It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on ITV2

I still think it’s a bit early for Christmas specials by about a week but if you like me are part of that all important 18-35 demo (just, in my case) then you have all these to look forward to on ITV2 this week:

• Through the Christmas Keyhole – Keith Lemon is joined by Jonathan Ross, Louis Walsh and Kym Marsh. Wednesday 9pm.
• Release the Hounds: Jingle Hell 2 – The Jingle Hell special last year with Diversity was one of the funniest things I saw all year, this time three people from ITV2’s Weekender series which I’ve never heard of because I’m 34 take on scary challenges whilst Reggie Yates laughs at them from a van. Wednesday 10pm (also repeated after Celebrity Juice on Thursday)
• Celebrity Juice Christmas Special – I know you probably expect me to be better than Celebrity Juice but it’s the only show on TV right now that reliably makes me laugh quite hard so try harder everybody else. Joining Keith, Holly and Gino are Jay McGuinness, Louise Redknapp, Michelle Keegan and Jimmy Carr.

And you can even watch them if you’re outside the demo but there might be SWEARING.

There’s You’ve Been Framed at Christmas on Friday but that’s not in our remit. All these shows will doubtlessly be repeated endlessly over the coming weeks.

In other interesting news there’s a second series of The Almost Impossible Gameshow coming to ITV2 in January. I suspect they filmed two series back to back and split them up as that’s an odd schedule otherwise. Still though, new games are promised. The first series was a mixed bag – didn’t love it initially but gradually came round to its (read: The Rubberbandits) way of thinking, although still think it needed more ideas as I get bored of this sort of thing easily.