Christmas TV preview special - from kids' favourites to films, soaps, specials and much more
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Yay! It's here, the Screen Babble Christmas TV and streaming preview. Kelly, Benji and Steven will take you through the best of film and TV that will be coming to the small and big screens in the coming weeks. First up Steven talks films including, The Heist Before Christmas (Sky Max, date tbc), It's a Wonderful Knife (Amazon Prime) and one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year, Wonka (cinemas from 8 December). Kelly gives us the low down on kids TV including the annual return of the Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler book based animation. This year Tabby McTat will grace our screens, much to the delight of many kids and adults around the country. CBeebies panto also returns with all your favourite CBeebies presenters and characters. This year the gang takes on Robin Hood - always a fun watch for the whole family. Both BBC productions have not yet had their broadcast dates announced but will air in and around Christmas. The team will update you on Weekend Watch once dates are confirmed. Another great family watch this year is Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget which is coming to Netflix on December 15. Benji takes on the big guns and tells us about this year's Christmas specials. Call the Midwife returns as ever as well as a new addition for this year - the Brassic Christmas Special. Benji tells us all about these two very different programmes as well as the Dr Who Christmas Special which is also hotly anticipated when we may or may not see the Dr transform into his new guise. Finally, Kelly takes us through a Chrismtas institution - the soaps and the big story lines they run over the Christmas period and in particular on Christmas day. There is plenty of food for thought for you viewing pleasure this festive season - so get the planner out now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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