20/12/2023

Your festive family TV guide

Whatever kind of Christmas you're having with your family this year, there's some real festive TV treats available to watch with the family. 

We've trawled through the available Christmas TV guides for 2023 to give you a great selection.

Pre-Christmas

22nd December
1:15pm, BBC 2; The Great British Sewing Bee: Celebrity Christmas Special
8pm, Channel 4; The Dog House at Christmas

23rd December
3.20pm, ITV 1; How the Grinch Stole Christmas
4:30pm, Sky Max; It's Christmas Live From The Royal Albert Hall
6:20pm, Sky Showcase; The Polar Express

Christmas Eve

9:00am, Channel 4; The Snowman and the Snowdog

11:30am, Channel 5; Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

1:05pm, ITV 1; The Secret Life of Pets

1:50pm, BBC 1; Frozen Planet II

2:40pm, ITV 1; The Grinch

5:40pm, ITV 2; Catchphrase Christmas Special

6pm, Sky Showcase; Elf

8:15pm, Channel 4; The Great Christmas Bake Off 2023

Christmas Day

8:50am, BBC 1; The Gruffalo

9:40am, BBC 1; The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

10:25am, Channel 4; Kung Fu Panda 2

11:15am, BBC 1; Cinderella

12:15pm, Channel 4; The Snowman

1:25pm, Channel 4; The Snowman and the Snowdog

3pm, BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV 1; The King's Speech

3.10pm, BBC 1; Toy Story 4

4:40pm, BBC 1; Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special

5:30pm, Channel 4: Home Alone

5:55pm, BBC 1; Doctor Who

7:30pm, ITV 1; The Masked Singer: Christmas Special

8:15pm, BBC 1; Call the Midwife

Boxing Day

9:20am, BBC 1; The Gruffalo's Child

10:25am, ITV 1; The Croods

11:05am, Channel 4; Mog's Christmas

1:15pm, BBC 1; Beauty and the Beast

3:00pm, ITV 1; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

3.15pm, BBC 1; Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

4.55pm, ITV 2; Matilda

5.05pm, BBC 1; The Lion King

7:30pm, Channel 4; The Greatest Snowman

9:00pm, BBC 1; Death in Paradise

Netflix

• Klaus
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• The Christmas Chronicles & The Christmas Chronicles 2
• Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas 
• Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
• Family Switch

If all this TV is getting too much, break things up with these fun family Christmas games. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!