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ITV unveiled details of its Christmas lineup today, which features a modern-day version of A Christmas Carol starring Ross Kemp.
The ex-EastEnders actor will play loan shark Eddie Scrooge in the drama, pencilled in for Christmas Day. Blankety Blank will move from BBC1 to the network, who also snatched presenter Lily Savage in an exclusive deal.
Paul Merton, Martin Clunes, Patsy Kensit and Griff-Rhys Jones will team up for an adaption of Aladdin, whilst Irish boyband Westlife will perform 60s hits alongside Lulu and Steps in Motown Mania. An After They Were Famous special will reunite the actors who played the children in The Sound Of Music.
A tribute to legendary singer Frank Sinatra, Sinatra: Good Guy, Bad Guy, will broadcast with tributes from Eddie Fisher and Janet Leigh.
Elsewhere in the Winter schedules, ITV has lined up several new drama series and costume dramas. Sarah Lancashire and John Thaw will team up for The Glass, whilst the network debuts adaptations of Nicholas Nickleby and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plain Jane, an Edwardian drama, and Thursday 12th, a new thriller, will also feature.
ITV will also broadcast the terrestrial premiere of Waking Ned, a film about an Irish town gripped by the Lottery. Richard Wilson returns from the grave for new sitcom High Stakes, and Popstars charts the rise to fame of an Australian boyband.
Other factual highlights include To Kill and Kill Again, Time of our Lives and Some Liked It Hot.
The ex-EastEnders actor will play loan shark Eddie Scrooge in the drama, pencilled in for Christmas Day. Blankety Blank will move from BBC1 to the network, who also snatched presenter Lily Savage in an exclusive deal.
Paul Merton, Martin Clunes, Patsy Kensit and Griff-Rhys Jones will team up for an adaption of Aladdin, whilst Irish boyband Westlife will perform 60s hits alongside Lulu and Steps in Motown Mania. An After They Were Famous special will reunite the actors who played the children in The Sound Of Music.
A tribute to legendary singer Frank Sinatra, Sinatra: Good Guy, Bad Guy, will broadcast with tributes from Eddie Fisher and Janet Leigh.
Elsewhere in the Winter schedules, ITV has lined up several new drama series and costume dramas. Sarah Lancashire and John Thaw will team up for The Glass, whilst the network debuts adaptations of Nicholas Nickleby and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plain Jane, an Edwardian drama, and Thursday 12th, a new thriller, will also feature.
ITV will also broadcast the terrestrial premiere of Waking Ned, a film about an Irish town gripped by the Lottery. Richard Wilson returns from the grave for new sitcom High Stakes, and Popstars charts the rise to fame of an Australian boyband.
Other factual highlights include To Kill and Kill Again, Time of our Lives and Some Liked It Hot.
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