The big day has arrived! Presents! Food! Arguments! Once the urge to feast has passed, you’ll need some telly to watch while you and your loved ones digest the turkey. Here are our top picks.
King’s Speech
BBC One, ITV1, BBC News and Sky News, 3.00pm
King Charles III will be giving his third ever Christmas message. It’s been a reliably chaotic year, so there should – at the very least – be plenty to talk about.
Doctor Who
BBC One, 5.10pm
“Joy to the World” will see the doctor (Ncuti Gatwa, Masters of the Air) explore a hotel that uses time travel to let guests stay in the most exotic locations imaginable. By his side will be the eponymous Joy, played by Bridgerton’s very own Nicola Coughlan. Bonus points for the appearance of Jonathan Aris (The Death of Stalin) as a Silurian hotel manager, complete with green scaley prosthetics. Oh, and dinosaurs.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
BBC One, 6.10pm
You know what they say: revenge is a dish best served wearing a red rubber glove. Devious criminal Feathers McGraw makes his return after appearing in The Wrong Trousers way back in 1993. When Wallace’s latest invention, a robot gnome, gets hacked by the penguin, all hell breaks loose. Will Wallace (voiced by Ben Whitehead) and Gromit (voiced by, well, no-one) be able to foil Feathers’s plans a second time?
Gavin & Stacey
BBC One, 9.00pm
Gavin & Stacey last returned for a Christmas special in 2019, ending on that cliffhanger in which Nessa (Ruth Jones) proposes to Smithy (James Corden). Now, after half a decade of waiting, fans will finally get to see what happens next.
All the stops have been pulled out for the special, including getting a Nessa lookalike onto Good Morning Britain. The anticipation (and black eye makeup) is on.
