Christmas Line-up

[Bouncy Castle]

BBC One has confirmed its primetime lineup for the Christmas period.

An hour-long Doctor Who special 'The Snowmen' will air at 5.15pm on December 25th, with Strictly Come Dancing following at 6.15pm.

A festive edition of Call The Midwife is currently scheduled for 7.30pm, and EastEnders will then transmit at 8.45pm.

The Royle Family's Christmas special - which will see Dave (Craig Cash) plot to pitch an idea on Dragons' Den - will then air at 9.45pm.

Both Miranda and Mrs Brown's Boys will air their own Christmas episodes on Boxing Day - at 9pm and 9.30pm respectively.

Other confirmed dates include the Strictly final - 6.30pm on December 22nd - and the series launch of period crime thriller Ripper Street on December 30th.

The final ever episode of fantasy drama Merlin will air on Christmas Eve at 8.15pm.

[Bouncy Castle]

BBC One

Christmas Eve:

The Lady and the Tramp - 5.05pm
A Christmas Carol - 6.45pm
Merlin - 8.15pm
EastEnders - 9pm
Outnumbered - 9.35pm
Mrs Brown's Boys - 10.15pm

Christmas Day:

Shrek Forever After - 3.10pm
Doctor Who - 5.15pm
Strictly Come Dancing - 6.15pm
Call the Midwife - 7.30pm
EastEnders - 8.45pm
The Royle Family - 9.45pm

Boxing Day:

How to Train Your Dragon - 5pm
Alice in Wonderland - 6.50pm
EastEnders - 8.30pm
Miranda - 9pm
Mrs Brown's Boys - 9.30pm

ITV

Christmas Eve:

Rod Stewart's Christmas - 3.30pm
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 4.45pm
Emmerdale - 7pm
Coronation Street - 7.30pm
Spice Girls Story Viva Forever - 8.30pm
Jonathan Ross Show Christmas Special 11.15pm

Christmas Day:

Toy Story - 1.25pm
Tangled - 3.10pm
You've Been Framed Christmas - 5pm
Emmerdale - 5.30pm and 7pm
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs at Christmas - 6pm
Coronation Street - 7.30pm
Downton Abbey - 8.45pm
Couple's Retreat - 10.45pm

Boxing Day:

Toy Story 2 - 5.10pm
Emmerdale - 7pm
Coronation Street - 7.30pm
That Dog Can Dance - 8pm
Doors Open - 9pm
Atonement - 11.15pm


Channel 4

Christmas Eve:

Home Alone 2 - 14:45pm
The Snowman and the Snowdog - 8pm
Stephen Fry: Gadget Man Christmas Special - 8.30pm
8 out of 10 Cats Christmas Special - 9pm
Peep Show - 9.30pm
Friday Night Dinner - 10pm

Christmas Day:

The Alternative Christmas Message - 4.20pm
Deal or No Deal's Big Christmas Dinner - 4.30pm
Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring - 5.40pm
Alan Carr's Chatty Man Christmas Special - 9pm
Rude Tube Christmas Cracker - 10pm

Boxing Day:

Turner and Hooch - 3.40pm
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - 6.55pm
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 10.30pm


Channel 5

Christmas Eve:

Rolf's Animal Christmas - 6pm
World's Biggest Pets - 7pm
A Right Royal Year - 8pm
Eddie Stobart's Christmas Cracker - 9pm

Christmas Day:

Gone with the Wind - 9am
Ben Hur - 1.15pm
The Santa Incident - 5.25pm
Eddie Stobarts Trucks, Trailers and Tinsel - 8pm
Eddie Stobart's Christmas Delivery 9pm

Boxing Day:

The Greatest Story Ever Told - 12.40pm
TV's 50 Greatest Magic Tricks - 7.05pm
Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of 2012 - 10pm


Sky1

Christmas Eve:

Michael Buble Home for the Holidays - 4.30pm
Trollied Christmas Special - 9pm
A League of their Own - 10pm

Christmas Day:

Robbie Williams Take The Crown - 4.30pm
All Star Christmas Presents - 6pm
A Very JLS Christmas - 7.30pm
An Idiot Abroad 3 - 9pm


Boxing Day:

School of Rock - 12am
Spy Christmas Special - 9pm
Little Crackers - 9.30pm

[Who's Wee Dug]

The TV programmes for BBC and STV are different up here Bouncy even at over the festive period.

[Bouncy Castle]

There's a poster on the BBC POV boards (Points of View) Dug, who is in Scotland somewhere, not sure if it's Edin or Glasgae (her screen name is Bidie In, which took me a long time to realise what it meant! Shocking!!), and she gets imperially pissed off at the lack of Eng/Wales/N. Ireland ITV stuff that STV doesn't show. I think STV had an argument with main ITV a year or so ago.

Lots of gaelic shows, instead of the programmes we get Darn Sarf, and elsewhere.

She was not impressed that the Rod Stewart Christmas Show thingy was being shown on STV before the rest of us get it!!

[Who's Wee Dug]

Oh I can get them all or most on the 800's digital channels Bouncy maybe she does not know that,but sometimes it clashes or I forget, but in the radio times quite often it shows it listed buts states not in Scotland, miserable baskets too mean to print one just for the area, I don't give a monkey's about leopard erse skin's xmas show I won't be watching it and I don't know why they're showing it up here first as he was born in Islington init.

[konnichiwa]

You guys get some nice TV shows during Christmas time ><

Not that we don't get any nice ones but you guys get Lady and the Tramp, it's one of my favorite Disney movie (after 101 Dalmatians and few others) and Doctor Who, A Christmas Carol (if we're talking some version of the Charles Dickens childrens book), Alice in Wonderland, LOTR and Home Alone 2

We get every Christmas: Santa Claus' Hot Line (where little children can call and sing to the Santa and Santa talks with them, I watch it every Christmas), Joulupukki & Noitarumpu (Santa Claus & the witch drum or something like that in english), Snowman (http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumiukko_%28elokuva%29), Christmas Peace ceremony (it's this tradition which is held in Turku, the old capital of Finland, where a man reads this very old document about peace stuff, like it's a law about how Christmas Peace lasts for 20 days etc).
Sometimes some channels show Home Alone 1, some other Christmas movies etc but not as many as you guys get.

[Alanz]

There is something on on ITV on 21st that looked funny it stars Madge from Benidorm and Louie Spence plus a load of others But i can't remember what it is called, still looks good

[chris.ph]

im absolutely outraged where is ZULU

[Alanz]

im absolutely outraged where is ZULU

Or Mary Poppins????

[Bouncy Castle]

And Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

[Alanz]

Classic TV

[Bouncy Castle]

Dick Van Dyke is a god.

[Bickaxe]

If that's the case, can you all stop believing in him? Please?

What's this years Bond film? Indiana Jones? E.T.? Who is doing the alternative queens speech?

[Alanz]

If that's the case, can you all stop believing in him? Please?

What's this years Bond film? Indiana Jones? E.T.? Who is doing the alternative queens speech?

Louie Spence

[Bouncy Castle]

I shall NEVER stop believing in Dick Van Dyke.