The pick of this year’s Christmas TV

Has a certain media mogul had a visit from three ghosts recently? I only ask as this year’s Sky Christmas schedule is so packed with treats and big-hitters that it can’t possibly be explained by hard-nosed commercialism. An outbreak of sudden seasonal generosity seems to be the only explanation.

Whatever has triggered Sky’s largesse, the result is a little something for everyone – including those of us best described as jaded anti-Christmas types. I was particularly pleased to see the return of Billie Piper in the deliciously sardonic I Hate Suzie. From Succession writer Lucy Prebble, it’s the chaos comedy that makes Fleabag feel like Emily in Paris. If you need an outlet from seasonal niceties, this is it.

Series two, which began on Sky Atlantic last night and can also be found on Now TV, sees Piper’s Suzie Pickles – a former child pop star now reeling from the shock of a messy divorce and an intimate photo leak – attempt to reset her public image by appearing, Matt Hancock-style, on a cringeworthy reality television vehicle.