MOVIE MAGIC
Mark Kermode’s Christmas Cinema Secrets , December 20, BBC Four, 10pm
Featuring everyone from Bing Crosby to Bill Murray, Barbara Stanwyck to Macaulay Culkin, top critic Mark Kermode tells the story of the finest festive films of all time. Beginning, as it should, with It’s a Wonderful Life – and what it and other films owe to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – this is a sumptuous seasonal treat. But will it include Die Hard…?
STAR-STUDDED SOB CLASSIC REMAKE
Watership Down, December 22/23, BBC One
Harrowing for bunny-lovers everywhere, Richard Adams’ tale of embattled rabbits caught in the developers’ headlights has haunted the dreams of millions for years. Now a new generation can relive the horror as Hazel (James McAvoy), Fiver (Nicholas Hoult), Strawberry (Olivia…