Schedule Wednesday 25th December 2024
6am60 min
Bad Sisters
Series 2, Episode 8 - Cliff HangerAs Houlihan discovers shocking revelations, the sisters face an impossible situation.
8am60 min
The Reunion: Absolutely Fabulous
The cast of Ab Fab reunite to look back at the hit sitcom.
12:30pm30 min
Fighting Talk
Series 22, Highlights Special - Favourites 2024 - Part 1Rick Edwards presents some of the best moments of sporting punditry from Fighting Talk this year.
2:15pm45 min
Punt & Dennis: Route Masters
Christmas SpecialIn this Christmas Day special, the duo reach their final destination, through a series of appropriately festive detours and diversions. They're armed with a bulging sack of nuggets of new and half-remembered trivia, aided by a special guest. And just as Father Christmas manages to circumnavigate the world in just one night, Steve and Hugh will take us on an equally circuitous and lengthy journey.
3pm60 min
The Football's On
Series 12, Episode 3A humorous look at the week's football stories with Ian Stone and guests.
3:30pm30 min
Fighting Talk
Series 22, Highlights Special - Favourites 2024 - Part 2Sporting punditry from Fighting Talk with more of the best moments from this year with Rick Edwards.
3:30pm90 min
Waiting In The Wings
Noel Coward's vibrant, poignant and witty play about a group of retired actresses who find challenging ways of facing old age together.
6:10pm80 min
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace invents a 'smart gnome' that has a mind of its own - or does it? It falls to Gromit to take on the dastardly Feathers McGraw once more... or Wallace may never invent again!
6:15pm45 min version
My Mate's A Footballer
Series 3, Episode 14 - My Mate's A ComedianPatrick Bamford turns the tables on Joe Wilkinson to ask him about life as a comedian, with Ricky Gervais and Katherine Ryan adding their views on the world of comedy and stand-up.
6:15pm
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Agatha Raisin
Christmas Special - Kissing Christmas GoodbyeDuring the dark, grey days of early December, the sleuth is obsessed by two things - the looming festivities, and her ex James Lacey. In order to drive the latter from her thoughts, Agatha concentrates on planning the perfect Christmas for her friends, but when there's a poisoning in the village, it's down to her to solve the case before the 25th rolls around.
6:30pm30 min
One Person Found This Helpful
Christmas SpecialIn this Christmas special, Frank Skinner and his guests decipher the good, the bad, and the baffling, as they try to work out a mystery item - based entirely on its online reviews. Which traditional panto features an animatronic dinosaur? What's the worst present they've ever received? And is that one star write-up "bit claggy, made me feel sick" a review of some stuffing or Love Actually?
6:35pm
(repeat)
The Good Life
Christmas Special - Silly, But It's Fun....When the Leadbetter Christmas is cancelled, Tom and Barbara save the day by inviting them over for a self-sufficient Christmas that cost only 15p.
7:10pm
(repeat)
The Vicar Of Dibley
Series 2, Christmas Special - EngagementAlice is concerned. She and Hugo mightn't have been romantically linked for long, but she's known him for 26 years and they've still never kissed - is she so unattractive? When the inevitable eventually happens, David is far from pleased, and Hugo has an important decision to make.
7:20pm
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The Morecambe And Wise Classics
Special - The Musical Classics Of Morecambe And WiseTwo of the funniest men of their time in highlights from their shows in which they mix music with comedy.
7:40pm
(repeat)
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Gone Christmas Fishing 2022, Christmas Special - Vesterålen & Lofoten Islands (Norway)For the first time in Gone Fishing's history, the angling duo leave the riverbanks of Britain behind and Paul takes Bob on a dream fishing trip to Norway.
7:55pm
(repeat)
The Morecambe & Wise Show
The Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show 1977, Christmas SpecialSketch series starring comedy legends Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, plus a string of top-name celebrity guests.
8pm
(repeat)
Blackadder
Special - Blackadder Back & ForthIt's New Year's Eve 1999 and Lord Edmund Blackadder V is holding a dinner party for his four closest friends.
8pm
(repeat)
Archive On 4: Victoria Wood - Loose Chippings
Biographer Jasper Rees presents an assortment of previously unbroadcast audio gems from Victoria Wood.
8:05pm
(repeat)
Rob And Romesh Vs
A selection of Christmas specials.
9pm90 min
Gavin & Stacey
Christmas Special - The FinaleIt's five years since Nessa's marriage proposal to Smithy. Join us on the journey to Barry and Billericay as we catch up with the Shipmans and the Wests for the very last time.
9pm
(repeat)
Detectorists
Series 2, Christmas SpecialLance seems to have lost his metal detecting mojo, and Russell's talk of a curse isn't helping.
9pm60 min version (repeat)
QI
Series T, Episode 1 - Tips And ToolsSandi Toksvig shares her top tips and tools with Joe Lycett, Holly Walsh, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies.
9pm30 min
Ceefax Strikes Back... With Count Binface
Count Binface celebrates the BBC's quirkiest invention: CEEFAX. A hilarious revivification of an unlikely national treasure. Granted it's on the radio, but it's a start!
10pm60 min version (repeat)
QI
Series U, Christmas Special - All I Want For Christmas Is USandi Toksvig is joined by Eshaan Akbar, Jo Brand, Jimmy Carr, and Alan Davies for a festive special. They'll uncover Santa Claus' whereabouts, why horses make excellent party guests, and why there always seems to be room for Christmas pudding - plus Sandi showcases her super-cool, cutting-edge hidden talent.
10:20pm
(repeat)
The Lady In The Van
The Lady In The Van is a drama based on real events, about a vagrant who the playwright Alan Bennett allowed to park her van in his driveway, where she lived for fifteen years.
10:35pm
(repeat)
Ricky Gervais: Fame
The TV broadcast of Ricky Gervais' third stand up-show in which he focused on the 'weird world of fame'.
10:35pm
(repeat)
Notting Hill
Romantic comedy film about the relationship between a famous American movie actress and an unassuming British book shop owner.
10:45pm
(repeat)
Murder, They Hope
Christmas Special - Blood Actually: "A Murder They Hope Mystery"It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the village has a Santa competition, but things take a dark turn as competitors start being killed off in a host of warped and festive ways.
11pm60 min version (repeat)
Have I Got News For You
Series 63, Episode 8Miles Jupp presents the show. Whilst the actor and comedian has appeared 13 times before as a panellist on the show, this is his first time in the guest host's chair. Presenter James May and Labour MP Jess Phillips are the guest panellists.
11pm
(repeat)
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
Series 4, Episode 4 - CugglesLouise has to think about getting a job. Gaz opens a car boot, only to find Jonny and Kate having sex in there as they can't find anywhere else to go. Gaz offers his flat as Donna's at college.
11:05pm30 min
Mrs. Brown's Boys
Christmas 2024, Christmas Special - Ding Dong MammyChristmas arrives in Finglas but it seems Agnes is struggling to find the festive spirit as she fails to convince her family she is not grumpy. Cathy pulls the community together in support of a good cause and Buster sources a sustainable tree.
11:30pm
(repeat)
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
Series 4, Episode 5 - PurgatoryDonna finds Gaz's mobile ringing on Janet's table. Janet appears flustered but claims Gaz needed to talk about Donna. Donna feels guilty, believing she's neglected him. When the coast is clear, Gaz emerges, feeling guilty about Janet.
Midnight
(repeat)
Would I Lie To You?
A selection of three episodes from the lie-based panel game.
Midnight
(repeat)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Series 32, Christmas SpecialGreg Davies hosts a festive edition of the quiz with Chris Ramsey, Ella Henderson and Jordan North joining regulars Noel Fielding and Jamali Maddix and a returning Daisy May Cooper.