The best movies on TV for Christmas 2022

Aladdin, No Time to Die and 1917: The best movies to watch on TV in Christmas 2022 (Disney/MGM/eOne)

Television networks know that Christmas is the perfect time to spend a guilt-free time on the couch, loading the shows with crowd-pleasing movies of all shapes and sizes.

Undoubtedly the biggest movie to debut on terrestrial television during the festive season is No Time to Die. Daniel Craig’s James Bond swan song will air on ITV on New Year’s Day, just 15 months after the movie’s release.

Read more: The new best movies to be released in Christmas 2022

We’ve swept the charts and selected the best movies airing on major UK channels (and some streaming services) over Christmas, so sit back, relax and enjoy some incredible movies at home this festive period.

The best movies on TV Friday, December 23, 2022

Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, returns to solve another mystery in Glass Onion: A Knife Out Mystery. (Netflix)

13:45 Trolls World Tour | BBC One

15:50 Grinch | ITV

23:15 Last Christmas | BBC One

Glass Onion: A Knife Mystery | Netflix

The best movies on TV on Christmas Eve 2022

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint on set — Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint on the set of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

12:45 Arthur Christmas | ITV

13:40 North by Northwest | BBC Two

15:00 Pokemon Detective Pikachu | BBC One

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01:00 LaLa Land | BBC One

Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets | Sky Cinema/NOW

The best movies on TV on Christmas Day 2022

Will Smith and Mena Massoud on Aladdin (Credit: Disney)

11:35 White Christmas | BBC Two

13:00 Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon | BBC One

15:10 Aladdin | BBC One

16:40 Some Like It Hot | BBC Two

22:45 Actually Love | ITV

Boxing Day, the best movies on TV in 2022

Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins. (Disney)

10:25 am Big Hero 6 | BBC One

12:25 Frozen | BBC One

14:25 Mary Poppins | BBC One

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17:30 The Magnificent Seven | BBC Two

22:15 Friends | BBC Two

The best movies on TV on Tuesday, December 27, 2022

'George MacKay in 1917. (Credit: eOne) — George MacKay in 1917. (eOne)

10:00 Missing Link | BBC One

13:45 How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World | BBC One

15:50 Funny Girl | BBC Two

21:00 1917 | BBC One

Best movies on TV Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Orson Welles with a gun in hand as he tries to evade capture as Harry Lime from the classic Carol Reed 1949 movie The Third Man. (Photo by Screen Archives/Getty Images) — Orson Welles tries to avoid being caught as Harry Lime from the classic Carol Reed 1949 movie The Third Man. (Screen Archives/Getty Images)

9:35 am Third Man | BBC Two

11:40 Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | BBC One

15:50 moana | BBC One

22:30 heat | BBC Two

The best movies on TV on Thursday, December 29, 2022

Zootopia (also known as Zootropolis in other countries) is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated action buddy comedy-adventure game.[6] The film is produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and is the 55th Disney animated feature film. This photo is for editorial use only and is the copyright of the film company and/or the photographer appointed by the film or production company and may only be reproduced by publications in connection with the promotion of the above Film. Mandatory Credit to the film company is required. The photographer should also be credited when known. — Judy Hopps takes action in Zootropolis. (Disney)

13:55 Zootropolis | BBC One

15:35 BFG | BBC One

The best movies on TV Friday, December 30, 2022

American actress Lauren Bacall and Scottish actor Sean Connery on the set of Murder on the Orient Express, based on the novel by British Agatha Christie and directed by American Sidney Lumet. (Photo by Getty Images via EMI Film Distributors/Paramount/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis) — Lauren Bacall and Sean Connery on the set of Murder on the Orient Express. (Alamy/Getty Images)

23:30 Full Monty | BBC One

16:45 Murder on the Orient Express | BBC Two

Netflix: White Noise

The best movies on TV on New Year’s Eve 2022

Yesterday imagines a world without The Beatles (Credit: Universal) — Himesh Patel and Danny Boyle on the set of Yesterday, imagining a world without The Beatles. (Universal)

13:15 coconut | BBC One

14:50 Inside Out | BBC One

15:10 West Side Story | BBC Two

19:20 yesterday | BBC One

The best movies on TV for New Year’s Eve 2023

No Time to Die hits UK theaters on September 30 (MGM/Universal Pictures/EON) — Daniel Craig as James Bond in No Time To Die. (MGM/Universal Pictures/EON)

11:20 am Pete’s Dragon | BBC One

16:00 Mary Poppins Returns | BBC One

20:00 No Time To Die | ITV

Best movies on TV Monday, January 2, 2023

22:30 The Price of Bondage

Watch the trailer for No Time to Die