Today's TV Picks! - St Stephen’s Day

Specials

Little Women (BBC 1, 8pm)
Christmas, 1861. The March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - prepare for a Christmas without presents or their father, a Union army chaplain who is away at war. Learning to appreciate the smaller things in life, the sisters strike up a friendship with their charming new neighbour Laurie, and his tutor John Brooke.

Reindeer Family & Me (BBC 2, 8pm)
This Christmas wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan is travelling to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to meet the ancient Sami people and the animals they hold so close - reindeer. Known as the Reindeer People, the Sami were traditionally nomadic, relying on their precious animals to help them survive the Arctic’s harsh winters.

Dragon’s Den (BBC 2, 9pm)
In this Christmas episode a serial entrepreneur pitches his online greeting card business, but the Dragons are thinking more commerce than Christmas as they express concerns over the future of physical cards. Also entering the Den is one of Santa’s little helpers delivering personalised letters - but without the promise of meeting the main man will the Dragons keep the Christmas spirit alive and do a deal?

The Miniaturist (BBC 1, 9pm)
1686. Eighteen year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. Full of hopes and dreams, she has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of wealthy merchant, Johannes Brandt. But instead of Johannes she’s met by his cold sister Marin - and quickly realises that nothing is as it seems in the Brandt household

The Nathan Carter Christmas Special (RTE 1, 9.20pm)
Celebrate Christmas with Nathan Carter who is joined by a host of special guests for a night of festive music, dance and plenty of laughs. As well as performing duets with Spice Girl Mel C and American singer Curtis Stigers, Nathan is joined by Una Healy, the children from St Patrick’s Junior Choir, talented Canadian siblings The Fitzgeralds, and his younger brother Jake Carter.

Movies

Back to the Future (CH4, 6pm)
Michael J Fox is Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student who is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean sports car invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Jurassic World  (ITV, 6.40pm)
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (RTE 2, 9.30pm)
A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

Four Weddings & A Funeral (CH4, 11.10pm)
Hugh Grant, Andie McDowell, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Simon Callow and Rowan Atkinson star in director Mike Newell's multi-Bafta-award-winning comedy, which remains one of the most commercially successful  films of all time. Two friends wake up late on the day of a wedding, and then goes on to track the lives of eight friends as they attend three further nuptials and cope with a bereavement.