Channel 4 Friday

Festive animation based on Raymond Briggs' book, focusing on Santa's routine for the other 364 days of the year. With the voice of Mel Smith

Diane writes a psychology paper and attempts to prove that her relationship with Sam is platonic. Bar-room comedy, starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long

Sam is delighted when Rebecca invites him back to her place and thinks all his Christmases have come at once. American bar-room comedy starring Ted Danson and Kirstie Alley

Doug and Deacon fight over a childhood toy, while Arthur discovers Carrie is buying him an expensive Christmas gift and decides to splash out on something equally costly in return

Carrie gets a temporary job at Doug's company, much to his dismay. Arthur tries to persuade his friends to pose for a picture to go on a Christmas card

Doug and Carrie are roped into helping out at the church during the holidays. He guards the manger, while she tries to bake a cake

Fact-based drama chronicling the lives of Joy and George Adamson, who raised an orphaned lion cub and trained it to return to the wild. Starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers

Jamie shares his best Betwixmas recipes, as he turns to that cosy period between Christmas and New Year, celebrating leftovers and transforming them into delicious dishes

Behind the scenes at the Christmas tourist attraction, which recreates a festive world of elves and reindeers deep in the woods of Royal Berkshire

A cop investigating a murder has only one witness to help him solve the case - the victim's large, smelly dog. Family comedy, starring Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham and Craig T Nelson

Egypt v South Africa (Kick-off 3.00pm). Coverage of the Group B match at Adrar Stadium in Agadir, Morocco

Ten years after the end of Channel 4 comedy Peep Show, stars Olivia Colman, David Mitchell, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman enter the baking tent

Including sport and weather

The team do some festive matchmaking in hopes of finding new homes for Gigi the Labrador cross, Mona the lurcher and Lady the cocker spaniel before Christmas

Amber Gill, Colin Murray, Sarah Hadland and Tim Vine roll up their sleeves and brave the clay, as they attempt to become champion of the Festive Pottery Throw Down 2025

Jonathan Ross, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Ryan, Nick Mohammed, Roisin Conaty and Lou Sanders are quizzed on the key events of the year. Hosted by Jimmy Carr

As the Goggleboxers hang up their Christmas stockings, a bumper edition of the show takes a very merry look back at the best of 2025

Ten years after the end of Channel 4 comedy Peep Show, stars Olivia Colman, David Mitchell, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman enter the baking tent

While a family patriarch yearns for a grandson, his youngest son is swept into a forbidden romance with a trans starlet in a theatre. Drama, with Ali Junejo. In Pakistani

Gordon Ramsay heads to Scottsdale, Arizona, where he meets husband-and-wife bistro owners Samy and Amy Bouzaglo, who reveal a shocking contempt for customer feedback

The woodworkers get more creative than ever as they make a sea-inspired sculpture from a fallen tree trunk. In the skills challenge, they turn a spinning top on a traditional lathe