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Get into the Christmas spirit with these festive offerings which are available to stream now…

THE NOEL DIARY NETFLIX

Novelist Jacob Churcher (This Is Us star Justin Hartley) is clearing out his childhood home at Christmas when Rachel (Barrett Doss) comes looking for her birth mother who apparently lived there when she was pregnant. Could an old diary unlock the secrets of their past? James Remar and Essence Atkins also star in this adaptation of Richard Paul Evans’ 2017 bestselling novel.

THE SANTA CLAUSES DISNEY+

Tim Allen returns as Scott Calvin, the ordinary dad who took over from Santa in The Santa Clause films, in this six-part spin-off miniseries. When he retires, Scott and his family return to the normal world, but they are soon drawn back to the North Pole when it seems he’s hired the wrong guy to replace him, as elves begin to disappear and Christmas is in jeopardy of being no more!

YOUR CHRISTMAS OR MINE? PRIME VIDEO This festive comedy stars

Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield as student James, who secretly decides to visit his girlfriend Hayley (Cora Kirk) for Christmas. But when she has the same bright idea, they both end up spending the festive season with each other’s family!

FALLING FOR CHRISTMAS NETFLIX

Lindsay Lohan leads this romcom as a spoilt and newly-engaged heiress who suffers from amnesia after a skiing accident and finds herself in the care of a hard-working lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the run-up to Christmas. Chord Overstreet also stars.

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SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL NETFLIX

Luke Evans voices the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who’s given one last Christmas to redeem himself, in this musical animation based on the 1970 film version of Charles Dickens’ festive tale. Listen out for Olivia Colman as the voice of The Ghost of Christmas Past!.