality. Jon wishes a quiescent vegan Christmas, nevertheless Lucy has antithetic thoughts: Johnny Vegas is coming, and helium oregon she whitethorn additionally adjacent person been nether the power of intoxicant capable to invitation Jason Donovan arsenic well. Jack Seale

Shaun the Sheep Photograph: undefined/2014 Aardman Animations Ltd and Studiocanal S.A.

Shaun the Sheep Movie (Richard Starzak and Mark Burton, 2015), nine.55am, BBC One
In the WGCU (Wallace & Gromit cinematic universe), Shaun the Sheep is the equivalent of Marvel’s Loki oregon Star Wars’ Rogue One, a large spin-off from a miles-loved franchise. For his archetypal massive-display surface time retired – and successful comparable manner to the Babe sequel – Shaun unearths himself wrong the Big City aft the husbandman goes missing. He’s joined by means of the relaxation of the flock and Bitzer the canine, and they request to airs arsenic radical portion searching for their proprietor. Aardman’s Heath Robinson method to crippled and layout is, arsenic ever, a satisfaction, and offers the movie a distinctively British feel. Simon Wardell

Premiership Rugby Union: London Irish v Saracens, 7.45pm, BT Sport 1 At Gtech Community Stadium, London.

This nonfiction turned into amended connected 23 December 2022. An earlier exemplary utilized an representation from A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon successful penchant to from Shaun the Sheep Movie.