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RTE1
5.25 Ingrid Bergman Remembered
6.20 Sister Wendy's Saints
7.10 Jubilee Carols
8.10 Movie "Gigi"
10.05 Service
10.55 Urbi et Orbi (Pope John Paul II's Christmas greetings)
11.35 Aifreann na Nollag (Christmas service from Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clondalkin)
12.20 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994)
2.10 Christmas Greetings (from the Archbishops of Armagh)
2.15 Movie "The Return of Jafar"
3.25 Just for You: Boyzone
4.20 Santa's Millennium Clause
4.40 Movie "101 Dalmatians" (1996)
6.20 RTE News/Weather
6.25 Fair City
6.55 Westlife at HQ
7.30 Coronation Street (extended Christmas episode, simulcast with ITV)
8.25 Bull Island
8.55 RTE News
9.05 Movie "Michael Collins"
11.15 The Corrs MTV Unplugged (the group hails from Dundalk; followed by An Evening Prayer)
12.15 Movie "An Officer and a Gentleman"
2.15 Bull Island
2.45 Movie "The Cotton Club"
4.45 Movie "For the Love of Nancy"
Network 2 (RTE)
6.00 True Meaning of Crumb Feast
6.30 Spunky's First Christmas
6.55 Elmo Saves Christmas
7.55 Lapland Out
8.05 William's Wish Wellingtons
8.15 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
8.40 Rugrats
8.55 Pokemon
9.25 Rugrats
9.45 Morbergs
10.05 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10.30 Animaniacs
11.00 Catdog
11.25 Taz-Mania
11.55 The Tick
12.20 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
12.45 Movie "Robin Hood"
2.15 N2 Wild
2.40 Movie "That's Entertainment III"
4.25 Seven Canticles of St. Francis
5.25 Padraig Feiritear: An Siogai Infhiuchtach
6.20 Assassinated King & Kennedy
8.00 Christmas Craic with Podge & Rodge
8.55 Friends (1 hr, 10 min)
10.05 One Foot in the Grave
11.15 Blackadder's Christmas Carol
12.05 Father Ted
12.30 Yes Minister Christmas Special
1.35 Grace Under Fire
2.00 Movie "Fletch"
3.35 'Allo 'Allo!
4.25 2TV Classic
4.50 Boyzone Behaving Badly
5.15 Pop Profiles
5.30 Wanderly Wagon
TV3
7.15 Toronto Santa Claus Parade (from CanWest sister network Global)
8.05 Prince Cinders
8.35 Mole's Christmas
9.00 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
9.30 Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night
10.25 Jolly Old St. Nicholas
10.55 Deck the Halls
11.20 Movie "It's a Wonderful Life" (bw)
1.40 Movie "Blythe Spirit" (bw)
3.15 Movie "Matilda"
5.00 Father Christmas
5.30 News @ 5.30
5.50 EastEnders
6.20 Entertainment Review of the Year
6.40 Movie "Ghostbusters"
8.30 EastEnders
9.00 Movie "In the Line of Fire"
11.15 Minder on the Orient Express
1.10 Pop on 3
2.05 Christmas Miracles
3.00 Home Shopping (til sign-off at 4, starting again at 4.40)
TG4 (mainly Irish-language programming)
8.30 EuroNews (the channel currently takes news from France 24)
9.00 Cinderalmo
10.00 Power Rangers sa Spas
11.00 An Traeinin Beag
11.30 Aifreann na Nollag
12.15 Gobnait
1.00 Movie "Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
2.40 Pop TV na Nollaig
3.40 Movie "Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
5.25 Gleann Ceo
5.55 Nuacht TG4 (produced by RTE)/Weather
6.02 Expose
6.55 Wonder Years
7.20 CU Burn
8.15 Movie "The Piano"
10.18 An Aimsir Laithreach (weather)
10.20 Mad Dog Coll
11.15 Geantrai na Nollag
12.13 An Aimsir Laithreach
12.15 EuroNews
1.30 sign-off
UTV (ITV-Northern Ireland)/HTV Wales (ITV-Wales)
5.55 News
6.00 GMTV
9.25 Morning Worship
10.20 Our Century
10.25 SMTV Live (with guests Steps, S Club 7, Five, and Westlife)
12.05 Movie "Pinocchio"
1.45 News/Weather
2.00 Dame Thora Hind: My Favourite Hymns at Christmas
3.00 Queen's Christmas Message
3.10 Movie "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"
4.45 News/Weather
5.05 Gladiators: Battle of the Giants (the male Gladiators of the UK version square off against each other)
6.00 Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
6.30 Emmerdale (1 hr)
7.30 Coronation Street (1 hr)
8.30 Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
9.00 A Touch of Frost
10.30 Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
11.00 News/Weather
11.10 Bethlehem Year Zero
11.25 Movie "Charade"
1.35 Movie "Blame It on the Bellboy"
3.05 (UTV) Movie "Smokey and the Bandit II"
3.05 (HTV) Movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"
4.40 (UTV) Animaniacs (no, I don't know why UTV is showing this at 4.40 in the morning either
)
5.00 (HTV) Coronation Street
5.30 Clueless
S4C (Welsh version of Channel 4)
* Listings start at 12.45pm, S4C generally simulcast much of Channel 4's morning programming
12.45pm The Snowman
1.05 Movie "Jason and the Argonauts"
3.00 Queen's Christmas Message
3.10 Andi Meets Toy Story 2
4.30 Planed Plant
6.30 Newyddion (produced by BBC Wales)
6.40 Pobol y Cwm (this long-running Welsh soap debuted on BBC Wales in 1974, moving to S4C when it launched in 1982)
7.15 Ma Ifan 'Ma Nadolig
8.00 Bryn Terfel A Chyfeillion: Canrif O Gan
9.00 Tair Chwaer: Cymer Dy Siar
10.45 Movie "Muriel's Wedding"
12.45 Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1.45 Movie "Kagemusha" (Japanese w/English subtitles)
4.35 sign-off (the Welsh term is diwedd)
BBC1 Northern Ireland
6.00 Polka Dot Shorts
6.10 Teletubbies
6.33 Teletubbies Advent Calendar
6.40 Barney's Christmas Surprise
6.45 Christmas Toons!
7.10 True Meaning of Crumb Fest
7.35 Blue Peter
8.00 Live & Kicking's Christmas Cracker (guests Westlife and Jesse Spencer)
10.00 Christmas Day Service: Joy to the World
11.00 Movie "James and the Giant Peach"
12.15 BBC News/Weather
12.20 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show
1.30 Christmas Top of the Pops
2.30 Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire
3.00 Queen's Christmas Message
3.10 Noel's Christmas Presents
4.00 Movie "Jumanji"
5.40 BBC News/Weather
5.50 EastEnders
6.20 Auntie's Cracking New Bloomers (bloopers)
7.00 David Copperfield (pt 1)
8.30 EastEnders
9.00 Vicar of Dibley (Christmas episode)
9.40 Before They Were Famous IV
10.20 BBC News/Weather
10.30 Royle Family
11.10 They Think It's All Over
11.45 Christmas Reflection: Rumours of Angels
11.50 Movie "The Italian Job"
1.30 Movie "A Shock to the System"
2.55 BBC News 24 (the BBC's domestic UK all-news channel)
BBC2 Northern Ireland
6.25 Movie "Harvey" (bw)
8.05 Movie "An American in Paris"
10.00 Simpsons
10.25 Big Knights
10.35 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
11.00 Christmas Oratorio from Weimar
11.30 They Said It Couldn't Be Done (wildlife filmmakers who beat the odds)
12.30 Don Quixote
1.00 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
1.25 Wives & Daughters
2.45 Vintners' Tales with Jancis Robinson
2.55 Simpsons
3.15 Movie "White Christmas"
5.10 Movie "Singin' in the Rain"
6.50 Cecilia (Bartoli) & Bryn (Terfel) at Glyndebourne
8.20 Queen's Christmas Message
8.30 Movie "Il Postino"
10.15 Movie "RKO 281"
11.45 Movie "Citizen Kane" (bw)
1.40 Movie "The Trial" (bw)
3.35 sign-off
Channel 4
5.55 Elmo Saves Christmas
6.55 Ivor the Engine
7.05 Really Wild Animals
7.30 Princess Sissi
8.00 Movie "Tom & Jerry: The Movie"
9.30 Movie "Andre"
11.15 Father Christmas
11.45 Granpa
12.15 Movie "Jason and the Argonauts"
2.10 Working with Dinosaurs (Ray Harryhausen's influence on special FX)
3.00 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
3.15 Fifteen-to-One Millennium Quiz
4.55 Countdown Grand Final (this long-running version of the French series Des chiffres et des lettres originates at Yorkshire TV in Leeds)
5.40 Movie "The Woodlanders"
7.30 Massive Landmarks of the 20th Century (followed by news)
8.05 Queen's Christmas Message
8.15 4 Dance: Duet for the Betterment of A
8.40 Powder Her Nose
10.45 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
11.00 Movie "Time Bandits"
1.10 Movie "Kagemusha" (Japanese w/English subtitles)
4.00 4 Later
5.05 Present Spirits
5.35 Countdown
Channel 5
6.00 Havakazoo
6.30 Dappledown Farm
6.55 Mr. Men & Little Miss
7.00 Beginner's Bible
7.30 Milkshake!
7.35 Mr. Men Christmas Special
8.00 Lassie
8.30 Tiger, Tiger
9.00 Movie "Charlie Strapp and Froggie Ball"
10.35 Harry & Cosh
11.00 Pepsi Chart Christmas Special
11.30 The Mag
12.10 Movie Chart Show Teen Special
12.40 Daria
1.05 5 News (produced by ITN)
1.15 Movie "The Adventures of Mowgli"
3.00 Sunset Beach (ominbus)
5.10 Alagna & Gheorghiu: Favorite Arias
6.00 Bjorn Again Live at Royal Albert Hall
7.00 Night Fever: Christmas
7.55 5 News
8.00 Movie "Deadly Summer"
10.00 Movie "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice"
mid. Movie "Last Call"
1.35 Movie "Alex Haley's Queen"
3.20 Movie "Cave of Outlaws"
4.35 Postcards
4.40 Prisoner: Cell Block H
5.30 George of the Jungle
RTE1
5.25 Ingrid Bergman Remembered
6.20 Sister Wendy's Saints
7.10 Jubilee Carols
8.10 Movie "Gigi"
10.05 Service
10.55 Urbi et Orbi (Pope John Paul II's Christmas greetings)
11.35 Aifreann na Nollag (Christmas service from Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clondalkin)
12.20 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994)
2.10 Christmas Greetings (from the Archbishops of Armagh)
2.15 Movie "The Return of Jafar"
3.25 Just for You: Boyzone
4.20 Santa's Millennium Clause
4.40 Movie "101 Dalmatians" (1996)
6.20 RTE News/Weather
6.25 Fair City
6.55 Westlife at HQ
7.30 Coronation Street (extended Christmas episode, simulcast with ITV)
8.25 Bull Island
8.55 RTE News
9.05 Movie "Michael Collins"
11.15 The Corrs MTV Unplugged (the group hails from Dundalk; followed by An Evening Prayer)
12.15 Movie "An Officer and a Gentleman"
2.15 Bull Island
2.45 Movie "The Cotton Club"
4.45 Movie "For the Love of Nancy"
Network 2 (RTE)
6.00 True Meaning of Crumb Feast
6.30 Spunky's First Christmas
6.55 Elmo Saves Christmas
7.55 Lapland Out
8.05 William's Wish Wellingtons
8.15 Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
8.40 Rugrats
8.55 Pokemon
9.25 Rugrats
9.45 Morbergs
10.05 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10.30 Animaniacs
11.00 Catdog
11.25 Taz-Mania
11.55 The Tick
12.20 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
12.45 Movie "Robin Hood"
2.15 N2 Wild
2.40 Movie "That's Entertainment III"
4.25 Seven Canticles of St. Francis
5.25 Padraig Feiritear: An Siogai Infhiuchtach
6.20 Assassinated King & Kennedy
8.00 Christmas Craic with Podge & Rodge
8.55 Friends (1 hr, 10 min)
10.05 One Foot in the Grave
11.15 Blackadder's Christmas Carol
12.05 Father Ted
12.30 Yes Minister Christmas Special
1.35 Grace Under Fire
2.00 Movie "Fletch"
3.35 'Allo 'Allo!
4.25 2TV Classic
4.50 Boyzone Behaving Badly
5.15 Pop Profiles
5.30 Wanderly Wagon
TV3
7.15 Toronto Santa Claus Parade (from CanWest sister network Global)
8.05 Prince Cinders
8.35 Mole's Christmas
9.00 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
9.30 Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night
10.25 Jolly Old St. Nicholas
10.55 Deck the Halls
11.20 Movie "It's a Wonderful Life" (bw)
1.40 Movie "Blythe Spirit" (bw)
3.15 Movie "Matilda"
5.00 Father Christmas
5.30 News @ 5.30
5.50 EastEnders
6.20 Entertainment Review of the Year
6.40 Movie "Ghostbusters"
8.30 EastEnders
9.00 Movie "In the Line of Fire"
11.15 Minder on the Orient Express
1.10 Pop on 3
2.05 Christmas Miracles
3.00 Home Shopping (til sign-off at 4, starting again at 4.40)
TG4 (mainly Irish-language programming)
8.30 EuroNews (the channel currently takes news from France 24)
9.00 Cinderalmo
10.00 Power Rangers sa Spas
11.00 An Traeinin Beag
11.30 Aifreann na Nollag
12.15 Gobnait
1.00 Movie "Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
2.40 Pop TV na Nollaig
3.40 Movie "Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
5.25 Gleann Ceo
5.55 Nuacht TG4 (produced by RTE)/Weather
6.02 Expose
6.55 Wonder Years
7.20 CU Burn
8.15 Movie "The Piano"
10.18 An Aimsir Laithreach (weather)
10.20 Mad Dog Coll
11.15 Geantrai na Nollag
12.13 An Aimsir Laithreach
12.15 EuroNews
1.30 sign-off
UTV (ITV-Northern Ireland)/HTV Wales (ITV-Wales)
5.55 News
6.00 GMTV
9.25 Morning Worship
10.20 Our Century
10.25 SMTV Live (with guests Steps, S Club 7, Five, and Westlife)
12.05 Movie "Pinocchio"
1.45 News/Weather
2.00 Dame Thora Hind: My Favourite Hymns at Christmas
3.00 Queen's Christmas Message
3.10 Movie "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"
4.45 News/Weather
5.05 Gladiators: Battle of the Giants (the male Gladiators of the UK version square off against each other)
6.00 Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
6.30 Emmerdale (1 hr)
7.30 Coronation Street (1 hr)
8.30 Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
9.00 A Touch of Frost
10.30 Who Wants to Be a Christmas Millionaire?
11.00 News/Weather
11.10 Bethlehem Year Zero
11.25 Movie "Charade"
1.35 Movie "Blame It on the Bellboy"
3.05 (UTV) Movie "Smokey and the Bandit II"
3.05 (HTV) Movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"
4.40 (UTV) Animaniacs (no, I don't know why UTV is showing this at 4.40 in the morning either
)5.00 (HTV) Coronation Street
5.30 Clueless
S4C (Welsh version of Channel 4)
* Listings start at 12.45pm, S4C generally simulcast much of Channel 4's morning programming
12.45pm The Snowman
1.05 Movie "Jason and the Argonauts"
3.00 Queen's Christmas Message
3.10 Andi Meets Toy Story 2
4.30 Planed Plant
6.30 Newyddion (produced by BBC Wales)
6.40 Pobol y Cwm (this long-running Welsh soap debuted on BBC Wales in 1974, moving to S4C when it launched in 1982)
7.15 Ma Ifan 'Ma Nadolig
8.00 Bryn Terfel A Chyfeillion: Canrif O Gan
9.00 Tair Chwaer: Cymer Dy Siar
10.45 Movie "Muriel's Wedding"
12.45 Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1.45 Movie "Kagemusha" (Japanese w/English subtitles)
4.35 sign-off (the Welsh term is diwedd)
BBC1 Northern Ireland
6.00 Polka Dot Shorts
6.10 Teletubbies
6.33 Teletubbies Advent Calendar
6.40 Barney's Christmas Surprise
6.45 Christmas Toons!
7.10 True Meaning of Crumb Fest
7.35 Blue Peter
8.00 Live & Kicking's Christmas Cracker (guests Westlife and Jesse Spencer)
10.00 Christmas Day Service: Joy to the World
11.00 Movie "James and the Giant Peach"
12.15 BBC News/Weather
12.20 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show
1.30 Christmas Top of the Pops
2.30 Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire
3.00 Queen's Christmas Message
3.10 Noel's Christmas Presents
4.00 Movie "Jumanji"
5.40 BBC News/Weather
5.50 EastEnders
6.20 Auntie's Cracking New Bloomers (bloopers)
7.00 David Copperfield (pt 1)
8.30 EastEnders
9.00 Vicar of Dibley (Christmas episode)
9.40 Before They Were Famous IV
10.20 BBC News/Weather
10.30 Royle Family
11.10 They Think It's All Over
11.45 Christmas Reflection: Rumours of Angels
11.50 Movie "The Italian Job"
1.30 Movie "A Shock to the System"
2.55 BBC News 24 (the BBC's domestic UK all-news channel)
BBC2 Northern Ireland
6.25 Movie "Harvey" (bw)
8.05 Movie "An American in Paris"
10.00 Simpsons
10.25 Big Knights
10.35 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
11.00 Christmas Oratorio from Weimar
11.30 They Said It Couldn't Be Done (wildlife filmmakers who beat the odds)
12.30 Don Quixote
1.00 Jim Henson's The Storyteller
1.25 Wives & Daughters
2.45 Vintners' Tales with Jancis Robinson
2.55 Simpsons
3.15 Movie "White Christmas"
5.10 Movie "Singin' in the Rain"
6.50 Cecilia (Bartoli) & Bryn (Terfel) at Glyndebourne
8.20 Queen's Christmas Message
8.30 Movie "Il Postino"
10.15 Movie "RKO 281"
11.45 Movie "Citizen Kane" (bw)
1.40 Movie "The Trial" (bw)
3.35 sign-off
Channel 4
5.55 Elmo Saves Christmas
6.55 Ivor the Engine
7.05 Really Wild Animals
7.30 Princess Sissi
8.00 Movie "Tom & Jerry: The Movie"
9.30 Movie "Andre"
11.15 Father Christmas
11.45 Granpa
12.15 Movie "Jason and the Argonauts"
2.10 Working with Dinosaurs (Ray Harryhausen's influence on special FX)
3.00 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
3.15 Fifteen-to-One Millennium Quiz
4.55 Countdown Grand Final (this long-running version of the French series Des chiffres et des lettres originates at Yorkshire TV in Leeds)
5.40 Movie "The Woodlanders"
7.30 Massive Landmarks of the 20th Century (followed by news)
8.05 Queen's Christmas Message
8.15 4 Dance: Duet for the Betterment of A
8.40 Powder Her Nose
10.45 Ali G's Alternative Christmas Message
11.00 Movie "Time Bandits"
1.10 Movie "Kagemusha" (Japanese w/English subtitles)
4.00 4 Later
5.05 Present Spirits
5.35 Countdown
Channel 5
6.00 Havakazoo
6.30 Dappledown Farm
6.55 Mr. Men & Little Miss
7.00 Beginner's Bible
7.30 Milkshake!
7.35 Mr. Men Christmas Special
8.00 Lassie
8.30 Tiger, Tiger
9.00 Movie "Charlie Strapp and Froggie Ball"
10.35 Harry & Cosh
11.00 Pepsi Chart Christmas Special
11.30 The Mag
12.10 Movie Chart Show Teen Special
12.40 Daria
1.05 5 News (produced by ITN)
1.15 Movie "The Adventures of Mowgli"
3.00 Sunset Beach (ominbus)
5.10 Alagna & Gheorghiu: Favorite Arias
6.00 Bjorn Again Live at Royal Albert Hall
7.00 Night Fever: Christmas
7.55 5 News
8.00 Movie "Deadly Summer"
10.00 Movie "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice"
mid. Movie "Last Call"
1.35 Movie "Alex Haley's Queen"
3.20 Movie "Cave of Outlaws"
4.35 Postcards
4.40 Prisoner: Cell Block H
5.30 George of the Jungle