STARRY NIGHTS

This festive season promises a stellar line-up of comedy, drama, entertainment and documentaries - so get out the chocolates as NICOLA METHVEN reveals the best of the box

- NICOLA METHVEN

This festive season promises a stellar lineup of comedy, drama, entertainment and documentaries - so get out the chocolates as NICOLA METHVEN reveals the best of the box

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

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It's 1945 and the first peacetime Christmas since the war ended. With Helen feeling under the weather, it’s fallen on James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) to take on the Darrowby Nativity play, pictured.

GONE CHRISTMAS FISHING

BBC2

Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse, below, head to Devon and Cornwall for their festive special - where they are joined by Dawn French. Arriving by steam train, they fish the rivers Lyd and Camel in Devon and head out to sea in Cornwall. They visit top chef Paul Ainsworth in his Padstow restaurant to prepare a special Christmas feast of turbot.

WILD LONDON

BBC1