CHRISTMAS LISTINGS
Christmas Eve
TV Channel 1Cable, 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.
The only TV news channel that brings you news live as it happens.
TV Channel 2
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.
1.30 Pages from Teletext
TV Channel 3
6.00am The Morning Channel
As it's Boxing Day, Back to back animation9.25 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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