Jools’ Annual Hootenanny 2013 (BBC2, 11.30pm) Jools Holland’s annual music extravaganza has become as synonymous with December 31 as Auld Lang Syne.

Now in its 21st year, the latest guests include one of the most influential musicians of the past few decades, Ray Davies.

Eighties and Nineties chart regular Lisa Stansfield is also still going strong, as this performance should prove.

Riding high on the success of the Sunshine On Leith movie, the Proclaimers will be dropping into the studio, along with Melanie C.

She has been wowing the masses on stage in Jesus Christ Superstar. Now Ms Chisholm will be spicing up our life, along with Jamaican vocalist Dawn Penn and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson.

And if that lot isn’t enough to leave you tapping your foot, there’s always Rudimental; the Lumineers; soul star Laura Mvula; Haim, the Gap Band’s Charlie Wilson; Yorkshire’s own John Newman and Hootenanny regular Ruby Turner, along with Jools’s own Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.

The New Year will be brought in by the pipes and drums of the 1st Battalion of The Scots Guards.

Jools says: “It doesn’t really matter whether a piece of music is five minutes old or 500 years old. It can still be just as good, so long as it touches the heart.”

Alan Carr’s New Year Specstacular (Channel 4, 9pm) The last time many of us saw actor James Corden and musician Tinie Tempah on Alan Carr’s gold sofa was back in November.

They were being superbly upstaged by Tom Hiddleston doing his Kermit impressions, or wowing the masses with his stunning dance moves. Sadly there’s little chance of Tom returning as part of their proposed boy band, Full Frontal, but James and Tinie are back to either lend a hand with the laughs or provide the music.

Other special guests include Keith Lemon. His debut movie might have been one of the most critically-mauled Brit flicks of recent years, but he’s still in demand with projects such as Through the Keyhole and Celebrity Juice. There’s a good bet he’ll be plugging both here.

Plus, rugby hunk Ben Cohen and model/presenter Abbey Clancy will no doubt be discussing their time on Strictly Come Dancing; and Katy B will be providing top tunes to help see in 2014.

Two Doors Down (BBC1, 9pm) While some thespians dislike the idea of being associated with a role or catchphrase, Arabella Weir seems to have embraced it.

During her stint on sketch series The Fast Show, she played a character who was always asking, “Does my bum look big in this?” She then wrote an international best-seller using that as its title. Maybe Arabella will be adding another memorable character and catchphrase to her repertoire thanks to her role in this one-off comedy.

She stars as Beth Baird, a Scottish woman married to Eric (played by Taggart star Alex Norton). They’re currently planning a Hogmanay party to remember – and it certainly turns out to be just that, albeit not for the reasons the couple were expecting. The Bairds throw their doors open for Beth’s unpredictable sister Caroline, their son and his outlandish partner, friends Colin and Cathy, and their Norwegian neighbours Henning and Nina – who must be slightly bewildered by the whole shebang.

Tudor Monastery Farm Christmas (BBC2, 9pm) Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold are at it again; playing make believe and giving us a darn good history lesson while they’re at it.

Pushing aside for a moment the fact that the trio clearly have the best job in telly, their Tudor Monastery Farm series has made for fascinating viewing over the last few weeks, and so it seems only fitting that they’d delve into the Christmas traditions of the Tudor period.

The Tudors took Christmas very seriously, celebrating for the whole “12 days of Christmas”, with Christmas Day being something of a warm-up for things to come.

Our hosts are focusing on three of the big feast days – Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Twelfth Night. They make Tudor decorations, and prepare feasts which would typically include boar’s head, shred pies (the forerunners of mince pies) and Christmas pudding.