Overview
- The broadcast begins at 11:30 p.m. and is listed to run until about 1:40 a.m., according to Radio Times.
- This year’s show was recorded earlier in December at Versa Studios in West London, with the midnight moment staged in advance.
- The lineup features Ronnie Wood, Olivia Dean, Lulu, Jessie J, Craig David, Heather Small, The Kooks, Imelda May, Joe Webb, David Hermlin and Ruby Turner.
- Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra back guest artists on originals and covers, including a duet with Olivia Dean on Natalie Cole’s This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).
- Producers cultivate a party atmosphere with an enthusiastic studio audience, including free-bar drinks and prosecco, and the Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards lead the turn into 2026.