The TV highlights to look out for over Christmas

The out-of-office is on, the mulled vino is mulling, and the highlighter pen is retired arsenic families look up to the champion of this year's Christmas TV.

Four names successful peculiar person been dominating the headlines arsenic radical cogwheel up for the festive interruption - Gavin, Stacey, Wallace and Gromit.

But determination are plentifulness of different programmes to look guardant to implicit Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Here are conscionable a fewer of the shows scheduled for the coming days.

Many viewers volition beryllium getting themselves into the spirt of the play with a festive movie - and determination are plentifulness connected connection connected Christmas Eve.

Channel 4 volition beryllium airing A Christmas Carol (at 14:10 GMT) alongside the abbreviated animated favourite The Snowman (16:15) and surely the top of them all, Home Alone (18:05).

ITV is opting for It's A Wonderful Life (14:30) portion Channel 5 volition aerial Scrooge (09:30) and Cameron Diaz favourite The Holiday (11:15).

BBC One's movie choices whitethorn beryllium somewhat little festive, with Moana (14:20), Shrek (15:55) and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (17:50), but the broadcaster has tons of different Christmas contented that evening.

EastEnders volition aerial astatine 19:45, followed by a Christmas variation of The Repair Shop hosted by Roman Kemp (20:15), earlier the play finale of Strike: The Ink Black Heart at (21:15).

Those looking guardant to Gavin & Stacey connected Christmas Day whitethorn privation to hole by rewatching the 2019 special, which BBC One repeats contiguous astatine 22:35.

There's an embarrassment of riches for quiz amusement fans implicit connected BBC Two, with peculiar editions of Richard Osman's House of Games (19:15), Celebrity Mastermind (19:45), Only Connect (20:15) and University Challenge (20:45).

On ITV, Coronation Street fans volition beryllium treated to a peculiar occurrence astatine 20:45 arsenic Audrey tries to halt Gail from leaving the cobbles - a storyline which is starring up to the antecedently announced exit of histrion Helen Worth.

ITV besides has an occurrence of Emmerdale (19:00), a countdown of the Top 100 TikTok Videos of 2024 (21:15), and Royal Carols: Together astatine Christmas (19:30), hosted by the Princess of Wales.

And determination volition beryllium a saccharine dainty connected Channel 4 the aforesaid evening arsenic fans tuck into The Great Christmas Bake Off (20:00) up of a best-of-year compilation connected Gogglebox (21:15).

Other highlights see Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (21:15, BBC Two) and Christmas astatine the Four Seasons: Park Lane (20:15, Channel 5).

The stars of the docket this twelvemonth are Wallace & Gromit: Vengence Most Fowl (18:10, BBC One), which volition spot Wallace invent a astute gnome which develops a caput of its own, and Gavin & Stacey: The Finale (21:00, BBC One), bringing the sitcom which began successful 2007 to a close.

BBC One's different highlights see peculiar editions of The Weakest Link (15:10), Doctor Who: Joy to the World (17:10), EastEnders (19:30) and Call The Midwife (20:00).

The Strictly Come Dancing Christmas peculiar (15:55) volition spot Josh Widdicombe, Tayce, Vogue Williams, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (Nitro connected Gladiators), Tamzin Outhwaite and Billy Monger instrumentality to the dancefloor.

BBC Two volition broadcast 2 programmes connected Morecambe and Wise (19:20 and 19:55), up of their documentary From Roger Moore: With Love (21:00) astir the beingness of the precocious James Bond star.

Meanwhile connected ITV, those who enjoyed Home Alone connected Christmas Eve tin ticker the sequel connected Christmas Day, Home Alone 2: Lost successful New York (15:10).

After that, look retired for specials of Emmerdale (18:30), Coronation Street (19:00) and The Chase (20:00), earlier 2022 movie Downton Abbey: A New Era (21:00).

But the item of their docket this twelvemonth is arguably the instrumentality of Bullseye (17:25), a reboot of the 1980s and 1990s gameshow hosted by Freddie Flintoff, alongside 17-year-old darts prodigy Luke Littler.

Channel 4 are keeping their movie offering accepted with Miracle connected 34th Street (17:00), earlier Claudia Winkleman, Mika and Lang Lang instrumentality for a peculiar variation of The Piano astatine Christmas, filmed astatine Battersea Power Station (19:05).

The Railway Children Return (15:10) volition beryllium connected Channel 5, earlier the web dedicates its evening programming to the UK's favourite Comedy Moments (17:15), Christmas Party Songs (19:15) and 1980s Songs (21:15).

Everybody likes a movie connected 26 December arsenic their tummy recovers, and BBC One person plenty, including Inside Out (09:55), Paddington (13:50), 2017's Beauty and the Beast (15:15) and Matilda (17:40).

Other movie highlights see Gladiator (21:00, BBC Two), Grease (15:00, ITV), The Queen (20:00, ITV3) and Crocodile Dundee (16:40, Channel 4).

Films aside, look retired for the 2nd festive occurrence of Call The Midwife (19:30), on with Blankety Blank (21:00) and the Brockman household reunited for 1 of the highlights of the schedule, Outnumbered (21:40).

Elsewhere, ITV volition aerial Pictionary (17:40) hosted by Mel Giedroyc, arsenic galore families recoil from immoderate fall-outs of their ain games astatine home.

The web besides has a peculiar variation of The Masked Singer (19:30) and The 1% Club (21:00), portion Channel 4 volition broadcast The Festive Pottery Throwdown, hosted by Siobhan McSweeney.

But arguably the biggest merchandise is the 2nd play of Squid Game (Netflix), the sequel to the streamer's astir watched bid of each time.

Many felt the archetypal communicative was self-contained and that it wasn't crying retired for a 2nd season, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot wherever Netflix takes it and whether it tin person the aforesaid impact.