WHAT TO WATCH 27 December - 31 December

Plenty of new telly to enjoy before the year ends!

This week's best TV includes more festive specials, such as Ant & Dec's Limitless Win, Death in Paradise, The Good Ship Murder, and Here We Go.

Elsewhere, The Celebrity Apprentice is back for a two-part special, and Ricky Gervais' latest stand-up special, Mortality, is released on Netflix.

Here are 6 TV shows you can't miss this week...

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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

ANT & DEC'S LIMITLESS WIN

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Saturday 27th December

8.30pm | ITV1

Ant & Dec are back with a festive edition of their hit game show Limitless Win, and this time, two unsuspecting audience members will be in for a surprise!

Not only will they be invited to take on the Limitless Ladder, but they will be playing alongside a celebrity teammate for the first time ever! Those celebrities are Amanda Holden and Jamie Redknapp.

But with every question being an opportunity to climb the endless money ladder and reach big money how much money will be won this Christmas?

STREAM ON ITVX

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 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

THE GOOD SHIP MURDER

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Saturday 27th December

9.30pm | 5

The Good Ship Murder docks in Alicante for a Christmas special as Donna, a woman claiming to suffer from a life-changing illness, boards the ship with her loyal friend Bernie.

As the festive voyage begins, Donna charms fellow passenger Gary and yearning for a Christmas miracle, visits a remote monastery. There she meets Rodriguez, a mysterious man of the cloth, and Thomasina, an enigmatic nun. But the holiday cheer turns dark when Bernie is found dead.

With Gary, Rodriguez, and Thomasina each under scrutiny, the hunt for the truth leads deep into a web of deceit and desperation. When the real story finally comes to light, it upends everything the crew thought they knew about the tragedy.

Meanwhile Jack, recently sacked from the ship, is lying low, performing to half-empty rooms in a grimy dive bar. The monastery murder draws Kate back to him and, with Jamil’s help, will the two finally rekindle their romance?

As Christmas dawns, will Jack return to where he belongs and will he share a Christmas song with everyone on board?

 STREAM ON 5

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 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

DEATH IN PARADISE

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Sunday 28th December

8.30pm | BBC One

For this year's Death in Paradise Christmas special, we head to Saint Marie and Swindon with Don Gilet for an office Christmas party of a lifetime that takes a dark turn when four co-workers wake up to find a stranger dead in the pool of their villa.

DI Mervin Wilson and the team identify the murder weapon, but they’re left baffled when they find that it was locked in a drawer when the murder took place... thousands of miles away from the crime scene, in Swindon!

Meanwhile, Mervin’s anxiously waiting to hear back from his newly discovered brother, which prevents him from embracing Saint Marie's Christmas celebrations. Can Mervin resolve his family situation and get into the festive spirit, for the sake of his team and the island?

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 

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 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE

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Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th December

9pm | BBC One

After 6 years away, The Celebrity Apprentice returns to our screens this Christmas with a two-part special, coming all the way from snowy Lapland where twelve famous faces step into Lord Sugar’s boardroom for two specials in aid of BBC Children in Need.

Those taking part are AJ Odudu, Angela Scanlon, Charlie Hedges, Eddie Kadi, Jake Wood, JB Gill, Kadeena Cox, Matt Morsia, Rob Rinder, Sarah Hadland, Shazia Mirza and Tom Skinner.

They'll each be dashing through the snow all the way to Lapland to create Christmas biscuits, jingles and adverts. From soap stars to stand-up comics and TV's favourite judge, these newly appointed elves work their Christmas socks off to raise some sweet dough in aid of Children in Need.

 2 EPISODES  CONTINUES NIGHTLY

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER 

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 BRAND NEW STAND-UP SPECIAL

RICKY GERVAIS: MORTALITY

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Tuesday 30th December

Netflix

Ricky Gervais is BACK with Mortality, his fourth stand-up special for Netflix and he's just as unfiltered as ever.

Filmed earlier this year at the London Palladium, the special promises that no topic is off limits as Ricky closes out the year with what's described as his best show yet.

In a special that further solidifies his reputation as one of the most influential voices in comedy, Gervais takes on his own mortality in a brutally honest and darkly funny stand-up special about his life, death and the state of the world.

 STREAM ON NETFLIX

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 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

HERE WE GO

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New Year's Eve

8pm | BBC One

BBC One's hit sitcom Here We Go is back with a Christmas/New Year special, titled Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza, in which we follow a typically chaotic Jessop family holiday, featuring a road trip, a missing dummy, and a large crate of unlicensed fireworks!

With New Year’s Eve fast approaching, this year Rachel is very keen to throw a massive party. Paul, less so: he’d much prefer a nice quiet holiday cottage with a sauna so he can sweat out the massive boil that’s recently appeared on his cheek; two quite different visions for seeing in the new year.

So begins a typically chaotic Jessop Family holiday, featuring a road trip, a missing dummy, and a large crate of unlicensed fireworks Paul picked up from a police auction.

 STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER