22/12/2022

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 2022 to give you a great selection.

Pre-Christmas

22nd December
3:15pm, BBC 1; Paddington
8pm, BBC 1; The Great British Sewing Bee Christmas Special 
8pm, BBC 1; Celebrity Masterchef Christmas Cook-off

23rd December
3.35pm, BBC 1; Paddington 2
6:15pm, Sky Max; It's Christmas Live From The Royal Albert Hall
8:30pm, Sky Max; The Lost City of Z

Christmas Eve

11:25am, BBC 1; Merry Berry's Ultimate Christmas

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

1:40pm, BBC 1; Secret Life of Pets 2

2:35pm, ITV 1; Santa Claus: The Movie

4pm, Channel 4; The Snowman 4:35pm; The Snowman and the Snowdog

5:25pm, Channel 4; Home Alone

6pm, Sky Max; The Amazing Mr Blunden

8:25pm, Channel 4; The Great Christmas Bake Off Christmas Special

Christmas Day

9:35am, Channel 4; Kung Fu Panda 2

10am, BBC 2; Wallace & Gromit

11:25am, Channel 4: The Snowman 11:55am; The Snowman and the Snowdog

11:35am, BBC 2; White Christmas

1pm, BBC 1; A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

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

3.10pm, BBC 1; Aladdin

5:10pm, BBC 1; Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special

5:30pm, Channel 4: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

7pm, Sky Max; Christmas Carole

7:55pm, BBC 1; Call the Midwife Christmas Special

8pm, ITV 1; Ant & Dec's Christmas Limitless win

10:45pm, ITV 1; Love Actually

Boxing Day

10.25am, BBC 1; Big Hero 6

12:25, BBC 1; Frozen

2.25pm, BBC 1; Mary Poppins

3.30pm, ITV 1; The Mitchells vs The Machines

4.40pm, BBC 1; Ghostbusters

5.55pm, Channel 4; Peter Rabbit

6pm, ITV 1; The Chat Celebrity Christmas Special 

7:30pm, Channel 4; The Greatest Snowman

8:30pm, ITV 1; The Voice Kids

9:00pm, BBC 1; Death in Paradise

Netflix

• Nativity
• Klaus
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Falling for Christmas 
• The Christmas Chronicles & The Christmas Chronicles 2 
• Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
• Let it Snow

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