23 December 2025, 15:00<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The Xmas Eve TV schedule is bringing us lots of classics including Paddington, Home Alone and more. <\/span><\/p>\n What’s on TV this Christmas Eve? Here is everything you need to know about the films and shows on BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 this December 24th.<\/p>\n There’s only one more sleep to go until Santa arrives, and for many of us, Christmas<\/a> Eve is the perfect day to begin with all the festivities, including sitting down and watching some fabulous TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n With relaxing and indulging on top of everyone’s priority list this December, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have pulled out all the stops to make sure you’re entertained every minute along the way.<\/p>\n For December 24th 2025 we have TV specials like All Creatures Great and Small, movie classics such as Home Alone<\/a> and Paddington<\/a> and shows such as The Great British Sewing Bee bringing us an extra dose of festive.<\/p>\n Here are our picks from the Christmas Eve TV schedule for BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5.<\/p>\n Movie Babe will be airing on Christmas Eve. <\/span><\/p>\n 9:15am<\/strong> – CBeebies Panto: Cinderella<\/p>\n 12:05pm <\/strong>– Minions<\/p>\n 2:55pm<\/strong> – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse<\/p>\n 5:30pm<\/strong> – Paddington<\/p>\n 6:55pm<\/strong> – EastEnders<\/p>\n 7:25pm <\/strong>– The Great British Sewing Bee Celebrity Christmas Special<\/p>\n 8:25pm <\/strong>– Gavin & Stacey: The Finale<\/p>\n 10pm <\/strong>– Two Doors Down Christmas Special<\/p>\n 10:50pm<\/strong> – Gavin & Stacey A Fond Farewell<\/p>\n 7am <\/strong>– Celebrity Escape to the Country<\/p>\n 9am <\/strong>– Citizen Kane<\/p>\n 12pm<\/strong> – Bargain Hunt: Christmas Special<\/p>\n 1:25pm<\/strong> – Meet Me in St Louis<\/p>\n 4:05pm<\/strong> – Calamity Jane<\/p>\n 5:45pm <\/strong>– Carols from King’s<\/p>\n 7pm <\/strong>– Richard Osman’s Festive House of Games<\/p>\n 7:30pm<\/strong> – Celebrity Mastermind<\/p>\n 8pm <\/strong>– Only Connect Christmas<\/p>\n 8:30pm<\/strong> – Christmas University<\/p>\n 9pm <\/strong>– Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing<\/p>\n 10pm <\/strong>– A Ghost Story for Christmas<\/p>\n Normal daytime TV schedule including Good Morning Britain, This Morning and Loose Women.<\/p>\n 1:35pm<\/strong> – E.T.<\/p>\n 3:45pm <\/strong>– Santa Claus: The Movie<\/p>\n 5:55pm<\/strong> – The Chase Celebrity Christmas Special<\/p>\n 6:55pm <\/strong>– Emmerdale<\/p>\n 7:25pm –<\/strong> Royal Carols: Together At Christmas<\/p>\n 8:40pm<\/strong> – Coronation Street<\/p>\n 9:10pm<\/strong> – Love Actually<\/p>\n Channel 4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 6:10am<\/strong> – The Dog House at Christmas<\/p>\n 7:30am<\/strong> – The Snowman<\/p>\n 8am<\/strong> – Father Christmas<\/p>\n 8:30am <\/strong>– The Snowman and the Snowdog<\/p>\n 10:10am<\/strong> – Babe<\/p>\n 12:05pm<\/strong> – Hamleys: Top 100 Toys of All Time<\/p>\n 1:35pm<\/strong> – Sister Act<\/p>\n 4:10pm <\/strong>– Mog’s Christmas<\/p>\n 5:30pm <\/strong>– Home Alone<\/p>\n 7:30pm <\/strong>– Finding Father Christmas<\/p>\n 9pm<\/strong> – 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Christmas Special<\/p>\n 10pm<\/strong> – The Last Leg of Christmas<\/p>\n 11pm <\/strong>– The Big Fat Quiz of Telly<\/p>\n Sister Act is a movie classic that comes out year after year for Christmas. <\/span><\/p>\n 8:05am <\/strong>– A Paw Patrol<\/p>\n 9:10am <\/strong>– Scrooge – A Christmas Carol<\/p>\n 11:05am<\/strong> – Santa Who?<\/p>\n 1:05pm<\/strong> – Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War<\/p>\n 3:25pm<\/strong> – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel<\/p>\n 7pm <\/strong>– Christmas with The Greens: A Yorkshire Vet Special<\/p>\n 8pm <\/strong>– All Creatures Great & Small: Behind the scenes<\/p>\n 9pm <\/strong>– All Creatures Great & Small: Christmas Special<\/p>\n 10:15pm<\/strong> – The Christmas Treats We Loved and Lost<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.heart.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 23 December 2025, 15:00 The Xmas Eve TV schedule is bringing us lots of classics including Paddington, Home Alone and more. Picture: Alamy What’s on TV this Christmas Eve? Here is everything you need to know about the films and shows on BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 this December 24th. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2210784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Christmas-Eve-TV-schedule-what-films-TV-shows-and.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210785,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210783\/revisions\/2210785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n
\n Picture:
\nAlamy<\/p>\n
\n![\"Facebook](\"https:\/\/www.heart.co.uk\/assets_v4r\/gusto\/img\/facebook-share.png\"\/)
\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
\n
\n Picture:
\nAlamy<\/p>\nChristmas Eve TV Schedule 2025<\/h2>\n
BBC One<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
BBC Two<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
ITV<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n Picture:
\nAlamy<\/p>\nChannel 5<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n