Don’t say Auntie never gives you anything for Christmas, because the BBC has lined up over 100 box sets to roll out over the festive season.
Technically, it’s a bit of re-gifting since most of it is classic programming, but it’s called ‘classic’ for a reason! And because Christmas is the time families are forced to be together — we mean, lovingly gather to celebrate — there’s something for everyone.
For the drama fans, there’s the full series of this year’s breakout thrillers Bodyguard and Killing Eve, plus every single series of Doctor Who since 2005 (including Jodie Whittaker’s debut episodes).
Comedy lovers can chuckle at the full runs of beloved hits like Outnumbered, Gavin & Stacey, Extras, The League of Gentlemen and Miranda, or enjoy newer favourites People Just Do Nothing and Fleabag.
Nature lovers and those wishing to escape the dreary December weather can go to the far corners of the globe with Sir David Attenborough on Planet Earth, while those wishing to catch up on their documentaries can do so with Louis Theroux and Strictly Come Dancing‘s Stacey Dooley.
Most of these classic shows will be available from December 12, whereas all-new 2018 festive specials from EastEnders, Doctor Who, Luther and more will be on iPlayer once they premiere on telly.
Below, we give you a mammoth list of over 100 box sets that will be on offer on the iPlayer this Christmas:
DRAMA
54 Hours
A Very English Scandal
Bleak House
Bodyguard
Class
Clique
Collateral
Death and Nightingales
Doctor Who
Father Brown (series 6)
House of Cards
In the Flesh
Informer
Killing Eve
Little Dorrit
Little Drummer Girl
Long Song
Luther
McMafia
Mothers’ Day
Mrs Wilson
Musketeers
North and South
Our Girl
Overshadowed
Press
Pride and Prejudice
Roots
Sense and Sensibility
Silent Witness (series 17-21)
Small Island
Snowfall (series 2)
The Fades
There She Goes
Trust
Wanderlust
War and Peace
Watership Down
FACTUAL
A Tattoo to Change Your Life
Africa
Asian Provocateur
Bangkok Airport
Blue Planet II
Britain’s Forgotten Men
Civilisation
Civilisations
Dictatorland
Drugs Map of Britain
Drugsland
Dynasties
Frozen Planet
Killer Magic
Life
Life and Death Row
Louis Theroux
Love and Drugs on the Street
Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema
Misfits Like Us
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Our World War
Planet Earth
Planet Earth II
Professor Green
Segregated America: A School in the South
Sex Map of Britain
Sex, Drugs and Murder
Simon Reeve
Snow Chick – A Penguin’s Tale
Snow Babies
Stacey Dooley
Stacey Dooley Investigates
The Blue Planet
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan
Unsolved
COMEDY AND ENTERTAINMENT
Bad Education
Blackadder Goes Forth
Bluestone 42
Citizen Khan
Cuckoo
Enterprice
Extras
Flat TV
Fleabag
Gavin & Stacey
Hold the Sunset
I’ll Get this
Inside Number 9
League of Gentlemen
Man Like Mobeen
Mighty Boosh (series 1)
Miranda
Mrs Brown’s Boys (Christmas specials)
Outnumbered
People Just Do Nothing
Pls Like
Politics for bitches
Pramface
Rent a Cop
Siblings
Stewart Lee
Still Game (series 7-8)
Still Open All Hours
Sunny D
The Young Offenders
This Country
Tourist Trap
Top Gear (series 22-23)
Two Doors Down
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
Uncle
Upstart Crow
Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out (2017-2018)
CHILDRENS
64 Zoo Lane (series 4)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Alice in Wonderland
Billionaire Boy
Bob the Builder (series 9)
Boy in a Dress
CBeebies Prom
CBeebies Prom: A Musical Journey
Gansta Granny
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Grandpa’s Great Escape
Gruffalo
Gruffalo’s Child
Highway Rat
Mr Stink
Patchwork Pals
Peter Pan
Puss in Boots
Rastamouse (series 1)
Room on the Broom
Something Special at the Proms
Stick Man
The Elves and the Shoe Maker: A CBeebies Ballet
The Snow Queen
The Tale of Mr Tumble
The Tempest
The Tortoise and the Hare: A CBeebies Ballet
The Ugly Duckling
Three Little Pigs: A CBeebies Ballet
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