BBC Christmas 2006

Get a pen and paper down...Here is a list of programmes to watch on BBC ONE this Christmas.

Doctor Who
EastEnders
The Ruby in the Smoke
Wind in the Willows
Little Britain
The Vicar of Dibley
Strictly Come Dancing
High School Musical

FILMS ON BBC ONE
Mrs Henderson Presents
Pirates of the Carribbean
Calendar Girls
Monsters Inc

More Information will be released on Monday. The Press release can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice

Has anyone heard anything about when the early Christmas TV Guides will be released in the newspapers? Surely now that the BBC have revealed what is coming on this xmas, the early guides will be available any day now.

Probably, but as they are nothing like the actual schedules I don't know what the excitement is. There's always loads of schedule howlers like Corrie and EastEnders being scheduled at the same time, or full 30 min editions of 'London Tonight' appearing every day over Xmas etc

Probabaly next week as ive seen no adverts that it will be tommorow. We usually get adverts on tv during Corrie and other programmes the day before. They are leaving it quite late this year, the proper Christmas tv guides will be out in less than 3 weeks.

I believe High School Musical is a film by Disney

Indeed, but I think there is also several mini series that are linked with this... Im not 100% sure but I have been lead to think this is the case. I guess the Beeb will have the rights to show the film, as the Disney Channel wont give away the rights to let another channel show the series.

I think it's more the case that it is the most successful TV Movie that The Disney Channel have ever produced, it has proved popular on the British version of the Disney channel. Big bucks aren't really associated with TVM's, so the BBC can pick this up cheaper than your average Movie, and in terms of time, I guess the wait is nowhere near the 3/4 year wait you associate with Movies aswell.

High School Musical is a DOM - Disney Original Movie - therefore it naturally ends up around the Disney (owned) channels internationally and so can be sold to any other broadcaster that coughs up the asking price regardless of who owns them.

TV Movies go cheaper for buying because they only go to one place - a broadcaster - and are also cheaper to make as you can do them with a standard TV crew. A movie uses massive crews, heavy distribution to thousands of cinemas, is then put out on DVD, ends up in Blockbusters, then turns up on Sky Movies in big package deals (or running contracts) with other films that are effectively bundled in for free, and by then the gravy train is more or less at an end and the broadcast rights go for effectively peanuts about three or fours years after it hit the cinema.

Of course, any potential buyer with enough cash or enough buying power (or a very good negotiator) can buy the broadcast rights to a film a few months after it finishes in the cinemas.

That's all I was hoping for

I'm really looking forward to the Swap Shop reunion on BBC2.

It's actually a DCOM - a Disney Channel Original Movie.

We going to be treated to another Comic Relief special instead of a sitcom from Dibley then?