CHRISTMAS UNWRAPPED

25 sparkling festive shows coming your way for the holiday season 

LOT NO. 249 BBC2

Arthur Conan Doyle’s short horror story is adapted by Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss and stars Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and Freddie Fox (Slow Horses) as 19th-century Oxford students Abercrombie Smith and Edward Bellingham. Edward’s research into Ancient Egypt becomes the talk of the college – can his experiments really breathe life into a mummified bag of bones?

FOOL ME ONCE

Netflix Michelle Keegan reunites with Ten Pound Poms creator Danny Brocklehurst for the latest adaptation of a twist-laden Harlan Coben mystery novel. She plays Maya Stern, who is struggling to come to terms with the murder of her husband Joe (Richard Armitage). Then one night, as she is looking at the nanny cam she uses to watch over her daughter, she sees Joe in the house…

MURDER IS EASY

BBC1 This stylish adaptation of the Agatha Christie whodunnit is set in 1950s England, where a young man, Fitzwilliam (Industry’s David Jonsson), meets Miss Pinkerton (Downton Abbey’s Dame Penelope Wilton) on a train and learns there’s a serial killer on the loose in a sleepy village. But when Miss Pinkerton turns up dead, too, Fitzwilliam makes it his mission to find the murderer. Douglas Henshall co-stars.

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