The Christmas television schedules have been confirmed for 2025, with the more old fashioned of us looking forward to circling our must-watches in the Radio Times.
The BBC has the likes of festive specials of Call The Midwife, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Strictly Come Dancing, Amandaland, Beyond Paradise and Death in Paradise.
Meanwhile on STV viewers can look forward to one-off festive episodes of The Chase, Bullseye, The 1% Club, Romesh Ranganathan's Parents Evening, and Loose Women.
And if that’s all too cheery there will doubtless be yuletide drama in the soaps - with Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Eastenders all having special episodes on Christmas Day.
Last year saw the finale of Gavin and Stacey watched by 12.3 million viewers - the biggest Christmas Day audience since 2008.
New Wallace and Gromit film Vengeance Most Fowl came second with 9.4 million viewers, followed by the King’s Speech with an audience of 5.04 million.
But even Gavin & Stacey’s viewing figures are dwarfed by the audiences of yesteryear, when streaming wasn’t available and telly was limited to just a handful of channels.
Here are the 17 most watched programmes on Christmas Day in history - figures that are unlikely to beaten any time soon.
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1. Crocodile Dundee
Back in the days before we could stream thousands of movies whenever we wanted, the premiere of a film at Christmas was a big deal. And none was bigger than Aussie legend Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee in 1989 on BBC1, which was watched by a remarkable 21.77million viewers. That's not a Christmas audience, THIS is a Christmas audience. | Contributed
2. Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special 2001
Christmas and 'Only Fools and Horses' go together like Del Boy and Rodders. The dodgy geezers' biggest audience came on Christmas Day 2001, with 21.34 million tuning in. it saw the Trotters lose their money (they had finally become millionaires in the last episode) in a bad investment, go bankrupt and move back to Peckham. Del decides to appear on a gameshow in the hopes of winning his fortune back. | Contributed
3. Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special 1996
Part of a trilogy of episodes over the festive season in 1996, the Christmas Day episode of Only Fool and Horses reached 21.31 million people. Famous for the scene in which Del and Rodney emerge from the mist dressed as Batman and Robin, the trilogy ends with the Trotters achieving their dreams and becoming millionaires. | Contributed
4. Just Good Friends Christmas Special 1986
Not content with writing Only Fools and Horses, John Sullivan also wrote the fourth most-watched Christmas Day show ever - Just Good Friends. The sitcom starred Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis as former lovers who meet in a pub five years after he jilted her at the altar. The Christmas Day special in 1986 was the final episode and saw the pair finally get married. It was watched by 20.76 million people. | Contributed