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Biggest disappointment if you can class it as Christmas TV would be the Chicken Run sequel- just none of the charm of the original. Will next years Wallace and Gromit be the first without Peter Sallis?

Looks like it. Ben Whitehead, Wallace's replacement voice actor, did some lines for A Matter of Loaf and Death, but it was mostly Sallis. The projects since then have all been Shaun the Sheep related, which Wallace and Gromit don't appear in, or entirely unrelated to the W&G franchise (i.e. Chicken Run 2). So this'll be the first proper W&G film without Sallis - though of course there was those DFS adverts.