Terrestrial Xmas Listings

There was no sign of any of the bumper TV Guides in any of the shops in my area today - maybe they just didnt put them out and have them in the stock rooms as they still have this weeks and next weeks out - how crap!

Don't think this has been mentioned anywhere else, but BBCi (On NTL anyway) have started running out a promo today looking at Comedy at Christmas, showing the highlights of the comedy available on BBC One, Two, Three and Four, it only lasts a few minutes but it is very good. The clips from The Office and My Family are very funny, and for comedy it looks like the BBC is the winner this christmas.

But for those who want to know

Dead Ringers Special will be on 22nd December and 2 January at 9pm, same with Little Britian, but half an hour later.

But even more bizzarely a musical of Three Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, which looks like something decent.

It's also available in Gateshead (WHSmith, Green Quadrant, MetroCentre and Asda in MetroPark West is where I've seen it), but interestingly the 13-19th December issue says it's not out until Tuesday, which would be where the 13-19th would be if not for Christmas.

Yes it's also on Freeview.

There's further errors in the RT that I've noticed, maybe they should have taken a bit longer with it and waited until Tuesday to release it.

One being that it says that the ITV News on Christmas Day will include Regional News and Weather!.

ITV seem to have many full length bulletins over xmas, Not on the main days, but on the 29th/30th there's a full news hour at 6pm which is a bit unusual.

Is that with or without regional news? As there is a point between Christmas and New Year where we still get a full regional news bulletin, but they look at events of the past year. I remember Granada did this in 1999, as we had Granada Tonight pratically most days over Christmas, looking at 40 Years of Granada News and events in the North West, with poor So Rahman working overkill.

Well some of us havent seen this tv guide yet, its so unfair that Wales havent had it when it seems everywhere in England has.

Can anyone tell me what regional slots there will be on ITV1 for Sunday 21st and 28th December? Thanks

Yes it's with regional news from 6-6.30pm. Digiguide shows that some of these will be news reviews etc, but Radio Times just says "Regional News Magazine - See Monday 22nd for details" as normal.

UTV though are showing 6pm UTV News, 6.05pm The Planet's Funniest Animals, 6.30pm ITV Evening News!!



If you really want to know, from Digiguide, on the 21st you've got Waterfront at 12.30, Soccer Sunday at 2.00 and Tidy at 5.45. On the 28th you've got Dylan Thomas - Man or Myth at 11.30 for an hour and Your Century at 5.55

I also notice that ITV1 Wales are showing Moving Day at 5.30pm over xmas instead of Monkey Business. Did HTV miss Moving Day when everyone else saw it?

Does London, Yorkshire and Swallwell count as everywhere?

YTV/TTTV slots listed, YTV first

SUNDAY 21st DECEMBER

12.30 Soccer Sunday/Soccer Sunday
13.55 (News)
14.00 In his Own Words/News Review 2003
17.30 (News)
17.45 I thee Wed/Home Jungles

SUNDAY 28th DECEMBER

11.30 Sports Interview/Soccer Sunday (double bill)
12.00 A New Life for Luda/Soccer Sunday (double bill)
13.25 (News)
17.40 (News)
17.55 Brothers in Blood/Home Jungles

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Do YTV normally show Jobfinder at the weekend? Or is this a mistake? Because the Radio Times has it down for 4.55am-5.30am on the morning of Saturday 3rd January.

21 September:

12:30-13:30
London: Kiss Your Boss Goodbye
Granada, Border: World Sport
Yorkshire, Tyne Tees, Anglia, Meridian, Channel: Soccer Sunday
Central: Central News Week
West: Week to Week
Westcountry: Westcountry Update
Wales: Waterfront
Scottish, Grampian: Everything Must Go!
UTV: High Road

14:00-14:30
London, Central, West, Anglia, Westcountry, Wales: Soccer Sunday
Granada: Sunday Supplement
Yorkshire: In His Own Words
Tyne Tees: News Review of the Year
Meridian, Channel: Costal Ways
Border: Simply Gardening (from 14:05)
Scottish, Grampian: Costa Living
UTV: Movies Games and Videos

Border Scotland, Scottish and Grampian then opt out for Scotsport 14:30-15:30, show Inspector Gadget (Digimon The Movie on Border Scotland)instead of Jingle All The Way at 15:30, then more Scotsport from 17:00 to 18:10 when they take their regional news.

17:45-18:15
London: London's Home Movies
Granada: Go North West
Yorkshire: I Thee Wed
Tyne Tees: Home Jungles
Anglia: King and Country
Meridian: Monkey World Investigates
Border England: Rural Lives
Central: Our House
West: Particular Parishes
Westcountry: Dancing In The Dark
Wales: Tidy
UTV: School Choir of the Year (17:30-18:00, local news afterwards)
Channel: The Annual Oscar Puffin Grand Christmas Special Show (17:30-18:05, local news afterwards)

Scottish and Grampian opt out again at 18:30-19:00 to show Beartas Nan Daoine in place of Costa Living. UTV opt out 18:30-19:30 showing The School Around The Corner Christmas Special

28 December:

11:30-12:30
London: Kiss Your Boss Goodbye, Soccer Sunday
Granada, Border: World Sport, Sunday Supplement
Yorkshire: Sports Interview, A New Life For Luda
Tyne Tees: Soccer Sunday (1h)
Anglia: Arty Facts, Cinderella
Meridian, Channel: Soccer Sunday, Costal Ways
Central: Central News Week, Soccer Sunday
West: Week To Week, Soccer Sunday
Westcountry: Westcountry Update, Soccer Sunday
Wales: Dylan Thomas: Man or Myth? (1h)
Scottish, Grampian: I Want That House, The Bhoys from Seville
UTV: World Sport, High Road

14:30-15:30
Scottish, Grampian and Border Scotland opt out: Scotsport

15:30-17:10 Scottish & Grampian opt-out (not Border Scotland):
Seriously Wierd (1/2 h), Creature Comforts (10min), Best Ever You've Been Framed (1h)

17:10-18:25
Scottish, Grampian and Border Scotland opt out: Scotsport, Local news (5min)

17:55-18:25 England and Wales:
London: London's Home Movies
Granada: Go North West
Yorkshire: Brothers In Blood
Tyne Tees: Home Jungles
Anglia: King and Country
Meridian, Channel: Monkey World
Border England: The Secret Garden
Central: Our House
West: Particular Parishes
Westcountry: Dancing In The Dark
Wales: Your Century
UTV: Steam

Thanks for that Andrew

HTV missed a week of Moving Day about a month ago to show a local program! Isnt Monkey Business a Meridian programme though?

In addition to all the above...

Friday 2nd January there's a full regional slot at 23:00:
London, Granada, Yorkshire, Tyne Tees, Anglia, Meridian, Border, Channel: Crime Fighters
Central: Scam
West: Class Act
Westcountry: Murder Most Foul
Wales: At the Doctor's
SMG: The return of the King: The Quest Fulfilled
UTV: Tarrant on TV

Wales are opting out with Moving Day on Monday 22, Tues 23, Mon 29 in place of Monkey Business, 17:30-18:00, and at 10:30 on Jan 2nd instead of Celebrity Reality Bites.

Yorkshire won't be doing Calendar at 18:00 on Tuesday 23, instead showing Jane's Year.

UTV: opt out Tuesday 23rd at 19:30-20:00 showing The Long Hard Road, a docu about local buses, instead of Airline. Opt out 17:00-18:00 Mon 29 and Tues 30 for more School Chior of the Year, also cutting UTV Live at 6 to 5 mins, filling the remainign 25 with the Planet's Funniest Animals on both days (and on Jan 2nd). Opt out to show Father of the Bride an hour earlier than everyone else at 15:50 on New Year's Eve, and yet more School Chior follows it at 17:45. New Year's Day they opt out of Everything Must Go (1h) at 12:55 to show A New Year and Family Fortunes.
There's also the odd "Home" slotted int he early hours.

Scottish, Grampian and Border Scotland are doing their own thing on New Year's Eve night:
21:00 The Steamie, 22:30 Making Track, 23:00 ITV News (as Network), 23:10 A Capital New Year '04, 0:15 Hebs Live and Loud, 1:15 Nash Bridges, 2:10 rejoins network.
On new years day SMG won't show All Dogs Go To Heaven II, instead 9:25 Faith in the Future, 9:35 It Shouldn't Happen to a Children's TV Presenter, 10:35 Planet's Funniest Animals.
Jan 2nd cutting local news short like UTV, filling with New You've Been Framed. Then later on Jan 2nd they will opt out of A Touch of Frost (2h) to show It Shouldn't Happen on a Reality TV show, and There's been a Murder (a look back at 20 years of Taggart).
They will also replace some early hours programming with extended Nightscreen and Weir's Way.

Channel's News Review 2003 takes up the 2nd half of the regional news slot on Mon 29, Tues 30.

Apologies for the stuff other people said that I duplicated.