The Official Christmas Thread 2010

Wonder if Boxing Day will be soap free, landing on a Sunday.

Hopefully BBC One won't put out the Eastenders omnibus in the afternoon.

There is a Paul O'Grady Christmas Show already in the can I believe, for Christmas Eve on ITV1.

Yes and with good reason.... it just wasn't very good

On another forum they said EastEnders on Boxing Day was confirmed.

Yes, has been confirmed as the writer posted so on his twitter.

So with EastEnders on Boxing Day I can see it leading into Indiana Jones.

who likes the fact ch4 always show at christmas father christmas,the snowman ,the bear and granpar appear on ch4 its like a national institution

I agree, definitely below standard for some reason. There was a whole hoo-ha or something at the time, apparently the BBC suits promised her the big Christmas Day slot and then moved it (presumably because of its poorness) without telling her. I've no idea whether that's true or not...

[pedant] Boxing Day this year is Monday 27th December. St Stephen's Day is Sunday 26th December [/pedant]

Except St. Stephen's Day is the 26th December every year. It's moved to the next working day via Royal Proclamation, as Sunday has to be a day of worship.

ITV Press Centre have confirmed The Cube Christmas Special and the Benidorm Christmas Special will air on Christmas Day!

These might change ?

Can't see The Cube going out at 20:00 on Christmas Day, that's a slot for Corrie I'd have thought.

Benidorm Christmas Special at 21:00 would probably put it against The Royle Family on BBC One ?

At least ITV aren't offering virtually exactly the same line up as they've offered for the last few years, unlike the BBC.

So how pathetically early do we think the Christmas idents will arrive on the BBC this year. Saturday 18th December the obvious option, but were they not even earlier than that last year?