It’s been another exhausting year, hasn’t it? At times events have come at us so fast that you can barely absorb the impact; small wonder that this year’s New Year TV is about looking back, not forward.But there’s an unusual take in 2022: The Year From Space (2 January, Channel 4, 7.30pm), which uses footage from satellites monitoring the planet to tell the story of events natural and human across the earth. So there are dramatic pictures of American wildfires and dried up lakes showing the impact of the climate crisis, alongside the build-up of Russian forces near Ukraine and the subsequent exodus of refugees. Mass crowds at St Peter’s, the Hajj and Glastonbury seem like dots from space; herring shoals in the ocean are vast swathes of white and, less picturesquely, there are brown stains on the Antarctic ice from a previously undiscovered colony of pooing penguins. Narrated sensitively by David Harewood, it’s a reminder to see the bigger picture as we enter 2023.Or you could just party: BBC Scotland has Lewis Capaldi round for Hogmanay (BBC1, 11.30pm), hosted by Edith Bowman. Capaldi will perform his recent hits including Forget Me, although sadly without its hilarious Club Tropicana parody video, while the traditional element comes from Manran, the Gaelic seven-piece led by Kim Carnie. Or for more of that kind of thing, there’s the Ceilidh na Bliadhn’ Uire (Hogmanay, BBC Alba, 11.30pm) live from Mallaig and Morar Community Centre, hosted by Cathy Macdonald and Niall Iain Macdonald, and featuring the popular Breabach, the Oban Gaelic Choir, Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band, and others. Yes, it’s in (subtitled) Gaelic, but for those who don’t have the language, are you really listening to the bits in-between anyway or are you knocking back the advocaat?And, of course, there’s the perennial Jools’ Annual Hootenanny (Hogmanay, BBC2, 11.25pm) with Jools Holland gathering musicians around him like some boogie woogie spider to force them to play their hits. Caught in his festive web this year are current hipsters Self Esteem, Cat Burns and George Ezra, while unable to escape from his lures are veterans The Real Thing, Fine Young Cannibals and Andy Fairweather Low. “Play, my pretties!” cackles Jools, as they caper around a fake countdown.There’s more music and more looking back in When Motown Came To Britain (Ne’erday, BBC2, 10pm), the endearing tale of how the soul label’s first UK tour in 1965 took Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, the Supremes and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles across the country, including a stop in Glasgow. Despite the wealth of talent it had a rocky start, with the performers baffled by audience reserve, dodgy food – though Diana Ross apparently loved Wimpy burgers – and ticket sales low outside London. But fascinating film footage recorded by Colin Green, guitarist for George Fame (who was added to the tour to bring in punters), shows what incredible shows they were. Eventually a bond was forged between Motown and British soul fans which lasted even through the label’s lean years. Some who were at the shows as teenagers return to the venues to relive the memory, while artists, DJs and journalists talk about their impact in this lovely documentary.

“It’s April 1968 and change is coming to Nonnatus House,” says the preview for series 12 of Call The Midwife (Ne’erday, BBC1, 8pm) – hang on, don’t they say that every year? And does the perennial mix of social history mixed with adorable babies and nunnish mishaps ever really change? But actually, with the legalisation of abortion rights, the increasing availability of the pill and racial tensions in Poplar following Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech, the midwives are genuinely facing a whole new environment. It’s quite chilling to see the roots of things we’re still fighting over today, albeit in the programme’s quietly effective style. There’s also a new face, with snippy Sister Veronica joining as the first local health visitor.

There’s more dramatised social history in Stonehouse (2 January, STV, 9pm), with Matthew Macfadyen in a very funny wig as the 1970s government minister who faked his own death by leaving clothes on a beach. If it reminds you of A Very English Scandal, about Jeremy Thorpe, that’s no surprise: it’s scripted by novelist John Preston, who wrote the book that was based on and who admits he taught himself to write for TV by studying Russell T Davies’ adaptation.

BBC Scotland's Hogmanay 2022, with Edith Bowman

The ambitious Stonehouse seems to have it all as he rises through Harold Wilson’s government: fancy house and car, lovely wife (Keeley Hawes, acting alongside her actual husband for the first time since Spooks). But things go wrong. He’s spent too much, there’s a Czech spy hovering and a young secretary making eyes at him. And so his half-baked, disastrous plan begins, as he flees to Australia. These days he’d just go on I’m A Celebrity.

Hogmanay TV Preview: From The Year From Space to Call the Midwife