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Saturday 12th December BBC ONE
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6:00 Breakfast 10:00 Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30 Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen 12:00 BBC News 12:10 Regional News and Weather 12:15 Football Focus 1:00 Snooker 4:20 Final Score 5:10 BBC News 5:20 Regional News and Weather 5:30 Hole in the Wall 6:00 Merlin 6:45 Strictly Come Dancing - It’s semi final week and the competition steps up a gear as the remaining three couples are one step closer to lifting that glitterball trophy. However, before they do, they must impress the judges and viewers at home. Hosts Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly oversee proceedings as the couples take to the floor with a dramatic Argentine tango plus a ballroom or Latin dance 8:00 The National Lottery Draws 8:10 Casualty - No More Heroes. Michael French, Joe McGann, Don Warrington, Tristan Gemmil, Will Sharpe, Sunetra Sarker. Dir: David O’Neill. Medical drama series. Jordan is determined to prove himself at all costs. Polly attends Alistair’s funeral, and realises the extent of his obsession - with severe consequences 9:00 The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson 9:30 Strictly Come Dancing Results - Three couples danced their hearts out in a bid to make it to the final, but one must now leave the competition. The two couples with the lowest combined judges’ scores and viewers’ votes will perform again in the dance off. Someone’s dancing dream will be over for good, but who will leave the competition empty handed? Whilst they wait for the all important results there’s a jaw dropping performance from the World Showdance Champions. There’s also music from Lily Allen 10:00 BBC News 10:25 Match of the Day 11:50 The Football League Show
6:00 Me Too! 6:20 Big Cook Little Cook 6:40 Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies 7:00 Dennis & Gnasher 7:10 Dennis & Gnasher 7:25 Sportsround 7:40 What’s New Scooby-Doo? 8:00 Gimme a Break 8:30 TMi. 10:00 Best of Friends 10:30 Ed and Oucho’s Excellent Inventions 11:00 The Story of Tracy Beaker 11:30 Deadly 60 12:00 The Cut 12:25 The Season 12:55 Greek 1:40 Revealed 2:00 The Sky at Night 2:20 Animal Park 2:50 FILM: I Know Where I’m Going 4:20 Snooker 5:30 Coast 6:30 Dad’s Army - The Face on the Poster. With Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender. Classic wartime sitcom. Eager for promotion, Captain Mainwaring instigates a recruitment drive. It gets off to a bad start when Sgt Wilson makes a mess of the photos for the advertisement, which puts L/Cpl Jones in jeopardy 7:00 Snooker 9:30 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 10:10 The Thick of It - Award-winning political comedy starring Peter Capaldi with Rebecca Front, Roger Allam, Chris Addison, Joanna Scanlan and James Smith. As the election looms and the Opposition eye the prize, the word around the Westminster Village is that Malcolm Tucker is running out of both options and friends. He may have bitten off more than he can chew with Steve Fleming, but when an offer of help appears from an unlikely direction, Malcolm starts to set his finest trap yet 10:40 Pulling Special - One-off special comedy based around the tangled love lives of three women. Louise is moving in with Joe, the love of her life; Donna has found a rich man with no personality; and Karen has realised that the only thing a woman really wants in life is to make her man happy, so she has found herself a chauvinist. So everything is sorted or at least it is until things start to go wrong 11:40 Defying Gravity
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Birthdays: Frank Sinatra (1915) - Lionel Blair (1931) - Daniel O’Donnell (1961) - Will Carling (1965) On this Day: Driving Tests mad Compulsory (1928) - Pink Floyd plays there first gig (1966)
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6.00 GMTV 6.00 The Fluffy Club 7.25 Toonattik 9.25 CITV:Horrid Henry 9.40 CITV:Horrid Henry 9.55 CITV:Atomic Betty 10.10 CITV:Emu 10.25 CITV:Finger Tips 10.45 FILM: The Little Polar Bear 12.10 ITV News & Weather 12.15 FILM: Black Beauty 1.55 FILM: Curly Sue 3.55 FILM: ScoobyDoo 5.30 Calendar News and Weather 5.45 ITV News & Weather 6.00 Harry Hill’s The Best of TV Burp 6.30 X Factor Final Weekend - Cheryl Cole’s Night In 7.30 X Factor Final Weekend - The X Factor - It is the final! Hundreds of thousands of hopefuls came to the nationwide auditions, but now only three acts remain to battle it out for the title. At stake is the biggest prize in pop - a life-changing record contract and the release of their debut single. Judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh are also joining in the race to the finish line, as they cross their fingers for their own acts. Plus some amazing international guest stars will be appearing. Hosted by Dermot O’Leary 9.30 British Comedy Awards 2009 Jonathan Ross hosts the biggest event in the comedy calendar, which this year celebrates its 20th birthday. The cream of British comedy talent will battle it out in front of a star-studded audience. Categories include Best Sitcom, Best Comedy Actor, Best Comedy Entertainment Personality and Best Sketch Show. So will it be IT Crowd or Peep Show, Harry Hill or Jimmy Carr? Whoever triumphs, one thing is certain - this will be the most outrageous and talked about event of the year 11.00 ITV News & Weather 11.15 FILM: Ali G Indahouse
HOUSES TO LET
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5:55 The Treacle People 6:05 Sali Mali: Little Lamb Lost 6:10 Planet Cook: 6:30 Yo Gabba Gabba 7:00 Gillette World Sport 7:30 Freesports On 4 8:00 The Morning Line 8:55 T4: Friends 9:30 T4: Friends 10:00 T4: 90210 11:00 T4: Friends 11:35 T4: Hollyoaks Music Show 12:05 T4: Avatar Film Special 12:40 T4: Scrubs 1:15 T4: Scrubs 1:45 Channel 4 Racing 4:00 Cheryl Cole: T4 Special 4:15 My First Year 4:50 My First Year 5:20 FILM Jingle All The Way - Arnold Schwarzenegger Stars As Howard Langston, Workaholic DAd To Jamie (Jake Lloyd). All Jamie Wants For Christmas Is The Must-Have Toy Turbo Man But It’s Christmas Eve And It’s Sold Out Everywhere. As Howard Sets Out On A Quest To Find One, He’s Joined By Rival Myron Larabee (Sinbad) And The Two Battle It Out As They Search High And Low For The Toy. Meanwhile, Back Home, Howard’s Increasingly Disillusioned Wife Liz (Rita Wilson) Becomes The Object Of Desire Of Neighbour Ted Maltin (Phil Hartman) In Brian Levant’s Festive All-Action Comedy 7:00 Channel 4 News 7:30 Come Dine With Me Extra Portions 8:00 Come Dine With Me Extra Portions 8:30 Come Dine With Me Extra Portions 9:00 Come Dine With Me Extra Portions 9:30 FILM: The Shawshank Redemption 12:15 4music: Live From Abbey Road
FIVE 6.00 Sunrise National and international news 7.00 Angels of Jarm 7.05 Fireman Sam 7.20 Rupert Bear 7.30 Hana’s Helpline 7.45 The WotWots 8.00 Make Way for Noddy 8.15 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8.30 The Mr. Men Show 8.50 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 9.00 Olivia 9.15 Little Princess 9.30 Gerald McBoing Boing 10.00 NFLUK 11.00 The Gadget Show: Christmas Special 12.00 Britain’s Best Brain 1.00 Zoo Days 1.10 Film: Murder Most Foul 3.00 Film: The Shootist 5.05 Film: The Omega Man - Postapocalypse sci-fi in which the sole survivor of a biological war battles against a race of mutants to save humankind. In a devastated LA pervaded by vampirelike nocturnal albinos, the former medical researcher attempts to develop a cure for their condition, using his own blood as a base. But his efforts to rebuild civilisation and science face violent opposition. Based on Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend 7.05 Five News 7.10 NCIS - Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Sasha Alexander, David McCallum, Pauley Perrette. Drama series following a team of special agents who investigate crimes connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel. Gibbs’s team investigates the death of a SEAL during a training exercise and soon suspect that it was not accidental 8.05 CSI: NY - New York-based spin-off of the crime drama series. Mac wrestles with a demon from his past when he confronts a killer who was released from jail because of his actions. Danny and Hawkes investigate the case of a man poisoned with lethal ricin 9.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 10.00 Law and Order 10.55 CSI: NY 11.50 Women Who Kill
TV Highlights
The Shawshank Redemption Channel 4 - 9:30pm
Rod Stewart performs a selection of the iconic hits that have made him a music legend, including Maggie May and I Don’t Want to Talk About It, together with his new interpretations of some of soul music’s greatest songs
Cheryl Cole’s Night In ITV - 6:30pm
Uplifting and life-affirming drama starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd Redding, prisoners serving long sentences in the vicious Shawshank jail. The two come to terms with their imprisonment while surviving the sadistic acts of prison warden Samuel Norton
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Sunday 13th December BBC ONE 6:00 Breakfast 7:30 Match of the Day 9:00 The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 Fern Britton Meets... 11:00 Country Tracks 12:00 The Politics Show 1:00 Cash in the Attic 2:00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 2:25 EastEnders 4:20 Lifeline 4:30 Points of View 4:50 Songs of Praise 5:30 Life 6:30 BBC News 6:45 Regional News and Weather 7:00 Sports Personality of the Year 2009 - Live from the Sheffield Arena, Sue Barker, Gary Lineker and Jake Humphrey present the biggest ever Sports Personality of the Year with a celebration of the best moments from an exceptional year of sport. The evening climaxes with the presentation of the most prestigious award in British sport when the Sports Personality of the Year is crowned - an award chosen by the viewers live on the night from a shortlist of 10 contenders. This year’s race promises to be one of the closest for years 9:00 Small Island - Naomie Harris, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ashley Walters, Hugh Quarshie. Dir: John Alexander. The stories of Hortense, Queenie and Gilbert whose lives entwine in post World War Two London. Hortense begins her new life in England and soon learns it is not the golden land she hoped it would be. She and Gilbert suffer racism and ignorance, but in adversity they discover new qualities in each other and begin to fall in love. Queenie is shocked when her husband Bernard returns to her after years away 10:30 BBC News 10:45 Regional News and Weather 10:55 Match of the Day 2 11:40 BlackJack
BBC TWO 6:00 Me Too! 6:20 Big Cook Little Cook 6:40 Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies 7:00 Uncle Max 7:10 OOglies 7:30 Prank Patrol 8:00 ChuckleVision Christmas Special 8:30 The Basil Brush Show 9:00 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 10:00 Something for the Weekend 11:30 Escape to the Country 12:30 Sports Personality of the Year 1:05 Athletics 2:00 Snooker 5:30 Ski Sunday 6:00 100 Years of Girl Guides 7:00 Delia’s Classic Christmas 8:00 Victorian Farm Christmas 9:00 Snooker: UK Championship - Final - With BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year celebrating their win in Sheffield, it’s time to turn attention to Telford and the battle to become UK Champion 2009. A maximum of eleven frames will be played to decide the winner of the prestigious title and a cheque for 100,000 pounds. Hazel Irvine, Steve Davis and John Parrott introduce the coverage 11:00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Anarchic, award-winning pop quiz. Presiding over team captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding is host Frankie Boyle, and guests include former Countdown co-host Carol Vorderman, British rap star DJ Ironik, Jon McClure of Reverend and the Makers, and comedian Richard Herring 11:30 Argumental 12:00 FILM: The Blue Tower.
Birthdays: Dick Van Dyke (1925) - Robery Lindsay (1951) - Jim Davidson (1953) - Jamie Foxx (1967) On this Day: Margaret Thatcher Marries (1951) - Bryan Robson scores in 38 Seconds for England against Yugoslavia (1989)
ITV 1 6.00 GMTV 6:00 The Fluffy Club 7.25 Toonattik 9.25 CITV:Paz 9.35 CITV:Supernormal 9.50 CITV:Horrid Henry 10.05 CITV:Emu 10.20 CITV:Emu 10.35 CITV:Finger Tips 10.55 Coronation Street Omnibus 1.10 ITV News & Weather 1.15 Animals Do the Funniest Things 2.15 Columbo 4.15 Midsomer Murders 6.15 Calendar News and Weather 6.30 ITV News & Weather 6.45 All Star Family Fortunes - Vernon Kay hosts the gameshow which pits two celebrities and their families against each other in a bid to win big money for the charity of their choice. Today West End star and I’d Do Anything winner Jodie Prenger brings her family to battle against singer Gareth Gates and his Bradford-based clan. The Prengers are playing for Great Ormond Street Hospital and the New Children’s Hospital in Manchester, while the Gates family are supporting The Bobby Moore Fund 7.30 X Factor Final Weekend - Now the moment the nation has been waiting for arrives, as Dermot O’Leary reveals who the public has crowned 2009 X Factor champion. Joining Dermot and the remaining three acts are judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh, as well as more international guest stars. After the third place act is eliminated, the final two acts each perform what will become the winner’s first single. Then at last the suspense is over and we discover which act has taken the prize 9.30 I Dreamed a Dream - The Susan Boyle Story 10.30 ITV News & Weather 10.45 Wayne McGregor - Across the Threshold 11.45 FILM: Gorillas in the Mist
CHANNEL 4 5:55 The Treacle People 6:05 Sali Mali 6:10 Planet Cook 6:30 Yo Gabba Gabba 7:00 Avp Pro Beach Volleyball Tour 7:55 The British Gas Great Swim Series 8:50 T4: Friends 9:25 T4: Hollyoaks Omnibus 11:55 T4: 90210 12:50 T4: St Trinian’s 2 1:25 T4: Ugly Betty 2:20 T4: Jls Christmas Crackers 3:25 T4: The Simpsons 3:55 T4: The Simpsons 4:25 Deal Or No Deal - Noel Edmonds Asks The All-Important Question As Contestants Do Battle With The Banker In Their Quest To Leave The Dream Factory With £250,000 5:15 Channel 4 News 5:45 FILM Elf 8:30 Come Dine With Me 9:30 Epic Movie - After Scary Movie And Date Movie , Aaron Seltzer And Jason Freidberg Tackle Almost All The Top Movies Of The Past Few Years In Their No-Holds Barred Comedy. The Basic Plot Sees Four Orphans (Jayma Mays, Kal Penn, Faune Chambers And Adam Campbell) Thrown Out Of The Movies TheY’re Acting In And Ending Up At A Chocolate Factory Where Willy (Crispin Glover) Wants Their Body Parts For His Candy. Escaping Through A Wardrobe, They Find Themselves In The Land Of Gnarnia 11:10 Cellular - Kim Basinger Stars As Jessica Martin, A Teacher Kidnapped By Vicious Criminal Greer (Jason Statham), Who Wants A Secret That Her Husband Possesses. Locking Her In An Attic, He Smashes Her Mobile Phone, But She Happens To Be A Science Teacher And By Fiddling With The Broken Phone She Is Able To Call A Random Phone Number, Which Belongs To Slacker Ryan (Chris Evans). Convincing Him Of Her Plight Is The First Step; Next, She Has To Help Him Find Her And Stop Her Husband And Son Coming To Harm. But Ryan Has His Own Problems
FIVE 6.00 Sunrise National and international news 7.00 Angels of Jarm 7.05 Milkshake! Bop Box 7.10 Fireman Sam 7.25 Rupert Bear 7.35 Hana’s Helpline 7.45 The WotWots 8.00 Make Way for Noddy 8.10 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8.35 The Mr. Men Show 8.50 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 9.00 Olivia 9.20 Little Princess 9.35 Gerald McBoing Boing 10.00 Snobs 10.35 Wizards of Waverly Place 11.10 Hannah Montana 11.45 The Tribe 12.15 Zoo Days 12.35 Film: Three Wise Guys 2.20 Film: Blizzard 4.20 Film: Grounded - Dyllan Christopher, Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama. Festive adventure about a group of children trapped in an airport. The kids are travelling alone as unaccompanied minors when blizzards force the cancellation of their flights home. The children enjoy the freedom to wreak havoc in the snowed-in airport terminal. 6.05 Highland Emergency 6.30 Five News 6.35 Film: Raid on Entebbe 9.30 Film: Constantine - Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker. Supernatural action fantasy based on the cult comic book Hellblazer. An ordinary man who can see both good and evil spirits in human guise tries to kill himself when his ability becomes too much for him. But he is saved from death, and must atone for his actions by becoming a guardian who banishes earthbound demons to Hell. When he meets a policewoman investigating the suspicious death of her sister, they are drawn into a desperate bid to save all humanity from evil. 11.50 CCTV Cities
TV Highlights
Elf Channel 4 - 5:45pm
Will Ferrell Plays Buddy Who, As A Kid, Crawled Into Santa’s Sack, Ended Up At The North Pole And Was Reared As An Elf. Reaching Adulthood, He Sets Off To Find His Real Father, Walter (James Caan) But Is Dismissed As A Nut.
X Factor Final ITV - 7:30pm
Now the moment the nation has been waiting for arrives, as Dermot O’Leary reveals who the public has crowned 2009 X Factor champion. Joining Dermot and the remaining three acts are judges Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh