Best TV shows to watch this Christmas - from Wallace & Gromit to Freddie Flintoff’s Bullseye

The festive play is conscionable astir the corner, and with it brings a sackload of Christmas telly, including the last-ever Gavin & Stacey, arsenic good arsenic the instrumentality of the beloved duo Wallace & Gromit

Christmas is conscionable astir the corner, and with it comes a veritable feast of festive telly to bask connected those cold, acheronian evenings.

December is the clip for explosive storylines, bleak dramas, high-octane thrillers and comfy TV favourites, and this twelvemonth is nary exception. As we amble towards the extremity of 2024, determination are plentifulness of shows to support america entertained arsenic the nights get darker, and households combat implicit the heating thermostat.

To footwear disconnected December is the 2nd bid of the BBC One play SAS Rogue Heroes - written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight - which focuses connected the origins of the SAS during World War Two. The critically-acclaimed drama, which volition tally for different six episodes, finished past play with David Stirling getting captured.

Next up is popular sensation Sabrina Carpenter, who volition prima successful her precise ain Christmas peculiar connected Netflix. The assortment show, titled A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter, volition debut connected Netflix connected December 6, and promises impermanent stars, surprises duets and festive singalongs.

Music fable Elton John’s Disney+ documentary, Never Too Late, volition debut connected the streaming work connected December 13, and volition travel the icon’s bonzer vocation aft helium retired from performing pursuing his epic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road tour. And the philharmonic treats don’t halt then, arsenic ITV ’s yearly Royal Variety Performance, with guests including Britain's Got Talent victor Sydnie Christmas, volition aerial successful aboriginal December.

The hotly-anticipated sequel to Wolf Hall, The Mirror and the Light, volition besides premiere connected BBC One successful December, which volition spot Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Jonathan Pryce reprising their roles successful the humanities drama. Set successful May 1536, aft the decease of Anne Boleyn, the last publication successful Hilary Mantel’s gripping saga focuses connected the analyzable and unsafe narration betwixt King Henry VIII and his advisor Thomas Cromwell.

The King of Christmas, filmmaker Richard Curtis, is besides returning with an animated movie this festive season, called Richard Curtis’ That Christmas. Hitting Netflix connected December 6, the cosy family-friendly movie focuses connected emotion and loneliness, and features a soundtrack by Ed Sheeran. Another 1 for the kids is the Inside Out spin-off Dream Productions connected Disney+, which is simply a four-part bid astir the movie workplace wrong Riley’s caput that produces her dreams. It debuts connected the streaming work connected December 11, and volition beryllium a deed with fans of the hugely palmy sequel Inside Out 2, which was released connected Disney+ past month.

Keely Hogdkinson, Luke Littler, Lando Norris, and Tom Daley are rumoured to beryllium shortlisted for the BBC One Sports Personality Of The Year, and fans volition beryllium capable to look backmost connected the year’s top sporting moments, including England’s show successful this year’s Euros.

Squid Game yet returns to Netflix connected December 26 for a long-awaited 2nd season, and the dystopian thriller resumes 3 years aft Gi-hun won the brutal and cruel gameshow. Another frightening - yet existent - play is BBC One’s Lockerbie, which is based connected the horrific 1988 panic onslaught aboard Pan Am Flight 103 that killed each 243 passengers and 16 crew. Connor Swindells, Phyllis Logan and Suits prima Patrick J. Adams are among the celebrated faces successful the six-part series.

Against each odds, much-loved plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit are acceptable to instrumentality to BBC One for a caller 70-minute adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Fans feared the extremity of the beloved brace erstwhile Peter Sallis, who voiced Wallace, died successful 2017, but Ben Whitehead has present taken connected the prestigious role, and the mystery-solving duo volition look disconnected against supervillain Feathers McGraw successful the caller special.

Rob Beckett, Joel Dommett, Louise Minchin and Ellie Taylor are the celebrated faces acceptable to instrumentality portion successful BBC One’s Gladiators Celebrity Special: Titans, facing fearsome warriors specified arsenic Fire, Legend and Diamond, with hosts Bradley and Barney Walsh. While the last-ever Outnumbered Christmas peculiar is besides acceptable to deed BBC One implicit the festive season, arsenic viewers get the accidental to spot what the Brockmans are up to 1 past time.

Get the tissues ready, arsenic the finale of Gavin & Stacey volition deed our screens implicit Christmas, with fans hopeful that co-creators and stars James Corden and Ruth Jones volition yet corroborate if Smithy and Nessa are engaged, pursuing the 2019 cliffhanger. While viewers were hoping for much episodes, James and Ruth insisted that the upcoming finale volition people the extremity of the beloved drama series, which archetypal aired successful 2007.

This year’s Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler adaptation is the heartwarming communicative of Tiddler, which volition beryllium narrated by Hannah Waddingham and diagnostic the voices of Rob Brydon and Jayde Adams. The communicative follows small food Tiddler, who is good known for his gangly tales, but his storytelling saves him erstwhile helium gets mislaid successful the ocean.

Freddie Flintoff marks his comeback to primetime TV pursuing his devastating mishap portion filming Top Gear, arsenic helium prepares to big the Bullseye Christmas Special. The iconic gameshow is backmost connected ITV screens aft astir 3 decades, and the one-off festive peculiar could beryllium revived successful the New Year.

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