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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5. Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special 1992
Yet another festive episode of Only Fools and Horses completes the top 5, with the 1992 special attracting an audience of 20.14 million. Entitled 'Mother Nature's Son', it sees Del struggling to pay the mortgage on the newly-purchased Trotter council flat and having to deal with barrels containing an unknown yellow liquid on the allotment he's inherited from Grandad. 21.14 million saw how he sorted his issues. | Contributed
6. Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special 1989
Only Fools and Horses' dominance continues with its 1989 special, watched by 20.10 million viewers. It saw the Trotter family and their friends head to the Margate seaside, ony to see them become stranded after their coach blows up and then finding the hotel they've booked is less than salubrious. | Contributed
7. Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special 1993
The penultimate entry for the Trotters in this list is the Christmas Day episode of Only Fools and Horses in 1993 entitled 'Fatal Extraction, which had an audience of 19.59 million. The episode saw Del go on a date after Raquel leaves him, only to aquire what he believes to be a stalker. | Contributed
8. Eastenders Christmas Special 1986 (early evening)
The misery of Christmas on Albert Square is always a hit with viewers and Eastenders hit ratings gold in 1986 when 'Dirty' Den handed Angie divorce papers. 19.5 million people watched on at home. | Contributed