Monday, December 23, 2024

TV tonight: Niki Glaser’s hilarious standup about ageing, not having kids and death

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Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die

10.15pm, Sky Comedy
“I don’t think I can devote my free time to something that could marry a DJ – I think that’s reckless.” That’s the sharply hilarious US standup comedian Nikki Glaser talking about not wanting kids in her second televised standup special. She also delves into giving in to ageing with a haircut above the earlobe and chunky jewellery, and plans for her death (which she thinks about a lot). Hollie Richardson

Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge

7pm, Sky News
Anyone heard anything about the election result? Sophy Ridge has been pulling a long shift from Westminster and now presents an extended version of her show. If you have room for three more hours of news, reaction and analysis from one of the best politics presenters around, she’s mopping up the overspill of yesterday’s vote. Hannah Verdier

Celebrity Gogglebox

9pm, Channel 4
Rylan and his mum, Linda, Jane McDonald and her best pal Sue, Miquita and Andi Oliver, Shaun Ryder and Bez, and Chris Packham and his stepdaughter Megan are some of the celebrities turned armchair critics after an, ahem, “eventful”, week. HR

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

9pm, Sky Max
Rick and Michonne’s love story reaches its dramatic conclusion in a big finale – but is there any hope of a happy ending? Whatever happens, expect violent flashbacks, undead drama and emotional punches aplenty as our dynamic duo fight to destroy an unexpected new villain before it can destroy them. Kayleigh Dray

The Last Leg: Election Special

10pm, Channel 4
Round off the week’s heavy election coverage with some much-needed light laughter, as The Last Leg lads invite an assortment of guests on to their two-hour special to digest what on earth has happened in the previous 24 hours, and look back at those shambolic election campaigns. HR

11.15pm, ITV1
The Euros version of the hugely successful podcast continues to provide a mixture of analysis and irreverence as the competition hits the quarter-final stages. It’s engaging and often interesting, even if, at certain points, it can degenerate into the amusing but futile spectacle of Ian Wright, Gary Neville and Jill Scott poking grouchy old Roy Keane with a stick. Phil Harrison

Film choice

Brats (Sean McNamara, 2007), Disney+
There’s real tension in Pretty in Pink star Andrew McCarthy’s documentary: his discomfort with the “Brat Pack” label applied to him, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald and other hip Hollywood gunslingers versus the fact there was actually something significant happening in this batch of mainstream but emotionally raw films (St Elmo’s Fire, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club etc) that deserved labelling. The group therapy aspect of this reunion suggests that McCarthy doesn’t think the ship has sailed on the question of whether the label was a fair one. If you couldn’t care less, there are ample Hollywood war stories and 80s nostalgia here to sate most John Hughes heads. Phil Hoad

Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You. Photograph: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Anyone But You (Will Gluck, 2023), 10.45am; 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
The couple-who-detest-each-other turnaround is the taproot of the romcom, beginning with 1934’s It Happened One Night. But that’s nothing two red-hot stars – Sydney Sweeney as a fretful law student, Glen Powell as a douchebag banker – and a porny veneer can’t freshen up. Its recent long-staying box-office run, to the tune of $220m, has raised a little (possibly optimistic) hope for the beleaguered genre. But as the pert pair hover in each other’s orbit after their disastrous first date, this is a breezy and bolshie watch that’s undeniably easy on the eye. PH

The Imaginary (Yoshiyuki Momose, 2023), Netflix
This lavish fantasy has a Pixar-ish conceit: all children have imaginary friends who are reunited in a parallel world when their significant kids (in this case the bookshop-dwelling Amanda) forget them. But the story is given the full anime treatment by recent Ghibli splinter outfit Studio Ponoc, with Miyazaki collaborator Yoshiyuki Momose bringing the extra wildness that characterises Japanese fantasy, an artisanal richness to the visuals, and – in the shape of sinister villain Mr Bunting and minions – a light dose of J-horror chills. PH

Live sport

Major League Baseball: Chicago Cubs v Los Angeles Angels, 7pm, TNT Sports 2
Coverage of the inter-league match from Wrigley Field.

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