Angelina Jolie and Donny Osmond are among the celebrities the BBC is hoping will be dead-cert draws in its Christmas 2014 religious programming.

Jolie, special envoy of the UN high commissioner for refugees in addition to her day job as a Hollywood A-lister, will be reflecting on faith in an interview with Clare Balding for Radio 2’s Good Morning Christmas on 25 December. Her latest film as director is Unbroken, about US Olympian Louis Zamperini, a survivor of Japanese prison camps during the second world war.

Osmond will be a guest on BBC1’s Fern Britton Meets …, along with Nicholas Parsons, baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Rev Richard Coles.

Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s head of religion and ethics, said: “The religious programming offered this year puts the story of Christmas right at the heart of BBC schedules this December and I hope that there will be something to appeal to all audiences, whatever their age or beliefs.”

Isn’t “showbiztastic” the key phrase missing from this quote, Aaqil?