Christmas Day TV 2019 – the best shows to watch including Gavin & stacey and Call the Midwife
CHRISTMAS Day is fast approaching and with it comes a whole bunch of great TV shows to watch. So put you feet up, grab that tin of chocolates and settle in for a day of festive treats on the box. Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special Channel: BBC One Time: 4.40pm Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman […]
CHRISTMAS Day is fast approaching and with it comes a whole bunch of great TV shows to watch.
So put you feet up, grab that tin of chocolates and settle in for a day of festive treats on the box.
Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special
Channel: BBC One
Time: 4.40pm
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present the traditional festive edition for Christmas Day, which sees the return of six old favourites from past series.
Chizzy Akudolu, Gemma Atkinson, Richard Arnold, Debbie McGee, Joe Sugg and Mark Wright take to the dancefloor to perform special Christmas-inspired routines.
Judges Shirley Ballas, Bruno Tonioli, Motsi Mabuse and Craig Revel Horwood will be on hand to give their scores.
However, it’s down to the studio audience to decide which couple should lift the Silver Star trophy.
Call The Midwife Christmas Special
Channel: BBC One
Time: 7pm
Mother Mildred declares that God is calling her to set up a branch house in the Outer Hebrides, so she is joined by several other members of the team, including Dr Turner, Shelagh, Mother Mildred, Trixie, Sister Julienne, Valerie, Lucille and Fred, many of whom have been struck down by flu and like the idea of convalescing in the fresh Scottish air.
However, as they set about establishing an antenatal clinic and treating the local population, they must battle not only the weather and challenging terrain, but the suspicions of the islanders.
Back in Poplar, Reggie is inspired to attempt a world record.
The Great Christmas Bake Off
Channel: Channel 4
Time: 7.10pm
Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig host this special Christmas baking contests.
Contestants from past series will be taking part in the first set of festive challenges, under the watchful eye of judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood.
The bakers are Tom and Yan from the 2017 series and Briony and Terry from 2018, and there is also a guest appearance by veteran rock band Status Quo, performing their classic hit Rockin’ All Over the World.
Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special
Channel: BBC One
Time: 8.30pm
One-off festive edition of the comedy, which returns after a nine-year break.
The Shipmans travel to Wales to spend Christmas with the Wests, but for Gavin and Stacey, parenthood continues to present them with several challenges, and their `baby’ is now nine.
Smithy also continues to commit to his fatherly role, making the journey to Barry at weekends and every second Wednesday to see 12-year-old Neil the Baby.
Nessa has adopted her own style of mothering, while Pam, Mick and Gwen have become the epitome of doting grandparents.
On Christmas Eve, Dawn makes a shocking discovery about Pete that jeopardises their marriage – again – while a visit to the pub becomes an eye-opener in more ways than one.
Jamie And Jimmy’s Festive Feast
Channel: Channel 4
Time: 8.30pm
A special seasonal edition of Friday Night Feast, as the pair are joined in their pop-up bistro on Southend Pier by Taron Egerton, who helps Jamie and Jimmy prepare a festive feast for friends and family, and attempts to cook his first Christmas dinner.
Elsewhere, Jimmy demonstrates how to prepare his take on pigs in blankets, and the pair head to a free-range turkey farm to discover the hard work that goes into getting the birds ready for Christmas.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Celebrity Special
Channel: ITV
Time: 9pm
Jeremy Clarkson hosts a special festive edition of the quiz.
Sports presenter Clare Balding, actor Stephen Mangan and Catherine Tyldesley each sit in the hot-seat, hoping to win £1million for their chosen charities, and as usual they will have four lifelines to help them along the way – Ask the Audience, 50:50, Phone a Friend and Ask the Host.
First Dates at Christmas
Channel: Channel 4
Time: 9.30pm
A festive edition of our favourite dating show.
This time, former bodybuilding champion Kieran goes on a date with 23-year-old student nurse Abi.
Meanwhile, 67-year-old Suzy is set up with Fred, a fellow divorcee who is looking for some excitement in his life, and single mother Amy meets 29-year-old Geordie Scott.
More on xmas TV
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special
Channel: BBC One
Time: 10.30pm
Christmas is supposed to be a time for family and friends, so when it seems that this year Mrs Brown cannot please anyone, she wonders if it would have been better had she never been born.
Enter Clyde, a mysterious figure claiming to be an angel, who tells the doting mother he can show her what life would have been like without her – and before she knows it, she finds herself in a world she doesn’t recognise, and that doesn’t recognise her.
Brendan O’Carroll stars in this spoof of classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life.