Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special: new trailer promises episode is going to be as hilarious as we hoped

The BBC has just dropped a teaser trailer for the new one-off Christmas special of Gavin and Stacey and – thank the baby Jesus in a manger – it looks like we’re in for a real laughfest when it airs.

Fans of the show have been treated to the 30 second clip a full month before the special is scheduled to be broadcast (which is Christmas Day evening on BBC One).

In it, a desperately agitated Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) appears to be having a full-on Christmas meltdown, something that most viewers will know only too well about. After all, there’s always one family member who loses the plot on December 25th, isn’t there?

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It looks as if Bryn adopts a military approach to his Christmas Day regime and, with plates piling up and things not going to plan, it all starts to get on top of him. Even his walkie-talkie set-up can’t help him.

In something not unlike full panic, Bryn can he heard asking Stacey: “Would you kindly inform everyone that dinner will be ever so slightly delayed?!”

Gavin and Stacey aficionados have been waiting for a return to Barry and Billericay for almost a decade now, with the last episode of the Horne and Corden-starring sitcom hitting our screens back on New Year's Day 2010.

"Over the last 10 years we’ve talked a lot about Gavin And Stacey – where they might be today and what their lives might look like," the show’s writers James Corden (Smithy) and Ruth Jones (Nessa) announced via a joint statement recently. "And so in secret we took the plunge and wrote this one-hour special."

"We’ve loved revisiting Barry and Essex again and bringing the characters back together has been a joy."

It's not just Rob Brydon, Ruth Jones and James Corden that are returning for the one-off, you’ll be pleased to hear. Stars Matthew Horne and Joanna Page are back (of course, the show is named after them). Also coming back are the ever-brilliant supporting cast, including Larry Lamb, Melanie Walters and Alison Steadman.

It’s not all been plain sailing, though. James Corden and Ruth Jones didn’t find the writing process quite as easy as they thought they might…

“We’d confused ourselves in thinking there needed to be an absolute narrative arc – there was so much in the story, there was no room for the characters to breathe,” Corden told The Radio Times.

“We’d written about 40 pages, and we sat and we read it and we both went ‘this just isn’t good enough. It doesn’t feel like the show. It doesn’t feel like it’s right’. There was a real silence in this room – a sense of maybe we were too naïve to think we could pick it up.”

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“We did then identify what it was. There needed to be a heart to it, a big moment that resonated.”

Corden goes on: “We went round and round, and it was probably about midnight – Ruth here with her laptop, me pacing around – and as soon as we had let it go, an idea arrived, maybe the quickest scene we’ve ever written, really.

“And as soon as that scene was finished, we had no choice. We said, ‘well now we have to make it’.”

And they have. Not only have they made it, but it looks just as funny as ever. Well lush.

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