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The Hunting Wives

9.30pm, ITV1

“Why don’t you boys go look at the guns and let us girlies drink in peace?” Margo Banks (Malin Akerman) is the sexy, mouthy, margarita-guzzling matriarch of the searching wives of Maple Brook, Texas. Sophie O’Neil (Brittany Snow) lets Margo take her underneath her wing, and it seems that Margo is aware of a factor or two about weapons herself – whereas Sophie isn’t as harmless as she appears. Add a homicide into the combination and that is trash TV at its perfect. Hollie Richardson

Lives Well Lived

7.40pm, BBC Two

This Kirsty Wark-hosted present sees quite a few massive names pay tribute to misplaced well-known folks, with Reese Witherspoon and Ralph Fiennes amongst these remembering Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and Diane Keaton. John Cusack and Sting focus on Brian Wilson. Alexi Duggins

Nordic Train at Christmas

8pm, Channel 4

The Bergen Line from Norway’s west coast to the capital in Oslo is among the many most scenic practice routes on the planet, and there’s no higher time of yr to trip it. This Hugh Bonneville-narrated documentary takes us alongside the tracks and behind the scenes, from Bergen’s fjords to Europe’s highest mountain plateau at Hardangervidda. Ellen E Jones

Diana: The Princess and the Bodyguard

8pm, Channel 5

Ken Wharfe, long-term safety officer and private confidant of Princess Diana, tells the story of his affiliation with William and Harry’s mom. Among the anecdotes are recollections of Diana’s interactions with Camilla, James Hewitt and the press, all of them witnessed shut up. Jack Seale

Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me

9pm, Channel 4

“I can’t remember what I’m doing the day after tomorrow but I can remember reams of Shakespeare.” Judi Dench might need a household connection to the Bard. In this enlightening hour, she recounts her personal relationship to his works and delves into the declare that her eight occasions great-grandfather might have met Shakespeare in 1606. HR

The Good Ship Murder Christmas Special

9.30pm, Channel 5

The third sequence of this outlandish cruise crime drama units sail. The ship docks in Alicante, the place passenger Donna later finds her mate Bernie lifeless in a neighborhood monastery. Where is onboard singer Jack (Shayne Ward) once you want him to unravel one other homicide? In a dive bar after being sacked – however can he be coaxed again? HR

Film alternative

The Phoenician Scheme, 9.35am, 6.15pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

You know what to anticipate from a Wes Anderson image by now: surreal plots, detailed units and deadpan performances from a preposterously starry forged. His newest has all these, however provides a giddy quest narrative involving dodgy tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) and his Catholic novice daughter Liesl (Mia Threapleton) on a fund-raising journey for his epic infrastructure mission. There are assassins, love tales, political brouhaha – and a helpful field of hand grenades. Ridiculous however entertaining. Simon Wardell

Elvis, 7.45pm, BBC One

An interesting double invoice might be long-established from Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, screening on the BBC subsequent week, and Baz Luhrmann’s flamboyant biopic of the beloved hip-swiveller. Austin Butler is suitably magnetic as Presley, although the movie is simply as concerned about his supervisor, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks, with a sort-of Dutch accent and a prosthetic hooter), who guides and manipulates his rock’n’roll money cow. Their Svengali-like relationship drives the movie, whereas Luhrmann, a grasp of the musical set-piece, provides Elvis’s performances an actual kick. SW

Live sport

Premier League Football: Nottingham Forest v Man City, 11am, TNT Sports 1 Followed by Chelsea v Aston Villa at 5pm on Sky Sports Main Event.

Darts: World Championship , 12.30pm, Sky Sports Darts Three third-round matches at Alexandra Palace in London.

Horse Racing: Kempton, 1pm, ITV1 Including the Desert Orchid Chase, plus the Welsh Grand National from Chepstow.

Prem Rugby Union: Gloucester v Saracens, 3pm, TNT Sports 1 Followed by Bath v Northampton at 5.15pm.

Test Cricket: Australia v England, 11pm, TNT Sports 1 Day three of the fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground.