23/12 Tonight’s Telly

Whether they be arrows or bullets, JOE enjoys watching things fly towards the TV screen.

Sport pick: PDC World Darts Championship: Day 8, Sky Sports 1, 7pm

The first round reaches its conclusion tonight, before the biggest darts tournament in the world takes a slight break for Christmas. Those in action today include 1994 Champion Denis 'the menace' Priestly.

Tv pick: Pale Rider, RTE 1, 12pm

Clint Eastwood! Western! What's not to like? This 1985 film even has the added benefits of supernatural overtones. Eastwood, who as usual also directs, plays a mysterious preacher/gunfighter/spector who arrives in a town to help a group of miners take on an unscrupulous landowner.