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What to watch on TV tonight: New Year's Day

Here are the shows that’ll be on your Twitter timeline later.

Every lunchtime, DailyEdge.ie rounds up the TV shows that you’ll be tweeting about tonight and talking about tomorrow.

Django Unchained (RTÉ 1, 9.20pm)

Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz star in Quentin Tarantino’s Western. A freed slave and an accompanying bounty hunter set off to rescue his wife from Leonardo DiCaprio. No, not just Leonardo, he plays the brutal owner of a plantation keeping her captive.

Pat Kenny Out with the Old, In with the U (UTV Ireland, 8.30pm)

You see what they did there? Eh, eh? Gas. UTV Ireland kicks off tonight at 7.25pm, and Pat will make his long awaited return to TV straight after Emmerdale. This is a documentary taking a look into the year ahead and the events that will shape it. Mystic Pat.

Electric Picnic (RTÉ 2, 9pm)

Feeling nostalgic for 2014 already? Revisit the joyful days of the Electric Picnic, with an hour and a half of highlights from last year’s festival. Grab some beers, wear some wellies, it’ll be like you’re there. You’ve already got the hangover.

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All the fillums

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  • War of the Buttons (TV 3, 5.05pm)
  • Hairspray (RTÉ 2, 7pm)
  • Mission Impossible, Ghost Protocol (TV 3, 7pm)
  • Sister Act (Channel 4, 6.10pm)
  • Die Another Day (ITV 2, 6.20pm)
  • Home Alone 2, Lost in New York (E4, 8pm)
  • Marley (RTÉ 2, 10.30pm)
  • The 40-Year-Old Virgin (TV 3, 10.30pm)
  • Snow White and the Huntsman (Channel 4, 8pm)
  • Predator 2 (Sky One, 10pm)
  • Atonement (TG4, 9.30pm)
  • LA Confidential (RTÉ 1, 12.25am)
  • Road Trip (BBC 1, 1.05am)
  • Psycho (RTÉ 2, 1.15am)

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Or switch over for…

New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna (BBC 4, 7pm) Zubin Mehta conducts the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra and let’s face it, it’s all you can handle right now.

Julie Walters, a Life on Screen (BBC 2, 10.30pm) A documentary about the legend that is Julie Walters. Shocking, isn’t it?

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Cheek to Cheek Live! (BBC 1, 12.10am) We’re still not quite sure why this duo happened or continues to happen but we’re sure it’ll be entertaining.

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