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2025: The Year from Space
Channel 4, 7.30pm
Thousands of satellites orbit the planet, recording a ceaseless stream of images of all that’s visible from above. This eye-popping selection tells the story of 2025’s natural and man-made disasters, extreme weather and other exceptional events as seen by the eyes in our skies.

Tom Read Wilson’s Magnificent Journey
Channel 5, 8pm
The Celebs Go Dating host (and recent I’m a Celebrity… runner-up) gets a boost with his own travel series recreating the Grand Tour. He begins in Paris, sampling the sights before heading for the Alps. Hard on his heels, another diva on the move in Jane McDonald: From Pole to Pole (Channel 5, 9pm), with the singer voyaging from the South Pole north to the Arctic.

Christmas University Challenge
BBC Two/iPlayer, 8.30pm
Last year’s final was a nail-biter that saw Durham pip Queen’s College, Cambridge to the crown by just five points. Will this year’s be as evenly matched? Amol Rajan grills the veteran graduates.

I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not
Sky Documentaries/NOW, 9pm
Two-time Emmy-winning director Marina Zenovich (Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind) assembles an entertaining profile of the “complicated” 82-year-old US comedian and actor, tracking his career from breakout performances on Saturday Night Live to hit films such as Fletch. Dan Aykroyd, Goldie Hawn, Lorne Michaels and Martin Short are among the contributors, as well as Chase himself.

Amanda & Alan’s Greek Job
BBC One/iPlayer, 9.35pm
Having put in the hard(ish) yards in rural Italy and Spain previously, Amanda Holden and Alan Carr head to the more glamorous Greek isle of Corfu for their latest restoration project. The formula remains the same – shriek, wreck, repair, redecorate – although local conservation laws threaten to rein in the pair’s more extravagant ideas. GO

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