Here We Go
8pm, BBC One
The Jessops are going somewhere nice for New Year’s Eve (“Dorset? Wales? Leeds?”). But as soon as they arrive, they learn that the Airbnb guests booked to stay at their own house are throwing a huge party. Cue lots of chaotic family fun involving an emergency road trip from hell back home, a large crate of unlicensed fireworks and a missing dummy. Plus, Robin (Tom Basden) can’t stop ripping open his shirt. Jim Howick, Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson also star. Hollie Richardson
Kiss Me, Kate
3.35pm, BBC Two
Wunderbar! Last year’s Barbican production of Cole Porter’s meta musical comedy was a hit – with this paper’s review saying it was stuffed with “glorious music and falderol frivolity”. Here’s a recording of the show, 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 night of guests 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 join the Last Leg lads. There’s also a surprise for Traitors fans. 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 before plugging series two of The Night Manager. Also on the sofa 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 party 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, as well as No 1 single Life Is a Rollercoaster, and there’ll be plenty of famous friends stopping by for the River Thames fireworks. Ellen E Jones
Jools’ Annual Hootenanny
11.30pm, BBC Two
The BBC’s primary musical new year’s tradition continues, even if both concept and content feel a little tired at this point. This year’s guests include Ronnie Wood, Lulu, Heather Small, Craig David, the Kooks and – just about repping the under-30s – Olivia Dean and Joe Webb. And expect bagpipes, as midnight rolls round. Phil Harrison
Film choice
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp, 2021), 9.35am, BBC One
This delightful mock documentary is the brainchild of Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate (of Dying for Sex fame). He directs and she provides the voice for Marcel, an inch-tall, part-shell person who lives with his nana (Isabella Rossellini) in an Airbnb that film-maker Dean rents out. It’s a conceit borrowed from The Borrowers, where household items and detritus are fashioned into inventive tools (toenail skis anyone?) and the human world is a scary but intriguing place. Simon Wardell
The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985), 12.35pm, ITV1
There may be too many kids for comfort in this Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus-penned adventure, but there’s a lot to love here. Five misfit boys – plus a couple of girls for balance – discover a treasure map and decide to find the loot and save their coastal town from demolition by developers. Sean Astin’s Mikey is the prime mover, dragging along 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 many skeletons. Director Richard Donner keeps the chills and spills at a family-friendly pitch. SW
Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987), 11.40pm, Film4
Ideal film fodder for a boozy night in on the last day of the year (“We want the finest wines available to humanity!”), Bruce Robinson’s 1987 comedy is a trove of quotable lines and hilarious scenarios. Set in 1969, it follows two self-pitying, jobless actors (Paul McGann and Richard E Grant) on a break from their rat-infested London house to the Lake District. Sadly, this presumed idyll is mainly rain and mud, randy bulls and randy Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). Grant’s Withnail is a tragicomic character for the ages, a Falstaffian fool witnessing the sad death of the swinging 60s. SW
