The original Police Academy movie was funny, the rest were rubbish. No real loss to Nine.
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Good to see more and more movies on tv broadcast in their original aspect ratio.
Curse those who use the zoom in feature on their tv to remove the black bars (unless you have a 21:9 tv) 
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I’ve seen a couple of friends who have Foxtel and their television both at the wrong setting so that normal 16:9 is zoomed in. Some people just don’t know
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What!? No Die Hard on Christmas Eve / night!? Arghhhh 
Starting a movie on the main channel at 6:30pm 
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Ah yes, Ten’s good old First Wives Club, endlessly repeated (they got the rights back this year, after losing it to Nine a few years ago).
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Yes, Fox should have given Ten special dispensation to show Die Hard.
What do you mean?
The contract termination was for their long-running output deal.
The back-catalogue of films is a separate deal, shared amongst Seven, Nine & Ten (though majority with the latter).
I’ve seen a number of 20C Fox movies on Ten’s channels in recent weeks. Just a disappointing programming move, as Die Hard movies would air around Christmas.
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I’d like to see Ten air “Miracle on 34th Street” (1994) which they used to air on Christmas night. Last I think was around 2009. Also 20C Fox.
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I much prefer the original movie - that is a classic.
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Yes it is, the remake wasn’t as bright and positive.
However, no main channel airs ‘golden age’ (B&W) movies now.
I’ll defer to your expert knowledge.
It has been colourised.
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I might have to watch the DVD. BTW, Christmas Vacation 2 is puerile rubbish, and an insult to the original.
Update
Sunday week (24th Dec), Luke summing it up…
Free to air premieres:
•9GO!: Embedded (2016) Umbrella Entertainment
•9GO!: Son Of A Gun (2014) Entertainment One
•7MATE FRI: Manny Lewis (2015) Beyond Distribution
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Network premieres:
•9GO!: Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) NBC Universal
•9GO!: Head Above Water (1996) Unknown TV distributor in Australia
•CH 7 X-MAS: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) Warner Bros
•CH 7 X-MAS: National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985) Warner Bros
•7FLIX SAT: The Man Without A Face (1993) Icon
•7MATE TUES: The Shining (1980) Warner Bros
Well I just have to say that I am happy to see what is quite possibly my favourite Christmas movie of all time, ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’, now on my favourite TV channel 
I am more happy to see this in the schedule.
I shall DVR or watch, haven’t seen it for yonks!
A horror and Nicholson classic.
Lukey boy was correct about movies every night 
And well done Cynic!
Nine have rights to the 2nd (so expect this to be the last time on Seven), after previously airing on Ten when they had Universal rights.
Well done J Bar 
Network premiere, after airing on Nine and Ten.
Also 20th Century Fox, perhaps a sign of a new back-catalogue film deal or revival of their old 2nd tier Fox films during late 90s/2000s?
No it isn’t.
Titanic’s first airing on Australian free to air TV was on Seven - July 4, 2001!
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Oops.
Well, network (return)premiere since airing on another network(s) then.
Did I miss the memo about this becoming a thing?
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