WEDNESDAY

CHRISTMAS JOY (2018) PG 11.15AM, CH5

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★★

Joy Holbrook (Danielle Panabaker) is thrilled when she lands her dream promotion at work, but her high-flying career is put on hold when she flies back to her home town to care for her poorly aunt. Could she warm to the slower pace of life over the holidays?

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)

PG ● 4.30PM, FILM4 ★★★★

Doris Day makes for a memorable ‘Hitchcock blonde’ in the director’s remake of his own 1934 thriller. With her husband (James Stewart) and son, Day becomes embroiled in a complex assassination plot that begins in Morocco and ends in London’s Royal Albert Hall.

NOWHERE SPECIAL (2020) 12 ◆

8PM, SKY PREMIERE ★★★

PREMIERE Sweet little weepy starring James Norton as the devoted single father who, after finding out that he only has months left to live, sets about finding the perfect replacement family for his young son (Daniel Lamont, above, with Norton).

NAVY SEALS (1990) 15 ◆ 9PM, PARAMOUNT

★★★

Michael Biehn and Charlie Sheen (below) star in a patriotic military actioner in which the elite Seals are dispatched to let rip on terrorists in the Middle East. The cast also includes Bill Paxton and Dennis Haysbert.

TRUE ROMANCE (1993) 18 ▲

9PM, GREAT! MOVIES ★★★★

A seriously left-field romance following Clarence and Alabama (Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette), whose path to happiness is blocked by a long list of very bad people, Alabama’s pimp (Gary Oldman) among them.

GRAN TORINO (2008) 15

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11.45PM, ITV4 ★★★

Clint Eastwood plays a war veteran who is cranky and suspicious since his neighbourhood went to hell. A patriot, and racist, he eventually warms to a Hmong boy who lives next door, striving to keep him away from local gangs.