The Chase, including top Chaser Paul Sinha, gets into the festive spirit, with three celebrity specials across the holidays. On Christmas Day the Chasers don their best party wear for a celebrity special with Colin Jackson, Anne Diamond, Josie Long and Nicky Campbell.

On Boxing Day it’s Tim Lovejoy, Kay Burley, Eni Aluko and Richard Herring taking on the quizzing pros, who will sport their latest fancy dress outfits. This year’s theme is famous portraits. So look out for The Chasers emulating Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Holbein’s Henry VIII, Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and Frans Hals’ The Laughing Cavalier.

To round off the festive specials, there’s this year’s bloopers episode, too.

The Chasers are also teaming up over Christmas for a second series of ratings hit Beat The Chasers. Plucky contestants must decide how many of the famous five Chasers they dare face in a speedy head to head battle to win big cash prizes.

Hosted by Bradley Walsh, this is a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat treat featuring the cream of the quizzing crop trying to work as a team for the first time to defeat these brave individuals.

And Chaser Paul Sinha will also be fronting a new quiz show. Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown will see two teams of three familiar faces from the world of telly do battle in the ultimate TV trivia quiz. Each week, two regular team captains will go head to head with their respective teams. Featuring clips from the best-loved shows on TV, Paul tests the teams’ knowledge of everything on the box, from Blind Date to Bake Off and everything in between. It’s one thing to be on the telly - but it’s another to know your stuff about it...

Picture: ITV