Olivia Colman, Luke Evans and Jesse Buckley voice this supernatural, time-travelling, animated version of Charles Dickens’ classic festive tale. It’s a loose remake of the live-action 1970 musical Scrooge, with early reviews claiming it takes the original and turbocharges it with berserk energy.

DH Lawrence’s infamously steamy romance novel gets the Netflix treatment, with Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell starring in the tale of a married aristocrat embarking on an affair with her gamekeeper. Expect plenty of soft-focus sex scenes and wistful glances across stately homes.

Hot on the heels of the Oscar-winning film-maker’s recent horror anthology series for Netflix comes this remake of the classic children’s tale. It’s a dark reimagining with a creepy fantasy feel, where Geppetto has lost his son in a first world war air raid.

Like Monsters Inc meets The Masked Dancer, this reality series sees amateurs attempt to impress judges including Ashley Banjo and Ne-Yo with their choreography. The twist: the panel don’t see them, but a CGI version of them as a giant furry beast.

By season two, the furore surrounding this show had died down significantly. As we meet up with the Francophile marketing exec for a third instalment, might it launch without a blizzard of hot takes? Hopefully, given that the trailer’s most controversial talking point is the titular hero trying a new hairstyle.

Daniel Crag returns funnier than ever as the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc, for another wild whodunnit. This time it takes place in a mansion on a private Greek island owned by billionaire tech bro Miles Bron (Edward Norton). As before, most people he invited to the island have a motive for murder, and they’re played by an all-star cast – including Janelle Monae as steely tech queen Andi Brand, and Kate Hudson as model-turned-leisure wear designer Birdie Jay. It’s heaps of fun, and Craig is clearly having a hoot.

Daredevil’s Charlie Cox stars in this spy thriller about an MI6 agent whose future is threatened by a Russian spy with whom he shares a complicated past. Game of Thrones’s Oona Chaplin and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) also star in a series that will undoubtedly be twisty and compelling, given it’s by the writer of excellent cold war thriller Bridge of Spies.

This adaptation takes Don DeLillo’s seminal comic 1985 novel and puts it in the hands of Oscar-nominated film-maker Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story). Its hugely talented, hipster-pleasing cast includes Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and André Benjamin (AKA Outkast’s Andre 3000).

This heartwarming documentary tells the tale of a young British military veteran whose tour of Afghanistan led him to be discharged with PTSD, and head to the Amazon in an attempt to lose himself. Until, that is, he’s entrusted with the rehabilitation of an orphaned baby ocelot called Keanu, and the pair go on a journey of growth, both emotional (him) and literal (the jungle cat).

The fifth series of the BBC’s adaptation of these crime novels sees Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) dragged on to a case while holidaying in Cornwall. The 1974 disappearance of a mother becomes the detective’s first ever cold case, which he has to juggle alongside navigating an increasingly tricky relationship with business partner Robin (Holliday Grainger).

Will Asriel succeed in his war against religion? Why did Lyra see Roger in the last series’s finale? And exactly how extravagant will battle scenes featuring angels and witches end up being? There’s a lot riding on the third adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novels, particularly given that – at least at the series’ start – Lyra is back in the clutches of Mrs Coulter. Fingers crossed it’s not long until she breaks free.

Last year it was Superworm, this time it’s an outer-space tale of family feuds for the BBC’s festive adaptation of one of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s children’s books. Sally Hawkins narrates, with a cast including Meera Syal, Bill Bailey and Rob Brydon telling a tale of forbidden romance among two young, alien lovers.

Martin Compston stars in this tale of an 80s Glaswegian bromance that has to weather difficult revelations as the two pals reach middle age. The timeline-hopping look at their friendship also features Ashley Jensen and Tracy Ifeachor (Showtrial) in this adaptation of the novel by Booker prize-nominated author Andrew O’Hagan.

Based on Beth O’Leary’s 2019 novel, The Flatshare is a romcom about two strangers who share a one-bed flat – taking it in turns to use the bed. But Tiffany (Jessica Brown Finlay) and Leon (Anthony Welsh) work different ships, so they never actually see each other, and only communicate via Post-Its. Although it’s a bleak, albeit realistic, look at the UK’s renting crisis, what ensues is romance that will charm your socks off.

This drama sees Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon star as real-life country duo Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Their tumultuous six-year relationship – which led to songs such as Wynette’s Stand By Your Man – saw them remain close friends despite divorcing in 1975, and is rendered in colourful detail by their daughter, whose book The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George serves as the source material.

Sara Collins has adapted her award-winning novel of the same name for this gothic four-part drama about a Black woman in Victorian England who is accused of murder. The twist, however, is that Frannie (Karla-Simone Spence) was in a sexual relationship with one of the victims – Madame Marguerite Benham (Sophie Cookson). There’s also the small issue of her laudanum addiction … it’s a story that’s beautifully and thoughtfully brought to life.

In Dominic Savage’s first feature-length episode of his hailed I Am series, he teams up with Kate Winslet who co-wrote and stars. She plays Ruth, a single mum who is sick with worry over her miserable, social-media obsessed 17-year-old daughter Freya (played by Winslet’s real-life daughter Mia Threapleton). As their relationship reaches boiling point, it becomes an incredibly intense watch – but one that accurately, if brutally, captures the reality of teen mental health in the digital age.

There’s an impeccable cast attached to this espionage thriller, which adapts the bestselling novel of the same name, including Anna Maxwell Martin, Adrian Edmondson, Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce. Its look at the relationship between lifelong pals and British spies Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott takes in the former’s defection to the KGB, promising intrigue, betrayal and many, many questions. Not least of which is: will this series manage to outdo Pearce’s appearance in the Neighbours finale as his most-watched TV series of the year?

Given last year’s Oscars ceremony, anything starring Will Smith is automatically interesting. But it’s particularly the case for his new project, in which he plays an escaped slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, fleeing captors and crocodiles across swamps. It’s supposedly inspired by “Whipped Peter” – an 1863 photo of a slave’s mutilated back which contributed to growing public opposition to slavery.

Sadly there’s no Nicolas Cage in this TV adaptation of the National Treasure movie franchise, but Jerry Bruckheimer executive produces, and Harvey Keitel reprises his role as an FBI agent. This time round, the plot focuses on a 20-year-old with a mysterious necklace whose attempt to research her family history sets her on the path of – you guessed it – treasure.

If this ITV drama is anywhere as good as the uncanny promo photos of David Tennant, who stars as murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, it should be absolutely spellbinding. Over four episodes, it promises to chart the investigation into his poisoning with radioactive isotope polonium 210 – and Litvinenko’s claims that it was ordered by none other than Vladimir Putin.

This love-letter to Black London from Abby Ajayi, who has written for Netflix’s Inventing Anna, focuses on the millionaire Richards family. It’s a glossy tale of inter-familial drama, following the death of patriarch Stephen, and the arrival of his two estranged children from the US. The power struggles for control of his empire come courtesy of a cast that includes Hugh Quarshie, Sarah Niles and Hermione Norris.

This four-part psychological thriller sees Vicky McClure return to her hometown of Nottingham, and reunite with This Is England 86 co-star Johnny Harris. The former plays the mother of a murdered 14-year-old girl, with the latter taking on the role of the man imprisoned for the crime. It charts a search for closure by McClure’s character, in which she visits her daughter’s supposed killer – only to lead to a tad more revelation than she’d hoped for.

Sheridan Smith plays Rosie Molloy – an ambitious but out of control thirtysomething with an addiction problem – in this very close-to-the-bone comedy-drama (Smith has previously spoken about her own battle with addiction). When Rosie wakes up in a hospital after ruining her brother’s wedding, she decides to get clean – but it’s obviously not going to be plain sailing.

Suzie Pickles is back! The acclaimed 2020 series followed child-star-turned-actor Suzie (Billie Piper) as she watched her life crumble around her after making a heap of bad decisions. In this three-episode Christmas special, Suzie is getting to grips with being a single mum and ex wife – so she joins a TV dance competition. With Succession’s Lucy Prebble at the helm once more, it’s going to be another turbulent ride.

Expect controversy aplenty from this attempt to turn the life of Woking Pizza Express’s most famous customer into an all-singing extravaganza. Munya Chawawa plays King Charles, Harry Enfield portrays Tony Blair, Drag Race star Baga Chipz is Margaret Thatcher and the man who infamously cannot sweat is played by comedian Kieran Hodgson, who also wrote the show.

When ludicrous details of the Wagatha trial came out earlier this year (Peter Andre’s penis, arguing pigeons, a phone that “fell” into the sea), we all knew this war of the Wags was destined to get the TV treatment. Well here is the first, in a two-part drama (there is also rumoured to be a drama in the works from the creator of Poldark). This Is England’s Chanel Cresswell and Harry Potter star Natalia Tena appear as Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy respectively, while Michael Sheen is Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne. Enjoy.