British Comedy Guide

Schedule Wednesday 25th December 2024

Apple TV+ 6am
60 min
Bad Sisters

Bad Sisters

Series 2, Episode 8 - Cliff Hanger

As Houlihan discovers shocking revelations, the sisters face an impossible situation.

Radio 4 8am
60 min
Absolutely Fabulous. Image shows from L to R: Bubble (Jane Horrocks), Saffron (Julia Sawalha), Edina (Jennifer Saunders), Mother (June Whitfield), Patsy (Joanna Lumley). Copyright: Saunders And French Productions / BBC

The Reunion: Absolutely Fabulous

The cast of Ab Fab reunite to look back at the hit sitcom.

BBC Radio 5 Live 12:30pm
30 min
Rick Edwards. Credit: BBC

Fighting Talk

Series 22, Highlights Special - Favourites 2024 - Part 1

Rick Edwards presents some of the best moments of sporting punditry from Fighting Talk this year.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Punt & Dennis: Route Masters. Image shows left to right: Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis

Punt & Dennis: Route Masters

Christmas Special

In 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.

TNT Sports 1 logo 3pm
60 min
The Football's On. Copyright: BT Sport

The Football's On

Series 12, Episode 3

A humorous look at the week's football stories with Ian Stone and guests.

BBC Radio 5 Live 3:30pm
30 min
Rick Edwards. Credit: BBC

Fighting Talk

Series 22, Highlights Special - Favourites 2024 - Part 2

Sporting punditry from Fighting Talk with more of the best moments from this year with Rick Edwards.

Radio 4 3:30pm
90 min
Noël Coward

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.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 6:10pm
80 min
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

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!

BBC Radio 5 Live 6:15pm
45 min version
My Mate's A Footballer. Image shows left to right: Patrick Bamford, Joe Wilkinson. Credit: BBC

My Mate's A Footballer

Series 3, Episode 14 - My Mate's A Comedian

Patrick 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.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
One Person Found This Helpful. Frank Skinner. Credit: BBC

One Person Found This Helpful

Christmas Special

In 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?

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9pm
90 min
Gavin & Stacey. Image shows left to right: Smithy (James Corden), Gavin (Mathew Horne), Stacey (Joanna Page), Nessa (Ruth Jones). Credit: Tidy Productions, Fulwell 73 Productions, BBC, Tom Jackson

Gavin & Stacey

Christmas Special - The Finale

It'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.

Radio 4 9pm
30 min
Count Binface. Jon Harvey

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!

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 11:05pm
30 min
Mrs. Brown's Boys

Mrs. Brown's Boys

Christmas 2024, Christmas Special - Ding Dong Mammy

Christmas 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.

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