BBC confirms Christmas line-up with Gavin And Stacey and Mrs Brown’s Boys

There will be Christmas and New Year’s specials of Mrs Brown’s Boys.

By contributor By Charlotte McLaughlin, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter

Published Nov 26, 2024

Last updated Jan 30

James Corden, Mathew Horne, Joanna Page and Ruth Jones — (Left to right) James Corden as Smithy, Mathew Horne as Gavin, Joanna Page as Stacey and Ruth Jones as Nessa, stars of the BBC comedy Gavin & Stacey: The Finale (BBC/Fulwell73 & Tidy Productions/Tom Jackson/PA)

The BBC has confirmed its schedule for Christmas will include Gavin And Stacey, Mrs Brown’s Boys, a Wallace And Gromit film and a celebrity version of Gladiators.

Not much is known about the Christmas finale of Gavin And Stacey, which is returning five years on from Vanessa “Nessa” Jenkins (Ruth Jones) proposing to Neil “Smithy” Smith (James Corden) during a 2019 festival special.

The BBC has released one image of Mathew Horne and Joanna Page as Gavin Shipman and Stacey West, as well as Corden and Jones as their characters standing beside a wall, echoing the first season image.

It also teased that Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) will get ready on Barry Island in Wales for a trip to Essex, and Nessa will have a new business venture.

Wallace And Gromit penguin returns — Feathers McGraw, the penguin supervillain who will return in the Wallace And Gromit film series after three decades in Vengeance Most Fowl, which will premiere on BBC and BBC iPlayer this Christmas (Aardman Animations/PA)

Welsh comedian Brydon will also be seen in an animation version of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s fish picture book Tiddler over the festive break alongside Hannah Waddingham as the narrator.

Returning with the first film since 2008’s Oscar nominated A Matter Of Loaf And Death, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit are back in the BBC’s Vengeance Most Fowl to face the evil penguin Feathers McGraw.