{"id":332256,"date":"2025-12-23T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332256\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:17:09","slug":"coventrys-guz-khans-new-christmas-drama-dubbed-iconic-on-bbc-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332256\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry’s Guz Khan’s new Christmas drama dubbed ‘iconic’ on BBC tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuffed is being shown on BBC1<\/p>\n

Meghna Amin and Claire Harrison<\/p>\n

16:58, 23 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"ComedianComedian Guz Khan is starring in the new festive drama which airs on BBC1 tonight (December 23)(Image: Reach)<\/p>\n

Coventry’s Guz Khan’s new Christmas drama hits the BBC tonight and it has been dubbed ‘iconic’ by viewers. He stars in ‘Stuffed’ which is on BBC1 tonight (December 23).<\/p>\n

But it has been available to watch on BBC<\/a> iPlayer and has been a hit with viewers, with one saying: “If you’ve not watched it yet, try Stuffed on the iPlayer. Brilliant new addition to the Christmas film list. Guz Khan is brilliant.”<\/p>\n

Another said: “One enthusiastic fan declared: “This is iconic on tv I didn’t know what to watch during the Christmas holidays, same old home alone and polar express but this… is perhaps the best drama I’ve seen.”, reports the Mirror.<\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE: Every big change at Coventry’s hospital this Christmas from visitor times to parking<\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE: 60 years of nativity plays from around Coventry – can you spot someone you know?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Coventry<\/a> comic plays Arslan Farooqi, who, after receiving an unexpected \u00a38,000 Christmas<\/a> bonus at work, decides to take his multi-faith family on this festive adventure. Together with his wife Hannah, played by Morgana Robinson,, his two daughters, and brother-in-law Jamie, they trade Coventry for the enchantment of Christmas in Lapland.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s synopsis teases: “Things go downhill fast when Arslan finds out the bonus was a mistake, and to make matters worse, they have already spent every penny of it.<\/p>\n

“What ensues is one man’s quest to salvage a Christmas<\/a> he doesn’t believe in, while ideally not losing his job, his family, and everything he has ever worked for. And surprise, surprise, it doesn’t go too smoothly.”<\/p>\n

It rounds up quite a year for the former Grace Academy<\/a> teacher whose final series of BBC Three’s ‘Man Like Mobeen’ was a huge hit earlier this year. Stuffed is on BBC1 at 9pm tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuffed is being shown on BBC1 Meghna Amin and Claire Harrison 16:58, 23 Dec 2025 Comedian Guz Khan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,3462,2598,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-332256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-christmas","tag-coventry","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}