

The official Twitter account posted a sneak peek including a photo of a snowball fight, and show creator Heidi Thomas has confirmed the festive special will see ‘something rather wonderful’ happening to Trixie, while ‘Lucille has to contend with a reasonable amount of sadness’. The Call The Midwife Christmas special has become a festive tradition, and Nancy, Trixie and Lucille are back with another heartwarming Christmas episode in 2022. Call The Midwife (BBC One, Christmas Day) Christmas Past will be represented by Morecambe and Wise (played by impersonators Jonty Stephens and Ian Ashpitel), while comedians Jo Brand and Nish Kumar play the ghosts of Christmas Present and Future. Vigil‘s Suranne Jones stars in this quirky modern-day reimagining of the Dickens novel, playing a heartless internet entrepeneur who is visited by some Christmas ghosts who look rather different to the ones we’re used to. Christmas Carole (Sky and NOW, Christmas Eve) Marlon (Tahj Miles, Small Axe) spends a night in a haunted house, and we may see some festive romance for Neville too. The festive episode takes a spooky turn as an old case of Selwyn (Don Warrington, Rising Damp) comes back to haunt him following the death of a true crime podcaster who had been investigating a missing child. The long-running Caribbean crime drama is back for its second Christmas special in 2022, with Ralf Little ( The Royle Family) returning as DI Neville Parker. The festive farewell will feature all the regular inhabitants of the fictional seaside town of Portwen, including Caroline Catz ( DCI Banks) as Martin’s wife Louisa, Ian McNeice ( Doctor Who) as Bert Large, and Eastenders’ Joe Absolom as his son Al.
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Doc Martin (ITV, Christmas Day)Īfter ten series and almost two decades, the final ever episode of this cosy Cornish drama will air this Christmas, as ITV says goodbye to Martin Clunes as the grumpy Doctor Martin Ellingham. It stars Jason Watkins, MyAnna Buring and more. Set in 1863, it’s the story of the legend surrounding a long-dead aristocrat who once made a mysterious journey to the Holy Land. Following on from The Mezzotint, Martin’s Close, The Dead Room, The Tractate Middoth and Crooked House comes Count Magus (w/t). James short story adaptation coming to the BBC. Mark Gatiss is back to his ghostly festive tricks with another M.R. A Ghost Story For Christmas: Count Magnus (BBC Two, 23rd December) The final season starts on HBO on Monday the 5th of December with a weekly double-bill until the finale on the 26th of December, while in the UK, all episodes will be available on BBC iPlayer from Sunday the 18th of December, as well as airing weekly on BBC One. Prepare for a moving farewell to this epic fantasy drama.

Lyra is back with her mother Mrs Coulter, and is still on the run from the Magisterium, and we’ll see her and Will take a treacherous journey to the Land of the Dead to find Roger and Will’s father. His Dark Materials (BBC One, 18th December)Īs we heard at NYC Comic Con, The Amber Spyglass, the third and final instalment of the His Dark Materials trilogy, sees Lord Asriel building his army, gathering the greatest warriors from every world, ready to try to take down the Authority.
