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The BBC has unveiled its Christmas TV schedule for 2018, revealing a line-up that features iconic detectives, animated rabbits, and 19th century classics.
John Malkovich's Poirot leads the way, starring as the iconic character alongside Harry Potter'S Rupert Grint in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murderers.
A star-studded version of Watership Down – featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Nicolas Hoult, John Boyega, Olivia Coleman, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, and Peter Capaldi – will also debut on BBC One, as will a six-part version of Les Misérables starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins.
Other dramas include a three-part adaptation of The Long Song, with Tamara Lawrence and Hayley Atwell, and the return of Idris Elba's Luther In the series of fifth season
1/25 Bojack Horseman
A cartoon about a talking horse, starring the goofy older brother from Arrested Development … on paper little about BoJack Horseman screams "must watch". Yet the series almost immediately transcends its format to a moving and very funny rumination on depression and middle-age malaise. Will Arnett plays BoJack – One time star of Nineties hit sitcom Horsin 'Around – as a lost soul whose turbo-charged narcissism prevents him getting his life together.
Almost as good as a support cast including Alison Brie (Glow, Mad Men), Aaron Paul, of Breaking Bad, and Amy Sedaris as a pampered Persian cat who is also BoJack's agent. Season five touches the live rail of harassment in the movie industry, offering one of the most astute commentaries on the #MeToo movement with an episode based centered around an award ceremony called "The Forgivies".
Netflix
2/25 Stranger Things
A valentine to the Spielberg School of Eighties blockbuster, with Winona Ryder as a small town, whose son has been abducted by a transdimensional monster. ET, Goonies, Close Encounters, Alien and everything Stephen King wrote between 1975 and 1990 are all tossed in the blender by Millennial writer-creators the Duffer brothers. It was clear Stranger Things were going to be a mega-smash when Barb – the "best friend" character eaten in the second episode – went viral the weekend it dropped.
Netflix
3/25 Daredevil
Netflix's marvel shows tend to the overlong and turgid. An exception is the high-kicking Daredevil, with Charlie Cox's blind lawyer / crimefighter banishing all memory of Ben Affleck's turn in the red jumpsuit in 2003. Backdrop as With New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Daredevil is street-level grit in caked and features searing series one performance by Vincent D'Onofrio as the villainous Kingpin. The perfect antidote to the big screen
Netflix
4/25 The Staircase
Did he do it? Does it matter the lengths of the Durham, North Carolina police seemingly went to stitch him up? Sitting through this twisting, turning documenting about the trial of Michael Peterson – charged with the murder in 2003 of his wife – the viewer may find themselves alternately empathising with and recoiling from the accused. It's a feat of bravura factual filmmaking from French documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, which comes to Netflix with a recently shot three-part coda catching up with the (very weird) Peterson clan a decade on.
Netflix
5/25 Dark
Stranger Things: the Euro-Gloom years. Netflix's first German-language product is a pulp romp that thinks it's a Wagner opera. In a remote town surrounded by a creepy forest localities fear the disappearance of a teenager may be linked to other missing persons cases from decades ago. The timelines get twisted and it's obvious that something bad is emanating from a tunnel. Yet if the story goes on the journey itself
Netflix
6/25 A Series of Unfortunate Events
The wry and bleak Lemony Snickett children novels finally get the ghostly adaptation they deserve (let's all pretend the dreadful 2004 Jim Carrey movie never happened). Neil Patrick Harris gobbles up the scenery as the vain and wicked Count Olaf, desperate to separate the Baudelaire orphans from their considerable inheritance. The look is Tim Burton by way of Wes Anderson, and the dark wit of the books is fully replicated (Snickett, aka Daniel Handler, is co-producer).
Netflix
7/25 Maniac
If you're curious as to how Cary Fukunaga will handle the Bond franchise, his limited series, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, drops some delicious hints It's a mind-bending sci-fi story set in an alternate United States where computers still look like Commodore 64s and in which you can get a "travel buddy" sit down and read you adverts.
Stone and Hill are star-crossed outcasts participating in a drugs trial that make trippy genre excursions in a series of catapults – including an occult adventure and the Lord of the Rings-style fantasy. It is here that Fukunaga demonstrates its versatility, handling potentially hokey material smartly and respectfully 007 fans can sleep easy.
Netflix
8/25 Better Call Saul
The Breaking Bad Prequel is starting to outgrow the show that spawned it. Where Breaking Bad is a master-class in scorched earth storytelling Saul is gentler and more humane Years before the rise of Walter White, the future is overlord's sleazy lawyer, Saul Goodman, is still plain old Jimmy McGill, a striving every-dude trying to catch a break. But how far will he go to make his name and escape the shadow of his superstar attorney brother Chuck (Michael McKean)?
AMC Studios / Netflix
9/25 Black Mirror
Do not tell Channel 4 But Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology series has arguably got even better since making the British terrestrial TV to the realm of megabucks American streaming. Bigger budgets have given creators Brooker and Annabel Jones license to let their imaginations off the leash – yielding unsurpassable episodes such as virtual reality love story "San Junipero" and Star Trek parody "USS Callister", which has got a bunch of Emmys
Netflix
10/25 Mindhunter
David Fincher produces this serial killer drama based on the writings of a real-life FBI psychological profiler. It's the post-Watergate Seventies and Two Maverick G-Men (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany) are going out on a limb by using the latest psychological research to get inside the head of a motley assembly of real-life sociopathic murders – including the notorious "Co-Ed" butcher Ed Kemper, brought the chillingly to live in an Emmy-nominated performance by Cameron Britton.
Netflix
11/25 The Crown
A right royal blockbuster from dramatist Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost / Nixon). Tracing the reign of Elizabeth II from her days as a wide-eyed young woman, the sudden death of her father, The Crown humanises the royals as well as a bodice-ripping sap as their private life. Matt Smith is charmingly roguish as Prince Philip and Vanessa Kirby has ascended the Hollywood ranks on the back of his turn as the flawed yet sympathetic Princess Margaret.
Most impressive of all, arguably, is Claire Foy, who plays the Queen as a shy woman thrust unwillingly in the spotlight. Foy and the rest of the principal cast have died, with a crew of older actors – headed by Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies – taking over the middle-aged Windsors for season three.
Netflix
12/25 Narcos
This drug trafficking caper spells out exactly what kind of series it is with an early scene in which two gangsters zip around a multi-level carpark on a motorbike firing a machine gun. Narcos, in other words, is the people who think Pacino's Scarface a touch too understated. Series One and Two feature a mesmerizing performance by Wagner Moura as Columbian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, while the season three focuses on the notorious Cali cartel. Reported to be one of Netflix's biggest hits – The company does not release audience figures – The fourth season is Mexico's interminable drug wars.
Juan Pablo Gutierrez / Netflix
13/25 Master Of None
A cloud hangs over Aziz Ansari's future after he was embroiled in the #MeToo scandal. But whatever happens, he has left us with a humane and riveting sitcom about an Ansari-proximate character looking for love and trying to establish himself professionally in contemporary New York.
K.C. Bailey / Netflix
14/25 Bloodline
One of Netflix's early blockbusters, the sprawling soap opera updates from Dallas to modern day southern Florida. Against the edge-of-civilization backdrop of the Florida Keys, Kyle Chandler plays the local detective and favorite son of a well-to-do family. Their idyllic lives are thrown in chaos with the return of the clan's black sheep (an unnervingly intense Ben Mendelsohn). The story is spectacularly hokey but searing performance by Chandler and Mendelsohn, and by Sissy Spacek and the late Sam Shepard as their imperious parents, make Bloodline compelling – a guilty pleasure that, actually, you should not feel all that guilty about.
Rod Millington / Netflix
15/25 The Alienist
You can almost smell the shoddy sanitation and horse-manure in this lavish murder-mystery set in 19th New York. We're firmly in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York territory, with a serial killer bumping off boy prostitutes across Manhattan. Enter pioneering criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreisler (Daniel Brühl), aided by newspaper John Moore (Luke Evans) and feisty lady detective Sarah Howard (Dakota Fanning).
Kurt Iswarienko
16/25 Love
Judd Apatow bring his signature gross-out Love, which Apatow produced, is a masterclass in restraints compared to 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up etc. Paul Rust is Gus, a nerdish movie set tutor, whose develops a crush on Gillian Jacobs's too-cool-for-school radio producer Mickey. Romance, of a sort, blossoms – but Love's triumph is to acknowledge the complications of real life and disabuse its characters of the idea that there is such a thing as a straightforward happy ending. Hipster LA offers the bustling setting.
Netflix
17/25 Queer Eye
Who says reality TV has to be nasty and manipulative? This updating of the early 2000s hit queue eye for the Straight Guy has five stereotype-challenging gay men sharing lifestyle tips and fashion advice with an engaging cast of All American schlubs (the first two seasons are shot mostly in the state of Georgia). There are laughs – but serious moment too, such as when the crew refuses to enter a church because of his strict Christian upbringing.
Netflix
18/25 Chef's Table
A high-gloss revamping of the traditional TV food show Each episode is a high wattage international chef; across its three seasons, the series has featured gastronomic superstars from the US, Argentina, India and Korea.
Charles Panian / Netflix
19/25 Arrested Development
A disastrous group interview in which actor Jason Bateman was "mansplained" away the bullying co-star Jessica Walter had suffered at the hands of fellow cast-member Jeffrey Tambor meant the season five of Arrested Development was fally compromised before it even landed Yet Netflix's return to the dysfunctional world of the Bluth family stands on its merits and is a worthy addition to the surreal humor of seasons one through three (series four, which had the busy schedule of the cast around, comparable by disposable) .
Netflix
20/25 Altered Carbon
Netflix does Bladerunner with this magnificent adaptation of the cult Richard Morgan novel. The setting is a neon-splashed cyberpunk future in which the super-wealthy live forever by uploading the consciousness in new "skins". Enter rebel-turned-detective Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), hired to find out who killed a (since resurrected) zillionaire industryist while dealing with fallout from his own troubled past Rumored to be one of Netflix's most expensive projects yet, for its second run, Anthony Mackie (aka Marvel's Falcon) replaced Kinnaman as the shape-shifting Kovacs.
Netflix
21/25 Rick and Morty
Dan Harmon, creator of cult sitcom Community (also on Netflix), finds the perfect outlet for the fanboy imagination with this crazed animated comedy about a Marty McFly / Doc Brown-esque duo of time travellers. Every genre has been parodied with the manic energy and zinging dialogue.
Netflix / Adult Swim
22/25 GLOW
Mad Men's Alison Brie is our entry point in this comedy-drama inspired by a real life all-female wrestling league in the eighties. Ruth Wilder (Brie) is a down-on-her luck actor who, out of desperation, signs up a wrestling competition will be going on in Sylvia (podcast king Marc Maron). Britrock singer Kate Nash is one of her fellow troupe members: The big to life Rhonda "Britannica" Richardson.
Netflix
23/25 Archer
Deadpan animated satire about an idiot super spy with shaken and stirred mother issues. One of the most ambitious modern comedies, animated or otherwise, Archer tries on different types of humor for size and even occasionally tugs at the heart strings.
24/25 Ozark
Breaking Bad for those The saga of Walter White took the opportunity to fight against the iconic anti-hero's rise from every man to dead-eyed criminal. Ozark gets there in the first half hour as nebbish Chicago accountant Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) agrees to serve as the lieutenant for the hillbilly heartlands of Ozark, Missouri (in return they thoughtfully spare their life). Bateman, usually seen in comedy roles, is a revelation as is Laura Linney as his nasty wife Wendy There is also a break-out performance by Julia Garner playing the local redneck crime family.
Netflix
25/25 The Good Place
A horror comedy with a twist. Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) is a cynical schlub waved through the Pearly Gates by mistake after a bizarre supermarket accident. There is a great deal of controversy, but disorganized angel Michael (Ted Danson) whilst also negotiating fractious relationships with do-gooder Chidi (William Jackson Harper), spoiled princess Tahani (former T4 presenter Jameela Jamil) and ex-drug dealer Jason (Manny Jacinto).
Netflix
1/25 Bojack Horseman
A cartoon about a talking horse, starring the goofy older brother from Arrested Development … on paper little about BoJack Horseman screams "must watch". Yet the series almost immediately transcends its format to a moving and very funny rumination on depression and middle-age malaise. Will Arnett plays BoJack – One time star of Nineties hit sitcom Horsin 'Around – as a lost soul whose turbo-charged narcissism prevents him getting his life together.
Almost as good as a support cast including Alison Brie (Glow, Mad Men), Aaron Paul, of Breaking Bad, and Amy Sedaris as a pampered Persian cat who is also BoJack's agent. Season five touches the live rail of harassment in the movie industry, offering one of the most astute commentaries on the #MeToo movement with an episode based centered around an award ceremony called "The Forgivies".
Netflix
2/25 Stranger Things
A valentine to the Spielberg School of Eighties blockbuster, with Winona Ryder as a small town, whose son has been abducted by a transdimensional monster. ET, Goonies, Close Encounters, Alien and everything Stephen King wrote between 1975 and 1990 are all tossed in the blender by Millennial writer-creators the Duffer brothers. It was clear Stranger Things were going to be a mega-smash when Barb – the "best friend" character eaten in the second episode – went viral the weekend it dropped.
Netflix
3/25 Daredevil
Netflix's marvel shows tend to the overlong and turgid. An exception is the high-kicking Daredevil, with Charlie Cox's blind lawyer / crimefighter banishing all memory of Ben Affleck's turn in the red jumpsuit in 2003. Backdrop as With New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Daredevil is street-level grit in caked and features searing series one performance by Vincent D'Onofrio as the villainous Kingpin. The perfect antidote to the big screen
Netflix
4/25 The Staircase
Did he do it? Does it matter the lengths of the Durham, North Carolina police seemingly went to stitch him up? Sitting through this twisting, turning documenting about the trial of Michael Peterson – charged with the murder in 2003 of his wife – the viewer may find themselves alternately empathising with and recoiling from the accused. It's a feat of bravura factual filmmaking from French documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, which comes to Netflix with a recently shot three-part coda catching up with the (very weird) Peterson clan a decade on.
Netflix
5/25 Dark
Stranger Things: the Euro-Gloom years. Netflix's first German-language product is a pulp romp that thinks it's a Wagner opera. In a remote town surrounded by a creepy forest localities fear the disappearance of a teenager may be linked to other missing persons cases from decades ago. The timelines get twisted and it's obvious that something bad is emanating from a tunnel. Yet if the story goes on the journey itself
Netflix
6/25 A Series of Unfortunate Events
The wry and bleak Lemony Snickett children novels finally get the ghostly adaptation they deserve (let's all pretend the dreadful 2004 Jim Carrey movie never happened). Neil Patrick Harris gobbles up the scenery as the vain and wicked Count Olaf, desperate to separate the Baudelaire orphans from their considerable inheritance. The look is Tim Burton by way of Wes Anderson, and the dark wit of the books is fully replicated (Snickett, aka Daniel Handler, is co-producer).
Netflix
7/25 Maniac
If you're curious as to how Cary Fukunaga will handle the Bond franchise, his limited series, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, drops some delicious hints It's a mind-bending sci-fi story set in an alternate United States where computers still look like Commodore 64s and in which you can get a "travel buddy" sit down and read you adverts.
Stone and Hill are star-crossed outcasts participating in a drugs trial that make trippy genre excursions in a series of catapults – including an occult adventure and the Lord of the Rings-style fantasy. It is here that Fukunaga demonstrates its versatility, handling potentially hokey material smartly and respectfully 007 fans can sleep easy.
Netflix
8/25 Better Call Saul
The Breaking Bad Prequel is starting to outgrow the show that spawned it. Where Breaking Bad is a master-class in scorched earth storytelling Saul is gentler and more humane Years before the rise of Walter White, the future is overlord's sleazy lawyer, Saul Goodman, is still plain old Jimmy McGill, a striving every-dude trying to catch a break. But how far will he go to make his name and escape the shadow of his superstar attorney brother Chuck (Michael McKean)?
AMC Studios / Netflix
9/25 Black Mirror
Do not tell Channel 4 But Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology series has arguably got even better since making the British terrestrial TV to the realm of megabucks American streaming. Bigger budgets have given creators Brooker and Annabel Jones license to let their imaginations off the leash – yielding unsurpassable episodes such as virtual reality love story "San Junipero" and Star Trek parody "USS Callister", which has got a bunch of Emmys
Netflix
10/25 Mindhunter
David Fincher produces this serial killer drama based on the writings of a real-life FBI psychological profiler. It's the post-Watergate Seventies and Two Maverick G-Men (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany) are going out on a limb by using the latest psychological research to get inside the head of a motley assembly of real-life sociopathic murders – including the notorious "Co-Ed" butcher Ed Kemper, brought the chillingly to live in an Emmy-nominated performance by Cameron Britton.
Netflix
11/25 The Crown
A right royal blockbuster from dramatist Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost / Nixon). Tracing the reign of Elizabeth II from her days as a wide-eyed young woman, the sudden death of her father, The Crown humanises the royals as well as a bodice-ripping sap as their private life. Matt Smith is charmingly roguish as Prince Philip and Vanessa Kirby has ascended the Hollywood ranks on the back of his turn as the flawed yet sympathetic Princess Margaret.
Most impressive of all, arguably, is Claire Foy, who plays the Queen as a shy woman thrust unwillingly in the spotlight. Foy and the rest of the principal cast have died, with a crew of older actors – headed by Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies – taking over the middle-aged Windsors for season three.
Netflix
12/25 Narcos
This drug trafficking caper spells out exactly what kind of series it is with an early scene in which two gangsters zip around a multi-level carpark on a motorbike firing a machine gun. Narcos, in other words, is the people who think Pacino's Scarface a touch too understated. Series One and Two feature a mesmerizing performance by Wagner Moura as Columbian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, while the season three focuses on the notorious Cali cartel. Reported to be one of Netflix's biggest hits – The company does not release audience figures – The fourth season is Mexico's interminable drug wars.
Juan Pablo Gutierrez / Netflix
13/25 Master Of None
A cloud hangs over Aziz Ansari's future after he was embroiled in the #MeToo scandal. But whatever happens, he has left us with a humane and riveting sitcom about an Ansari-proximate character looking for love and trying to establish himself professionally in contemporary New York.
K.C. Bailey / Netflix
14/25 Bloodline
One of Netflix's early blockbusters, the sprawling soap opera updates from Dallas to modern day southern Florida. Against the edge-of-civilization backdrop of the Florida Keys, Kyle Chandler plays the local detective and favorite son of a well-to-do family. Their idyllic lives are thrown in chaos with the return of the clan's black sheep (an unnervingly intense Ben Mendelsohn). The story is spectacularly hokey but searing performance by Chandler and Mendelsohn, and by Sissy Spacek and the late Sam Shepard as their imperious parents, make Bloodline compelling – a guilty pleasure that, actually, you should not feel all that guilty about.
Rod Millington / Netflix
15/25 The Alienist
You can almost smell the shoddy sanitation and horse-manure in this lavish murder-mystery set in 19th New York. We're firmly in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York territory, with a serial killer bumping off boy prostitutes across Manhattan. Enter pioneering criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreisler (Daniel Brühl), aided by newspaper John Moore (Luke Evans) and feisty lady detective Sarah Howard (Dakota Fanning).
Kurt Iswarienko
16/25 Love
Judd Apatow bring his signature gross-out Love, which Apatow produced, is a masterclass in restraints compared to 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up etc. Paul Rust is Gus, a nerdish movie set tutor, whose develops a crush on Gillian Jacobs's too-cool-for-school radio producer Mickey. Romance, of a sort, blossoms – but Love's triumph is to acknowledge the complications of real life and disabuse its characters of the idea that there is such a thing as a straightforward happy ending. Hipster LA offers the bustling setting.
Netflix
17/25 Queer Eye
Who says reality TV has to be nasty and manipulative? This updating of the early 2000s hit queue eye for the Straight Guy has five stereotype-challenging gay men sharing lifestyle tips and fashion advice with an engaging cast of All American schlubs (the first two seasons are shot mostly in the state of Georgia). There are laughs – but serious moment too, such as when the crew refuses to enter a church because of his strict Christian upbringing.
Netflix
18/25 Chef's Table
A high-gloss revamping of the traditional TV food show Each episode is a high wattage international chef; across its three seasons, the series has featured gastronomic superstars from the US, Argentina, India and Korea.
Charles Panian / Netflix
19/25 Arrested Development
A disastrous group interview in which actor Jason Bateman was "mansplained" away the bullying co-star Jessica Walter had suffered at the hands of fellow cast-member Jeffrey Tambor meant the season five of Arrested Development was fally compromised before it even landed Yet Netflix's return to the dysfunctional world of the Bluth family stands on its merits and is a worthy addition to the surreal humor of seasons one through three (series four, which had the busy schedule of the cast around, comparable by disposable) .
Netflix
20/25 Altered Carbon
Netflix does Bladerunner with this magnificent adaptation of the cult Richard Morgan novel. The setting is a neon-splashed cyberpunk future in which the super-wealthy live forever by uploading the consciousness in new "skins". Enter rebel-turned-detective Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), hired to find out who killed a (since resurrected) zillionaire industryist while dealing with fallout from his own troubled past Rumored to be one of Netflix's most expensive projects yet, for its second run, Anthony Mackie (aka Marvel's Falcon) replaced Kinnaman as the shape-shifting Kovacs.
Netflix
21/25 Rick and Morty
Dan Harmon, creator of cult sitcom Community (also on Netflix), finds the perfect outlet for the fanboy imagination with this crazed animated comedy about a Marty McFly / Doc Brown-esque duo of time travellers. Every genre has been parodied with the manic energy and zinging dialogue.
Netflix / Adult Swim
22/25 GLOW
Mad Men's Alison Brie is our entry point in this comedy-drama inspired by a real life all-female wrestling league in the eighties. Ruth Wilder (Brie) is a down-on-her luck actor who, out of desperation, signs up a wrestling competition will be going on in Sylvia (podcast king Marc Maron). Britrock singer Kate Nash is one of her fellow troupe members: The big to life Rhonda "Britannica" Richardson.
Netflix
23/25 Archer
Deadpan animated satire about an idiot super spy with shaken and stirred mother issues. One of the most ambitious modern comedies, animated or otherwise, Archer tries on different types of humor for size and even occasionally tugs at the heart strings.
24/25 Ozark
Breaking Bad for those The saga of Walter White took the opportunity to fight against the iconic anti-hero's rise from every man to dead-eyed criminal. Ozark gets there in the first half hour as nebbish Chicago accountant Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) agrees to serve as the lieutenant for the hillbilly heartlands of Ozark, Missouri (in return they thoughtfully spare their life). Bateman, usually seen in comedy roles, is a revelation as is Laura Linney as his nasty wife Wendy There is also a break-out performance by Julia Garner playing the local redneck crime family.
Netflix
25/25 The Good Place
A horror comedy with a twist. Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) is a cynical schlub waved through the Pearly Gates by mistake after a bizarre supermarket accident. There is a great deal of controversy, but disorganized angel Michael (Ted Danson) whilst also negotiating fractious relationships with do-gooder Chidi (William Jackson Harper), spoiled princess Tahani (former T4 presenter Jameela Jamil) and ex-drug dealer Jason (Manny Jacinto).
Netflix
Returning to the BBC Call the Midwife, Mrs. Brown's Boys, Still Open All Hours, Strictly Come Dancing, Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show, and Hold the Sunset.
There are also live episodes of Lee Mack's Not Going Out and Stephen Merchant's new comedy Click & Collect on the way Two previously lost episodes of Morecambe and Wise – which were discovered in a cinema in Sierra Leone – will also be broadcast.
This year's Doctor Who Special has been moved to New Year's Day, with Jodie Whittaker's character said to be tackling a "terrifying evil" that has been stirring across the centuries of Earth's history.
Documentaries this year will explore the lives of comedian Billy Connolly, writer Andrew Davies and storyteller Raymond Briggs. There is also a food special featuring Great British Bake Off'S Mary Berry and Nadiya Hussain.
The BBC is the first major channel to announce its full Christmas schedule, with Channel 4 and ITV having only revealed parts of theirs.
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