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In a bumper Christmas special of Hits & Misses , we ponder the age-old question: what’s hit our Bullseye recently – and what’s fallen wide of the mark?

“Everybody seems to die at Christmas, or there’s an explosion. You can’t just have a Christmas where you sit around and something wonderful happens. Unless it’s a baby.” Cheryl Fergison played lovably