What a view | The best Christmas movies and shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO, featuring Dolly Parton and plenty of cheer

The pick of Netflix’s 2020 stocking fillers spells new movies soaked in seasonal bonhomie and sugary glee – plus a dose of redemption for the bad guys, naturally.

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the traditional, festive croonings of, er, Dolly Parton. Country music’s fairy godmother is benevolence personified in Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, in which she must scupper the plans of a Scrooge-channelling landlady plotting to turn her hometown into a shopping centre.

More musical variations on A Christmas Carol abound in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. Dickens meets steampunk as kindly inventor-genius Jeronicus Jangle (Forest Whitaker), with a supporting cast of magnificent mechanical toys, turns grumpy after being betrayed by his cynical protégé. But fear not: no John Legend-produced, gospel-infused festive adventure is ever going to finish on a dreary note.

This year’s Best Santa Lookalike Award goes to a bewhiskered Kurt Russell in The Christmas Chronicles 2, this festive sequel flying us (reindeer class) between the frosty poles, with diversions to sunny Mexico, on a complex rescue mission.

A renegade elf wants to put the kibosh on Christmas, but Santa’s antlered aircrew are never more than a dazzling swoosh through the aurora borealis away from scotching his scheme. They even perform a mid-air homage to the Ben Hur chariot race. Goldie Hawn, Russell’s other half, co-stars as Mrs Claus – the brains behind the entire Christmas industry.

Domestic seasonal cheer swamps the four-part Netflix series Holiday Home Makeover with Mr Christmas. American interior designer Benjamin Bradley earned the sobriquet thanks to his extensive collection of antique Christmas decorations.

Here, with his team of “elves”, he sets about transforming some carefully chosen homes – and one fire station – inside and out with enough baubles, candy canes, cut-out reindeer, fairy lights and fake snow to leave the neighbours pine-tree green with envy.