Christmas Day 2004 Schedule Ideas

Ok, i will give it another go. post it when I have finished

LoveTV

OK, finished my 'new look' schedule.

I know its a bit early but never mine. Here it is:

6:00: GMTV
9:25: CiTV
11:00: Morning Service
11:50: ITV Morning News with Owen Thomas
12:00: Airline at Christmas
12:30: FILM: A Muppets Christmas Carol
14:00: CD:UK
14:50: Mr Bean: the Animated Series
15:00: The Queen
15:15: FILM: Santa Clause 2
17:15: Emmerdale
17:45: ITV Evening News with Phil Gayle
18:00: Emmerdale (part two)
18:30: The Christmas Panto
19:30: Coronation Street
20:00: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special
20:45: Creature Comforts at Christmas
21:00: Coronation Street (part two)
21:30: 2DTV at Christmas 2003
22:00: ITV Late News with Phil Gayle
22:15-00:15: FILM: Scary Movie

Please comment on this (no matter how crap it is).

thanx

LoveTV

Alright, it seems very early but here we go with my Christmas schedule for BBC 1:

6:00 Breakfast (with Bill - now almost an institution in itself)
9:00 "Family" film
10:30 Christmas Worship
11:30 Classic "family" film
1:00 BBC News with Natasha Kaplinsky
1:10 Regional News
1:15 Top of the Pops Christmas Special
2:00 Keeping Up Appearances Christmas Special
3:00 The Queen
3:10 Blue Peter Christmas Special
3:40 FILM: Shrek (or similar)
5:20 Outtake TV
5:50 BBC News with Natasha Kaplinsky
6:05 Regional News
6:10 FILM: Harry Potter
8:30 EastEnders
9:00 Fawlty Towers
9:30 The Big Impression
10:00 EastEnders
10:30 BBC News with Huw Edwards
10:45 French & Saunders Christmas Special
11:30 Little Britain Christmas Special
12:00 Weatherview
12:05 FILM: (horror movie)
1:45 FILM: (even scarier horror movie)
3:20 BBC News 24

Well im certain that ITV1 will have a 1 hour special of Emmerdale and Corrie on Christmas Day – they usually have Emmerdale at about 6.30pm and Corrie at 7.30pm.

I do think that Granada can produce some excellent hour long episodes of both Emmerdale and Corrie providing the acting and storylines are not weak.

I found the double and triple episodes annoying when there was a gap, 90% of the time im not around on a Monday anyway but I was that week there were 3 on, and I almost always watch the double episodes straight after one another.

Heres my BBC1 Christmas Day Schedule, see if you can notice a theme i've got going here.

BBC1:

17:00 - The Queens Speech
17:01 - BBC News
17:30 - The Story of Doctor Who (Repeat)
18:30 - Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (Repeat)
19:00 - Doctor Who - Dimensions in Time (Repeat)
19:30 - Doctor Who - Rose (Dolby Digital, 16:9 Widescreen)
20:15 - Doctor Who - The TV Movie (1996)
22:00 - Have i Got News for You Christmas special (With guests Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper)
22:45 - Friday Night with Johnathon Ross (Special Guest Tom Baker)


Thats my perfect schedule thanku

Is there any chance you like Doctor Who ??!!!

where did you get that idea from?

Here's my attempt....

6.00am GMTV
9.25am CiTV (Either Ministry of Mayhem or something like The Forgotten Toys)
11.00am My Favourite Hymms/ Church Service
12.00pm FILM (A kids film or a simple Disney film)
1.20pm ITV News and Weather
1.30pm CD:UK Christmas Special
2.30pm Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
3.00pm The Queen
3.10pm FILM Something like Doctor Dolittle
5.00pm Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
6.00pm ITV News and Weather
6.15pm Emmerdale
6.50pm Coronation Street
7.30pm Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
8.00pm Creature Comforts
8.15pm FILM Star Wars
10.45pm ITV News and Weather
11.05pm FILM American Pie 2 (ITV should technically have this film by the end of the year)
12.55am CD:UK
1.50am FILM The Naked Gun
3.35am World Sport
4.05am Cybernet
4.35am ITV Nightscreen
5.00am CiTV (Programmes for tots like last Christmas)
5.55am ITV Morning News

This is what in my opinion is how it should be on ITV.

Any opinions?

No Offence, but what child in their right mind would be up at 5am???

little kids would be and thats why itv1 done that last year so it obviously works.

On christmas day, quite a lot of children would be up at 5AM I would've thought? I do think it would be a good idea to experiment with starting kids programmes maybe even as early as 4AM (only a few repeats and it's scheduled in a dead timeslot anyway so there would be nothing lost if the whole thing was a flop) so that the kiddies who haven't slept all night and annoy their parents into submission of letting them get up so early, would then having something to occupy them whilst they played with their presents. Then, mummy and daddy could go back to bed if they wanted too.


WHAT! Someone had the audicity to propose that the queen could possibly be shown at a time other than 3PM? Sacrilege!

Seriously, no I'm not sure that etching it in stone at 3PM is a good thing either and I do think it would be an idea to experiment with different times, but the palace will never give broadcasters the freedom to experiment with their scheduling of it. It does have to be treated as an unmovable boulder on the landscape of christmas day scheduling, unfortunately.


Christmas in July is mainly done to clear away all the old stock they didn't sell from the last christmas. If they had a big blitz on them in January, they'd have to let them go for next to nothing because everyone else does. By holding on till July, their value has started to go back up again and so they can knock out the remaining stock to clear space for their new christmas lines.

Anyway, here's my schedule. I'd like to have gone for something radical and adventurous, in reality I know it'll be the same old formula yet again. Here what I'd do for BBC1:

6AM Breakfast
9AM CBeebies
10AM CBBC Christmas show type thing
11AM Religious Service
12PM Dad's Army christmas special (substitute in any other classic sitcom).
12:30 (if above programme not an hour long) Wallace and Gromit
1PM Christmas Carols (I envisage having a choir singing some carols that you could leave on in the background whilst eating your dinner)
2:45 BBC News and Weather
2:55 Regional News and Weather (I know there is no regional news on Christmas day, but how about the beeb break the trend, even if it's a cheap recorded bulletin?)
3PM The Queen
3:15 Film: Jurassic Park/Home Alone/some other family film
4:55 BBC News
5PM Porridge Christmas Special (wouldn't be christmas without that)
6PM BBC News and Weather
6:15 Regional News and Weather (even if it's just a repeat of what was shown at 2:55)
6:20 Film: Lord of the Rings (or some other newish family film)
8PM Alistair McGowan (whether that be the Big Impression, or a more focused programme like Posh&Becks last year I don't know)
9PM Only Fools and Horses repeat from 1996 (Don't think it'll happen? We'll see at christmas I suppose)
10PM French and Saunders production of some sort
11PM BBC News
11:15 Film: Rising Damp/On the Buses/Steptoe and Son (substitute in any film version of a sitcom)
1AM Film: No idea what, but another film. Probably a drama this time
2:45 Hand over to News 24

The most likely BBC 1 schedule this year is:

6.00 Cbeebies.
7.00 CBBC
8.30 Dick and Dom in da Bungalow Christmas Special (Pre Recorded)
10.00 Christmas Service
11.00 Morcambe and Wise Christmas Special
11.50 The Doctor Who Story
12.50pm BBC News with George Alagiah
1.00 Robbie the Reindeer
1.30 Blue Peter Christmas Special
2.00 Top of the Pops Christmas Special
3.00 The Queen
3.10 Christmas Greetings Programe hosted by Dale Winton
4.00 BBC News with George Alagiah
4.10 Film: Harry Potter
6.45 Eastenders
7.30 Doctor Who (Brand New Series)
8.30 Eastenders
9.15 BBC News with George Alagiah
9.25 French and Saunders at Christmas
10.15 Film: Shang High Noon
12.05am Weatherview
12.10 Film: Carry on Camping
1.50 Top of the Pops
2.50 BBC News 24