Christmas TV around the World 2006

Think we did this last year - simply compile what the world is watching on Christmas Day. Also any Christmas presentation would be welcome too I'm sure!


I'm nicking the easy one and starting with the USA:

ABC:
8.00 Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl (FILM)

CBS:
8.00 How I Met your Mother (rpt)
9.00 Two and a half Men (rpt)
9.30 How I Met your Mother (rpt)
10.00 CSI: Miami (rpt)

CW:
8.00 Everybody hates Chris (rpt)
8.30 All of Us (rpt)
9.00 Girlfriends (rpt)
9.30 The Game (rpt)

FOX:
8.00 Radio (FILM)

MY NETWORK TV:
8.00 Wicked Wicked Games
9.00 Watch over Me

NBC:
8.00 Deal or No Deal - with guest Big Bird!
10.00 1 vs 100

From: http://www.tvguide.com/listings/


And Australia:
Seven:
7.00 That 70s Show
7.30 The Master
8.30 Standoff
9.30 Vanished

ABC:
6.00 The Spirit of Christmas
7.00 News
7.20 Queens Speech 2006 (That be before 3pm GMT!)
7.30 An Aussie Irish Christmas
8.00 Promoted to Glory
10.10 Absolutely Fabulous

Nine:
7.00 King of Queens
7.30 The Man who saved Christmas
9.30 Grumpy Old Men

Ten:
5.30 Matilda
7.30 The Simpsons
8.30 The Panel's Christmas Wrap

SBS:
7.00 Rough Science
7.30 Mythbusters
8.30 South Park
9.00 Stranded
10.00 Shameless

From: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/guide/


As much as we hate our soaps clogging up the BBC / ITV schedules, I wonder if without them we might just end up with repeats like most other countries!


P.S. Found last years thread: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=343441

( Asa - the archive and search archive function seem to be broke! )

I'll be watching "A Christmas Story" on TBS. Twentyfour hours of it. Could you compile a list of what you UK'ers watch?

BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1, Channel 4, Five

New Zealand

TVOne
5.00pm TV One's Christmas Cracker
6.00pm One News
6.50pm HM The Queen
7.00pm The Wedding
8.15pm Magnificent 7
9.45pm Flint Street Nativity
10.50pm Blackadders Christmas Carol

TV2
6.10pm Friends
7.00pm Karaoke High
7.25pm The Prince and Me
9.15pm Seabiscuit

TV3
6.00pm 3News
7.00pm The Simpsons
7.45pm bro'Town
8.10pm My Name Is Earl
8.35pm Xmas Movie : The Phantom of the Opera
10.50pm How to marry a billionaire : A Christmas Tale

Not sure if they have anymore stations.

List of New Zealand TV channels

8.00 Deal or No Deal - with guest Big Bird

Now that's a show I want to see!

You forgot Prime and C4!

Prime TV NZ:
16:55 Deal Or No Deal Aus
17:30 Prime News - First At 5:30
18:00 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire UK
18:45 Holmes
19:30 Doctor Who
20:20 Ernest Saves Christmas
22:20 The Late Show With David Letterman
23:05 Fox News

C4:
18:00 -Xmas Crackers
19:00 -Family Guy
19:25 -Futurama
19:50 -Punk'd
20:15 -King Of The Hill
20:40 -Studentville
21:10 -Run's House
21:35 -Insert Video Here
22:35 -Blender

Thanks

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Channel 7 Australia Christmas Ident:
http://www.bur.st/~anthony/ms/videos/7christmas07.wmv
(Capped by anthonysimilion on Media Spy)

Xmas TV isn't really a big deal here in NZ ... because most of us are enjoying the sun and doing things outdoors on Christmas rather than spending it in front of the fire watching repeats of Christmas specials from previous years! and it gets dark at 10pm not 4pm

It looks like NBC will probably steal the evening in America... well, the few left who'll be watching!

I thought I'd post some captures of Swedish christmas presentation. TV4 haven't done any real Christmas idents, but they've decorated their continuity studio, although I don't have any captures of it. SVT1 are doing some pretty basic Christmassy shots of their logo, while SVT2 are reusing the 2005 idents.

An ident on SVT1:
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/svt1jultrain.jpg

An ident on SVT2:
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/svt2juldoll.jpg

The presentation studio on SVT1:
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/svt1julpresenter.jpg