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"Fear you&amp;#039;ve chucked out the Radio Times with all that wrapping paper? Don&amp;#039;t panic, all you need is Digital Spy&amp;#039;s guide to the best bits of telly this Christmas and New Year. This bumper edition of Tube Talk&amp;#039;s TV picks covers the next two weeks of programming, from Christmas specials of Doctor Who and Downton Abbey to new series of Celebrity Big Brother and Glee that&amp;#039;ll perk you up after the last champagne cork has popped on New Year&amp;#039;s Eve.   With so much great stuff on (you can check out the Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day schedules for the major channels here), we&amp;#039;ve had to cheat a bit to keep to our quota. And we haven&amp;#039;t even included festive TV institutions like the Queen&amp;#039;s speech (Christmas Day at 3pm on BBC One and ITV) or Jools&amp;#039;s Annual Hootenanny (New Year&amp;#039;s Eve at 11.05pm on BBC Two). But are you really going to hold that against us when we&amp;#039;ve basically sorted out the next two weeks of telly for you? Merlin: Christmas Eve at 8.15pm on BBC One Why, oh why, did the final ever episode of Merlin have to air on Christmas Eve? We&amp;#039;ll be right moody unwrapping our presents now. While we at DS can&amp;#039;t say we&amp;#039;re happy that one of our favourite shows is coming to an end, at least it&amp;#039;s looking good that the series five finale will be something epic. Merlin&amp;#039;s final story &amp;#039;The Diamond of the Day&amp;#039; - and the programme itself - concludes with the legendary wizard (Colin Morgan) fighting to keep Camelot and Arthur (Bradley James) safe as the greatest battle the kingdom&amp;#039;s ever seen rages on. It&amp;#039;s bound to be an emotional, spectacular swan song - and maybe that bubbling &amp;#039;will they/wont they&amp;#039; thing between Merlin and Arthur will finally be resolved. Watch a trailer for the final Merlin below:      Doctor Who: Christmas Day at 5.15pm on BBC One Even though they&amp;#039;ve never really been your average fan&amp;#039;s favourite episodes, it feels like nowadays it just wouldn&amp;#039;t be Christmas without a Doctor Who special. Anyway, this year&amp;#039;s tale &amp;#039;The Snowmen&amp;#039; has greater appeal than your usual Crimbo Who, since it&amp;#039;s the first episode proper for The Doctor&amp;#039;s (Matt Smith) new companion Jenna-Louise Coleman, plus there&amp;#039;s a revamped TARDIS and new titles to feast our eyes on. Still not sure if those killer snowmen will be scary or silly though...  Watch Digital Spy chat the Doctor Who Christmas special with Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman:  Strictly Come Dancing: Christmas Day at 6.15pm on BBC One/Celebrity Big Brother: Thursday, January 3 at 9pm on Channel 5 Usually we&amp;#039;re desperate to escape from reality over the festive season when the inevitable family fights break out, but this year we&amp;#039;re embracing it - at least in terms of TV. Strictly Come Dancing returns for its annual special on Christmas Day, with veteran contestants like Natasha Kaplinsky, Kelly Brook and Chelsee Healey returning to show a bunch of newbies including ex-footballer Fabrice Muamba and JLS star JB Gill how it&amp;#039;s done. Then, in the New Year, Brian Dowling and Emma Willis welcome another bunch of (relatively) famous faces into the UK&amp;#039;s most scandalous house for yet another edition of Celebrity Big Brother. Fans of reality TV are in for a very happy New Year indeed, as in addition to CBB, celebrity diving show Splash! will be launching on ITV Saturday, January 5 (sound the Tom Daley in Speedos klaxon), before Dancing on Ice and Sky1&amp;#039;s Got To Dance both return for new series the following day. Watch the opening dance of last year&amp;#039;s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special:      Call The Midwife: Christmas Day at 7.30pm on BBC One/Downton Abbey: Christmas Day at 8.45pm on ITV1 We&amp;#039;ve smooshed Christmas Day&amp;#039;s big dramas together, because if you&amp;#039;re anything like us, you&amp;#039;ll be enjoying them in a glorious double bill over your tin of Quality Street anyway. Call The Midwife, 2012&amp;#039;s TV revelation starring Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Pam Ferris and Jenny Agutter, pulls out a fittingly time-honoured Yuletide plot point for this special, with the nuns discovering a baby on their doorstep. Downton Abbey&amp;#039;s Christmas episode, meanwhile, isn&amp;#039;t quite as festive, detailing the Crawleys&amp;#039; summer holiday in the Highlands. The question is, will this episode pave the way for Dan Stevens&amp;#039;s (Matthew Crawley) rumoured exit from the show?  Watch the trailer for Downton Abbey below:      Miranda: Boxing Day at 9pm/New Year&amp;#039;s Day at 9pm on BBC One BBC One are really spoiling us with comedy this festive season. Outnumbered (Christmas Eve at 9.35pm), Mrs Brown&amp;#039;s Boys (Christmas Eve at 10.15pm/Boxing Day at 9.30pm) and The Royle Family (Christmas Day at 9.45pm) are sure to deliver jiggly belly laughs, but the show we&amp;#039;re most looking forward to is Miranda, which returns for its third (and possibly final) series on Boxing Day. While it may be simplistic, archaic and just a little cheesy, Miranda Hart is so tragically loveable that we won&amp;#039;t be able to help getting drawn into her ongoing relationship struggles with Gary (Tom Ellis) or attempts to please her mother (Patricia Hodge) by getting a new job. Episode two, which sees Miranda mortified after Penny decides to stand for local government, airs on New Year&amp;#039;s Day. Miranda haters be warned - for the next few weeks you will be hearing the phrases &amp;quot;what I call&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;bear with&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;such fun&amp;quot; everywhere. Watch a clip from the new series of Miranda below:      The Girl: Boxing Day at 9pm on BBC Two Why wait to see Scarlett Johansson play a Hitchcock siren on the big screen when you&amp;#039;ve got Sienna Miller looking stunning as The Birds actress Tippi Hedren this very week? The Girl stars Toby Jones as the famed director, and tells the true story of Hitchcock&amp;#039;s obsession with Tippi, which takes a sinister turn when he puts his leading lady in real danger of being harmed by her avian co-stars. Both glamorous and terrifying, The Girl will stay with you for a long time after viewing. We can&amp;#039;t guarantee you won&amp;#039;t be reduced to a quivering wreck next time you come across a pigeon. Watch the trailer for The Girl below:      Superstars 2012: Saturday, December 29 at 6.45pm on BBC One It&amp;#039;s been an incredible year for British sport, and thankfully it&amp;#039;s not quite over yet. Before they are able to finally lounge on the sofa and let their gold medal torsos become sagging Christmas tummies, Team GB&amp;#039;s Olympic heroes will be competing one last time in a special Superstars revamp. Mo Farah, the Brownlee brothers and Nicola Adams are just some of the London 2012 champs taking part in the retro contest, while host Gabby Logan and pundits Denise Lewis and Iwan Thomas will be rating the gang&amp;#039;s chances as they fight to be named the ultimate athlete. Watch the trailer for Superstars below:      Wild at Heart: Sunday, December 30 at 8pm on ITV1 Merlin&amp;#039;s not the only long-standing show coming to an end over the holidays. Wild at Heart may have a slightly different demographic, but it&amp;#039;s no less beloved, and after eight years the South Africa-set drama will leave a big hole in the ITV schedules. In its final feature-length episode, Danny (Stephen Tompkinson) and Alice (Dawn Steele) put their relationship troubles aside when two cheetahs are taken by poachers. Du Plessis (Deon Stewardson), Rosie (Lucy-Jo Hudson) and her irritating husband-to-be Dylan (Nick Boraine) take drastic measures to help save the animals, but their plan could end in tragedy.  Watch clips from the last series of Wild at Heart below:      Charlie Brooker&amp;#039;s 2012 Wipe: New Year&amp;#039;s Day at 10pm on BBC Two 2012&amp;#039;s been a great year for Charlie Brooker. His satirical anthology Black Mirror (which, by the way, is coming back early next year) and cop spoof A Touch of Cloth were massive hits, he was named &amp;#039;Best Comedy Entertainment Personality&amp;#039; at the British Comedy Awards and he welcomed his first child with wife Konnie Huq. Despite all that though, Charlie still has tons to moan about from the last 12 months in his annual Wipe programme - like the Olympic Games, the Queen&amp;#039;s Diamond Jubilee and the US presidential election. Thankfully we won&amp;#039;t have to wait another year for our next slice of Brooker grouching - a new weekly series will follow 2012 Wipe on BBC Two. Watch Charlie Brooker talk Christmas adverts in 2011 Wipe below:      Glee: Sunday, January 6 at 8pm on Sky1 Warm up them vocal chords, Glee is back and bigger than ever before. The show choir sensation moves to New York for its fourth season, following Rachel (Lea Michele) as she meets a sexy new friend, Dean Geyer&amp;#039;s Brody, and an evil new nemesis, Kate Hudson&amp;#039;s dance teacher Cassie July, at NYADA.  There&amp;#039;s still plenty going on in the familiar Glee setting of McKinley High though. Kurt (Chris Colfer) ponders his future after being rejected from the drama school and a load of new faces campaign to join New Directions as its current members fight to succeed Rachel as top dog. Watch a promo for Glee below:      What are you looking forward to watching this Christmas and New Year? Leave your comments below! 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