Your Christmas Jane Austen TV Guide 2024

“I sincerely hope your Christmas...may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings…”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas! We hope that you're all having a cosy festive season, with plenty of boxsets and books to keep you busy. This is my favourite year to sit down and watch a Jane Austen adaptation (the 2009 BBC Emma mini-series is my favourite). Sometimes, however, wading through all the TV options is overwhelming. This is our gift to you: our blog editor has gone through all of the TV listings to help you out.* We've curated a selection of all the best period dramas, novel adaptations, and cosy romances to keep you busy from now until the new year. This year, we've also included some additional choices from our favourite streamers at the bottom. This way, you can watch all your favourites from sundown to sunset. Do let us know if we've missed anything and what you're most looking forward to watching this Betwixtmas!

* UK only, not accounting for regional variations. All channels are Freeview.

Christmas Eve

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
9:50am - 11:45am	Great Expectations (1946)	BBC Two
11am - 12:40pm	Gulliver’s Travels (2010)	Film Four
12:05pm - 1:10pm	The Secret Garden (1993)	5 Star
2:10pm - 4:15pm	A Christmas Carol (1984)	Channel Four
2pm - 4:35pm	The Man In The Iron Mask (1994)	5
4:20pm - 7pm	Stardust (2007)	4Seven
9pm - 11pm	Bel Ami (2010)	London Live
10:40pm - 11:40pm	Lucy Worsley’s Christmas Carol Odyssey	BBC Four

Christmas Day

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
8:45am - 10:10am	The Famous Five	CBBC
11:50am - 1:55pm	The Railway Children (2000)	Talking Pictures TV
10:50am - 1:05pm	Peter Pan (2003)	ITV 2
5:05pm - 6pm	A Farewell Arms (1932)	Great! Action
9pm - 11:20pm	Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)	ITV

Boxing Day

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
12am - 1:45am	The Duchess (2008)	BBC Two
12:45pm - 2:25pm	Casablanca (1942)	BBC Two
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Matilda (1996)	ITV 2
3:10pm - 5:15pm	Oliver Twist (1982)	Talking Pictures TV
5:40pm - 7:30pm	Matilda (2022)	BBC One
4:05pm - 6pm	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1988)	London Live
3:25pm - 5:25pm	Goodnight Mister Tom (1998)	ITV 3
5:25pm - 8pm	Little Women (2019)	More 4
8pm - 10:10pm	Murder on the Orient Express (2017)	More 4

27th December

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
11:25am - 2:20pm	Oliver! (1968)	Channel 4
12:55pm - 2:45pm	Clueless (1995)	Film Four
1:35pm - 4pm	West Side Story (1961)	BBC Two
6:50pm - 9pm	Poldark (1996)	Talking Pictures TV

28th December

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
12:35pm - 1:35pm	Miss Potter (2006)	5 Star
12:50pm - 1:50pm	Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen (2022)	BBC Two
1:50pm - 4:05pm	Death on the Nile (1978)	BBC Two
4:05pm - 6pm	Evil Under the Sun (1982)0	BBC Two
11:35pm - 1:45am	Much Ado About Nothing (1967	BBC Four

29th December

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
11:55am - 12:50pm	Little Women (2018)	Great! Movies
10:20am - 11:55am	An Ideal Husband (1999)	BBC Two
12:55pm - 2:45pm	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)	BBC Two
2:45pm - 4:30pm	The Mirror Crack'd (1980)	BBC Two
3:30pm - 6:15pm	The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall	Sky Arts
7:15pm - 9pm	David Copperfield (1999)	BBC Four

30th December

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
11pm - 12:30am	When Harry Met Sally (1989)	BBC One

New Year’s Eve

TIME	PROGRAMME	CHANNEL
12:20pm - 2:30pm	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2011)	ITV 2
2pm-4:30pm	Sherlock Holmes (2009)	5
2:50pm - 4:30pm	The Witches (2020)	BBC One
4:30pm - 6:55	Sheklock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011)	5
7:10pm - 9pm	10 Things I Hate About You (1999)	Film Four

Available on major streaming services (UK)

ON NETFLIX:

Sense and Sensibility (1995), dir. Ang Lee

Persuasion (2022), dir. Carrie Cracknell

Death Comes to Pemberley (2013), dir. Daniel Percival

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), dir. Sharon Maguire (and sequels, also available on Amazon)

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret (2023), dir. Kelly Fremon Craig

Bridgerton, Seasons 1-3

Anne with an 'E', Seasons 1-3

ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO:

Modern Persuasion (2021), dir. Alex Appel, Jonathan Lisecki

Little Women (1995), dir. Gillian Armstrong

ON DISNEY+

Love and Friendship (2016), dir. Whit Stillman

Far From The Madding Crowd (2015), dir. Thomas Vinterberg

Fire Island (2022), dir. Andrew Ahn

ON APPLE TV+

The Buccaneers, Season 1

Dickinson, Seasons 1-3