New Year’s Eve TV: Explosive fun in the hit family sitcom Here We Go | television

Here we are

8pm, BBC One
The Jessup family is going to a beautiful place for New Year’s Eve (“Dorset? Wales?” Leeds?“).But once they arrive, they learn that the Airbnb guests they’ve booked to stay at their house are throwing a huge party. They report a lot of chaotic family fun that includes an emergency road trip from hell back home, a big box of unlicensed fireworks and a missing doll. Plus, Robin (Tom Basden) can’t stop ripping off his shirt. Jim Howick, Alison Steadman, and Katherine Parkinson also star. Holly Richardson

Kiss me, Kate

3.35pm, BBC2

Wonderbar! Last year’s Barbican production of Cole Porter’s meta-musical comedy was a huge success – this newspaper’s review says it was full of “glorious music and Valderol frivolity”. Here’s a recording of the show, starring Adrienne Dunbar and Stephanie J. Block, with a full orchestra playing classic songs. Human resources

Last stop of the year

9pm on Channel 4
A night full of guests at the end of the year! Lenny Henry, Phil Wang, Maisie Adam, Danny Dyer, Alex James, Lucy Bronze and Hannah Butterman and – Checks notes – Pete Doherty is all joining the Last Leg team. There’s also a surprise for Traitors fans. Human resources

The Graham Norton New Year’s Eve Show

10.30pm on BBC One
Tom Hiddleston does a shocking Graham Norton impression, which he will air before delivering the second series of The Night Manager. Also on the couch is this thing on? Co-stars Laura Dern and Will Arnett, rising teen star Owen Cooper, plus Carey Mulligan and Tim Key. Ali Catterall

Ronan Keating and Friends: New Year’s Eve Party

11.30pm on BBC One
BBC One is throwing a party to see him in 2026, and the host is Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating. He’ll be singing the double-platinum selling hit When You Say Nothing at All, as well as the No. 1 hit “Life Is a Rollercoaster,” and there will be plenty of famous friends stopping by to watch the fireworks on the Thames. Ellen E. Jones

Jules’ annual Hootenanny

11.30pm on BBC Two
The essential BBC musical tradition continues into the new year, even if the concept and content are feeling a little tired at this point. This year’s guests include Ronnie Wood, Lulu, Heather Small, Craig David and The Cocks, as well as Olivia Dean and Joe Webb. And expect the bagpipes as midnight strikes. Phil Harrison

Choose a movie

Marcel Serendipity with Boots (Dean Fleischer Camp, 2021), 9.35am, BBC One

This delightful mock documentary is the brainchild of Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate (of Dying for Sex fame). He directs the film and provides the voice for Marcel, an inch-tall person who lives with his grandmother (Isabella Rossellini) in an Airbnb apartment rented by director Dean. It’s a conceit borrowed from the movie The Borrowers, where household items and detritus are transformed into novelty gadgets (nail sliders anyone?) and the human world is a scary but interesting place. Simon Wardle

The Fools (Richard Donner, 1985), At 12.35pm on ITV1
There may be a lot of kids who won’t feel comfortable in this adventure by Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus, but there’s a lot to love here. Five misfit boys – plus two girls to balance it out – discover a treasure map and decide to find the spoils and save their coastal town from being demolished by developers. Sean Astin’s Mickey is the prime mover, dragging the likes of Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin, Ki Hui Kwan, and Martha Plimpton on a quest that involves tunnels filled with bats, booby traps, and several skeletons. Director Richard Donner keeps the chills and spills at bay for a family-friendly playground. Southwest

With nail And I (Bruce Robinson, 1987), 11.40pm, movie 4
Perfect movie material for a drunken night out on the last day of the year (“We want the best wine available to mankind!”), Bruce Robinson’s 1987 comedy is a treasure trove of quotable lines and funny scenarios. Set in 1969, the film follows two out-of-work actors (Paul McGann and Richard E. Grant) who pity themselves during a break from their rat-infested London home to the Lake District. Unfortunately, this supposed poet is basically rain, mud, rowdy bulls, and cantankerous Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). Grant’s Withnail is a tragic figure for the ages, a Falstaffian fool who witnesses a sad death in the swinging sixties. Southwest