What to Watch with the Family This Christmas? Sorted!

Introducing Recce Group Lists. Because choosing what to watch shouldn't be harder than Christmas dinner.

Christmas is coming. The decorations will soon be up, the Quality Street will be mysteriously missing all the good ones, and families everywhere will be preparing for that most sacred of festive traditions. No, not exchanging presents or arguing about who forgot the cranberry sauce. We're talking about the annual battle over what to watch on television.

Someone wants Love Actually. Someone else insists it's not Christmas without Die Hard. Dad's suggesting The Great Escape for the seventeenth consecutive year, the kids have disappeared into their phones, and Grandma has already fallen asleep before anyone's agreed on anything.

Sound familiar? Well, Christmas might just have come early.

Introducing Recce Group Lists!

We've just launched a brilliant new feature on Recce that makes planning what to watch with friends and family easier, more social and considerably more entertaining. Group Lists lets you create a shared collection of movies and TV shows, invite your favourite people to join, and build the ultimate watchlist together.

Think of it as a Christmas wish list, except instead of socks, scented candles and another novelty mug, you're collecting brilliant entertainment.

And the best part? Everyone gets a say. Yes, even Uncle Dave, although we're not promising his suggestions will be any good.

Your Christmas Entertainment HQ

Imagine creating a Group List called "Christmas 2026" and inviting the entire family. Everyone can start adding their festive favourites, the latest blockbuster they've been desperate to see, or that brilliant Netflix series everyone's been talking about.

Perhaps your sister adds The Holiday, your brother nominates Home Alone, and someone inevitably suggests watching all three Lord of the Rings films back-to-back. That's eleven hours of Middle-earth, before you've even tackled the extended editions. Merry Christmas indeed.

But here's where Group Lists get even more interesting. You can see who's already watched each film, what Recce score they gave it, and read their review. So you'll know whether your brother genuinely loved that action blockbuster or whether he's recommending another two hours of cinematic punishment. And if Grandma's given a film 95 out of 100 while your teenage nephew has scored it 12, you've already got the beginnings of a lively Christmas debate.

But Group Lists aren't just about Christmas classics. They're perfect for discovering something new. That film your best mate has been raving about for months? Add it. The Oscar contender you missed at the cinema? On the list. That addictive new series you've been saving for a rainy day? Christmas holidays were practically invented for binge-watching.

Of course, Christmas isn't exclusively about family gatherings. Maybe you're organising a festive movie marathon with friends, planning a romantic Christmas break, or simply looking forward to a glorious week on the sofa doing absolutely nothing productive.

Create a Group List for your university mates, your work colleagues, your film-loving friends or that one person whose taste in cinema you trust more than your own. You can even start planning now, so when the holidays arrive, the entertainment is already sorted. Less Scrolling. More Watching.

We've all been there. Forty-five minutes scrolling through streaming services, endless suggestions, mounting frustration, and eventually deciding to watch something you've already seen twelve times. Group Lists are designed to put an end to that nonsense. Instead of endless browsing, you've got a personalised collection of recommendations from people you actually know. People whose opinions matter, whose tastes you understand, and who might occasionally introduce you to something extraordinary.

Because that's what Recce is all about. Bringing people together through the movies and television they love. So this Christmas, forget the arguments over the remote. Well, most of them. Create your first Group List, invite your favourite people, and start building your ultimate Christmas watchlist. The turkey might be overcooked, the presents might disappoint, and Uncle Dave might still insist on The Great Escape. But at least the entertainment will be sorted.

Happy Christmas watching from all of us at Recce!