Films, Fresh Meat and Festive Recipes: The Best of Tonight’s TV

From festive recipes to a hilarious comedy flick, there’s plenty to keep you entertained tonight! Rachel Allen’s Christmas Cake Diaries – RTÉ One (8.30pm) The chef shows how to prepare some of her favourite festive recipes including clementine Cake, mincemeat muffins and Christmas cake. Ripper Street – BBC One (9.00pm) In the last of the series, Reid and Drake get heavily involved in their latest case while Jackson and his brother are being pursued by the owners of a stolen diamond. Closer – TG4 (9.30pm) Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen star in this drama about four individuals whose lives intertwine over the years. Fresh Meat – Channel 4 (10.00pm) It’s Howard’s birthday so the gang throw him a party but Oregon has other ideas for the night and a fight breaks out. Wedding Crashers – Film4 (10.55pm) A comedy about two single friends (Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan) who crash weddings in order to pick up women.