Does anybody know of a website or link to find the unofficial early terrestrial xmas listings.
All I have to say at this point is . . .
For Christ's Sake . . . STOP CALLING IT XMAS!
It's called
Christmas,
NOT Xmas, which makes the whole thing sound like the celebration of
an unpleasant itchy skin disorder! It's the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, not Jesus X!
I don't call it Christmas because that's religious. For me, 'Xmas', 'Crimbleton', 'Christmas' or 'Holiday' is an excuse to give and receive presents. I don't celebrate it because of a man that died ages ago who may even not have existed.
Usually BBC2 doesn't show any Learning Zone programmes over the Christmas fortnight. I really hope they don't show it this Christmas as I think it would be very poor scheduling if they do. BBC2 shown during the Christmas 2001 fortnight a nightly season of classic film noir thrillers and old B horror movies. I hope they do something like this again this Christmas. The Learning Zone is on far too much as well. On Sunday's it starts at 2am. I think it should start at 2am every night instead of 12.30pm. That way BBC2 could offer more quality by showing a late night movie everynight offering much more choice for the viewers.
They are gonna change it in Janurary, so it starts at 2 most morings and 1 on a Tuesday. But they want to do it over the xmas period, which is silly, cause who wants to learn at xmas? I wanted to tape the Ceefax music too! There was a really good CD added sometime during the summer that I wanted to get in full, loads of interesting Trip Hop tunes on it.
Does anybody know of a website or link to find the unofficial early terrestrial xmas listings.
All I have to say at this point is . . .
For Christ's Sake . . . STOP CALLING IT XMAS!
It's called
Christmas,
NOT Xmas, which makes the whole thing sound like the celebration of
an unpleasant itchy skin disorder! It's the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, not Jesus X!
I don't call it Christmas because that's religious. For me, 'Xmas', 'Crimbleton', 'Christmas' or 'Holiday' is an excuse to give and receive presents. I don't celebrate it because of a man that died ages ago who may even not have existed.
People who say "don't call it xmas" are fooling themselves. It's something the church invented to drag pagans into the fold. The bible doesn't give a date for Christ's birth, like it does with his death. There really is no reason to celebrate it at all. X-mas is a much more acurate name for it!
Usually BBC2 doesn't show any Learning Zone programmes over the Christmas fortnight. I really hope they don't show it this Christmas as I think it would be very poor scheduling if they do. BBC2 shown during the Christmas 2001 fortnight a nightly season of classic film noir thrillers and old B horror movies. I hope they do something like this again this Christmas. The Learning Zone is on far too much as well. On Sunday's it starts at 2am. I think it should start at 2am every night instead of 12.30pm. That way BBC2 could offer more quality by showing a late night movie everynight offering much more choice for the viewers.
They are gonna change it in Janurary, so it starts at 2 most morings and 1 on a Tuesday. But they want to do it over the xmas period, which is silly, cause who wants to learn at xmas? I wanted to tape the Ceefax music too! There was a really good CD added sometime during the summer that I wanted to get in full, loads of interesting Trip Hop tunes on it.
I knew they were changing it, but I didn't know that they were shortening it, though I heard that the Open University wanted to stop all of their programmes with the BBC and that they wanted to ditch their TV shows all together, so this will probably have an effect considering that OU dominates it from 12.30am onwards for about an hour or two. Though it should really stop for 2 weeks, ie at Christmas and New Year, but it would be silly if it's going to continue through, plus when it comes to this period BBC Two really likes to be on until 3am or 4am most nights showing films and I Love programmes. Though this move doesn't suprise me at all, it is obvious that they want to reduce the amount of Ceefax which goes out, but then in a few years Ceefax will disappear all together.
Plus if you want to see Ceefax watch a bit of the BBC1 Nations at 1am Tuesday-Thursday mornings, a rarity if it would be on in England.
Just because it makes interesting reading, here's Christmas 2001's schedule (don't have last years).
BBC1
5.45 FILM: We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
6.50 CBBC Holiday Hot:
Tweenies, Woody Woodpecker, Blue Peter, Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, Second Star to the Left
10:00 God's Surprise:
Christmas communion service from Newbury
11:00 The Two Ronnies Christmas Show (r)
11:45 FILM: Casper
1:20 News
1:30 Top of the Pops
2:30 Hamilton Matress:
Animation
3:00 The Queen
3:10 Rolf's Merry Christmas
4:00 Dazzling Bloomers
4:30 News
4:40 FILM: Toy Story
5:55 Eastenders
6:25 The Lost World
7:40 Alistair McGowan's Big Impression
8:20 News
8:30 Eastenders
9:05 Only Fools And Horses
10:15 Before They Were Famous
10:55 FILM: Sliding Doors
12:30 Battersea to Bethlehem - A Christmas Story
12:35 FILM: Steptoe and Son Ride Again
2:15 Sign Two: When Louis Met The Hamiltons
3:35 News 24 >5:30
ITV1
6:00 GMTV:
Macdonald's Farm, Barney, Cubeez, Jellikins, Ni Ni's Treehouse, Diggit Extra, GMTV
9:25 CITV:
Sabrina, Eddy and the Bear, Caribbean Christmas, The Animal Shelf Christmas
11:00 Russell Watson at Christmas
12:00 FILM: Alice in Wonderland
1:20 News
1:30 Britain's Brainiest Kid (r)
3:00 The Queen
3:10 FILM: The Great Escape
6:10 News
6:25 Emmerdale
7:25 Coronation Street
8:30 New You've Been Framed Christmas Special
9:05 Stars In Their Eyes
10:00 News
10:15 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Celebrity?
11:15 FILM: While You Were Sleeping
1:10 FILM: Three Amigos!
3:00 This Is Celine Dion (r)
4:00 Clueless
4:25 FILM: Double Double Toil and Trouble
5:55 News
Other things we can pretty much say will be in the schedules:
BBC2
6:00-9:00 Breakfast
A few episodes of The Simpsons - one in the morning one in the afternoon.
Repeat of The Queen in the evening.
Repeat of I Love 1990something. In 2001 they reran the 70s (1973 on Christmas Day) and in 2002 they reran the 80s.
Channel 4
Fathr Christmas
The Snowman
family films
3:00 The Alternative Christmas Message
Countdown
Does anybody know of a website or link to find the unofficial early terrestrial xmas listings.
All I have to say at this point is . . .
For Christ's Sake . . . STOP CALLING IT XMAS!
It's called
Christmas,
NOT Xmas, which makes the whole thing sound like the celebration of
an unpleasant itchy skin disorder! It's the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, not Jesus X!
Absloutely, I agree, doesn't "Xmas" look awful?
I suppose it derives from "X" being a "cris-cross", so if you drop the "cross" - "cris-mass" (or "Xmas" sounds a bit like "Chritmas".
I have the listings for Xmas Day from ITV1 last year
11.30am The Christmas Storykeepers
1.00pm The Waltons: After They Were Famous
2.00pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Celebrity
3.00pm The Queen's Speech
3.10pm Film: Thunderball
5.40pm You've Been Framed! A-Z of Christmas
6.10pm Cilla's Celebrity Blind Date
6.55pm Emmerdale
7.55pm Coronation Street
9.05pm Cilla's Celebrity Blind Date
9.35pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Celebrity
10.40pm ITV News at Ten
10.55pm Film: Jaws
And on Boxing Day
9.25am CITV
11.25am Film: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1.25pm ITV News
1.35pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Celebrity
2.35pm The Queen's Story
4.35pm The Goal Rush
5.10pm ITV News
5.25pm Film: Mary Poppins
8.00pm Emmerdale
8.30pm Goodbye Mr Chips
10.30pm ITV News
10.45pm The Premiership
12.15am Film: Some Liked it Hot
And New Years Day 2003
9.25am CITV
11.00am World Cup 2002 Review
12.00pm F1 Review of the Year
1.00pm ITV News
1.20pm Bond Girls are forever
2.15pm Film: Diamonds Are Forever
4.30pm The Goal Rush
5.10pm ITV News/HTV News
5.30pm You've Been Framed
6.00pm Film: Pollyanna
8.00pm Coronation Street
8.30pm The Bill
9.30pm Des O Connor at 40
10.30pm ITV News at Ten
10.45pm The Premiership
12.15am Film: Vertigo
I do hope that ITV give the Bond films a rest over Christmas this year.
And to think we used to complain that ITV showed a Bond film every bank holiday.
If only that was still the case...
Anyone have details of when News at Ten ends. Personally, I think it should go a week or so before Christmas, with flexible bulletins over the festive period and the new 10.30pm bulletin launching a week after new year, giving ITV plenty of chances to get out their two-hour dramas/films before the slot is restricted to 90 minutes.
Anyone have details of when News at Ten ends. Personally, I think it should go a week or so before Christmas, with flexible bulletins over the festive period and the new 10.30pm bulletin launching a week after new year, giving ITV plenty of chances to get out their two-hour dramas/films before the slot is restricted to 90 minutes.
Nah, it's not likely to go that quickly. The 10.30pm bulletin is likely to coincide with a new look to ITV News and also ITV need to produce a raft of new programming to fill the 9-10.30pm slot. I expect it will be at least a few months into the new year.
