Christmas TV around the World 2006

Thanks for the contributions to this thread - might be interesting to see what the world is doing for New Year too. I suspect the situation might be reversed here with other countries making much more effort than the UK broadcasters.

OK, had time to look at Australia and America:

Just covering what is on air at midnight:

AUSTRALIA:

Seven:
11.10pm FILM: New York, New York

ABC:
11.05pm JTV: Music/culture show New Year's Special
12.00 Rage: Music programming

Nine:
10.30pm New Year's Eve Party Zone
12.00am Quizmania

Ten:
8.30pm New Year's Eve Family Fireworks
9.30pm The Big Night In: New Year's Eve Party Mix
11.30pm New Year's Eve Fireworks
12.30am Video Hits New Year's Eve Celebration

SBS:
11.20pm FILM: Taxi


USA

ABC:
11.35pm Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2007 - Live from Time Square

CBS:
Local Programming

Fox:
11.00pm New Year's Special - Live from Time Square with Cat Deeley

NBC:
11.30pm New Year's Eve with Carson Daly - Live from Time Square

CW:
Local Programming


These are for the Eastern Coast (using the tvguide.com/listings page) - not sure what happens in other time zones so if anyone has the info please add it (same goes for Australia actually).

New Zealand:
TV One:
20:45 Abba's All Time Greatest Hits
22:10 Royal Variety Performance 2006
01:10 BBC World Overnight

TV2:
19:30 Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
23:00 Crowded House - Farewell to the World
00:00 Robbie Williams Live In Berlin

TV3:
19:30 Titanic
23:20 October Sky
01:25 Informercials

C4:
21:00 U Choose 40 l 40 Songs to Kick off 2007
00:00 Blender (random playout of music)

Prime:
20:30 Last Action Hero
23:00 Queen:Live At Wembley
00:00 Cricket: Sri Lanka Tour In NZ

exciting night all round

I'll post a few more images from of the Christmas presentation in Sweden:

The continuity studio at Christmas Eve on SVT1:
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/svt1juloldsberg.jpg

The TV4 continuity studio:
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/tv4julpres.jpg

And the New Year's ident from SVT2:
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/svt2nyar.jpg

Seems to be a night of comedy on CBC:

7pm: The Best of Just For Laughs 2006
8pm: 2006: Year of the Farce (Royal Canadian Air Farce)
9pm: Ron James - West Coast Wild
10pm: CBC News Sunday Night
11pm: 2006: Year of the Farce
11:59pm: Air Farce: Countdown to 2007
12am: The Best of Just For Laughs 2006
1am: Movie - Beautiful Girls (1996)
3:30am: Kenny vs Spenny
4am: Movie - Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
6am: CBC News

AFAIK times are usually the same accross the country (shown via delay in South Australia, the Northern Territory and WA).

The Big Night In (on Ten) generated a fair bit of fuss amongst callers to Sydney's 2GB (talkback) radio station, mainly because it was targeted at a youth audience who were all out partying, leaving families waiting for the Sydney fireworks exposed to a lot of lame, crude humour. Tthere's an article from Sydney Murdoch tabloid The Daily Telegraph which gives a right-wing view:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20999219-5007132,00.html

JTV (it's actually 'jtv') was quite good - from what I saw it was basically Triple J's (the radio station it comes from) NYE party, with a bunch of concerts and performances thrown in. jtv vodcasts so if you're interested you can have a look at some of their standard episodes (which show on ABC2 at 9.00).

Nine showed the Fireworks in Melbourne (from where I was at the time in regional Victoria), hosted by, amongst others, John So (Melbourne's lord mayor extraordinaire, who you might remember from the Commonwealth Games).

Seven had a countdown at midnight, and SBS, from what I can tell, continued on as usual.

Speaking of Sweden... Is it true that Swedish TV play this jolly song ( Happy New Year by ABBA) every New Year's Eve? Or is that urban-- I'm geuinely intrigued