TV preview: Alison Steadman heads the cast of the latest Little Crackers episode, would-be Father Christmases are put through their paces in Bad Santas and Nigella Lawson gives festive fare a Mediterranean flavour in Nigellissima: An Italian Inspired Christmas.
Little Crackers, Sky1, 9pm
This cornucopia of delightful mini dramas continues with a double helping of cockle-warmers. First up, actress Alison Steadman plays her own mother in a cool episode from her teenage years in Liverpool. It’s 1962 and the young Steadman has to pull the wool over her mum’s eyes if she’s to see the young Beatles at the legendary… Read the full story