Films on this Xmas

[jaminb]

Seen the preview including Shrek, Toy Story (2 is it?) and a couple of others but does anyone know where I could find a list of all the stuff on terrestrial TV over the seasonal period?

[Chris Locke]

DigiGuide is a great off-line listings program, but isn't free. Its currently got data up to the end of December. I'll rattle through it later and draw up a list.

http://www.digiguide.com/

Edit: Oh, and there is a limited free online resource:
http://mydigiguide.com/

[jaminb]

Thanks mate, that kind of sums up.

[Chris Locke]

List as of DigiGuide. Some days have 'To be announced' and there are usually some shuffles around. 'ITV' is 'ITV Anglia' by the way, so may not be accurate for your region.<table><tr valign=top><td width=300>21 Dec
Bowfinger (CH4)
Watership Down (CH4)

22 Dec
Bringing Up Baby (BBC2)
Bend It Like Beckham (BBC1)
Home Alone 3 (ITV)
Murder At 1600 (BBC1)

23 Dec
A Christmas Carol (CH4)
Babe 2: Pig in the City (ITV)
Casino Royale (ITV)
Mystery, Alaska (ITV)
Stealing Christmas (ITV)
The Happiest Millionaire (BBC2)
The Sword of Xanten (CH4)

24 Dec
A Christmas Carol (CH4)
Ashanti (BBC1)
Benji The Hunted (CH4)
Bridget Jones's Diary (BBC1)
Carrie (CH4)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (BBC1)
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (BBC1)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (CH4)
Small Soldiers (BBC1)
Snow White (CH4)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (BBC2)
The Karate Kid (CH4)
The Secret Garden (BBC1)
Tomorrow Never Dies (ITV)

25 Dec
Alice in Wonderland (ITV)
Jerry Maguire (CH4)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
and The Island of Misfit Toys (CH4)
Shrek (BBC1)
Singin' in The Rain (CH4)
Sylvia (BBC2)
The Booze Cruise II (ITV)
The Grinch (ITV)
The Man Who Wasn't There (CH4)
The Railway Children (ITV)
The Santa Clause (BBC1)
Toy Story 2 (BBC1)
</td>

<td width=300>26 Dec
Goodnight Mister Tom (ITV)
Minority Report (BBC1)
Mrs Doubtfire (ITV)
South Pacific (BBC2)
Spy Kids (BBC1)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (ITV)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (CH4)
The Philadelphia Story (BBC2)
The Poseidon Adventure (CH4)
True Grit (BBC2)
Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (BBC1)
Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (BBC1)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (BBC1)

27 Dec
Agatha Christie's Thirteen at Dinner (ITV)
Babe (BBC1)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (BBC1)
It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas (BBC1)
Muppets From Space (CH4)
Mutiny on The Buses (BBC1)
On The Buses (ITV)
Road to Morocco (ITV)
The Quiet American (BBC2)

28 Dec
Bulworth (ITV)
Carry on Camping (BBC1)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (ITV)
Dangerous Liaisons (BBC2)
Flash Gordon (ITV)
Signs (BBC1)
Snow Dogs (BBC1)
Taxi Driver (CH4)
The Italian Job (BBC1)
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (CH4)

29 Dec
Cool Runnings (BBC1)
Hercules (CH4)
Jetsons - The Movie (ITV)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (BBC1)
McQ (BBC1)
Stuart Little (BBC1)
The American President (BBC1)
The Family Man (CH4)
The Goonies (BBC1)
The Land That Time Forgot (CH4)
The Red Shoes (BBC2)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (CH4)</td>
</tr></table>

Haven't listed every film, and haven't kept to just the 'blockbusters' either, so bit of a botch-job of a list! :lol:

[SIMON ADEBISI]

RTE are showing Pirates Of The Caribbean:Dand The Hours :gag: on Christmas Day.

[LIGHTRAY]

Good work with the list.
The majority of it seems to be the usual rehashed rubbish, I imagine we'll see the main xmas day holidays filled out with usual rubbish Corrie and Enders "specials"


Remember the old days when Xmas meant BBC2 showing stuff like a Billy Wilder season ? Or some Eric Rhomer movies? They may have been repeats, but at least it was quality stuff.

Bah! Humbug!

[thescrounger]

Of course the *real* televisual highlight of Christmas Day is the hour long Doctor Who special...

[Chris Locke]

Indeedy. There's an hour long documentary on BBC Radio Two on 20 Dec, and the hour-long episode is on Christmas Day at 7.25pm.

[Brian_JD]

Out of that lot I think the only one I haven't seen is on CH4 crimbo day
'The Man who wasn't there' , so there's summat new there for little old me.

B

[PockyMonster]

not spotting scrooged... nor christmas vacation... not impressed!

[Chris Locke]

So far, there are 13 'To Be Announced' gaps, so there is time yet! ;)
I'll update the list when DidiGuide gets updated, or people let me know of updates.

[Boink!]

Working over Christmas again ( :( ) so can't really be bothered with what's on TV, and I already own most of the good films on DVD that are being shown. I'll probably tape Dr. Who, Muppets and Land that Troy McClure Forgot.

[The Bear]

May check out Sylvia on 25th but that's about it.

[KeyserSoze]

not spotting scrooged... nor christmas vacation... not impressed!

Id second that !

Christmas without Christmas Vacation - travesty !

No Muppet Christmas Carol either.

I decided not to buy Xmas DVDs knowing most of the movies will be on TV. Turns out most of my xmas favourites are not on TV this year :(

[mikef]

Blimey, it's enough to drive you down the pub.... :-)


I miss the late night showing of horror movies, or black n white movies (film noirs, etc).

BTW - the Xmas Radio Times is out now, with a spiffing cover.


mikef

[PockyMonster]

Id second that !

Christmas without Christmas Vacation - travesty !

i think we might be ok, i read somewhere its on five.. christmas... eve.. day? something like that.

i do need my xmas fix of julia louis dreyfuss :)

[sleep4ever]

Yes Christmas Vacation is definitely on this year (well was as far as the early newspaper guides can guarantee).

Watership Down again :cry:

[jaminb]

Looks like I'm the only one relatively impressed with the list-seen most of the big hits but a few not for ages, and some of the minor films sound promising. It's all different these days I guess, this will be my first xmas with a dvd player so less urgent need to tape stuff, can pick up most films for around a fiver on ebay.

[corkbouy]

WHAT? No Great Escape? Dear me, no. but this will break my 12 year record! ;)

[thescrounger]

i think we might be ok, i read somewhere its on five.. christmas... eve.. day? something like that.

i do need my xmas fix of julia louis dreyfuss :)

I'll be watching it on dvd. Doesn't everybody own their favourite Christmas films on DVD?

[richieuk]

not spotting scrooged... nor christmas vacation... not impressed!

Scrooged - Thursday 29th Dec 22:00 to 23:55 - Sky 1

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Sunday 25th Dec 21:00 to 23:00 - Ch 5

[cjanderson]

i assume the lion, which and wardrobe one is the cartoon :clap:

all looks good to me, plenty of family stuff to watch. I do like a season of stuff on BBC2, like hitchcock but tivo can;t cope with it all :(

lots of agatha christyes uit me, then can't complain when i miss stuff when people are chatting as have seen 5 times already.

[Nana]

Don't know about anyone else, but for me, if a really christmassy film isn't on on the eve, day, or boxing day they might as well not bother. It's like getting a birthday card a week late.

I don't think there'll be much in the way of the christmas spirit on the 29th in my house anyway. By then I'll have been dragged around the shops for the sales and force fed everyone Turkey based meals for 3 days.

[Crazy Squirrel]

Where's Die Hard and/or Die Hard 2?!?

[KeyserSoze]

i assume the lion, which and wardrobe one is the cartoon :clap:

all looks good to me, plenty of family stuff to watch. I do like a season of stuff on BBC2, like hitchcock but tivo can;t cope with it all :(

lots of agatha christyes uit me, then can't complain when i miss stuff when people are chatting as have seen 5 times already.

theres been loads of Hitchcocks over the weeks on ITV recently. Also the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes been playing on BBC2 every saturday.

[KeyserSoze]

Where's Die Hard and/or Die Hard 2?!?

Now thats an Xmas DVD i have a DVD for ;)

I guess its too late to buy A Christmas Story DVD now unless i want to pay £15 from UK etailers.

Im glad Christmas Vacation is confirmed on TV though :thumbs: