WHAT TO WATCH Boxing Day
Lots of festive specials left to enjoy!
This Boxing Day there's still plenty of festive joy, with five Christmas specials of some of your favourite shows, including The Repair Shop, The Great Pottery Throw Down, Would I Lie to You? and The Masked Singer.
Plus, the final part of this year's Call the Midwife Christmas special airs on BBC One, and Stranger Things returns to Netflix for the second part of its final season
Here are 6 TV shows you can't miss this Boxing Day...
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FINAL SEASON PART TWO
STRANGER THINGS
Christmas Day
Netflix
As the final episode of Stranger Things edges nearer, Christmas Day sees the show return to Netflix with three brand new episodes.
Season five kicks off in the fall of 1987. With Hawkins scarred by the opening of the Rifts, the show's heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished and his whereabouts and plans are unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.
As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming, and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone, the full party, standing together, one last time.
3 EPISODES CONCLUDES NEW YEAR'S DAY
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
WOULD I LIE TO YOU?
AT CHRISTMAS
Boxing Day
7pm | BBC One
Rob Brydon is back in the host’s chair for a festive edition of Would I Lie to You? and as ever, David Mitchell and Lee Mack are back as the lightning-quick team captains.
This Christmas, David Mitchell is joined by Jools Holland and Swarzy Shire, while Lee Mack teams up with Helen George and David Walliams. But who will be telling the truth? And who will be making it all up?
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
THE REPAIR SHOP AT CHRISTMAS
Boxing Day
7.30pm | BBC One
This year, The Repair Shop at Christmas opens its barn doors wide open to welcome some very special guests who have brought along cherished items in need of a festive fix. Including Dame Helen Mirren with a beloved but badly broken cello which was owned by theatre director Martin Landau, Julia Donaldson with a toy farmhouse that once belonged to her granny and Rob Brydon who asks the barn’s team of experts to create a series of toy characters for the children to enjoy, based on those in Julia’s books.
Also arriving at the barn is a life-sized mechanical Rudolph belonging to the Leicestershire fire service. And in their packed Christmas schedule, Dom and Will also find time to restore a battered and broken sledge that has been at the heart of one family’s Christmases for a remarkable eight decades.
And bookbinder Chris Shaw breathes new life back into a torn and tattered carol book that has played a central role in a much-celebrated yuletide cultural tradition in Sheffield.
STREAM ON BBC IPLAYER
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
THE MASKED SINGER
Boxing Day
7.30pm | ITV1
Joel Dommett returns to host a special Christmas edition of The Masked Singer, with panellists Jonathan Ross, Maya Jama, Davina McCall, and Mo Gilligan also returning. Four famous faces take to the The Masked Singer stage to compete undercover in elaborate costumes, keeping their true identities hidden. This year's Christmas characters are Mistletoe, Goose-A-Laying, Figgy Pudding and Santa's Sack.
As each celebrity performs, our superstar panel of detectives try to unravel the clues and work out their identities of TV's best-kept secret. Who will be gifted The Masked Singer crown this Christmas?
Also joining the show will be a host of pantomime icons, including Su Pollard as the Fairy Godmother, Christopher Biggins as the dame, Lesley Joseph as the Wicked Stepmother and Basil Brush as Prince Charming, who will be spreading Christmas Cheer with clues for the panel. But will these extra presents help our panel decipher who's hiding behind the mask?
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
THE FESTIVE POTTERY
THROW DOWN
Boxing Day
7.45pm | Channel 4
For this year's Festive Pottery Throw Down, novice celebrity potters 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.
With Siobhán McSweeney hosting, judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the celebs two festive challenges; a hand-building North Pole scene and a surprise second challenge where speed is of the essence, as they attempt to throw the most reindeer water bowls.
Whose North Pole scene will leave them out in the cold, and who will sleigh the day?
STREAM ON CHANNEL 4
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
CALL THE MIDWIFE
Boxing Day
8.30pm | BBC One
In the concluding part of this year's Call the Midwife Christmas special, the work of the Nonnatus team in Hong Kong is threatened, whilst back in Poplar, the young midwives throw a wild party at Nonnatus House.
