Eastenders' Christmas party bbc1, 8pm

Now, this is hard to believe, but the BBC say that this specialprogramme will show us "The cast of EastEnders ... full of festivespirit".

The way things have been going this year you'd have to rate theodds of that happening in Albert Square as being rather short.Actually, this is an EastEnders' knees-up full of "outsiders".

Guest stars include Lemar, Kelly Holmes and McFly, though there issome seasonal warbling, too, from Shane Richie, Jill Halfpenny,Rudolph Walker and Angela Wynter and, worryingly, Pat, aka Pam StClement.

INSPECTOR Gina Gold's (Roberta Taylor) suspicions that thegangster queen Irene Radford (Lynda Bellingham) is back in town areconfirmed …