KEY POINTS:
7.30PM, TV ONE
CORONATION STREET
Poor old Mike thinks he's finally going around the bend when he forgets his way to the restaurant and then how to get home. Also in this special
Christmas episode, Charlie convinces Tracy to let Steve, Ken and Deirdre see Amy on Christmas Day; Claire reveals some exciting news to Ashley and Fred; and - surprise, suprise - the Battersbys' Christmas doesn't go to plan.
8PM, TV3
THE OFFICE
If you haven't checked out the American Office then you should, because while it's not as jaw-droppingly tragic as the British version, it's worth a chuckle. Tonight, amid rumours of downsizing, Michael tries to raise employee morale with a birthday party. Thing is, the next birthday is a month away.
8.30PM, TV3
SVU: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
In this harrowing episode, guest starring Lou Diamond Phillips, a serial paedophile murders a family so he can kidnap the younger children.
9.30PM, PRIME
DEAD LIKE ME
Like a lot of teenagers, Georgia "George" Lass acts a bit like a walking corpse. She is a college dropout with no job skills who seems unable to take an interest in anything, including her own life.
She cultivates an air of cynicism that infuriates her mother, baffles her father, and isolates her younger sister. But her life is about to change - well, end actually.
When her mother pushes her into getting a job, George (Ellen Muth) starts temping as a file clerk. On her lunch break she is killed by a toilet seat from the Mir space station.
She doesn't realise she's dead until Rube (Mandy Patinkin), the kindly leader of a team of grim reapers, points out her remains.
Rube takes George under his wing and introduces her to the other members of his undead group: Mason (Callum Blue), Roxy (Jasmine Guy) and Betty (Rebecca Gayheart). The members of Rube's team of reapers are all, like George, people who died with unresolved issues.
They collect souls but also have mortal concerns, such as finding somewhere to live and feeding themselves. This darkly comic series not only follows George and her ghoulish cohorts, but also studies how her family deals with her death.
It's not exactly an upbeat show as almost all the main characters are dealing with depression or alienation but there are some dark laughs.
MOVIES
8.30PM, TV2
RUSH HOUR
Jackie Chan plays a Hong Kong detective who is sent to the United States as a diplomatic adviser to help a Los Angeles cop. (1998)
8.30PM, MGM SKY DIGITAL
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
The classic western, based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. The stars include Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson and James Coburn, with Eli Wallach as the villain Calvera. Suffering constant attacks by bandits, an impoverished Mexican village sends an envoy to the US to hire gun-slinging mercenaries. (1960)
10.20PM, SKY MOVIES 2
BOOGEYMAN
Filmed in New Zealand but set in the US, this low-budget horror is about a young man who returns to his home to face an entity he believes abducted his father. Lucy Lawless guest stars. (2005)
