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RTE1 RTE1
N2 RTE Network 2
TV3 TV3
TG4 TG4
UTV UTV (ITV-Northern Ireland)
HTV HTV Wales (ITV-Wales)
S4C S4C
BBC1 BBC1
BBC2 BBC2
C4 Channel 4
C5 Channel 5
Morning
5.00
RTE1 Oprah cont'd
TV3 Home Shopping
UTV-HTV Cartoon Time
BBC1 BBC News 24
C4 Countdown
C5 Prisoner: Cell Block H cont'd
5.20
N2 Pop Profiles
5.25
RTE1 Ingrid Bergman Remembered
HTV Coronation Street
5.30
N2 Wanderly Wagon
UTV Clueless
C5 Wild North
5.55
UTV-ITV ITN News
S4C-C4 Elmo Saves Christmas
6.00
N2 Den 2 with Liz Bonnin/True Meaning of Crumb Feast
UTV-HTV GMTV (6-9.25am programs are produced by a separate ITV franchise)
BBC1 Planet Saturday/Polka Dot Shorts
C5 Havakazoo
6.10
BBC1 Teletubbies
6.20
RTE1 Sister Wendy's Saints
6.25
BBC2 Film "Harvey"
6.30
N2 Spunky's First Christmas
C5 Dappledown Farm
6.33
BBC1 Teletubbies Advent Calendar
6.40
BBC1 Barney's Christmas Surprise
6.45
BBC1 Christmas Toons!
6.55
N2 Elmo Saves Christmas
S4C-C4 Ivor the Engine
C5 Mr. Men & Little Miss
7.00
C5 Beginner's Bible
7.05
S4C-C4 Really Wild Animals
7.10
RTE1 Jubilee Carols
BBC1 True Meaning of Crumb Feast
7.15
TV3 Toronto Santa Claus Parade (TV3 was owned by CanWest at the time)
7.30
S4C-C4 Princess Sissi
C5 Milkshake!
7.35
C5 Mr. Men Christmas Special
7.55
N2 Tots TV/Lapland Out
8.00
S4C-C4 Film "Tom & Jerry: The Movie"
BBC1 Live & Kicking's Christmas Cracker (Westlife performs live in the studio, with Neighbours' Jesse Spencer taking questions from the audience)
C5 Lassie
8.05
N2 William's Wish Wellingtons
TV3 Prince Cinders
BBC2 Film "An American in Paris"
8.10
RTE1 Film "Gigi"
8.15
N2 Sylvester & Tweety
8.30
TG4 EuroNews
C5 Tiger, Tiger
8.35
TV3 Moles Christmas
8.40
N2 Rugrats
8.55
N2 Pokemon
9.00
TV3 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
TG4 Cinderalmo (Cinderelmo)
C5 Film "Charlie Strapp and Froggie Ball"
9.25
N2 Rugrats
UTV Morning Worship
HTV CITV on Christmas Day/SMTV Live
9.30
TV3 Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night
S4C-C4 Film "Andre"
9.45
N2 Morbegs
10.00
TG4 Power Rangers na Spas (Power Rangers in Space)
UTV-HTV Our Century
BBC1 Christmas Day Service: Joy to the World
BBC2 Simpsons
10.05
RTE1 Service
N2 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10.25
TV3 Jolly Old St. Nicholas
UTV-HTV SMTV Live (guests Steps, S Club 7, Five, and Westlife)
BBC2 Big Knights
10.30
N2 Animaniacs
10.35
BBC2 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
C5 Harry & Cosh
10.55
RTE1 Urbi et Orbi (Pope's Christmas greetings)
TV3 Deck the Halls
11.00
N2 Catdog
TG4 An Traeinin Beag
BBC1 Film "James and the Giant Peah"
BBC2 Christmas Oratorio from Weimar
C5 Pepsi Chart Christmas Special
11.15
S4C-C4 Father Christmas
11.20
TV3 Film "It's a Wonderful Life" (bw)
11.25
N2 Taz-Mania
11.30
TG4 Aifreann na Nollag (likely the same as RTE1 at 11.35; RTE produced some programs for TG4)
BBC2 They Said It Couldn't Be Done (wildlife film-makers who beat the odds)
C5 The Mag
11.35
RTE1 Aifreann na Nollag (from Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clondalkin)
11.45
S4C-C4 Granpa
11.55
N2 The Tick
Afternoon
12.05
UTV-HTV Film "Pinocchio"
12.10
C5 Movie Chart Show: Teen Special
12.15
TG4 Gobnait
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
S4C TBA
C4 Film "Jason and the Argonauts"
12.20
RTE1 Film "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994 version)
N2 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
BBC1 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show (guests Penelope Keith and Elton John)
12.30
BBC2 Don Quixote
12.40
C5 Daria
12.45
N2 Film "Robin Hood"
S4C Snowman
1.00
TG4 Film "Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
BBC2 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
1.05
S4C Film "Jason and the Argonauts"
C5 5 News
1.15
C5 Film "The Adventures of Mowgli"
1.25
BBC2 Wives & Daughters
1.30
BBC1 Christmas Top of the Pops (countdown of 1999's top singles)
1.40
TV3 Film "Blithe Spirit" (bw)
1.45
UTV-HTV ITN News/Weather
2.00
UTV-HTV Dame Thora Hird: My Favorite Hymns at Christmas
2.10
RTE1 Christmas Greetings from the Archbishops of Armagh
C4 Working with Dinosaurs (Ray Harryhausen's influence on special effects)
2.15
RTE1 Film "The Return of Jafar"
N2 N2 Wild
2.30
BBC1 Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire
2.40
N2 Film "That's Entertainment III"
TG4 Pop TV na Nollag
2.45
BBC2 Vintners' Tales with Jancis Robinson
2.55
BBC2 Simpsons
3.00
UTV-HTV-S4C-BBC1 Queen's Christmas Message
C4 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
C5 Sunset Beach omnibus
3.10
UTV-HTV Film "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"
S4C Andi Meets Toy Story 2
BBC1 Noel's Christmas Presents
3.15
TV3 Film "Matilda"
BBC2 Film "White Christmas"
C4 Fifteen-to-One Millennium Quiz
3.25
RTE1 Just for You: Boyzone
3.40
TG4 Film "Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
4.20
RTE1 Santa's Millennium Clause (Santa's contract runs out)
4.25
N2 Seven Canticles of St. Francis
4.30
S4C Planed Plant
4.40
RTE1 Film "101 Dalmatians"
4.45
UTV-HTV ITN News/Weather
4.55
C4 Countdown Grand Final
5.00
TV3 Father Christmas
5.05
UTV-HTV Gladiators: The Battle of the Giants (the male Gladiators take each other on for bragging rights)
5.10
BBC2 Film "Singin' in the Rain"
C5 Alagna & Gheoghiu: Favourite Arias
5.25
N2 Pardraig Feiritear: An Siogai Infhuichtach
TG4 Gleann Ceo
5.30
TV3 News @ 5.30
5.40
C4 Film "The Woodlanders"
5.50
TV3 EastEnders
5.55
TG4 Nuacht TG4/Weather (RTE produced TG4's news)
Evening
6.00
UTV-HTV Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire? pt 1
C5 Bjorn Again at the Royal Albert Hall
6.02
TG4 Expose
6.20
RTE1 RTE News/Weather
N2 Assasinated King & Kennedy
TV3 Entertainment Review of the Year
BBC1 Auntie's Cracking New Bloomers (bloopers)
6.25
RTE1 Fair City
6.30
UTV-HTV Emmerdale
S4C Newyddion (BBC Wales-produced)
6.40
TV3 Film "Ghostbusters"
S4C Pobol y Cwm
6.50
BBC2 Cecilia (Bartoli) & Bryn (Terfel) at Glyndebourne
6.55
RTE1 Westlife at HQ (along with guests Ronan Keating, Brian Kennedy, and Samantha)
TG4 Wonder Years
7.00
BBC1 David Copperfield (adaptation of the Dickens novel)
C5 Night Fever: Christmas
7.15
S4C Ma Ifan 'Na Nadolig
7.20
TG4 CU Burn
7.30
RTE1-UTV-HTV Coronation Street (1 hr)
C4 Massive Landmarks of the 20th Century (followed by News)
7.55
C5 5 News
8.00
N2 Christmas Craic with Podge & Rodge
S4C Brun Terfel A Chyfeillion: Canrif O Gan
C5 Deadly Summer
8.05
C4 Queen's Christmas Address
8.15
TG4 Film "The Piano"
C4 4 Dance: Duet for the Betterment of A
8.20
BBC2 Queen's Christmas Address
8.25
RTE1 Bull Island
8.30
TV3-BBC1 EastEnders
UTV-HTV Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire? Pt 2
BBC2 Film "Il Postino"
8.40
C4 Powder Her Face
8.55
RTE1 RTE News
N2 Friends (1 hr-10 min)
9.00
TV3 Film "In the Line of Fire"
UTV-HTV A Touch of Frost (2 parter)
S4C Tair Chwaer: Cymer Dy Siar
BBC1 Vicar of Dibley
9.05
RTE1 Film "Michael Collins"
9.40
BBC1 Before They were Famous IV
10.00
C5 Film "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice"
10.05
N2 One Foot in the Grave (1 hr 10 min)
10.15
BBC2 Film "RKO 281"
10.18
TG4 An Aimsir Laithreach (weather)
10.20
TG4 Mad Dog Coll
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
10.30
UTV-HTV Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire? conclusion
BBC1 Royle Family
10.45
S4C Film "Muriel's Wedding"
C4 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
11.00
UTV-HTV ITN News/Weather
C4 Film "Time Bandits"
11.10
UTV-HTV Bethlehem Year Zero
BBC1 They Think It's All Over (sports quiz)
11.15
RTE1 The Corrs MTV Unplugged
N2 Blackadder's Christmas Carol
TV3 Minder on the Orient Express
TG4 Geantrai na Nollag
11.25
UTV-HTV Film "Charade"
11.45
BBC1 Christmas Reflections: Rumours of Angels
BBC2 Film "Citizen Kane" (bw)
11.50
BBC1 Film "The Italian Job"
Late Night
midnight
C5 Film "The Last Call"
12.05
N2 Father Ted
12.13
TG4 An Aimsir Leathreach
12.15
BBC1 Film "An Officer and a Gentleman"
TG4 EuroNews (sign-off 1.30)
12.30
N2 Yes Minister Christmas Special
12.45
S4C Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1.10
TV3 Pop on 3
C4 Film "Kagemusha"
1.30
BBC1 Film "A Shock to the System"
1.35
N2 Grace Under Fire
UTV-HTV Film "Blame It on the Bellboy"
C5 Alex Haley's Queen
1.40
BBC2 Film "The Trial" (bw/sign-off 3.35)
1.45
S4C Film "Kagemusha" (sign-off 4.35)
2.00
N2 Film "Fletch"
2.05
TV3 Christmas Miracles
2.15
RTE1 Bull Island
2.45
RTE1 Film "The Cotton Club"
2.55
BBC1 BBC News 24
3.00
TV3 Home Shopping (sign-off 4.00)
3.05
UTV Film "Smokey and the Bandit II"
HTV Film "National Lampoon's Vacation"
3.20
C5 Film "Cave of Outlaws"
3.35
N2 'Allo! 'Allo!
4.00
C4 4 Later
4.25
N2 2TV Classic
4.35
C5 Postcards
4.40
TV3 Home Shopping
UTV Animaniacs
C5 Prisoner: Cell Block H
4.45
RTE1 Film "For the Love of Money"
4.50
N2 Boyzone Behaving Badly
RTE1 RTE1
N2 RTE Network 2
TV3 TV3
TG4 TG4
UTV UTV (ITV-Northern Ireland)
HTV HTV Wales (ITV-Wales)
S4C S4C
BBC1 BBC1
BBC2 BBC2
C4 Channel 4
C5 Channel 5
Morning
5.00
RTE1 Oprah cont'd
TV3 Home Shopping
UTV-HTV Cartoon Time
BBC1 BBC News 24
C4 Countdown
C5 Prisoner: Cell Block H cont'd
5.20
N2 Pop Profiles
5.25
RTE1 Ingrid Bergman Remembered
HTV Coronation Street
5.30
N2 Wanderly Wagon
UTV Clueless
C5 Wild North
5.55
UTV-ITV ITN News
S4C-C4 Elmo Saves Christmas
6.00
N2 Den 2 with Liz Bonnin/True Meaning of Crumb Feast
UTV-HTV GMTV (6-9.25am programs are produced by a separate ITV franchise)
BBC1 Planet Saturday/Polka Dot Shorts
C5 Havakazoo
6.10
BBC1 Teletubbies
6.20
RTE1 Sister Wendy's Saints
6.25
BBC2 Film "Harvey"
6.30
N2 Spunky's First Christmas
C5 Dappledown Farm
6.33
BBC1 Teletubbies Advent Calendar
6.40
BBC1 Barney's Christmas Surprise
6.45
BBC1 Christmas Toons!
6.55
N2 Elmo Saves Christmas
S4C-C4 Ivor the Engine
C5 Mr. Men & Little Miss
7.00
C5 Beginner's Bible
7.05
S4C-C4 Really Wild Animals
7.10
RTE1 Jubilee Carols
BBC1 True Meaning of Crumb Feast
7.15
TV3 Toronto Santa Claus Parade (TV3 was owned by CanWest at the time)
7.30
S4C-C4 Princess Sissi
C5 Milkshake!
7.35
C5 Mr. Men Christmas Special
7.55
N2 Tots TV/Lapland Out
8.00
S4C-C4 Film "Tom & Jerry: The Movie"
BBC1 Live & Kicking's Christmas Cracker (Westlife performs live in the studio, with Neighbours' Jesse Spencer taking questions from the audience)
C5 Lassie
8.05
N2 William's Wish Wellingtons
TV3 Prince Cinders
BBC2 Film "An American in Paris"
8.10
RTE1 Film "Gigi"
8.15
N2 Sylvester & Tweety
8.30
TG4 EuroNews
C5 Tiger, Tiger
8.35
TV3 Moles Christmas
8.40
N2 Rugrats
8.55
N2 Pokemon
9.00
TV3 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
TG4 Cinderalmo (Cinderelmo)
C5 Film "Charlie Strapp and Froggie Ball"
9.25
N2 Rugrats
UTV Morning Worship
HTV CITV on Christmas Day/SMTV Live
9.30
TV3 Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night
S4C-C4 Film "Andre"
9.45
N2 Morbegs
10.00
TG4 Power Rangers na Spas (Power Rangers in Space)
UTV-HTV Our Century
BBC1 Christmas Day Service: Joy to the World
BBC2 Simpsons
10.05
RTE1 Service
N2 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10.25
TV3 Jolly Old St. Nicholas
UTV-HTV SMTV Live (guests Steps, S Club 7, Five, and Westlife)
BBC2 Big Knights
10.30
N2 Animaniacs
10.35
BBC2 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
C5 Harry & Cosh
10.55
RTE1 Urbi et Orbi (Pope's Christmas greetings)
TV3 Deck the Halls
11.00
N2 Catdog
TG4 An Traeinin Beag
BBC1 Film "James and the Giant Peah"
BBC2 Christmas Oratorio from Weimar
C5 Pepsi Chart Christmas Special
11.15
S4C-C4 Father Christmas
11.20
TV3 Film "It's a Wonderful Life" (bw)
11.25
N2 Taz-Mania
11.30
TG4 Aifreann na Nollag (likely the same as RTE1 at 11.35; RTE produced some programs for TG4)
BBC2 They Said It Couldn't Be Done (wildlife film-makers who beat the odds)
C5 The Mag
11.35
RTE1 Aifreann na Nollag (from Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clondalkin)
11.45
S4C-C4 Granpa
11.55
N2 The Tick
Afternoon
12.05
UTV-HTV Film "Pinocchio"
12.10
C5 Movie Chart Show: Teen Special
12.15
TG4 Gobnait
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
S4C TBA
C4 Film "Jason and the Argonauts"
12.20
RTE1 Film "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994 version)
N2 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
BBC1 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show (guests Penelope Keith and Elton John)
12.30
BBC2 Don Quixote
12.40
C5 Daria
12.45
N2 Film "Robin Hood"
S4C Snowman
1.00
TG4 Film "Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
BBC2 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
1.05
S4C Film "Jason and the Argonauts"
C5 5 News
1.15
C5 Film "The Adventures of Mowgli"
1.25
BBC2 Wives & Daughters
1.30
BBC1 Christmas Top of the Pops (countdown of 1999's top singles)
1.40
TV3 Film "Blithe Spirit" (bw)
1.45
UTV-HTV ITN News/Weather
2.00
UTV-HTV Dame Thora Hird: My Favorite Hymns at Christmas
2.10
RTE1 Christmas Greetings from the Archbishops of Armagh
C4 Working with Dinosaurs (Ray Harryhausen's influence on special effects)
2.15
RTE1 Film "The Return of Jafar"
N2 N2 Wild
2.30
BBC1 Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire
2.40
N2 Film "That's Entertainment III"
TG4 Pop TV na Nollag
2.45
BBC2 Vintners' Tales with Jancis Robinson
2.55
BBC2 Simpsons
3.00
UTV-HTV-S4C-BBC1 Queen's Christmas Message
C4 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
C5 Sunset Beach omnibus
3.10
UTV-HTV Film "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"
S4C Andi Meets Toy Story 2
BBC1 Noel's Christmas Presents
3.15
TV3 Film "Matilda"
BBC2 Film "White Christmas"
C4 Fifteen-to-One Millennium Quiz
3.25
RTE1 Just for You: Boyzone
3.40
TG4 Film "Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
4.20
RTE1 Santa's Millennium Clause (Santa's contract runs out)
4.25
N2 Seven Canticles of St. Francis
4.30
S4C Planed Plant
4.40
RTE1 Film "101 Dalmatians"
4.45
UTV-HTV ITN News/Weather
4.55
C4 Countdown Grand Final
5.00
TV3 Father Christmas
5.05
UTV-HTV Gladiators: The Battle of the Giants (the male Gladiators take each other on for bragging rights)
5.10
BBC2 Film "Singin' in the Rain"
C5 Alagna & Gheoghiu: Favourite Arias
5.25
N2 Pardraig Feiritear: An Siogai Infhuichtach
TG4 Gleann Ceo
5.30
TV3 News @ 5.30
5.40
C4 Film "The Woodlanders"
5.50
TV3 EastEnders
5.55
TG4 Nuacht TG4/Weather (RTE produced TG4's news)
Evening
6.00
UTV-HTV Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire? pt 1
C5 Bjorn Again at the Royal Albert Hall
6.02
TG4 Expose
6.20
RTE1 RTE News/Weather
N2 Assasinated King & Kennedy
TV3 Entertainment Review of the Year
BBC1 Auntie's Cracking New Bloomers (bloopers)
6.25
RTE1 Fair City
6.30
UTV-HTV Emmerdale
S4C Newyddion (BBC Wales-produced)
6.40
TV3 Film "Ghostbusters"
S4C Pobol y Cwm
6.50
BBC2 Cecilia (Bartoli) & Bryn (Terfel) at Glyndebourne
6.55
RTE1 Westlife at HQ (along with guests Ronan Keating, Brian Kennedy, and Samantha)
TG4 Wonder Years
7.00
BBC1 David Copperfield (adaptation of the Dickens novel)
C5 Night Fever: Christmas
7.15
S4C Ma Ifan 'Na Nadolig
7.20
TG4 CU Burn
7.30
RTE1-UTV-HTV Coronation Street (1 hr)
C4 Massive Landmarks of the 20th Century (followed by News)
7.55
C5 5 News
8.00
N2 Christmas Craic with Podge & Rodge
S4C Brun Terfel A Chyfeillion: Canrif O Gan
C5 Deadly Summer
8.05
C4 Queen's Christmas Address
8.15
TG4 Film "The Piano"
C4 4 Dance: Duet for the Betterment of A
8.20
BBC2 Queen's Christmas Address
8.25
RTE1 Bull Island
8.30
TV3-BBC1 EastEnders
UTV-HTV Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire? Pt 2
BBC2 Film "Il Postino"
8.40
C4 Powder Her Face
8.55
RTE1 RTE News
N2 Friends (1 hr-10 min)
9.00
TV3 Film "In the Line of Fire"
UTV-HTV A Touch of Frost (2 parter)
S4C Tair Chwaer: Cymer Dy Siar
BBC1 Vicar of Dibley
9.05
RTE1 Film "Michael Collins"
9.40
BBC1 Before They were Famous IV
10.00
C5 Film "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice"
10.05
N2 One Foot in the Grave (1 hr 10 min)
10.15
BBC2 Film "RKO 281"
10.18
TG4 An Aimsir Laithreach (weather)
10.20
TG4 Mad Dog Coll
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
10.30
UTV-HTV Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire? conclusion
BBC1 Royle Family
10.45
S4C Film "Muriel's Wedding"
C4 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
11.00
UTV-HTV ITN News/Weather
C4 Film "Time Bandits"
11.10
UTV-HTV Bethlehem Year Zero
BBC1 They Think It's All Over (sports quiz)
11.15
RTE1 The Corrs MTV Unplugged
N2 Blackadder's Christmas Carol
TV3 Minder on the Orient Express
TG4 Geantrai na Nollag
11.25
UTV-HTV Film "Charade"
11.45
BBC1 Christmas Reflections: Rumours of Angels
BBC2 Film "Citizen Kane" (bw)
11.50
BBC1 Film "The Italian Job"
Late Night
midnight
C5 Film "The Last Call"
12.05
N2 Father Ted
12.13
TG4 An Aimsir Leathreach
12.15
BBC1 Film "An Officer and a Gentleman"
TG4 EuroNews (sign-off 1.30)
12.30
N2 Yes Minister Christmas Special
12.45
S4C Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1.10
TV3 Pop on 3
C4 Film "Kagemusha"
1.30
BBC1 Film "A Shock to the System"
1.35
N2 Grace Under Fire
UTV-HTV Film "Blame It on the Bellboy"
C5 Alex Haley's Queen
1.40
BBC2 Film "The Trial" (bw/sign-off 3.35)
1.45
S4C Film "Kagemusha" (sign-off 4.35)
2.00
N2 Film "Fletch"
2.05
TV3 Christmas Miracles
2.15
RTE1 Bull Island
2.45
RTE1 Film "The Cotton Club"
2.55
BBC1 BBC News 24
3.00
TV3 Home Shopping (sign-off 4.00)
3.05
UTV Film "Smokey and the Bandit II"
HTV Film "National Lampoon's Vacation"
3.20
C5 Film "Cave of Outlaws"
3.35
N2 'Allo! 'Allo!
4.00
C4 4 Later
4.25
N2 2TV Classic
4.35
C5 Postcards
4.40
TV3 Home Shopping
UTV Animaniacs
C5 Prisoner: Cell Block H
4.45
RTE1 Film "For the Love of Money"
4.50
N2 Boyzone Behaving Badly