10 TV shows for December: Squid Game, Gavin & Stacey, and more... 

As well as the beefed-up Christmas schedules, there are plenty other new shows to watch over the next few weeks 

Season two of Squid Game, the final Gavin & Stacey, and Kiera Knightley in Black Doves feature among the December TV highlights.

Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty, BBC Two, Monday, Dec 2:

Major new three-part drama-documentary series on the era in 16th-century Italy that proved to be one of the highpoints for human culture. Charles Dance stars as Michelangelo, while the lives of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael will also be explored.