PART TWO IN TOMORROW’S HERALD ON SUNDAY

THE KEITH AND PADDY PICTURE SHOW, CHRISTMAS EVE, STV, 9PM

Well, even if they don’t, the BBC thinks they do and here’s this year’s offering, written and directed by Mark Gatiss of (where do we start?) Doctor Who, Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen fame. So picture the scene: it’s late at night in the deserted radio studio from where veteran broadcaster Aubrey Judd (Simon Callow) presents his long-running horror anthology series The Dead Room. But though Judd peddles fictions, his own past is fact and it’s some of the darker episodes in that past which start to make themselves felt. Anjli Mohindra, Susan Penhaligon and Joshua Oakes-Rogers also star.

Superstar tenor Alfie Boe, above, returns to present this year’s ITV Christmas carol concert, with the emphasis this Yuletide on celebrations and commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Among his special guests are soul singer Ruby Turner, former Steps member Claire Richards and X Factor wannabe-turned-pop star Rebecca Ferguson.

A Christmas edition of Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness’s Hollywood pastiche show in which they recreate a famous film over half an hour – or a bit less when you take into account the ad breaks. Anyway, tonight it’s cult 1984 comedy-horror Gremlins that is getting the treatment and the boys have persuaded/strong-armed a celebrity cast to help them, among them Zach Gilligan who you may remember starred in the original.

Sadly he isn’t joined by fellow Gremlins alumni Corey Feldman or Phoebe Cates, so instead we’ll have to make do with Su Pollard, Kara Tointon, John Thomson and – wait for it – Les Dennis. And now the good news: the programme is followed by a screening of the film itself. Wonder what genius thought of doing that …

THE MIDNIGHT GANG, BOXING DAY, BBC1, 7.30PM

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an adaptation of a David Walliams novel and this year’s offering is based on 2016’s The Midnight Gang, which tells the story of a group of children on a ward at the oddly named

Opposite: Susan Penhaligon, Simon Callow and Anjii Mohindra in The Dead Room. Above: Lily Collins in Les Miserables. Above right: David Walliams and Haydn Gwynne in The Midnight Gang