What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Sunday

January 12, 2025
What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Sunday

Dancing on Ice returns with a new batch of skating celebs, there's more Dancing with the Stars, former Glenroe star Mary McEvoy is the focus of The Meaning of Life, while Arsenal face Manchester United in the FA Cup . . .

Pick of the Day

Dancing on Ice, 6.30pm, Virgin Media One

Streaming on Virgin Media Play

Holly Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern present the annual ice-dancing contest.

This time around, Anton Ferdinand, Charlie Brooks, Chelsee Healey, Chris Taylor, Dan Edgar, Ferne McCann, Josh Jones, Michaela Strachan, Mollie Pearce, Sam Aston and Steve Redgrave compete to become champion of the rink with the help of some of the world's leading skating professionals.

Oti Mabuse and Ashley Banjo are on the judging panel with skating superstars Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who will perform a new routine.

New or Returning Shows

Fleadh24 - Na Bannaí Céilí, 9.30pm, TG4

A look back at the All-Ireland Senior Céilí Bands competition last summer at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, including interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of the bands as they prepare for the big night in front of a full house at the Dome in Wexford.

It’s the second season of the Channel 4 drama following the staff and inmates at a men's prison, starring Nina Sosanya and former Derry Girl Jamie-Lee O’Donnell.

The officers at Long Marsh are determined to make a fresh start but rumours of an undercover police officer on C wing threaten their plan and weeding out the officer is anything but straightforward.

Don’t Miss

Jennifer Zamparelli and Doireann Garrihy (below) present as the couples take on the cha-cha, tango and waltz, before udges Karen Byrne, Loraine Barry, Brian Redmond and Arthur Gourounlian determine their scores.

Call the Midwife, 8.00pm, BBC One

Trixie cares for Arlean Brewer, a heavily pregnant unmarried woman recently discharged from the Linchmere Mental Hospital after being diagnosed with depression and mania.

When Arlene struggles with her new psychiatric drug regime, Trixie must draw on all her medical and emotional skills to avert disaster.

Rising rates of gonorrhoea in the district cause alarm, and Dr Turner decides to implement a contact-tracing scheme run by the Greater London Council. Rosalind and Cyril volunteer at a homeless shelter.

Dermot Bannon (above) and Claire Irwin head to Palmerstown in western Dublin to renovate the home of Katie and Jason Rehill, who need more space for their children and to stop the damp creeping up the walls.

Dermot wants to add a large extension from the kitchen down one side of the house, with a kids' room, a cosy space for Katie to relax in, four bedrooms and an office for Jason

She talks about living with fame, the influence of her parents on her as she grew up as an only child and how she developed a deep spiritual connection to Buddhism.

New to Stream

Twilight of Warriors: Walled In, Sky Cinema Premiere & NOW

Many years after the bloody turf war that ushered in an uneasy era of peace in Hong Kong's underworld, the notorious Kowloon Walled City serves as a fortified, lawless safe haven for gangs and refugees alike.

But when a skilled underground fighter runs afoul of the most feared Triad boss in Hong Kong, a bounty is placed on his head despite his connections to the leader of the infamous enclave.

As his pursuers violate the tenuous territorial truce to exact their vengeance, the fallout reignites old grudges, bringing decades of building tension to a brutal, bloody boiling point.

Sunday Cinema

Classic romantic drama, starring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal and Ray Milland. Guaranteed to leave you in tears.

Two students at Harvard University fall in love, but their romance is fated to be cut tragically short by the discovery that one of them has a terminal illness.

Sport

Match of the Day Live: The FA Cup, 2.35pm, BBC One

Gary Lineker (below) presents all the action from the third round tie at Emirates Stadium as Arsenal host Manchester United (KO 3pm).

These are the two most successful teams in the competition's long history, with the Gunners winning the trophy a record 14 times, and United moving to within one of that total when they won the competition last season.

Earlier, at 11.45am, there’s Live FA Cup Football on UTV with a classic David and Goliath tie as non-leagueTamworth face Premiership side Tottenham Hotspur (KO 12.30pm).

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