Royal Carols: Together at Christmas  

ITV1, 7.30pm

The Princess of Wales is back at Westminster Abbey hosting her fourth annual carol service. This year the emphasis is on empathy, with 1,600 guests, including members of the Royal Family, celebrating the kind individuals who have propped up their community in the last year.  

The service will offer a chance to reflect on the year behind us and provide hope for the one to come.  

The Great Christmas Bake Off 

Channel 4, 8.00pm 

The combination of Bake Off and celebrities makes a breeding ground for iconic moments, from James Acaster’s “started making it, had a breakdown, bon appetit", to the entire Derry Girls cast causing chaos, to Alison Hammond somehow losing her oven door.  

This year it’s all about the soap stars: EastEnders’ Dean Gaffney and Natalie Cassidy, Hollyoaks’ Sheree Murphy, and Coronation Street’s Shobna Gulati and Chris Bisson will all be taking on Prue and Paul.  

Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing 

BBC Two, 9.15pm 

Last year’s festive special saw Mortimer and Whitehouse celebrating Hogmanay in Scotland, but this year they’ve taken a completely different tack.  

Mortimer and Whitehouse fished all the big UK rivers so they’re going overseas for a French festive special. This year they’re pulling out all the stops: staying in a Chateaux, fishing the beautiful River Lot and immersing themselves in French culture.  

A Ghost Story for Christmas  

BBC Two, 10.15pm

Mark Gatiss’ annual Christmas ghost story has returned with a stacked cast. Celia Imrie stars as Edith Nesbitt, best known as the author of The Railway Children, recounting her surprisingly ghostly short story on her deathbed. Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Phoebe Horn (Call the Midwife) play a Victorian couple at the centre of her tale, a newly married couple unheeded by warnings about some statues in the graveyard…