Today’s TV: Christmas Eve 2000 (Free-to-air channels only)
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 BBC News
6.30 Talking Movies
7.00 In Touch (G)
8.00 BBC World - BBC News
8.30 Tikitiki (G)
9.00 Praise Be
9.30 Tagata Pasifika
10.00 Waka Huia
11.00 Marae
Noon Bargain Hunt (G)
12.35 Heatbeat
1.45 Houses (G)
2.00 Anituqes Roadshow (G)
3.00 Harbour Lights (PGR)
4.05 Oddbods (G)
4.30 An Audience with Cliff Richard (G)
6.00 One News
7.00 Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire (G)
7.35 Documentary New Zealand - Her Daughter’s Voice (PGR)
8.40 Last Christmas (AO)
10.15 Charlotte Church: A Christmas Dream from a Holy Land
11.15 Christmas Glory from Westminster Abbey
12.25am BBC World, including:
12.25 BBC News
12.30 World Review - Beyond 2000
1.00 BBC News
1.10 Royal College of Art (Part 1)
2.00 BBC News
2.10 Dateline London
3.00 BBC News
3.30 Top Gear
4.00 BBC News
4.10 Moral Combat: Nato at War (Part 3, final)
5.00 BBC News
5.30 This Week (Continues to 6am)
TV2
6.00am Once Upon a Time (G)
6.05 Magic Mountain (G)
6.15 Animaniacs (G)
6.35 Enchanted Lands (G)
6.45 Bumble (G)
7.05 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
7.30 Oakie Dokie (Rpt, G)
7.40 All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (G)
8.05 Family Dog (G)
8.25 Cave Kids Adventures (Rpt, G)
8.50 The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (Rpt, G)
9.10 Rugrats Specials (Rpt, G)
9.35 Buster and Chauncey’s Silent Night (G)
10.25 Morning Movie: A Holiday for Love (1997) (G)
Noon Christmas Eve Matinee: Christmas Story (1983) (G)
2.00 King of Queens (PGR)
2.30 The Steve Harvey Show (G)
3.00 Squeeze (Final) (PGR)
3.30 Dilbert (PGR)
4.00 Animal Rescue (G)
4.30 The Jamie Foxx Show (G)
5.00 KaBlam! (G)
5.30 The Wild Thornberrys (Rpt, G)
6.00 Movie Stars (G)
6.30 N’Sync N’timate Holiday Special
7.30 The First Family’s Holiday Tour of the White House
8.30 Christmas Eve Movie: Dear God (1996) (PGR)
10.45 Christmas Eve Late Movie: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) (Rpt, AO)
12.35am Movie: Postcards from the Edge (1990) (Rpt, AO)
2.15 Movie: Truman Capote’s One Christmas (1997) (Rpt, G)
3.30 Movie: The Christmas Takeover (1999) (G)
5.20 Home and Away (Rpt, G)
5.40 The New Addams Family (Rpt, G) (Continues to 6.05am)
TV3
6.00am Bayless Conley
6.30 Hillsong Australia: Life Is for Living
7.00 Hour of Power
8.00 Starla and the Jewel Riders (G)
8.20 Sheeep (G)
8.35 Bump in the Night (Rpt, G)
9.00 Christmas in the Holy Land
10.00 Science Court
10.25 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (PGR)
11.10 National Geographic (G)
Noon Undersea Explorer (G)
12.30 No 8 Wired (Final) (G)
1.00 Barry Humphries: Flashbacks
2.00 Matinee Movie: Ms Scrooge (1997) (G)
4.00 3 Special - Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2000
6.00 3 News
7.00 Wild About New Zealand (G)
7.30 Christmas Eve Family Movie: Jingle All the Way (1996) (rpt, PGR)
9.20 Christmas Eve Movie: Emma (1996) (Rpt, G)
11.55 Sixth Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
1.40am AFI Awards: Robert Wise
3.15 AFI Awards: Robert Redford (Rpt)
4.00 The Little Rascals (Rpt, G)
4.20 Toronto Christmas Parade 2000 (G) (Continues to 6.05am)
TV4
7.00am Destination New Zealand
10.00 The Brittas Empire (Double episode) (PGR)
11.10 Pukana (Rpt, G)
Noon Infomercials
1.00 Northern Exposure (PGR)
2.00 Savannah (Rpt, PGR)
3.00 The Vodafone Surf Show (Rpt)
3.30 X-Sport (Rpt, PGR)
4.00 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (G)
5.00 Charles in Charge (Rpt, G)
5.30 Flash Forward (G)
6.00 I Dream of Jeannie
6.30 The Mod Squad (G)
7.30 The Fugitive (PGR)
8.30 The PJs (AO)
9.00 South Park (AO)
9.30 Men’s Behaving Badly Christmas Special (Three episodes) (AO)
12.10am Real TV (Rpt, AO)
1.00 Later… with Jools Holland (Rpt, G)
1.55 Live at Jongleurs Special (Rpt, AO)
5.00 French and Saunders Go to the Movies (Rpt, PGR) (Continues to 6am)
Prime
7.30am Morris Cerullo World Evangelism
8.30 Tomorrow’s World
9.00 Joyce Meyer: Life in the Word
9.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn
10.00 Joyce Meyer: Life in the Word
10.30 John Burns Mysteries
11.00 World Impact
11.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn
Noon FIFA TV (G)
12.30 ATP Tennis
1.00 China Beach (PGR)
2.00 The Bill (aka “The Bill Weekend Edition”, double episode) (Rpt, G)
3.00 Family Affairs (aka “Family Affairs Weekend Edition”, five episodes) (Rpt, G)
5.30 Our House (Rpt, G)
6.00 Cheers (Rpt, G)
6.30 Doctor Who (G)
7.00 Toyota World of Wildlife (G)
7.30 Battersea Dog’s Home (G)
8.00 Scrapheap Challenge (G)
9.05 The Vice (PGR)
10.05 Vanessa Mae: The Alternative Classical Concert (Rpt, G)
11.10 The South Bank Show - James Galway
12.00am Closedown