TV highlights 13/12/2011

My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas 9pm, Channel 4 A festive special of the documentary series about members of the Irish travelling community and their enormous dresses. We meet some new characters as they prepare for Christmas. Obviously, producers have chucked in a couple of weddings, so the audience's lust for orange women in giant doilies can be sated. And Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty invites us into his home to see how he and his family celebrate. But it's no easy task hiding presents from the kids when you live in a caravan. Or cramming everyone around the table for turkey and pudding. Julia Raeside This Is England '88 10pm, Channel 4 From the scene-setting clips of Thatcher to Lol watching the EastEnders Christmas special and the advent of pub karaoke, Shane Meadows makes the most of the ghosts of Christmas past with this brilliant, broken nativity. Two years on, the gang's dynamic has changed, with a hard winter for some: hard not to hope the Summer Of Love will cheer things up in time for This Is England '90. Richard Vine True Stories: Transgenders – Pakistan's Open Secret 10pm, More4 Until very recently, to be transgender in Karachi was to be officially declared nationless – although access to education, employment and state protection from the violence they frequently endure is still pretty thin on the ground. In such an environment, entire underground communities have sprung up in the rougher areas of the city, as this rare exposé reveals. In a somewhat amusing development, the government now hopes to employ them as tax collectors, figuring evaders will pay up through sheer embarrassment. Ali Catterall Enlightened 10pm, Sky Atlantic Episode two of the Laura Dern-led comedy-drama, and it's still a strange, not entirely successful mixed bag. Amy returns to her old company after some not so subtle "persuasion", but finds herself isolated with the "circus freaks" in data entry and ignored by her old friends. Is her enlightenment slipping? Is she a phony? Does anyone care, given how deeply unpleasant every character is? Rebecca Nicholson Him & Her 10.30pm, BBC3 This strange and generally wonderful series takes a slight misstep in the final episode of its run, in the form of Dan's girlfriend Anita, a thoroughly obnoxious (but more scripted than fully realised) character. Still, the torments to which she subjects Steve and Becky's neighbour make for some very funny and moving scenes. Dan's small talk with Shelly – "How have you been?" "You know." "Yeah." – sighs volumes of enduring melancholy. As for the couple themselves, their stoical cheer and happiness in each other's company, despite frequent outsider intrusions on their lovenest, is put to the test by a calculatedly offhand remark by Steve's ex. David Stubbs Imagine: Books – The Last Chapter? 10.35pm, BBC1 How many books can you read at once? If it's one, then do you really need to carry 60,000 of them around on a Kindle? Are we right to mourn the inexorable demise of the "physical" book? Or are we just being thuddingly blinkered luddites? Is the potential experience of ebooks a vastly superior proposition to the limitations of the printed word? Indeed, Alan Yentob's look at the "last chapter" in the life of the book raises many questions, particularly whether the 500-year-old technology provided for us by William Caxton has any future in the digital age. It appears not. Ben Arnold • This article was amended on 13 December 2011. The original said the technology provided by William Caxton is 1500 years old. This has been corrected.