What TV should you be watching this New Year?
Must Watch reviewers Scott Bryan, TV Editor at Buzzfeed, and Hayley Campbell, journalist and critic, share their top TV picks for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
What are you looking forward to? Leave your comments below...
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Doctor Who
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Scott says: “It’s been quite controversial in a way, because it’s normally the episode you might expect to be on Christmas Day.
"It's actually going to be on air on New Year’s Day, and it’s going to be the final one in 2019 - there’s not going to be a full series until 2020...
"They say it’s because they’ve got to spend a lot of time doing the post-production and the special effects.”
Hayley says: “It blows my mind that they’re not doing a series next year.”
Scott says: “I feel that there’s been so much build up towards it, and so much attention and PR by the BBC that to not do it for more than a year is a bit of a surprise.”
Doctor Who is on BBC One on New Year's Day at 19:00 GMT.
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
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Scott says: "For me they’ve given this a terrible slot. On New Years Eve you want to watch mainstay entertainment, or you’ll be out.
"This is a really tender, really loving, brilliant portrait of the guy’s work and his entire history and I find it rather strange for it to be on New Year’s Eve.
"If you miss this, it’s definitely worth your time, and you can watch it whenever."
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen is on BBC Two on New Year’s Eve at 21:00 GMT, and then available on BBC iPlayer.
The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited
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Scott says: “About a month ago they were like 'The Inbetweeners are coming back!' and everyone got really excited.
"Of course no, it’s not really coming back.
"It’s been 10 years since the original series was on, so as well as an excuse for Channel 4 to show a multitudes of episodes leading up until one o’clock in the morning, they’re just kind of reuniting them, as actors, and having a reminiscing Goggle Box style show.
"That’s going to be as a sort of hurrah for 10 years, and it is also a shock for everyone thinking ‘ten years flies by!’."
The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited is on Channel 4 on New Year's Day at 21:00 GMT.
Island of Dreams
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Comedy legend Harry Enfield plays Sir Richard Branson in a BBC Two comedy pilot called Island of Dreams.
The show sees Branson play host to an array of celebrities on his private island of Necker on the British Virgin Islands, and aim to solve their problems.
Hayley says: “Richard Branson solving his celebrity chums friends’ problems by paying for things, by buying their way out of it...
"I don’t know what this is and I haven’t seen it because there’s no preview. I just saw in a little list in the Radio Times and I thought what?!
"It sounds absolutely awful, and it might be, but I kind of miss Harry Enfield being around all the time, so I’m going to watch it and I will report back. Maybe it’s not awful!”
Island of Dreams will be shown on Thursday 3 January on BBC Two at 22:00 GMT.
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