Top TV Picks: New Year's Eve

Top TV Picks: New Year's Eve

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Saturday, 31st December 2016
Jonathan/Peter Pan (Greg Tannahill), Annie/Tinkerbell (Nancy Zamit). (Credit: BBC/Idil Sukan)

Paddy has got his love lift working, hoping to find a date for his celebrity guests in a celebrity special of Take Me Out and Alan Titchmarsh celebrates 90 years of 'the bear of very little brain' and his imapct.

Winnie-The-Pooh: The Most Famous Bear in the World

Channel 4, 6pm


Alan Titchmarsh (Credit: Channel 4 Television)

Alan Titchmarsh celebrates the 90th birthday of A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, the world's most recognisable bear. 

Titchmarsh travels to Cotchford Farm and the Hundred Acre Wood to see the locations that inspired the poems and books. He sets out to discover why Milne, who was already a successful playwright, changed direction and decided to write for children.


Peter Pan Goes Wrong

BBC One, 6.20pm


Narrator David Suchet (Credit: BBC/Idil Sukan)

The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One.

The BBC has commissioned The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, an amateur dramatics group, to recreate the J.M. Barrie classic. Expect stunts, technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes along the way with hilarious and disastrous results.


Peter Cook & Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches

Channel 4, 8pm


Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (Credit: Alan Messer/REX/Shutterstock)

One of Britain's most outstanding comedy double acts Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, are still considered to be the best.

A lot of their television material was deleted in the 1970s and this documentary shows new clips which have recently come to light from sketches thought to have been lost forever. Rob Brydon narrates this programme as fans, friends and colleagues watch these newly discovered clips in the studio for the very first time. 


Take Me Out: Celebrity Special

ITV, 8pm


Take Me Out Celebrity Special (Credit: ITV)

Paddy McGuinness plays cupid for three famous, single males in this celebrity edition of the dating show.

Coming down the love lift are model and former rugby player Thom Evans, presenter Roman Kemp and Ritchie Neville from boyband Five.

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Paddy has got his love lift working, hoping to find a date for his celebrity guests in a celebrity special of Take Me Out and Alan Titchmarsh celebrates 90 years of 'the bear of very little brain' and his imapct.