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Here We Go

8pm, BBC One
The Jessops are going someplace good for New Year’s Eve (“Dorset? Wales? Leeds?”). But as quickly as they arrive, they be taught that the Airbnb company booked to remain at their very own home are throwing an enormous occasion. Cue numerous chaotic household enjoyable involving an emergency highway journey from hell again dwelling, a big crate of unlicensed fireworks and a lacking dummy. Plus, Robin (Tom Basden) can’t cease ripping open his shirt. Jim Howick, Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson additionally star. Hollie Richardson

Kiss Me, Kate

3.35pm, BBC Two

Wunderbar! Last yr’s Barbican manufacturing of Cole Porter’s meta musical comedy was successful – with this paper’s evaluate saying it was filled with “glorious music and falderol frivolity”. Here’s a recording of the present, starring Adrian Dunbar and Stephanie J Block, with a full orchestra belting out the classics. HR

The Last Leg of the Year

9pm, Channel 4
A bumper evening of company for the end-of-year swipe! Lenny Henry, Phil Wang, Maisie Adam, Dani Dyer, Alex James, Lucy Bronze and Hannah Botterman and – checks notes – Pete Doherty all be a part of the Last Leg lads. There’s additionally a shock for Traitors followers. HR

The Graham Norton New Year’s Eve Show

10.30pm, BBC One
Tom Hiddleston does a cracking Graham Norton impression – fingers crossed ,he’ll air it earlier than plugging collection two of The Night Manager. Also on the couch are Is This Thing On? co-stars Laura Dern and Will Arnett, Adolescence’s breakout star Owen Cooper, plus Carey Mulligan and Tim Key. Ali Catterall

Ronan Keating and Friends: New Year’s Eve Party

11.30pm, BBC One
BBC One is throwing a celebration to see in 2026, and the host is chart-topping Boyzone star Ronan Keating. He’ll be singing his double platinum-selling When You Say Nothing at All, in addition to No 1 single Life Is a Rollercoaster, and there’ll be loads of well-known buddies stopping by for the River Thames fireworks. Ellen E Jones

Jools’ Annual Hootenanny

11.30pm, BBC Two
The BBC’s major musical new yr’s custom continues, even when each idea and content material really feel a bit of drained at this level. This yr’s company embrace Ronnie Wood, Lulu, Heather Small, Craig David, the Kooks and – nearly repping the under-30s – Olivia Dean and Joe Webb. And count on bagpipes, as midnight rolls spherical. Phil Harrison

Film alternative

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp, 2021), 9.35am, BBC One

This pleasant mock documentary is the brainchild of Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate (of Dying for Sex fame). He directs and she or he gives the voice for Marcel, an inch-tall, part-shell one that lives together with his nana (Isabella Rossellini) in an Airbnb that film-maker Dean rents out. It’s a conceit borrowed from The Borrowers, the place home goods and detritus are original into ingenious instruments (toenail skis anybody?) and the human world is a scary however intriguing place. Simon Wardell

The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), 12.35pm, ITV1
There could also be too many children for consolation on this Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus-penned journey, however there’s rather a lot to like right here. Five misfit boys – plus a few women for stability – uncover a treasure map and determine to search out the loot and save their coastal city from demolition by builders. Sean Astin’s Mikey is the prime mover, dragging alongside the likes of Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin, Ke Huy Quan and Martha Plimpton on a quest that takes in bat-filled tunnels, booby traps and lots of skeletons. Director Richard Donner retains the chills and spills at a family-friendly pitch. SW

Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987), 11.40pm, Film4
Ideal movie fodder for a boozy evening in on the final day of the yr (“We want the finest wines available to humanity!”), Bruce Robinson’s 1987 comedy is a trove of quotable strains and hilarious situations. Set in 1969, it follows two self-pitying, jobless actors (Paul McGann and Richard E Grant) on a break from their rat-infested London home to the Lake District. Sadly, this presumed idyll is principally rain and dirt, randy bulls and randy Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). Grant’s Withnail is a tragicomic character for the ages, a Falstaffian idiot witnessing the unhappy loss of life of the swinging 60s. SW