The Royal Variety Performance 2024
Channel: M-Net (DStv 101)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Variety
Amanda Holden is teaming up with her TV hubby Alan Carr to host The Royal Variety Performance as it returns to the Royal Albert Hall in London for a spectacular evening, in the presence of King Charles.
The show will feature an award-winning performance from singer Sydnie Christmas, the winner of this year's Britain's Got Talent, who will be accompanied by Dave Arch and The Royal Variety orchestra and there'll be plenty more stellar performances from the worlds of music, theatre, comedy and variety.
Elton John and David Furnish will introduce an eye-catching number from their brand new musical The Devil Wears Prada with star Vanessa Williams and cast.
There will be an exclusive medley from Cameron Mackintosh's production of the musical Oliver! and a jaw-dropping performance from the company of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit musical Starlight Express.
With more music and making their Royal Variety debuts, this year's Eurovision winner Nemo, treble Brit Award winner James Bay and disco Queen Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who will be performing her latest hit and the classic Murder on The Dance Floor, will all be taking to the stage.
On the eve of their 50th anniversary, America's world class magicians and comedy duo Penn and Teller will be flying in especially for the show, plus, presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern will be wowing the Royals with an incredible illusion.
As they celebrate their 40th anniversary, Cirque Du Soleil will be performing a world exclusive from their Vegas show Ovo, and the English National Ballet will perform Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from their Christmas production of The Nutcracker.
Standup comedy this year will be provided by Ellie Taylor of Ted Lasso fame, political comic Matt Forde who will give a review of the year, plus writer and comic Scott Bennett and award-winning Scottish comedian Larry Dean.
Set to make a very special appearance on this year's show is Lorraine Kelly with her Change and Check Choir led by singing star Marti Pellow.
They will perform Love Is All Around, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
The team behind The Play That Goes Wrong will be debuting a sneak preview and the first public performance of their new show The Comedy About Spies, which comes to the West End next year.
Plus, American actress and singer Marisha Wallace will perform a show-stopping number and also lead this year's National Anthem, accompanied by the Fanfare Trumpeters of the Band of the Welsh Guards.
Gé Sing: Hoor my Lied
Channel: kykNET (DStv 144)
TX Time: 20h00
Genre: Documentary, Music, Special, Afrikaans
Gé Korsten was one of the early success stories in Afrikaans music.
Over his career of more than 40 years, he recorded 58 albums and received numerous awards and honours.
In the documentary Gé sing: Hoor my Lied, get an overview of his work and insights into him as an artist, person and father.
His musical legacy is reinterpreted in fresh ways by four artists: André Schwartz, Arina de Witt, Louis Loock and Stephanie Baartman.
A full orchestra, led by Chanie Jonker, accompanies the singers.
Nigella's Amsterdam Christmas
Channel: S3
TX Time: 18h00
Genre: Food, Special
Nigella returns for a very special Christmas treat when she travels to Amsterdam to enjoy the festive season in the Venice of the North.
With family ties to Amsterdam that go back generations, Nigella has fond memories of lights reflecting in the canals, the sights of people huddled against the cold drinking Claret Cup, the smells of spice-sweet and fruited breads and the crunch of icing-laced cookies.
Nigella takes you on visits to her favourite places in the Dutch capital city – along with trips to a sweet shop with a liquorice niche, a Dutch cheese shop with a fabulous selection of cheeses, and a chip shop with queues that stretch around the block.
Nigella picks up special ingredients for her festive feasting back home, taking inspiration from both Dutch cuisine and the Indonesian influence on the city.
She makes a sumptuous chicken biryani and traditional Dutch speculaas along with other recipes that will make for a perfect Xmas feast.
And throughout, finding moments of calm and reflection among the lights, rounding up with a happy hubbub to bring the Christmas spirit home.
Silent Witness 18
Channel: S3
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Police Procedural
Nineteen years after its debut, pathology and forensics drama Silent Witness returns for five thrilling two-part stories.
The new season boasts a vivid diversity of episodes which are nevertheless united in holding up a microscope to contemporary London.
Collectively these stories shine a light on the city's dizzying extremities - the rich and the poor, the powerful and the disenfranchised, the Golden Mile and the crumbling sink estates, the jaded workers mired in underfunded bureaucracies and the disillusioned young falling through the cracks.
In Sniper's Nest, London is under siege from a gunman who picks off its citizens at random, cutting them down in the midst of their complicated and very different lives.
Falling Angels tells the darkly moving story of two people on the fringes - a homeless man and a hotel receptionist - who are drawn together after they witness a man being hit by a tube train.
In Protection, a young girl vanishes without trace, much to the anguish of her overworked social worker who had tried and failed to have her taken into care.
By contrast, Squaring the Circle pitches us into classic thriller territory as the team investigate a bloody shootout at a City hotel that leaves the nanny of a Russian oligarch dead.
In One of our Own, the murder of a rising police star triggers an intense and harrowing journey into police loyalty and familial betrayal while the team face down a brutal gang of drug traffickers.
Starring Emilia Fox, David Caves, Richard Lintern and Liz Carr, the team have now meshed into a compelling, dynamic, but all-too-human unit.
Together these very different characters pool their formidable resources in pursuit of truth and justice... even if they don't always agree on what those terms constitute.
In the Season 18 premiere, "Sniper's Nest, Part 1": DCI Jane De Freitas's personal fallout with boss and partner chief superintendent Robert Drake is the least of her worries when three people are shot dead in a petrol station.
Nikki and Jack conclude that it is the work of a concealed shooter from long range.
A sniper is at large in London.
They combine ballistics and wound pathology, along with DCI De Freitas's expertise in victim and killer profiling, to narrow down the suspects.
De Freitas contains her undercurrent of animosity towards Drake, as the team work to find the killer apparently striking at random.
TVSA Show Page: Silent Witness 18
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