CHRISTMAS IS ALL about family and love and the joy of giving and receiving… AND TELLY.

We’ve already brought you what’s on RTÉ this festive season, so now it’s TV3′s turn.

Pick of the movies

• It’s a Wonderful Life
• The Snapper
• Evan Almighty
• Fred Claus
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure
• A Star is Born
• Another Cinderella Story
• Buster
• Camelot
• Gran Torino
• Caddyshack
• Glory
• Baby Mama

Christmas specials

• Delivering a Special Wish – Four workers from An Post and Eircom bring a shipment of medical supplies, bedding and toys to Skuodas Childrens’ Home Home in northern Lithuania.
• The Dubliners: 50 Years Celebration Concert from Dublin
• Ireland’s Favourite Christmas Toys

Contributors include Rosanna Davison, Gerald Keane, Brendan O’Carrol… and Gavin Lambe Murphy

• Martin King’s Christmas Helpers

Martin will be enrolling in Elf Training School, meeting the All-Ireland Champion Christmas tree grower and trying to save a turkey from its seasonal fate.

• Unsung Heroes at Christmas
• Xposé Christmas Wish – a young girl living with cancer gets to meet The Script
• St Stephen’s Night with Vincent Browne – Vincent will be having the craic looking back on the headlines of the year
• Downton Abbey Christmas Special

In this revealing Christmas special, Lord and Lady Grantham and family are heading for a summer break in the highlands of Scotland, leaving most of their servants back at home. Visiting Duneagle Castle is the highlight of Robert’s year, but it is also now the home of young, headstrong Lady Rose, who was displaced from Downton due to her dalliance with a married man.

• The Jeremy Kyle Show Christmas Wishes – nothing says Christmas like a paternity test
• Top Films of 2012
• One Direction: The Story So Far
• Temple Street Children’s Hospital Christmas Special
• Snow White: The Cheerios Panto
• GAA Championship Rewind
• Xposé Celebrity Review of the Year

Look back on the showbiz news that grabbed headlines in 2012 and from Ronan and Yvonne Keating to Tom Kat we remember the biggest celeb break ups.

• Graham Norton Show New Year’s Eve Special

Here’s what’s on RTÉ this Christmas>