Specials of Call the Midwife, EastEnders, Bad Education, Ghosts, Malory Towers, Motherland, Inside No 9, Detectorists and The Cleaner will also be left under the TV tree.
The TV adaption of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels will conclude, while another part of JK Rowling's Cormoran Strike series - called Strike: Troubled Blood - will be broadcast.
Les Dennis and Derry Girls actress Siobhan McSweeney have been announced as the guest stars in the second festive special of crime drama Death In Paradise.
Happy Valley is back for its third and final series, starring Sarah Lancashire - while Sherlock actor Mark Gatiss stars as Jacob Marley in a televised stage production of A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story.
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