TV
6.10 am R# THE HOOBS: Talking to Yourself
Iver’s heard a voice talking to him on the roof garden. But there’s no-one else there! Or is there? www.4learning.co.uk/hoobs
6.35 am R# THE HOOBS: Surprises
The most important day in a Hoob’s year is their hoobytwizzletuft day. Every year, on that day, they have to give their friends a surprise. www.4learning.co.uk/hoobs
7.00 am R# BAGPUSS A funny little tartan creature arrives at the shop.
7.20 am R# BAGPUSS A model of a turtle and a Chinaman appear at the shop.
7.35 am R# THE CLANGERS Major Clanger wants to build a spaceship to go to Earth.
7.45 am R# THE CLANGERS Tiny Clanger meets a space chicken who lives on its own planet.
8.00 am BIG BREAKFAST
Early morning entertainment with RICHARD BACON, AMANDA BYRAM and guest presenters. www.channel4.com/bigbreakfast
10.00 am T4 IN LAS VEGAS
All this week, JUNE SARPONG and VERNON KAY present T4 from Las Vegas, USA. There are interviews with O-TOWN, a chance to win a holiday to Las Vegas and many other goodies. www.channel4.com/t4 Starting off with:
# T4: MAKING THE BAND
Will any of the O-TOWN boys manage to maintain a relationship on the road?
10.30 am # THE MORNING LINE
Turf tips and news from the Channel 4 Racing team. www.channel4.com/sport
11.30 am # THE ROYAL INSTITUTION CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2001: THE SECRETS OF LIFE
Through unique experiments, demonstrations and audience participation, SIR JOHN SULSTON introduces The Secrets of Life, and will explore how genetics is answering many of the fundamental conundrums of life. What is the difference between a living thing and a non-living thing? How did life begin? Did all life on earth come from a single ancestor? And how did it evolve? In this lecture, Sir John Sulston explores the marvellous phenomenon of life from its origins to the present day. www.channel4.com/genetics
12.30 pm # CHANNEL FOUR RACING from Kempton Park and Wetherby
Presenter: ALASTAIR DOWN. Featuring Boxing Day's traditional sporting spectacular, the Pertemps King George VI Chase. No race this side of the Cheltenham Festival can boast the same prestige as Kempton's race of the year and today's line up promises to equal some of the finest in recent seasons. It includes the French-trained First Gold who routed the Brits last year and now comes in search of an encore. Kempton Park 12.40 Pertemps Christmas Greetings Novices' Hurdle (2m); 1.10 Pertemps Learning Feltham Novices' Chase (3m); 1.45 Pertemps Christmas Hurdle (2m); 2.20 Pertemps King George VI Chase (3m); 2.55 Network Design H'cap Chase (2m 4½f). Wetherby 1.25 Castleford Chase (2m). Commentary is from MIKE CATTERMOLE, JOHN FRANCOME, SIMON HOLT, JOHN McCRIRICK and DEREK THOMPSON. www.channel4.com/sport
3.30 pm HERE COMES THE BOGEYMAN
Here Comes the Bogeyman profiles the world-renowned illustrator and author RAYMOND BRIGGS, the creator of animated classics including The Snowman, Father Christmas and When the Wind Blows. In a rare television interview, Briggs talks from his home in East Sussex about his life, career, the inspiration for his books, and his most recent work, Ivor the Invisible, which will be shown on Channel 4 this Christmas. Briggs’s friends, colleagues, and young fans also offer an insight into the man, his sense of humour, and his tendency to be a ‘miseryguts’.
4.00 pm # COUNTDOWN
RICHARD WHITELEY and CAROL VORDERMAN in a new extended version of the show with a clock, vowels, consonants and numbers. In Dictionary Corner all this week is Countdown's very popular special guest, magician GEOFFREY DURHAM.
4.45 pm # ALASKA (1996)
Action adventure yarn set amongst beautiful snowy scenery in which two children search for their father following a plane crash. Starring CHARLTON HESTON as an evil poacher and Agee, a polar bear cub, who helps the children. Directed by Heston’s son Fraser Clarke Heston. With THORA BIRCH, VINCENT KARTHEISER and DIRK BENEDICT. Widescreen
6.45 pm # CHANNEL 4 NEWS Includes sport and weather.
6.50 pm # BECKETT ON FILM: OHIO IMPROMPTU
Theatre, film and television director Charles Sturridge brings one of Samuel Beckett’s last plays to the screen. With JEREMY IRONS playing the parts of both the Reader and the Listener, the film captures the universal human emotion of losing a loved one, and expresses it in a pure and poignant form. www.channel4.com/plus/beckett
7.00 pm # BEST OF SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE
8.00 pm # BROOKSIDE
Emily (JENNIFER ELLISON) is inconsolable as she becomes increasingly convinced that Tim (PHILIP OLIVIER) is never coming back. Jimmy (DEAN SULLIVAN) begins to question the effect his dependence on medication is having on him.
8.30 pm # BROOKSIDE
Christy (GLYN PRITCHARD) is forced to reveal the devastating truth to a stunned Emily (JENNIFER ELLISON). Jacqui (ALEXANDRA FLETCHER) refuses to admit to Max (STEVEN PINDER) that she cannot cope with the kids as the strain begins to show.
9.00 pm R# FATHER TED XMAS SPECIAL
It’s a nightmare Christmas when Father Ted and Father Dougal (DERMOT MORGAN and ARDAL O'HANLON) get lost in a department store's vast lingerie department - only Ted's quick thinking can save the church from another embarrassing scandal but the incident still has far-reaching and dangerous consequences...
10.10 pm # SOUTH PARK: A Very Crappy Christmas
The boys are inspired to make a video Christmas card to save the spirit of the season, while Mr.Hankey's all tied up with the new wife and kids.
10.40 pm # BASEketball [sic] (1998)
Directed by David Zucker (Naked Gun, Airplane), this satire on the stranglehold money has on sport in America sees MATT STONE and TREY PARKER of South Park fame goofing around in their yard with a crossbreed sport called BASEketball, incorporating baseball, volleyball and basketball. Passing sports millionaire ERNEST BORGNINE spots them and the next stop is a major city league, megabucks and chicks galore – until the two realise the sport they love is being corrupted and must fight to save it. Network Premiere/ Widescreen
12.35 am # SCREAM!
What’s it like to be caught up in the middle of a real life horror story? To wake up in a cold sweat and find it isn’t a nightmare, it’s really happening. Scream! tells a number of first hand stories of real terror. One woman who was declared medically dead tells how she could hear everything that was being said as they put her on the morgue’s slab, a family who bought their dream home in the English countryside tell how they discovered that it was haunted, and the residents of an American small town called South Park tell of a serial killer in their midst who left no footprints in the snow …
1.35 am * NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
George A Romero's classic low-budget shocker about corpses that return from the grave as killer cannibals. With JUDITH O'DEA, DUANE JONES, KARL HARDMAN, RUSSELL STREINER.
3.20 am R THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE HUNTERS
In the depths of night, the chupacabra strikes swiftly and without warning. Killing poultry and sheep or anything else in its wake, this Puerto Rican vampire bat sucks the blood from the corpses and then retreats into the darkness. Enter two British vampire hunters, JOHN and GRAHAM. Cryptozoologists both, they have a lifelong passion for strange, unearthly creatures. Acutely aware of the possibility of its supernatural powers, the intrepid duo descend, with extreme caution deeper and deeper into chupacabra country, casting ancient spells to keep themselves safe from the savage beast.
4.15 am TBA
4.55 am R# WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY
American version of the series based on the hilarious British series of the same name presented by DREW CAREY and featuring stand-up comedian RYAN STILES.
5.20-6.05 am R# COUNTDOWN
Followed by a look at tomorrow’s programmes.
Iver’s heard a voice talking to him on the roof garden. But there’s no-one else there! Or is there? www.4learning.co.uk/hoobs
6.35 am R# THE HOOBS: Surprises
The most important day in a Hoob’s year is their hoobytwizzletuft day. Every year, on that day, they have to give their friends a surprise. www.4learning.co.uk/hoobs
7.00 am R# BAGPUSS A funny little tartan creature arrives at the shop.
7.20 am R# BAGPUSS A model of a turtle and a Chinaman appear at the shop.
7.35 am R# THE CLANGERS Major Clanger wants to build a spaceship to go to Earth.
7.45 am R# THE CLANGERS Tiny Clanger meets a space chicken who lives on its own planet.
8.00 am BIG BREAKFAST
Early morning entertainment with RICHARD BACON, AMANDA BYRAM and guest presenters. www.channel4.com/bigbreakfast
10.00 am T4 IN LAS VEGAS
All this week, JUNE SARPONG and VERNON KAY present T4 from Las Vegas, USA. There are interviews with O-TOWN, a chance to win a holiday to Las Vegas and many other goodies. www.channel4.com/t4 Starting off with:
# T4: MAKING THE BAND
Will any of the O-TOWN boys manage to maintain a relationship on the road?
10.30 am # THE MORNING LINE
Turf tips and news from the Channel 4 Racing team.
11.30 am # THE ROYAL INSTITUTION CHRISTMAS LECTURES 2001: THE SECRETS OF LIFE
Through unique experiments, demonstrations and audience participation, SIR JOHN SULSTON introduces The Secrets of Life, and will explore how genetics is answering many of the fundamental conundrums of life. What is the difference between a living thing and a non-living thing? How did life begin? Did all life on earth come from a single ancestor? And how did it evolve? In this lecture, Sir John Sulston explores the marvellous phenomenon of life from its origins to the present day.
12.30 pm # CHANNEL FOUR RACING from Kempton Park and Wetherby
Presenter: ALASTAIR DOWN. Featuring Boxing Day's traditional sporting spectacular, the Pertemps King George VI Chase. No race this side of the Cheltenham Festival can boast the same prestige as Kempton's race of the year and today's line up promises to equal some of the finest in recent seasons. It includes the French-trained First Gold who routed the Brits last year and now comes in search of an encore. Kempton Park 12.40 Pertemps Christmas Greetings Novices' Hurdle (2m); 1.10 Pertemps Learning Feltham Novices' Chase (3m); 1.45 Pertemps Christmas Hurdle (2m); 2.20 Pertemps King George VI Chase (3m); 2.55 Network Design H'cap Chase (2m 4½f). Wetherby 1.25 Castleford Chase (2m). Commentary is from MIKE CATTERMOLE, JOHN FRANCOME, SIMON HOLT, JOHN McCRIRICK and DEREK THOMPSON.
3.30 pm HERE COMES THE BOGEYMAN
Here Comes the Bogeyman profiles the world-renowned illustrator and author RAYMOND BRIGGS, the creator of animated classics including The Snowman, Father Christmas and When the Wind Blows. In a rare television interview, Briggs talks from his home in East Sussex about his life, career, the inspiration for his books, and his most recent work, Ivor the Invisible, which will be shown on Channel 4 this Christmas. Briggs’s friends, colleagues, and young fans also offer an insight into the man, his sense of humour, and his tendency to be a ‘miseryguts’.
4.00 pm # COUNTDOWN
RICHARD WHITELEY and CAROL VORDERMAN in a new extended version of the show with a clock, vowels, consonants and numbers. In Dictionary Corner all this week is Countdown's very popular special guest, magician GEOFFREY DURHAM.
4.45 pm # ALASKA (1996)
Action adventure yarn set amongst beautiful snowy scenery in which two children search for their father following a plane crash. Starring CHARLTON HESTON as an evil poacher and Agee, a polar bear cub, who helps the children. Directed by Heston’s son Fraser Clarke Heston. With THORA BIRCH, VINCENT KARTHEISER and DIRK BENEDICT. Widescreen
6.45 pm # CHANNEL 4 NEWS Includes sport and weather.
6.50 pm # BECKETT ON FILM: OHIO IMPROMPTU
Theatre, film and television director Charles Sturridge brings one of Samuel Beckett’s last plays to the screen. With JEREMY IRONS playing the parts of both the Reader and the Listener, the film captures the universal human emotion of losing a loved one, and expresses it in a pure and poignant form.
7.00 pm # BEST OF SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE
8.00 pm # BROOKSIDE
Emily (JENNIFER ELLISON) is inconsolable as she becomes increasingly convinced that Tim (PHILIP OLIVIER) is never coming back. Jimmy (DEAN SULLIVAN) begins to question the effect his dependence on medication is having on him.
8.30 pm # BROOKSIDE
Christy (GLYN PRITCHARD) is forced to reveal the devastating truth to a stunned Emily (JENNIFER ELLISON). Jacqui (ALEXANDRA FLETCHER) refuses to admit to Max (STEVEN PINDER) that she cannot cope with the kids as the strain begins to show.
9.00 pm R# FATHER TED XMAS SPECIAL
It’s a nightmare Christmas when Father Ted and Father Dougal (DERMOT MORGAN and ARDAL O'HANLON) get lost in a department store's vast lingerie department - only Ted's quick thinking can save the church from another embarrassing scandal but the incident still has far-reaching and dangerous consequences...
10.10 pm # SOUTH PARK: A Very Crappy Christmas
The boys are inspired to make a video Christmas card to save the spirit of the season, while Mr.Hankey's all tied up with the new wife and kids.
10.40 pm # BASEketball [sic] (1998)
Directed by David Zucker (Naked Gun, Airplane), this satire on the stranglehold money has on sport in America sees MATT STONE and TREY PARKER of South Park fame goofing around in their yard with a crossbreed sport called BASEketball, incorporating baseball, volleyball and basketball. Passing sports millionaire ERNEST BORGNINE spots them and the next stop is a major city league, megabucks and chicks galore – until the two realise the sport they love is being corrupted and must fight to save it. Network Premiere/ Widescreen
12.35 am # SCREAM!
What’s it like to be caught up in the middle of a real life horror story? To wake up in a cold sweat and find it isn’t a nightmare, it’s really happening. Scream! tells a number of first hand stories of real terror. One woman who was declared medically dead tells how she could hear everything that was being said as they put her on the morgue’s slab, a family who bought their dream home in the English countryside tell how they discovered that it was haunted, and the residents of an American small town called South Park tell of a serial killer in their midst who left no footprints in the snow …
1.35 am * NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
George A Romero's classic low-budget shocker about corpses that return from the grave as killer cannibals. With JUDITH O'DEA, DUANE JONES, KARL HARDMAN, RUSSELL STREINER.
3.20 am R THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE HUNTERS
In the depths of night, the chupacabra strikes swiftly and without warning. Killing poultry and sheep or anything else in its wake, this Puerto Rican vampire bat sucks the blood from the corpses and then retreats into the darkness. Enter two British vampire hunters, JOHN and GRAHAM. Cryptozoologists both, they have a lifelong passion for strange, unearthly creatures. Acutely aware of the possibility of its supernatural powers, the intrepid duo descend, with extreme caution deeper and deeper into chupacabra country, casting ancient spells to keep themselves safe from the savage beast.
4.15 am TBA
4.55 am R# WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY
American version of the series based on the hilarious British series of the same name presented by DREW CAREY and featuring stand-up comedian RYAN STILES.
5.20-6.05 am R# COUNTDOWN
Followed by a look at tomorrow’s programmes.
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