TV highlights: 15/12/2011

MasterChef: The Professionals 8pm, BBC2 The Professionals has provided a tidy, concise counterpoint to the bloated mess that is Big Masterchef, even if it lacked a breakout star in the mould of gastronomic whizz kid and recent winner Tim Anderson . Hopefully, one of the steely-eyed professionals on show in tonight's final will rectify this omission. Expect some of Michel Roux Jr's most fiendish challenges, a selection of withering stares from the terrifying Monica Galetti, and Gregg Wallace attempting to fit an entire set of cutlery into his oversized mouth. Gwilym Mumford Jerusalem: The Making Of A Holy City 9pm, BBC4 Second instalment of Simon Sebag Montefiore's exemplary three-part history of the eternally inspiring and infuriating city. Tonight's episode picks up the story in the seventh century, when a third monotheistic faith – Islam – set up shop in the same neighbourhood as Christianity and Judaism, beginning a contest that has held the world in its thrall ever since. Anybody interested in why the world is the way it is should visit Jerusalem, or at least learn something about it, and Montefiore picks his way adroitly through the myths and sensitivities that all but bind Jerusalem's bricks, acknowledging the city's fabulous fables alongside its rancorous reality. Andrew Mueller Glee 9pm, Sky1 Deck your television with tinsel and set the subtitles to "on": it's time for Glee's festive special . Of course, it's full of the usual "messages", as New Directions are forced to realise the true meaning of this season of good will, but it's also got a version of the greatest Christmas song of all time: Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You. Rebecca Nicholson Rev 9.30pm, BBC2 Having offered up an episode largely focused on Mick the local crack addict and rubbish conman last week, tonight's offering puts pedantic, pursed-lipped Nigel at the centre of events. Beautifully played by Miles Jupp, the lay preacher is a smarmy bureaucrat, always brown-nosing to Archdeacon Robert when the opportunity arises. Secretly, Nigel has long thought he might be a better priest than Adam. How will he fare when an opportunity to prove this arises? Meantime in an ambition-themed episode, Robert dreams of career advancement. Jonathan Wright The Slap 10pm, BBC4 In the final part of The Slap , it's the turn of Richie – the conflicted teenager half in love with his best friend Connie but also infatuated with older man Hector – to tell his side of the story. After Connie lied while she was on drugs and told him that Hector had raped her, he's been bombarding him with anonymous, sinister text messages. But soon the game is up, not just for Richie, but Hector and Connie too, as both the truth and the lies all come out in a catastrophic fashion. No one comes out of this show well, but there's an oddly optimistic conclusion amid the chaos. Ben Arnold Up In Flames: Mr Reeves And The Riots 10.45pm, BBC1 During the London riots this summer, the most shocking pictures on the rolling news channels were those from Croydon, south London. Every shop seemed to be smashed to pieces or burning, but the enduring story was that of House Of Reeves, a furniture store that had stood on the same corner for 140 years and was razed to the ground. In this look back at events, its owner, 80-year-old Maurice Reeves, attempts to make sense of the August madness. BA