RTÉ Reveals Christmas TV schedule

JBoyle4eva

RTÉ reveals Christmas TV schedule
RTÉ Television today revealed details of its festive programme line-up, with a menu of the best in home-produced Christmas specials, Irish network movie premieres and a dramatic year-end finale in 'Fair City'.

'Fair City' airs on Christmas Day and the one-hour special promises to be a drama-filled affair not least for Nicola who, after a turbulent year, decides to confront her sister Philippa and her partner Maher about their affair.

Also on RTÉ One at 3.40pm you can catch the Irish network premiere of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' and later that evening you can see Pierce Brosnan as 007 in 'Die Another Day'.

Comedy highlights include 'Killnaskully - The Nativity' featuring Pat Shortt and 'Des Bishop Live at Vicar Street' both on RTÉ One on Christmas Day.

Fans of 'The Office' have the chance to catch the show's crescendo in the form of the two-part Christmas Special over on RTÉ Two on St Stephen's Day.

Movie highlights on St Stephen's Day include 'Shrek' and 'Moulin Rouge', both on RTÉ One.

Viewers celebrating the New Year at home, can join Dara O'Briain, regular panellists Colin Murphy and Ed Byrne and some special guests for a festive edition of 'The Panel'.

Tommy Tiernan also features in a special half-hour programme called 'Cracked', while later that night, Gay Byrne invites you to join him and his special guests as they ring in 2005 on 'The New Year Countdown'.

Basq

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Gay Byrne invites you to join him and his special guests as they ring in 2005 on 'The New Year Countdown'.

Probably pre-recorded yet again!

Xcom2

Yikes :eek:

Another reason to request DVD's as christmas pressies!

X

Basq

Xcom2 wrote:

Yikes :eek:

Another reason to request DVD's as christmas pressies!

X

Yeah, tell me about it...

Such crap films..

'Die Another Day' was terrible! 'Shrek' was good but very over-rated. 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone' is probably the best of the 3, in my opinion. 'Prisoner Of Azkaban' comes a close second though!

Got both 'The Office Xmas Specials' and 'Tommy Tiernan: Cracked' on DVD. Staying away from the terrible 'Killnaskully'!

The only things i'll probably watch is 'Des Bishop at Vicar Street' (was gonna buy it on DVD.. now i don't have to) and 'The Panel' never fails to raise a laugh!

trotter_inc

I dont think its too bad actually, I love Shrek, Harry Potter, Tommy Tiernan, The Office, Des Bishop.

Harry2001

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Fans of 'The Office' have the chance to catch the show's crescendo in the form of the two-part Christmas Special over on RTÉ Two on St Stephen's Day.

I think fans of the Office may have seen them already

Hmm_Messiah

Des Bishop on Christmas Day !

And som eone was going to buy his DVD!!!

I don't get that, her him, especially that work experience programmme, basing stand up on work experience, and then limiting it to a lot of shouting its beyond me

Me and my best mate DID try watch it a few times, but mostly just seeign how long we could endure it. Afterwards we found "Oireachtas Report" an enjoyable experience.
He only reminds me of the guy in the local , who is loud, sometimes funny to be sure, but isn't every one sometimes funny

Strange RTE put so much of there own stuff on Xmas Day but then dispite murmurs obviously the people chose to watch it I think ha;lf scared they might miss something the one time they don't)

The movies seem the kind u can have on in the background, no need to engage the brain so u can be sociable tot he family/visitors

Clinical Waste

JBoyle4eva wrote:

RTÉ reveals Christmas TV schedule
RTÉ Television today revealed details of its festive programme line-up, with a menu of the best in home-produced Christmas specials, Irish network movie premieres and a dramatic year-end finale in 'Fair City'.

'Fair City' airs on Christmas Day and the one-hour special promises to be a drama-filled affair not least for Nicola who, after a turbulent year, decides to confront her sister Philippa and her partner Maher about their affair.

Also on RTÉ One at 3.40pm you can catch the Irish network premiere of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' and later that evening you can see Pierce Brosnan as 007 in 'Die Another Day'.

Comedy highlights include 'Killnaskully - The Nativity' featuring Pat Shortt and 'Des Bishop Live at Vicar Street' both on RTÉ One on Christmas Day.

Fans of 'The Office' have the chance to catch the show's crescendo in the form of the two-part Christmas Special over on RTÉ Two on St Stephen's Day.

Movie highlights on St Stephen's Day include 'Shrek' and 'Moulin Rouge', both on RTÉ One.

Viewers celebrating the New Year at home, can join Dara O'Briain, regular panellists Colin Murphy and Ed Byrne and some special guests for a festive edition of 'The Panel'.

Tommy Tiernan also features in a special half-hour programme called 'Cracked', while later that night, Gay Byrne invites you to join him and his special guests as they ring in 2005 on 'The New Year Countdown'.

big pile of poo

ixoy

Load of tripe. I'd enjoy watching Return of the King:EE except that An Post's selfish little postal strike means I probably won't get my DVDs in time. Scum.

puntosporting

Its been worse other years to be fair,i actualy like kilinaskully...

TCamen

big pile of poo

Big fat WORD.

Mossy Monk

Harry2001 wrote:

I think fans of the Office may have seen them already

yes last year and most probably have them on dvd now

praiser the lord for satellite if thats what RTÉ are churning out

Basq

They had a more detailed list of RTE's schedule in 'The Indo' today..

Films:

How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Bend It Like Beckham
Casablanca
The Wizard Of Oz
My Fair Lady
Some Like It Hot
Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shrek
Moulin Rouge
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Mission Impossible 2
Erin Brockovich
Titanic
What Woman Want
Muriel's Wedding
Castaway
Jaws
Mary Poppins
Into The West
We're No Angels
Easy Rider
LA Confidential
Tigerland

TV Shows:
Fair City (hour-long special)
Killinascully
Des Bishop At Vicar Street
School Number 1: A Mission To Beslan
Bonfires Over Bohola
The Restaurant
Racing From Leopardstown
The Premiership
An Nollaig Sa Daingean
Paddy Casey Live

BolBill

[QUOTE=JBoyle4eva, while later that night, Gay Byrne invites you to join him and his special guests as they ring in 2005 on 'The New Year Countdown'.[/QUOTE]

Good to see Gaybo "earning" his 200 grand a year retainer :mad:

Elmo

Good to see Gaybo "earning" his 200 grand a year retainer

Has this been proven???

Also I personally think that the new years night show pre-recorded is a better idea. They significally improve what RTE had on during previous New Years. Which wouldn't be hard. Won't be watching it anyway.

JBoyle4eva

TBH, I'm glad I'm in england this christmas to save me from RTÉ, but then again BBC is showing roughly the smae films!

Any details on TV3/TG4 christmas lineup?

mike65

Casablanca
The Wizard Of Oz
My Fair Lady
Some Like It Hot

Wot? No Willy Wonka? Its a bloody disgrace!

Mike.

irishgeo

what times the panel on?

Basq

irishgeo wrote:

what times the panel on?

Probably 'round the 10 o clock slot on Network 2 but unless anyone has some of the early copies of the Xmas TV Schedule.. there's no way to know til nearer the day.

byte

ixoy wrote:

Load of tripe. I'd enjoy watching Return of the King:EE except that An Post's selfish little postal strike means I probably won't get my DVDs in time. Scum.

Erk! I hope not as I'm awaiting that too!

Mr E

Some great shows coming up over xmas on BBC. From Digital Spy:

BBC One's Winter lineup

New drama and documentaries headline the BBC One's £178 million winter lineup, announced earlier today.

BBC One kicks off its winter schedule with Supervolcano, a fact-based drama portraying what could happen if Yellowstone were to erupt again. The volcano underneath Yellowstone National Park is the only active supervolcano on earth, and when these supervolcanoes erupt they do so with a force a thousand times greater than that of Mount Vesuvius.

The drama will be supplemented by a documentary The Science Behind Supervolcano, to be shown on BBC Two.

On the historical side, BBC One is treating us to Ghengis Khan, a film about the Mongolian leader who was either a genius visionary or the personifaction of evil, depending upon whose side you take.

Lorraine Heggessey, Controller BBC One, said: "BBC ONE continues to blaze a trail using innovative production techniques to bring specialist documentary subjects alive for a wide mainstream audience.

"We are constantly broadening the range of programmes in peak time to inform audiences about the natural, scientific and historical world."

The channel also has a range of dramatic productions for the winter season.

Archangel, based on Robert Harris' excellent novel of the same name, sees an Oxford historian unravel the mysteries of Josef Stalin's secret diaries. Daniel Craig takes the lead role of Fluke Kelso.

Another adaptation of a novel, Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee tracks the intertwining lives and love lives of friends Chila, Sunita and Tania and shows the blending and clashing of English and Asian culture.

Doctor Who comes back to our screens, this time incarnated as Christopher Eccleston. Billie Piper will play his companion Rose Tyler.

In terms of documentaries the channel will bring the story of evolution in Journey Of Life. The Adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson examines the life and works of the author of Treasure Island. Grandchild of the Holocaust sees a 13-year-old boy try to find the truth behind the fate of his grandmother who was incarcerated in Auschwitz for four years.

Vokes

They had a more detailed list of RTE's schedule in 'The Indo' today..

Films:

How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Bend It Like Beckham
Casablanca
The Wizard Of Oz
My Fair Lady
Some Like It Hot
Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shrek
Moulin Rouge
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Mission Impossible 2
Erin Brockovich
Titanic
What Woman Want
Muriel's Wedding
Castaway
Jaws
Mary Poppins
Into The West
We're No Angels
Easy Rider
LA Confidential
Tigerland

Is it the original The Count of Monte Cristo they're showing? or the newer version?

I.J.

BBC 1 will be showing the premiere of Harry Potter on Christmas Day. I advise everybody to tune in over there if you have it. No stupid and irritating branding on that channel. British TV will probably be much better in the prime time schedule too. Die another Day has already premiered on British TV.

I will only be tuning into British TV from now on, like I do most of the time because RTE will not do away or reduce the size of their completely over sized branding (bugs).

I reccomend everybody boycott RTE because of this or just e-mail their director of programming horand@rte.ie and ask them to do something about this massive eye soar.

Basq

I.J. wrote:

I reccomend everybody boycott RTE because of this or just e-mail their director of programming horand@rte.ie and ask them to do something about this massive eye soar.

Who we talking about... Pay Kenny or Ryan Tubridy?!

Lump

Yes the BBC paid £10 million for the rights... "HELLO?!?!?!?!"

TBH, get a classic like Die hard on.


John

P.S. I may be wrong.

aidan_walsh

mike65 wrote:

Wot? No Willy Wonka? Its a bloody disgrace!

Mike.

According to DigiGuide, its on TG4 on Christmas morning, 9am.

Mossy Monk

I.J. wrote:

I reccomend everybody boycott RTE because of this or just e-mail their director of programming horand@rte.ie and ask them to do something about this massive eye soar.

but RTÉ will be ad free Christmas Day, the BBC will also (as it always is) and the BBC also has widescreen transmissions, BBC wins out

jill_valentine

What the hell? Jesus!?! Do RTE have shares in Amaray cases or what? This is horrible. If I never watch terrestrial television again (And at this stage, it's looking decidedly likely) can I get back my license fee...?

Elmo

Dissappointed with TG4 line up this christmas.

It's on Teasc (TEXT) 4.

As for TV3, when the start broadcasting they said that Christmas TV was dead. I don't know if they have changed their minds since ITV took a share in it.

Elmo

Yes the BBC paid £10 million for the rights... "HELLO?!?!?!?!"

The BBC pay this kind of money for movie rights.

RTE buys packages and spends around 25,000,000 per year on rights.

SprostonGreen

Lump wrote:

TBH, get a classic like Die hard on.

Is that the adult version?

Films:

How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Bend It Like Beckham
Casablanca
The Wizard Of Oz
My Fair Lady
Some Like It Hot
Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shrek
Moulin Rouge
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Mission Impossible 2
Erin Brockovich
Titanic
What Woman Want
Muriel's Wedding
Castaway
Jaws
Mary Poppins
Into The West
We're No Angels
Easy Rider
LA Confidential
Tigerland

Mostly muck.

Drag00n79

basquille wrote:

Probably 'round the 10 o clock slot on Network 2 but unless anyone has some of the early copies of the Xmas TV Schedule.. there's no way to know til nearer the day.

COMEDY: The Panel Special
Channel: RTÉ 2
Date: Friday 31st December 2004
Time: 21:30 to 22:30
Duration: 1 hour.
Dara O'Briain and guests discuss the big issues of 2004.

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