Christmas TV guide finally revealed as Gavin and Stacey & Strictly bag huge spot

‘Tis the play for festive telly, with plentifulness lined up to entertain us, from specials and thrilling dramas to hilarious drama and seasonal documentaries.

The BBC has contiguous revealed its unmissable Christmas lineup, including the instrumentality of immoderate of the nation’s favourite characters, including Gavin & Stacey successful their past ever episode, an Outnumbered reunion and Wallace & Gromit successful a caller feature-length film.

Across each the channels, expect festive specials of each our favourite shows, similar Doctor Who, Strictly, Call The Midwife and The Masked Singer, arsenic good arsenic marque caller dramas including Playing Nice with James Norton and Out There with Martin Clunes, positive An Evening With Dua Lipa, Sky drama Bad Tidings and a caller bid of deed Netflix amusement Squid Game. Watch retired besides for a Christmassy movie astir Wham! and marque caller Julia Donaldson animation Tiddler. Feast your eyes connected the champion of this magical vacation mix…

Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, BBC One/iPlayer, Christmas Day

It’s been 5 years since we near Nessa (Ruth Jones) down connected 1 genu declaring her emotion for Smithy (James Corden) and asking him to wed her. A batch has happened since.

The formed person present reunited for this past ever episode, truthful we tin yet get immoderate closure.

Watch retired besides for an uplifting documentary, telling the communicative of 1 of Britain’s champion loved sitcoms arsenic it comes to a - hopefully ‘tidy’ - extremity aft 17 years.

Squid Game, Season 2, Netflix, Boxing Day

A terrifying trailer welcomes a marque caller batch of competitors each hoping to triumph large money, adjacent though their lives are successful danger. One screams: “I person played these games before. We volition each dice if we support playing.” So wherefore return? Seems similar immoderate conscionable privation 1 much game. Expect much creepy dolls, much shooting, much tears and unbelievable tension.

Strike - The Ink Black Heart, BBC One/iPlayer, December 16, 17, 23, 24

Nothing similar a execution enigma to bask alongside your festive joy. Tom Burke and Holiday Grainger instrumentality successful this deed transgression series, based connected J.K. Rowling’s bestselling novels. It follows the intriguing lawsuit of a cartoon creator who is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure.

The Great Christmas Bake Off, C4, Christmas Eve

Hosted by Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond, judged by Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood, this tinsel-draped peculiar features 5 soap stars, each hoping for baking glory.

EastEnders’ Dean Gaffney and Natalie Cassidy are joined by Emmerdale and Hollyoaks prima Sheree Murphy, Corrie’s Shobna Gulati and Emmerdale’s Chris Bisson.

Mariah Meets Rylan, BBC Two, December 7

In a world exclusive, presenter Rylan sits down for a chat with the multi-platinum grounds selling euphony artist. Rylan volition quiz Mariah connected life, music, the jobs she had earlier she was famous, her personage friends and of people determination volition beryllium notation of her festive deed All I Want For Christmas. Rylan besides tests Mariah’s English accent with an ‘audition’ for EastEnders.

Out There, ITV1/X, December

This thrilling play is astir region lines cause dealing and an escalating, insidious transgression question sweeping the British countryside.

Martin Clunes plays a husbandman confronted with these acheronian forces seeping into his agrarian community. This dark, compelling communicative besides stars Louis Ashbourne Serkis.

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special, BBC1, Christmas Day

The glittering ballroom amusement is backmost with comedian Josh Widdicombe, Drag superstar Tayce, presenter and podcaster Vogue Williams, Gladiator Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, histrion Tamzin Outhwaite and racing operator Billy Monger.

The Ballroom volition erstwhile again beryllium transformed into a magical wintertime wonderland arsenic the celebs effort to impressment judges Craig Revel-Horwood, Anton du Beke, Shirley Ballas and Motsi Mabuse.

Playing Nice, ITV1/X, December

A heart-stopping intelligence thriller astir 2 couples who observe that their babies were switched astatine birth. Confronted with large decisions, 1 mates realises that there’s much to the different household than meets the eye. There are fantabulous performances from James Norton, Niamh Algar, James McArdle and Jessica Brown Findlay.

The Masked Singer Christmas Special, ITV1, December

This sees 4 celebrities vie undercover - hidden successful utmost and extraordinary, festive costumes - singing with their identities hidden. As each personage performs, the sheet of detectives, Mo Gilligan, Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall and peculiar guests, effort to unwrap their festive faces and unlock TV’s champion kept secret.

An Evening With Dua Lipa, ITV1, December

Recorded astatine London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall, planetary superstar Dua Lipa reimagined her deed popular songs particularly for the occasion, accompanied by the 53-piece Heritage Orchestra, a 14-strong choir and her seven-piece set - and a astonishment cameo from Elton John. This peculiar is intercut with interviews arsenic she reflects connected the pivotal moments successful her beingness and career.

Outnumbered Christmas Special, BBC One/iPlayer, December

The Brockmans are backmost - and it’s been a while. This peculiar occurrence follows the chaos successful the downsized location of Pete and Sue (Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner) arsenic they grapple with the challenges of parenting kids who are present adults, with their ain lives to lead. Turns out, parenting doesn’t get immoderate easier.

Tiddler, BBC1 and iPlayer, Christmas Day

Now a staple of the Christmas Day TV schedule, this is the latest magical animation, adapted from children’s publication creators Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

It’s astir a small food with a large imaginativeness who gets mislaid successful the water until helium follows the way of his ain communicative to get home. It stars Hannah Waddingham arsenic the narrator, alongside Lolly Adefope, Jayde Adams and Rob Brydon.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, BBC One/iPlayer, Christmas Day

Making their long-awaited instrumentality with a marque caller feature-length adventure, Wallace and his champion mate Gromit are faced with a transgression question of stolen plot goods.

Wallace and his pre-programmed astute gnome, Norbot, are the main suspects. It’s up to Gromit to conflict sinister forces oregon Wallace whitethorn ne'er invent again.

Call The Midwife Christmas Specials, BBC One/iPlayer, December

For the archetypal clip ever, the cosy play play volition present not 1 but 2 specials, implicit with a Christmas cliffhanger. All the midwives are engaged delivering babies astatine Nonnatus House successful 1969 erstwhile the funfair arrives successful Poplar, bringing 2 unwelcome visitors - influenza and the Hong Kong flu. There’s besides an escaped captive connected the loose.

Doctor Who: Joy To The World, BBC One/iPlayer, Christmas Day

Starring Ncuti Gatwa arsenic the Doctor and Bridgerton prima Nicola Coughlan arsenic Joy, this is simply a festive time-hopping travel done the past of the Earth. Plot details person been kept tightly nether wraps, but showrunner Steven Moffat teased: “Imagine successful the far, acold aboriginal that a edifice concatenation got clasp of the thought of clip travel. What would they do? They'd realise they had an accidental to merchantability each the unsold nights successful their ain hotels successful history.”

WHAM!: Last Christmas Unwrapped, BBC Two/iPlayer, December

To observe the 40th day of the all-time large festive song, Last Christmas, this is an hour-long solemnisation of however George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley turned the deed into a taste phenomenon. A nostalgic film, with interviews from manufacture experts, artists and euphony producers, it’s a compelling communicative of the song’s enduring appeal.

That Christmas, Netflix, December 4

From Richard Curtis, the genius down Love Actually, this animated phantasy drama movie features the voices of Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker and Bill Nighy.

It follows a bid of entwined tales astir emotion and loneliness, household and friends, a snowstorm and Santa making a large mistake. There are besides turkeys - many, galore turkeys.

Gladiators Celebrity Special, BBC One/iPlayer, December

Four celebrated faces nervously lace up their trainers arsenic they vie successful 1 of the toughest crippled shows connected Earth. How volition Rob Beckett, Louise Minchin, Joel Dommet and Ellie Taylor fare… Celebrities ready?

Rob says: “I can’t hold to beryllium perfectly crushed by the Gladiators successful beforehand of my woman and children successful spandex whilst I ticker Joel Dommett and his six-pack sprint past maine connected the travelator.”

The Split: Barcelona, BBC One/iPlayer, December

A two-part sun-soaked peculiar of the deed ineligible drama, starring Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button and Deborah Findlay. Two years connected from the 3rd and last series, formidable household lawyer Hannah (Walker) and her household person gathered successful Spain for a destination wedding.

Death In Paradise Christmas Special, BBC One/iPlayer, December

For a glimpse of wintertime sun, look nary further than this special, acceptable successful the sun-drenched Saint Marie successful the Caribbean. Join the constabulary squad and a caller Detective Inspector for a feature-length episode. Spin-off Beyond Paradise besides returns for 2 festive cases to crack.

The Night Before Christmas In Wonderland, Sky Max/NOW, December 13

An A-list cast, including Gerard Butler, Emilia Clarke and Simone Ashley prima successful this animated philharmonic diagnostic film. It’s a mash-up of 2 classical tales - Alice In Wonderland and the poem ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas. St Nick receives a missive from the Princess Of Hearts, truthful sets disconnected with his reindeer to Wonderland - wherever the Queen hates Christmas.

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman Of Stone, BBC Two/iPlayer, December

Mark Gatiss adapts and directs this ghostly communicative astir newlywed Victorians Jack and Laura (played by Éanna Hardwicke and Phoebe Horn). As they settee into a tiny cottage, they are fixed superstitious warnings from their housekeeper, regaling the fable of the 2 marble tomb effigies who are said to emergence 1 nighttime each year.

Bad Tidings, Sky Max/NOW, December

Written by Chris McCausland, helium plays Scott, who is astatine warfare with his neighbour Neil (played by Lee Mack). But successful bid to prevention Christmas, the sworn enemies person to squad up to go section heroes. The unusual mates instrumentality connected a section transgression household to triumph the day.

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