Christmas Schedule ideas!

No - Breakfast will probably be on BBC2, and will almost certainly be on for its usual 3 hour slot.

We're not likely to see Neighbours (especially not twice) because it's never on at Christmas, we need to stop ourselves catching up with the Australians, while I doubt Channel 5 will be allowing Terry and Gaby to present a show on BBC1!!!

I do hope they have French and Saunders this year though - it's always the funniest thing over the whole of Christmas.

French and Saunders is generally unfunny, self-indulgent crap, that is rightly only on once a year - although once too many, may I add.

ITV1

5.50 News
6.00 GMTV
GMTV News (and a breakfiller style Tyne Tees news)
6.10 GMTV Kids
8.00 GMTV Christmas Special (Probably Pre-Recorded)
9.25 News & Weather (including a breakfiller style Tyne Tees news)
9.35 Christmas Day on ITV1 (Today's Highlights)
9.40 Christmas Service
11.00 Childrens Film
12.30 News roundup (With Tyne Tees news bulletin)
12.40 CITV (Or some other filler - everyone will be eating)
14.00 World Idol
15.00 The Queen
15.15 Family Film
17.00 News (Also with Tyne Tees News)
17.15 Family Film 2
19.30 Christmas Soaps
21.00 Drama
23.00 Late News (no local)
23.10 Late Film
1.00 World Idol Repeat
2.00 Nightscreen

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Yeah thats right, Neighbours usually has new credits at the start of every season.

I am going to do channel 5 chistmas day:

06:00- Sunrise
07:00- Milkshake (5-12yrs)
08:30- Shake (13-16+YRS)
10:00- The Wright Stuff Christmas (recorded)*
11:00- Terry and Gabby Christmas Show (recorded)**
12:00- Five News at noon
12:30- Family Affairs (frm yesterday)
13:00- Home and Away (frm yesterday)
13:30- Brainteaser (recorded)***
14:30- Christmas Film
16:00- House Doctor Christmas (rpt)
16:30- Domestic Magic (rpt)
17:00- Family Affairs
17:30- Five News
18:00- Christmas/Action film
20:00- 19 Keys (rpt)
20:30- Chrstmas Movie Mistakes
21:00- CSI: Crime Scene investigation (rpt)
22:00- Action/romantic film

* I think the Wright stuff will be on christmas day but recorded with classic christmas stories and discussing christmas things.

** The Terry and Gabby show will be recorded and will have the normal things on (guests, christmas games)

*** Brainteaser will be recorded and will have no phone call-in's.
Thats my channel 5 line up!

LoveTV!!

My itv1 schedule for christmas day. I have thought about it. Its the evening I can't quite get right for trying to beat the BBC for once.

SO here goes

06:00 GMTV (including brief news summary followed by childrens programmes, with a special Christmas Day style sunday programme on GMTV2 )
09:25 CiTV (Special recorded links which feature some high points, and cock ups from the year, with a full look back and look forward on new years eve morning)
11:30 A very merry muppet christmas (Whoopi Goldberg stars alongside the muppets as Kermit discovers what Christmas would be like without him)
13:00 Lunchtime News (A brief summary of the news this Christmas Day lunchtime)
13:15 Creature Comforts (Another episode of Animals speaking their minds. Christmas episode later)
13:30 Merry Christmas Mr Bean (Classic christmas episode of the accident prone mad.)
14:00 cd:uk christmas countdown (Cat Deeley presents the show as she countdown this Christmas' top 20 including interviews with the artists and live performances)
15:00 The Queen (Another year has nearly passed, and its time for Queen to deliver her message to the nation)
15:15 Cilla's Christmas Surprise Surprise (As the BBC don't bother sending Noel out with his presents, itv sends Cilla to grant many Christmas related surprises upon the public)
16:15 Elf & Safety (An animated film featuring famous voices about an elf [Gerald] & a standby reindeer [Safety] that have to save christmas after Santa gets trapped, wil lthey save Christmas, deliver the presents and rescue Santa before day breaks and the dream is ruined?)
17:15 Evening News (An ITV news update on the day's stories_
17:30 World Idol (Ant & Dec present a global one off version of pop idol, as our own UK winner Will Young competes against other winners from around the world, with your chance to vote for the winner to be announced next week)
18:45 Emmerdale (Christmas Day brings chaos and emmotions to the Dales)
19:30 Blankety Blank (Lily Savage hosts a Christmas Day edition of the show where correct guessing comes in very useful, and an immaginative vocabulary, complete with a littel tinsel and fake trees on the set)
20:00 Creature Comforts (Have a sneaky look into the minds of animals at christmas, what do they think of Santa, the birth of our Lord, and Christmas Shopping)
20:15 Coronation Street (Joyous events across the country, but never a quiet christmas day down the Street!)
21:00 Russian Roulette (Take three leaders of three political parties and invite them along with their wives to compete for £20, 000 to a charity of their choice, add a touch of Rhona Cameron and see how nervous they can get when the light heads their way!)
21:45 Who Wants To BEAT A Millionnaire? (Chris Tarrant hosts a special edition where contestants in turn answer questions to build their way up the stages of money trying to outwit each other)
22:45 The Harry Hill Christmas Show (Harry Hill is let loose on the TV on Christmas Day night in an uplifting way to end the evening)
23:15 News Update
23:25 Peter Kay at The Top of the Tower (itv1 screens Peter Kay's massive selling and hillarious stand up show at the Blackpool Tower featuring Teletext Holidays, Rola Cola, and Garlic Bread!)
01:00 Carry on...
02:30 The District
03:15 Veronica's Closet (Double Bill)
04:30 ITV1 Nightscreen
05:30 ITV Morning News

So what do you think?

Not a bad schedule that, although hasn't Cilla severed all ties with ITV ? Also, are they still doing Blankety Blank, hasn't been on in a while, oh and I'm not sure you'll get Tony Blair and Michael Howard to participate in Russian Roulette, although I'm sure Charlie Kennedy would be game. You'd probably be better having an edition featuring the Pop Idol judges, with the contestants pulling the lever.

I'm not sure about Cilla. She did say that it wasn't the producers and itv it was the format she didn't like in an interview.

They are asking for contestants at www.itv.com/blanketyblank
I just think that he's concentrating on Paul for a while.

I do quite like the sound of the pop idol judges, and they may get more viewers in to. Perhaps the four judges and ant & dec!

Are we sure the BBC is showing Harry Potter this year ? This article from the Sun website makes no mention of it. Apparently the big films on BBC this year will be, Meet the Parents, What Women Want, Anna and the King and Stuart Little.

Where's Potter ?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2003530422,00.html

Isn't it Christmas 2004?

Yes, BBC1 have the rights to broadcast Harry Potter Christmas 2004.
It looks like Meet The Parents will be on Christmas Day and Shrek on Boxing Day and I also heared that BBC1 are showing Moulin Rouge on New Year's Day