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CHRISTMAS
What does TV offer this
christmas if you want to get away from the
relatives and put your feet up.
Now that the BBC have sold the rights of Eastenders to ITV in order to
ramp up their public service requirements you can enjoy festive frills
and spills with the slaters and fowlers, but just as the catfight gets
going it's time for a commercial break, and ITV have now scheduled it
to 40 minutes to include their christmas adverts for Boxing Day sales
and hampers for next year.
Find out why Santa is being sued this year, what Robbie Williams gets
for christmas, what a Christmas Night is like with the stars.
Watch the Emmerdale cast walk into the Rovers Return for the first
time, view spectacular catfights in the Queen Vic, get voted off in the
Ultimatum Christmas special and view great film premiers such as
Treasure Of The Carribean & Star Wars Episode VII.
One look through the schedules for Christmas 2005 and you are going to
think that TV is one great big present of its own,
After all who needs to go out and visit people and give any gifts when
TV gives you so much.
CHRISTMAS LISTINGS
Christmas Eve
TV Channel 1
Cable, Sky, Satellite & Freeview Box
6.00am Christmas Breakfast
TV Channel 1 joins TV News 24 for live rolling christmas at the
start
of the day. Including special christmas stories.
09.25 Family Fallouts.
Studio discussion with Les Dennis.
Christmas is traditionally the most stressful time of year for most
families, the guests today include a family who despite getting on for
most of the year, always manage to have a major fallout every
christmas. Different members have walked out in a huff over the years
on either Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day. Les Dennis
hopes to reunite them.
If you have suffered from any of the
issues raised in the programme or
have suffered family fallouts, then you can talk to the "Family
Fallouts" team in confidence on national TV.
10.10 This Is the Issue
Topical studio debate with John Kilroy.
Today, he asks whether Christmas is on the decline, an audience
including Jehova's Witnesses, anti-capitalist protestors and islamic
leaders ponder the issue.
11.10 Christmas Eve Carols & Bells
Coverage of a new midday mass being held in Cambridge by a right
reverend in the prescence of an audience of religious celebrities.
SPOTLIGHT:
Christmas Live! airs tonight from
Midnight and due to this TV Channel 1
has commisioned a special Midnight Mass brought forward by 12 hours
12.40pm FILM: PREMIERE The Christmas
Chronicles
Fantasy adventure based on the legend of Santa Claus.
Santa's sleigh is stolen but the elves resolve to find it
(2002, U)
2.30 Classic Cartoon
New Popeye
Popeye downs some organic spinach and then rescues an island by
lifting
it out of the way of a tidal wave.
2.40 FILM: Indiana Jones & The
Precipice of Doom
Particularly precarious Indiana Jones action adventure.
Indiana Jones' arch nemesis stands just on the other side
1987, U (PG)
4.35 Ultimatum
In this edition the team can win Christmas presenters but only
if they
can answer enough questions correctly consecutively.
5.10 Auntie's Unbroadcastable Bloopers
The worst gaffes that ever went out on air on TV Channel 1,
including
that Hutton moment. Presented by Terry Wogan
Wogan's Christmas Chat is at 6.10pm.
5.40 News & Weather
5.45 Lifted
A showcase for Britain's toughest weightlifters, including a
plumber
who lifted a kitchen sink clean out of a wall and a department store
worker who dressed up as Santa and lifted a chimney.
6.10 New Series Wogan's Christmas Chat
Now in a special for Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve, Terry
Wogan
returns to his chat show chair to speak to christmas celebrities.
Robbie Williams is the first guest and he reveals to Wogan that he has
always collected christmas cards.
Wogan returns for more Christmas Chat on New Year's Eve at 6pm.
6.40 Emmerdale - Woolpackers Christmas
Special
In this special episode for christmas, the dingles return to
Emmerdale
and reform their band, the woolpackers much to the delight of the
locals, except for Betty who threatens to phone the council once new
year arrives.
7.40 999 Christmas Lifesavers
Statistically Christmas is the time of year you are most likely
to
suffer an accident or a serious injury, Michael Buerk is on hand with a
guide to avoiding the "pitfalls" of christmas.
Pine needle injuries account for 1% of all hospital admissions over the
holiday season, meet the unlucky person who fell into this category
during one reconstruction.
8.10 Coronation Street
Jack Duckworth has spent Christmas Eve afternoon in the Arndale
Centre
but he has still failed to bring home any gifts and the regulars are in
fine christmas spirit in the Rovers Return until it mysteriously goes
on fire in this 1 hour special.
9.10 Family Conventions
Christmas special of the oddball family sitcom.
After appearing on various missing persons columns the family are
re-united.
However as the big day approaches nobody has bought any presents for
each other.
10.10 News & Weather
The latest news with Peter Sissons, and the weather with Michael
Fish
including a snowmap for potential snowfall on Christmas Day.
10.15 The Bells Are Ringing
Live coverage of the preparation of various churches around the
UK for
their midnight services.
A service from Christchurch in New Zealand is live at midnight.
10.40 Film of 2005 with Jonathan Ross
As 2005 draws to a close, Jonathan Ross presents the highlights
and
christmas turkeys of the year.
11.10 Three Lagers, Two Pints & A
Pub
Raucous comedy centering on the lives of twentysomethings in
Brighton.
Christmas Special: Gav has proposed to Sarah who he's just met in a
club, But he wants to get married on Christmas Day and has wrapped up a
wedding ring.
11.40 Christmas Live!
Christmas as it breaks live around the world, including a
midnight
service from Christchurch and then the coverage switches to Sydney and
Tokyo as the first cities to open up their presents on the morning of
the 25th.
3.10am Santabox
Letters from and to Sadam are read out.
3.20 Christmas Live!
It's Christmas Eve in New York & Philadelphia and the
midnight
services are due to start shortly.
6.00 Christmas
breaks in Tinseltown as the coverage moves to LA.
TV Channel 2.
Cable, Sky, Satellite &
Freeview Box
6.00am The Best Of Pages from Teletext
The best that teletext had to offer in 2005 is revealed. The
winning
pages are scrolled here.
7.30 Christmas Preview
What programmes has your licence fee funded for christmas this
year,
this programme delves into the highlights of the christmas scheduling,
ignoring any turkeys.
8.00 FILM: High Hopes
Musical starring Doris Day based on her hit song. A leader of a
local
church group who has persistently high spirits is being accused by her
peers of trying to make religion too fun.
So she decides to form her own breakout church.
(1959, U)
9.50 Airport To Airport
Travel series with Michael Palin & Ewan McGregor.
The two travellers take a regular journey across the world from
Heathrow Airport in London to Sydney International Airport and discover
that this is more difficult than a hot air balloon journey.
10.50 Subtitles Christmas Special
A preview of which programmes will contain subtitles this
christmas
11.10 Wheels Of Fortune
The wheel was arguably one of the first inventions of mankind.
But how did we move before the wheel?, Robert Winston attempts to find
out.
12.30 Michael Palin's Christmas
Traditions
Michael Palin reveals how he is celebrating christmas this year,
by not
celebrating it and going on a country walk instead. Later on Christmas
Day he reveals, he always watches a marathon of Monty Python's Flying
Circus episodes.
1.20 FILM: New York Has Gone
Epic disaster adventure, a king kong like creature is
terrorising New
York.
The mayor attempts to deal with the gigantic creature but wakes up to
find that it has demolished the entire city. Meanwhile the US army
attempt to capture and subdue the creature and pen it in Chicago.
(1978, PG)
4.10 Ready Steady Cook On Christmas Day
A Ready Steady Cook Christmas Special, filmed on Christmas Day
last
year. The contestants face the usual challenge, except with the
addition of it being Christmas Day and the additional challenge of
their relatives being invited into the studio audience.
4.40 Sssh! Libel - What The Papers Try
To Say.
With Christmas being traditionally a quiet time for filing a
lawsuit,
what stories have the papers printed this week that might have got them
into hot legal water had they headlined at any other time of year.
5.10 Suing Santa
In a documentary revealing that the role of santa claus can be a
very
litigous one, we learn that St Nicholas has attempted to sue Santa
Claus for breach of copyright, and that he has also recently come under
fire from the toy manufacturer Mattel for distributing their products
for free.
6.40 Dorothy & Gromit
New animation from Nick Park jointly based on The Wizard Of Oz
and
Wallace & Gromit's The Wrong Trousers.
Dorothy is swept into the land of Oz from her native Kansas by a wild
tornado, once in the strange land, she makes some new friends and
attempts to seek out The Wizard Of Oz.
The wizard tells her new friend the scarecrow that he has the wrong
cheese, and that Dorothy is wearing the wrong trousers.
7.20 FILM: Madame Fabulous
A fashion musical set in Paris, including performances of such
classics
as Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Wear Me Right Out Of Your Hair &
Stretch Into Me.
Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones & Kathleen Turner.
(1996, 12)
9.20 The Meaning Of Christmas
A film that sets out to find out what the true meaning of
Christmas is
to a variety of people. Has consumerism gone too far, or is it just an
overblown religious festival are just some of the questions asked by
the contributors to this programme.
Narrated by Roger Bolton.
10.00 Why Did It All Happen Christmas
Special.
An irreverent take on the week's news with this panel game show
captained by Peter Sissons with competitors Michael Buerk and Huw
Edwards. Including guest Angus Deayton MP.
10.30 Music with Jools Holland
Jools Holland takes some of his favourite CD's to the Royal
Albert Hall
and plays them live in front of a celebrity audience.
11.30 Christmas Cracks Me Up!
Legendary comedians reveal their favourite christmas routines
and jokes
about the holiday season, featuring amongst others Ronnie Barker,
Johnny Vegas & Bernard Manning.
12.00am The Beatles - Who Were They?
In this special film for Channel 2, former members of The
Beatles
reveal who they really were, when they were not performing. Paul
McCartney & Ringo Starr appear as themselves and Yoko Ono speaks on
behalf of John Lennon.
1.00 FILM: A Christmas In Venice
Starting Woody Allen & Diane Keaton.
Woody Allen gets a new apartment in Venice, and spends christmas there
for the first time away from New York. But staring at the many canals
he begins to have reflective thoughts.
(1991, 12)
3.00 Pages from Teletext
Viewers can read teletext until Christmas Dawn.
5.00 Presents from Open University.
University professors give their gifts of knowledge to the
viewing
public
TV
Channel 3
Cable, Sky, Satellite & Freeview
Box
6.00am The Morning Channel
Morning news and light entertainment from the morning franchise
holder,
the morning channel.
8.00-8.15 Scratch It Big At Christmas
The team continue to surprise viewers in their homes by knocking
at
their doors with a giant scratchcard, a successful winner will win a
very generous set of christmas presents.
9.00 Hotspot from Heat.
Morning entertainment update sponsored by Heat magazine.
Penelope Matthews is in LA as the stars get ready for christmas in
Tinseltown.
9.25 Cartoon AM
Morning fun & animation segment sponsored by Coco Pops.
Card Capturing Monsters
New anime series from Japan
Today the flying birds of Japan are rendered flightless by
monsters
hurling cards through the air and giving their wings papercuts. Can Jim
bring out his ace
9.55 Don't Be Silly
All-action children's game show with Jamie Theakston.
The participants have to get as muddy as they can in a field race, for
the ones that fail there is always the half a dozen gunge tanks.
10.25 Teenage High
High school drama, the girls come to the conclusion that to have
a
chance in sorority when they reach college they need to become
cheerleaders, but there is just one problem none of them know how to
cheer, they then decide to take the awquad route of asking the popular
head cheerleader for advice.
10.55 Dumb & Smart
Smart begins to write his ideas for numerous inventions on
post-it
notes, but Jo keeps putting them in the postbox resulting in a
hilairious caper when they try to rescue the notes before the postman
arrives.
11.10 All New Scooby
Scooby: Up & At 'em
Scooby Doo eats a special kind of scooby snack and for once he
is
braver than Scrappy, but Scrappy wants to put a stop to that!
11.50 The Adventures Of Coco
Pops
Animated series based on the popular advert.
Don't Drop That Bowl!
Today the monkeys attempt to rescue a bowl which has dropped
into the
sea. Meanwhile Jim has an audition to appear in a commercial.
12.10 FILM: Christ Almighty
The story of Jesus Christ with Brian Blessed in the role of
Jesus
Christ.
(1987, PG)
3.00 Murder, It Was
Feature-length episode of the murder mystery series starring
Angela
Lansbury, guest starring Dick Van Dyke. A man's body is discovered in a
lake, but mysteriously all the boats from the marina have gone missing.
Who could be responsible amongst the inhabitants of a quiet fishing
village. Only Pamela it seems is in any kind of position to find out.
5.00 The Best Christmas TV Moments of
2005.
The best moments from the christmas TV schedules of 2005 as
selected by
Philip Schofield & Lisa Riley, includes highlights of tonight's
live Most Christmas special.
7.00 Eastenders - The Big Bust Up
It's Christmas in Albert Square and that usually spells trouble
for the
residents.
Tonight is no exception in the Queen Vic after a fight breaks out
between the Fowlers & The Mitchells over who is visiting who on
Christmas Day. Ian Beale who has just joined the police force has his
loyalties divided when he is sent in to break up the fraquar during his
shift.
Meanwhile in the slater house a catfight breaks out between Zoe slater
and Pauline Fowler when she alleges that she has never been to the
states.
Eastenders vs Casualty is Boxing Day at 8pm.
8.00 Christmas Shopping from Hell
Including a family that did all their christmas shopping today
and a
couple who ordered all their christmas presents off Amazon & Ebay
only to get delivery estimates of between the 26th and 27th December.
9.00 I'm a Jehova's Witness, Get Me Out
Of Here!
A teenage son and teenage daughter from a family of jehova's witnesses
talk candidly about their family's stance on christmas.
10.00 News At Ten Christmas Special
Short news roundup with Trevor McDonald.
Followed by Christmas Weather
10.10 Trevor McDonald's Christmas
Message.
The respected newsreader reveals his thoughts about christmas
and the
issues that surround it.
10.15 Hallelujah!
Last year's Midnight Mass from Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral.
11.00 Most Christmas
At a variety of locations throughout the UK, the Most Haunted
team
attempt to capture a santa sighting with the use of secret cameras
& green night vision after dark in homes around the UK.
Philip Schofield is in the studio, with Yvette Fielding & Derek
Acorah on christmas night watch in a home in Cheshire.
12.00am Most Christmas Live
Live coverage continues through the night.
During the night, Derek Acorah throws an object at a chimney but will
this fail to yield a santa?
Press red for interactive coverage, including cameras placed in the
chimney, inside the sack and inside a mincepie.
5.00 TVC3 Nightscreen.
Christmas Day
TV Channel 1
7.00am Children's Programmes
Santa & Friends
Animation featuring Santa and friends, In the middle of june,
Santa
takes a break from preparing presents and jets off to the bahamas.
7.30 The Naz (A Modern Nativity)
Animation covering the story of the nativity as if it happenned
in the
projects in New York
8.00 All New Tom & Jerry
All new editions of the classic cartoon pair Tom & Jerry,
Tom &
Jerry are now in their 60's & 70's, jerry renders chaos at the
nursing home and gives Tom the wrong medication,
after which a chase ensues
8.30 Scooby & Scrappy
Christmas special, Shaggy receives scooby snacks for christmas
and this
gives him the courage for the solving of today's mystery, why are there
strange new boxes
in the living room, and why were there eerie sounds on the roof and
chimney above last night?
9.00 Christmas Day Unwrapped! - Live
The cameras follow families around the UK as they unwrap their
presents
live, one teenager wanted to receive an Xbox but instead received a
PS2, and another
family member was unhappy that they received a motorbike instead of the
car that they had asked Santa for.
10.00 Christmas In Need
Filmed live from an orphanage, an appeal to raise money for
needy and
sick children on Christmas Day. A live telethon
appears later at 8pm.
10.05 Sing For The World
Joining a group of carol singers who are entering into the
spirit of
the sound of music, by singing to the hills of The Sound Of Music.
11.00 FILM: A Christmas Wish (2002)
A boy wishes that he could get presents from a real Santa. One
night he
finds a cupboard in his house that contains
a secret opening to Lapland. Santa Claus enlists his help to save the
land from global warming.
Starring Maculay Culkin
12.45pm FILM: The Ice Queen (2000)
A witch who lives at the North Pole attempts to cast an icy
spell
across the whole world.
2.00 The Pops
A look back at the year in pop presented by Robbie Williams.
3.00 The Queen
The Queen opens her presents and then gives a speech.
3.10 New Wallace & Gromit -
Daybreak
Gromit investigates an attempted to robbery at their animation
studios.
Someone is attempting to steal them to plaigarise
them. Can the copyright cat burglar be foiled?
4.00 Why Don't They Have All That?
A film looking at the Christmas Day experience in an orphanage, David
Dickinson gives presents to the children and there is a song and dance.
4.30 The Snowwoman
A new animation about the Snowman's other half.
5.00 What Was That Line?
A collection of bloopers from programmes throughout the year in
broadcasting, including the famous incident when Peter Sissons fell
asleep during the Breakfast news programme.
5.30 News/Weather/Sport
A short news update looking at what is happenning in the world
beyond
the confines of the living room,
cold and frost is predicted and in sport a report into Cliff Richard's
Celebrity Tennis.
5.40 FILM: Fairy Tales Grimm
Blockbuster version of some of the stories from the Brothers
Grimm.
Hansel & Gretel are pitched in battle with the gingerbread man.
7.15 Coronation Street vs Emmerdale
The casts of Coronation Street & Emmerdale unite for a
seasonal
special. Jack & Vera enjoy a pint in the woolpack while Alan Turner
presides over the Rovers Return.
Emmerdale
8.15 Christmas In Need
Live viewers telethon with a viewers pledge to help those in
need at
christmas, the cast of eastenders sing
Perfect Day & the stars give inspirational christmas messages.
presented by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin.
9.15 Christmas Night With The Stars.
A christmas night special featuring stars having the christmas
time of
their lives, the only way you'll ever get to have this kind of fun is
by watching them.
11.00 FILM: I Wish It Wasn't Christmas
Everyday (1991)
A forgetful man playing a santa in a shopping mall is forced to
live
through Christmas Day again and again until he thinks better of his
anti-christmas cynical views, with Joe Pesci & Steve Martin.
12.50am Joins News Channel 24.
TV Channel 2
7.05am Kaleidoscopes & Nickelodeons
A showcase of some of the earliest films ever made.
9.00 FILM: Dorothy Of Oz (1998)
A new version of the 1939 classic from MGM. Dorothy is crowned
the
princess of oz by the Cowardly Lion.
However soon the wicked witch of the south east, a second cousin to the
wicked witch of the east has emerged.
11.00 What's Cooking
Christmas special of the home cooking show dedicated to
christmas
lunch. With Anthony Worrel Thompson.
12.00 Christmas Day with Christmas Pay
Documentary about those who have chosen to work on Christmas Day
and
are getting paid handsomely for it. The subjects include a nurse who is
taking a break during a shift
at the hospital to tell the filmmakers about it.
1.00 Jehova' very good christmas.
The teenage children of a family of jehova's witnesses relate
how they
are spending Christmas Day.
2.00 A Bear & His Brother
An animated fairytale about a bear and his little brother.
Narrated by
Ross Kemp.
3.10 The Making of The Queen
How the Queen prepares for her speech and is spending Christmas
Day.
3.40 Today's The Day That Was
A quiz about the events of this date from years gone by with Huw
Edwards.
4.10 Better & Better
An edition of the classic comedy about two dustbin workers from
1965.
Terry has to throw away some rubbish his brother Stuart wants to keep,
leading to a fistfight.
4.40 Pirouet
A feature length russian opera about the fall of the russian
empire.
6.50 The Other 364 Days
A look into Santa's giant toy-making factories in a documentary
giving
an insight into how the extraordinary production takes
place. Professor Stephen Hawking is on hand to explain the physics of
the extensive raindeer travel of the 24th.
8.55 Christmas Crimewatch 2005
With Christmas being a record-breaking time for burglaries, Nick
Ross
sets out to catch one notorious crook red sack handed.
10.00 FILM: Le Noir
Deeply moving story of one family's struggle in rural france
against
the invasion of the nazi's during World War II.
1am Pages from Teletext.
TV
Channel 3
6.00am The Morning Channel
The news presenters unwrap their presents in the studio and then
get on
with the news and weather.
Also including Snow Patrol at 7.40, live updates on the areas of the UK
where snow has fallen.
8.00 Christmas Carols Live
Carol Vorderman and Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus surprise
viewers
when they turn up on doorsteps and sing carols for viewers.
9.25 Christmas Cartoon AM
Phone the studio to reveal your christmas presents on national
TV, a
lucky viewer could
be the winner of some more christmas presents.
Freakycat
Cartoon series about a cool feline superheroine.
Her friends have been captured as pets with the aim of selling them as
christmas gifts, she uses force to impart the message that pets are not
just for christmas to the corrupted former pet shop owner.
9.55 Dumb & Smart
Animation about two characters mismatched in IQ levels.
Jo thinks the wrapping paper is his present.
10.10 Card Capturing Monsters - The
Movie (2002)
Feature length animated movie based on the japanese card game.
To battle monsters looming over the town, Jim needs to find some cards
that are so rare there are only 52 of them in the world.
11.40 Coco Pops at Christmas.
Animated series based on the coco pops TV commercial.
The jungle creatures want coco pops for christmas, but how can it be
wrapped up?
12.10pm The Queen - A Preview
Things the queen might say.
12.20 A Service - Christmas Remembered.
A service to remember those who made christmas possible. Live
from St
Paul's Cathedral in London.
With Eamon Holmes & Alistair Stewart.
1.10 FILM: Rocking Chair (1991)
A yarn about the fortunes of the inhabitants in an old house in
the
deep south in america.
Over the years an old white house was bought and sold several times and
many different people lived there, but one item, a rocking chair was
never sold, now it narrates the story.
With Jim Varney
3.00 The Queen (with signing)
3.10 Robbie's Christmas Presents
In this christmas special, Robbie Williams reveals what he likes
to get
for christmas and the cameras follow him
for his Christmas Day activities including backstage access to his
filming of The Pops, which is being broadcast today.
4.00 Bond, James Bond
40 years of James Bond is celebrated in this montage of classic
clips
and interviews.
The 22nd bond film, You Haven't Died Enough is New Year's Day at 7pm.
5.00 Eastenders at Christmas
Walford is still reeling after yesterday's fight in the Queen
Vic,
Phil's plans for the queen vic go a stage further.
5.30 You've Been Filmed (Christmas
Special)
Special christmas edition of the hidden camera footage &
mishaps
show,
several people didn't get quite what they expected when they put up a
christmas tree and one family member wasn't
entirely grateful for their christmas present.
6.00 Who Wants To Be Rich at Christmas
Christmas special of the get rich quick quiz. In a special
taking
families who have the spent the most for christmas, expensive presents
are in the prize bag along with the cash for one lucky group of
contestants. Presented by Les Dennis.
7.00 Christmas Idol
A family's choice of christmas gifts are judged by a panel of
three
judges. The winner's gifts will be
won and bestowed upon their family.
8.00 Presents from Hell
A look at those presents that just shouldn't have been
unwrapped,
including children receiving sharp objects inside toys, nightmarish
socks & fashion from relatives and toys that took batteries so rare
they couldn't be bought & played until the new year.
9.00 A Midsummer Nights Dream
Drama based on the shakespeare play set in a Manchester prison.
Including at 10pm Christmas Idol Update.
11.00 News
Short news update, followed by the Christmas Idol results.
11.05 Jack Dee's Christmas Cracker
The deadpan comedian tells us what bugs him about christmas, in
the
middle of the programme he is invited to try out
viewers suggestions on christmas activities for him to begrudingly
partake in.
12.05am FILM: The Lords Of The Mafia
(1987)
A Godfather's son double crosses him twice, should he be whacked
or has
the double double crossing cancelled his treachery out.
2.15 FILM: Gone for Christmas (1994)
A husband's wife leaves him for
a christmas holiday, before he can
discover that the reason is an affair, he has the christmas time of his
life.
3.35 Tickets, Consoles & DVD's
The latest cinema & DVD releases & games consoles
4.15 TVC3 Nightscreen
Late Christmas & New Year programmes previewed.
5.55 Morning News.
Boxing Day
TV Channel 1
7.10am Children's Programmes
Santa & Friends
In Today's episode, it's boxing day and Santa feels he is due for a
long rest, that is until he opens his postbag and discovers that it is
full to the brim with christmas letters for 2006.
8.10 Raiders from Outer Space
Alien invasion animated series.
8.40 ET - The Animated Series
An animated series based on the 80's blockbuster film running
throughout the holiday season.
Double bill.
ET receives a phone call on the family phone telling him to go
home. He tries to heed the advice by attempting to build a spaceship in
the back garden and then in the second episode,
ET has gone home to visit his parents, without him his friend feels
lonely and decides to visit Roswell to 'discover' something else
9.35 Boxing Day Unboxed
Holiday special of the interior design show, Change That!, a
family from kent has some living room decluttering to do, following
yesterday's festivities, interior design expert Kieren Adams tells the
family that some presents will just have to go, for the sake of
decluttering.
10.10 Alice Through The Future
A new adventure for Alice from Alice In Wonderland in which she
has a new dream that she is in space, along the way she meets many
wacky characters.
12.10 Sell Off Your Christmas Presents.
An I Want That Money special that attempts to find out what
viewers unwanted presents might be worth by flogging them on a Boxing
Day boot sale.
1.10 FILM: A Mouse's Christmas (1985)
A small orphan mouse has no experience of either a family or
christmas, desperate to be able to
live through the tradition himself he moves into a mousehole in a happy
families home. Unfortunately it is also inhabited by a cat.
3.10 FILM: Viewers Vote: ET vs Back To
The Future
Viewers vote to decide which film they want repeated again.
5.45 FILM: Treasure In The Carribean
(2002)
All new pirate swashbuckler reworking Robert Louis Stevenson's
classic Treasure Island. An island that forms the shape of an X is
found in the Atlantic, it is found to be almost made out of pure gold,
however it contains a sanctuary for the rarest bird on earth the golden
eagle.
8.00 Eastenders vs Casualty
Peggy ends up in Holby City after an argument with her two sons
the Mitchell Brothers. With his mother gone
Phil sets fire to the Queen Vic to collect on the insurance.
Eastenders - The Big Bust Up is Christmas Eve at 7pm.
9.00 Funny & Happy
A chance to see a classic christmas show from 1977 from the
posthumous popular comedy duo.
10.45 Ben Elton's Breakout Boxing Day
Ben Elton is back with a new stand-up performance, performed
earlier today, with highlights from his new tour, the breakout.
11.45 FILM: Escape from San Francisco
Bay
A follow-up to the Clint Eastwood classic Escape from Alcatraz
showing whether the original inmates made it across
the cold waters of san francisco bay in their original escape attempt.
1.15am The Sky At Night - 2005 in
review
A look at the best comets, meteorites and asteroid collisions as
seen in our skies this year.
1.30 Joins TV News 24.
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6.00am Best Of Open University
The best Open University programmes from the year.
8.05 FILM: My oh Me oh My (1933)
Classic Adams Brothers film comedy from the 1930's, a bank
employee is fired and as he is now unemployed during the worst time
of the depression, he tries his hand at any job that is thrown at him.
He is not used to practical work and his bumbling nature leads to some
madcap situations. He tries his hand at everything from window cleaning
to being a runner at the Stock Exchange.
10.10 FILM: To Sing, To Sing (1959)
Musical starring Julie Andrews & Judy Garland. When the
mayor of a doldrum town in the american Midwest announces that the
townspeople are bored and are in need of some light entertainment, two
girls from a stage school who are travelling through by horse
rejuvenate the town's spirits with song.
12.10pm FILM: Gunn & Shooter (1977)
Classic western starring Clint Eastwood, a bank robbery in the
small town of Louisville is being planned
2.40 Delivering Christmas
A look behind the scenes of a Royal Mail sorting office through
it's busiest season of sorting mail, christmas, it is revealed that if
too many christmas cards come in many staff have resorted to binning
them or putting them in for premature recycling, some have even rifled
through them to get an illegitimate christmas bonus.
3.40 The Year In Review with Peter
Sissons
Peter Sissons review the stories that made or broke 2005.
4.40 Too Cold for Snow
Documentary about how with the effects of Global Warming, snow
at christmas is likely to become a much more exceptional thing, amongst
the contributors are Michael Fish, Jeremy Paxman & David
Attenborough.
6.20 Around The World In 80 Hours.
Michael Palin reverses the role he played in previous
documentaries, and attempts to travel the globe from east to west and
then north to south as quickly as possible. Along the way he uses
commercial aircraft, military transport and a hot air balloon.
7.40 Ultimatum
Christmas edition of the quiz show where if any of the
contestants don't know enough of the answers they have to leave the
show.
8.40 Figaro, Figaro, Figaro
A 3 hour epic look at the history of opera, with a look at the
most successful operas of all time, the winner will be selected and
broadcast on New Year's Eve.
11.40 Venue: The World's Best Jazz
Jools Holland broadcasts live from the world's best Jazz venue,
he includes a piano solo which is an elaborate jazz reworking of
Chopsticks.
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6.00am The Morning Channel
As it's Boxing Day, Back to back animation
9.25 Cartoon AM
Morning animation segment sponsored by Coco Pops
Freakycat
Animation with the cool cat superheroine. Today she has to stop some
canine villians who think it would be a walk in the park to rob a pet
store.
9.55 Dumb & Smart
He was dumb and the other was supersmart, two cartoon characters
mismatched in intelligence levels, tag along with each other with one
planning to take over the world, but the smart one believes that the
schemes are harebrained.
10.10 Will & Whacker.
Surfboarding cartoon antics with the characters who are like the
animated version of The Beach Boys. Today there is a surfboarding
contest
10.40 The Adventures of Coco Pops
The Coco Pops commercial is now a fully animated series.
Gotta Have A Bowl. The monkeys traverse the jungle looking for a bowl
for their cereal, but the island is out of spoons.
11.10 Card Capturing Monsters
New anime series from Japan, horrifying monsters reign proud over the
island of Ogzorot, unless that is Jim can find a rare card with powers
to beat them.
11.40 Playground Posse
Schooling adventures with characters who make the most of their
playtimes.
12.10 The Adventures of Coco Pops
Not So Sweet
Someone has stolen all the sugar from the island, the cereal will be
boring now unless the situation can be averted.
12.40 FILM: The Sorceror's Apprentice
(1941)
Animated version of this classic tale, the making of this film resulted
in a lawsuit from the makers of Disney's Fantasia.
1.30 FILM: Home Alone 5 (2004)
Macaluy Culkin is reunited with some of the earlier cast for this
fourth sequel that went straight to video.
Now aged 22, he has a kid of his own who is accidentally left home
alone when he and his girlfriend visit London over the christmas
holidays. Unfortunately he is met by old time crooks Hank & Marv
who put two and two together and visit his son
at home in Chicago.
3.30 The Best Blind Dates
A compendium of the best dates from the show's 18 year history,
along with the weddings there were the howlers, the most incompatible
twosomes are invited back to see if they could get on after advancing
in years. Presented by Cilia Black from her Berkshire home.
4.30 The Christmas They Wished They
Never Had
Christmas misfortunes and mishaps are explored in this
documentary, including the story of a man suffering from amnesia
spending Christmas Day with the wrong relatives and the story of a
family whose house was broken into on Christmas Eve by a burglar who had
masqueraded as Santa Claus.
5.30 News Review Of The Year
The most sensational news that broke during the year. Including
a near sequel to 9-11 and a new war.
With Trevor McDonald
6.00 Stars In Their Celebrity Eyes
Celebrity edition of the wannabe performance show, celebrity
guests impersonate their favourite other celebrities.
With Matthew Kelly as George Michael.
7.00 Pop Audition
More from Louis Walsh's new show that searches for the next
stars for the world of pop.
Nominees include a punk rock band from Birmingham and a new band from
Manchester who reckon that they could be
the next Smiths, Glory.
8.00 Bestenders
The best episodes of Eastenders throughout the year.
9.00 The National Advert Awards
The most prestigious advertising to be shown on TV over the year
is given a bouquet of awards
11.00 FILM: Escape from Chicago
Starring Sylvester Stallone & Alicia Silverstone.
A father and his daughter are on the run from upset mobsters. Frank
owes money to the leader of a local crime gang and his daughter has
dated him.
(1994, 15)
12.45 Michael Jackson Live At The
Kazaa Stadium
This sellout concert took place after Michael Jackson was
acquitted of molestation charges earlier this year, among the repertoire
he performs are the worldwide megahits, Off The Wall, Bad, Dangerous
& Invincible at the new Kazaa stadium in Los Angeles.
1.45 FILM: Trial & Error
Tense courtroom drama starring Matt Damon & Gene Hackman.
3.40 Download Chart Of The Year
The most downloaded tracks from the year are run down, and new
downloads to debut in 2006 are highlighted.
4.40 Teleshopping
An infomercial from Park Hampers.The best hampers and christmas
decorations to prepare for Christmas 2006.
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