BBC Christmas Day schedule: 3:55pm Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 5:10pm Doctor Who Christmas Special 6:10pm Wallace & Gromit 7:25pm EastEnders 7:55pm Call The Midwife Christmas Special 9:00pm Gavin & Stacey: The Finale 10:30pm EastEnders 11:00pm Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special - ThreadSky

scottygb.bsky.social • 117 days ago

BBC Christmas Day schedule:

3:55pm Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special
5:10pm Doctor Who Christmas Special
6:10pm Wallace & Gromit
7:25pm EastEnders
7:55pm Call The Midwife Christmas Special
9:00pm Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
10:30pm EastEnders
11:00pm Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special

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teamancer84.bsky.social•117 days ago

I'm glad they'll be showing Wallace and Gromit in the evening and after Doctor Who. If anything it feels like they've been given the best time slot of the day.

jasongood.bsky.social•117 days ago

Bed at half ten, then…

samcduff.bsky.social•117 days ago

Fun fact, we had to hold the election count at a different venue this time as the usual venue had Mrs Brown's Boys!

jasongood.bsky.social•117 days ago

It would put me off counting as well! ☺️

samcduff.bsky.social•117 days ago

😂😂

arcturustourist.bsky.social•117 days ago

Does anybody know how many more Xmas episodes of Mrs Brown's Boys have been commissioned? Surely it must be ending soon🙏

glittabones.bsky.social•117 days ago

That is tragic. I don't miss TV one bit.

dhfax.bsky.social•117 days ago

Won't Gregg Wallace and Gromit be cancelled? 🤔

twain.bsky.social•116 days ago

barryonions.bsky.social•116 days ago

Maybe the 6:10 slot is a typo- should read ‘Wallace and Grope-it’

matthewhawes.bsky.social•117 days ago

Twas ever thus

ajred.bsky.social•117 days ago

The King's Speech won the ratings war last Christmas but Charlie lost 27% of his viewers compared with 2022 so he better pull his silk socks up. Maybe they could do a murder or something.

mfraz74.bsky.social•117 days ago

He should use Mentimeter, get the whole country voting on different parts of his speech.

msbluewednesday.bsky.social•117 days ago

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a King or Queen’s speech & I won’t be breaking that duck. #AbolishTheMonarchy

siobhansarelle.com•116 days ago

I watched the Queen's Speech once. Because I was having Christmas with Russian friends who really wanted to watch it.

royliving.bsky.social•117 days ago

Dire

captainbluetooth.bsky.social•117 days ago

Well I won’t be tuning in 🤣🤣🤣🤣

scottygb.bsky.social•117 days ago

I have asked the BBC about this but it *looks* as if Doctor Who, Wallace & Gromit / Gavin & Stacey won't be available beforehand on iPlayer, but will be available to watch after the scheduled air time.

That'll help drive the Christmas TV ratings if so.

brekkiebb.bsky.social•117 days ago

As it should be.

benjane.bsky.social•117 days ago

Is Wallace and Gromit a rejuvenation project by Gregg? Bit early, maybe?

solarfeeling.bsky.social•117 days ago

Quite right too.

stphnfllws.bsky.social•117 days ago

Eastenders apart, this is awful lol.

mattzee-miller.bsky.social•117 days ago

Gavin and Stacey been better Twi episodes on Xmas day and boxing day for other things in and EastEnders not on so late etc

azb2019.bsky.social•116 days ago

Presumably the Wallace and Gromit is a re-run?

louise275.bsky.social•117 days ago

Is this real?

nickdineen.bsky.social•117 days ago

Booze it is, then.

leedsguy.bsky.social•117 days ago

And the list started so well too.. 😏

jonnyhayton93.bsky.social•117 days ago

My viewing intentions
3.55pm skip, drink
5.10pm watch with more wine
6.10pm watch with baileys
7.25pm avoid depressing contrived miserable story line climax as I have for 20 years with more baileys
7.55pm skip, have a nap
9.00pm watch with brandy and pretty and cheese board.
10-12pm AVOID & DRINK

novacaine72.bsky.social•117 days ago

I'll double the Bailey's order then.

snagglepusseven.bsky.social•117 days ago

Thank fuck for gaming.

sparksf1.bsky.social•117 days ago

I was watching a video about old BBC xmas tapes from 1986 and I spotted Eastenders in 2 parts. One started after 10pm.

Same this year so is there a reason that it's been shown after the watershed? Or does it happen every xmas like that?

finneyzair.bsky.social•117 days ago

For the last few years it’s been an hour slot. But in the past it has been split into two half hour episodes.

diamondjoe.bsky.social•116 days ago

jpm1a.bsky.social•117 days ago

EastEnders twice? That's strange

brekkiebb.bsky.social•117 days ago

Was the norm till about 15 years ago.

finneyzair.bsky.social•117 days ago

Yes it’s only recently it’s been shown in a 60 minute slot. Prior it was always 2 x 30 minute episodes.

msbluewednesday.bsky.social•117 days ago

Grim.
I might record Dr Who but spend as much of the day doing other stuff.

donbeegles.bsky.social•117 days ago

. . . a parody?

farashimbo.bsky.social•117 days ago

No Thunderbirds?

backthebbc.bsky.social•117 days ago

Everyone will moan about #MrsBrownsBoys but it will end up getting a great audience

oitappin.bsky.social•117 days ago

Always does. Snobs are gonna snob.

wappingbloke.bsky.social•117 days ago

I’m fine for them to keep showing it if people like it. People not liking it is not snobbery though, speaking personally I don’t find it at all funny and very boring. Each to their own

oitappin.bsky.social•117 days ago

I'll note down your objection to snob, but a lot of people are snobbish about it.

wappingbloke.bsky.social•117 days ago

In fairness I think there is a bit of that but I don’t think start from seeing it as low-brow and decide not to like it. More that people find they don’t like it and then lash out more because they also perceive it as low-brow

brekkiebb.bsky.social•117 days ago

Snob is a bit of the Gregg Wallace defence. Mrs Browns Boys was genuinely refreshing in it's first few years and did really well a couple of years on Boxing Day/Christmas Eve earning it a deserved promotion to Christmas Day but it began going downhill quite a few years ago now.

elburgo.bsky.social•117 days ago

Poor only one I want to watch

bestieuk.bsky.social•117 days ago

Kill me now.

ninasawetz.com•117 days ago

Is this for this year or 2016
17
18
19
20…..

clarkmichael.bsky.social•113 days ago

Your top answer is correct

kev1n1985.bsky.social•117 days ago

Doctor who wasn't on Xmas day from 2018 to 2023

wils.bsky.social•117 days ago

ruhbuhjuh.bsky.social•117 days ago

My nap from 7:25-9 will be revolutionary

pasky24.bsky.social•117 days ago

Mrs Browns Boys? 🤣

greganiol.bsky.social•116 days ago

I’m pleased my licence fee goes towards such refined selection of tv programmes.

dwaind.bsky.social•117 days ago

This is 2024 right? Feels like I’m back in 2014 looking at this!

emmamccneil.bsky.social•117 days ago

Selfishly I’d have liked a little break between Strictly and Dr Who. They’re our prime Xmas Day watches as a family and a bit of time in between would be nice. Especially for the younger ones.

johnmfitzp.bsky.social•116 days ago

No big Christmas Day movie at 3pm!!

clarkmichael.bsky.social•113 days ago

I thought they might’ve put the new Wallace and Gromit film in that slot

teampenster.bsky.social•117 days ago

They need to swap Strictly an Wallace. 🤷‍♂️

carlosourjackal.bsky.social•117 days ago

Mrs Browns Utter Christmas Shite.

spidermonkey987.bsky.social•117 days ago

I think that's a pretty good showing of the best of the BBC to be honest

keithwill.bsky.social•117 days ago

I’m sure they’re sponsored by the drinks industry - I’ll certainly be drinking not watching BBC 🫣

chris.withers.org•117 days ago

Does anyone know anyone who actually likes Mrs Brown’s Boys? So absolutely terrible…

msbluewednesday.bsky.social•117 days ago

No 🤷🏻‍♀️

desertheartsfan.bsky.social•113 days ago

A few white gay dudes in their 70s...

amyfromiacon.bsky.social•117 days ago

My 5:10 to 7:25 TV watching block is set.
That might be the only tv I watch all day.

pj-galley.bsky.social•117 days ago

Mrs Brown? Really? Still? Someone, in commissioning, really needs to talk us through it.

gnickod.bsky.social•117 days ago

What year was this?

solentsun.bsky.social•113 days ago

Is it 2010?

dodgyd.bsky.social•117 days ago

Solution:
Get paralytic by 4pm, wake up at 8 for a partial enjoyment of G&S, pass out just before 11pm.

kennymaccadoo.bsky.social•117 days ago

I genuinely thought this was a bit lmao

mrwayneellis.bsky.social•117 days ago

Jesus.
Mrs Brown’s 🙄🙄🙄🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

cultcymru.bsky.social•116 days ago

Hashtag Gavin and Stacey!

peterfearns.bsky.social•116 days ago

dEFuNd tHe bbC

andymawby.bsky.social•117 days ago

Well, itv have won the crucial 11pm slot. Wonder what they will be showing?

robinlaroca.bsky.social•117 days ago

"Mrs Brown's Boys: The Movie".

careyr.bsky.social•117 days ago

Wow that’s inspiring 😳😳

mikereynolds08.bsky.social•117 days ago

Err, no thanks.

undeniablyalex.bsky.social•117 days ago

Somewhere, a BBC commissioner wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about a Christmas schedule without Call the Midwife and Mrs. Brown

klingonwalker.bsky.social•117 days ago

Load of crap 💩 as usual

samgleave-1970.bsky.social•117 days ago

Absolute Toilet

litespell.bsky.social•116 days ago

Where does all the bloody licence fee money go ?! oh yes... Ye olde talke show hosts gigantic salaries for the same olde rope

emceegeegee.bsky.social•117 days ago

Apart from W&G, and potentially G&S, what a pile of dog dirt.

finneyzair.bsky.social•117 days ago

Still knocks spots off what any other terrestrial channel is offering the best you can hope from ITV is double helpings of Emmerdale and Corrie and an old Bond film.

emceegeegee.bsky.social•117 days ago

I rarely watch ITV - advertising punctuated by programmes, but I agree that offering would be even more depressing

spacepo.bsky.social•117 days ago

How much we paying for this again?

greganiol.bsky.social•116 days ago

Too much

nickpheas.bsky.social•117 days ago

And earlier there's Tiddler, this year's Inner Light adaptation of a Julia Donaldson book. My daughter loves them.

gilbers84.bsky.social•117 days ago

Thought he had been cancelled?

tatesperational.bsky.social•117 days ago

The only thing that was ever worth watching on BBC was the time I totally pwned that BBC news reporter. That and this is your life was pretty good.
Tate Out

carlosmclamb.bsky.social•117 days ago

No thanks

benny8586.bsky.social•117 days ago

What an absolutely atrocious line up. Looks like we'll be streaming movies all day

tom7p.bsky.social•117 days ago

Just Wallace & Gromit then

bunnocks.bsky.social•117 days ago

11.00pm...turns off.
Who keeps recommissioning that dross ?

johnste29.bsky.social•117 days ago

This is BBC1 right?? Hopefully there may be something worth watching on the other channels

finneyzair.bsky.social•117 days ago

I doubt it. ITV double helpings of Corrie and Emmerdale and an hour quiz show is likely to be their evening schedule.

bwildered.bsky.social•117 days ago

Mrs Brown’s Boys is the worst thing that has ever happened.

nickdineen.bsky.social•117 days ago

They don't even show it in Hell.

peternimmo.bsky.social•105 days ago

That would be too cruel

lostinfilms.bsky.social•117 days ago

Why do BBC keep wasting our money recommissioning it 😡

clairecopperman.bsky.social•117 days ago

I guess we'll be eating well after 9 then. At least we get half an hour's break before CTM.

ernestgbilko.bsky.social•117 days ago

Thank God for youtube

marketingscience.bsky.social•116 days ago

It will make visiting ancient mother in care home seem pleasurable

scottglynn.bsky.social•116 days ago

Genuinely excited for Wallace and Gromit. Should have shaken my inevitable hangover by then too.

robertfingleton.bsky.social•117 days ago

Thought Brendan O'Carroll had been "cancelled" too?? 🤔

kev1n1985.bsky.social•117 days ago

Who is still watching Mrs Brown's Boys?

bojono.bsky.social•117 days ago

QAnon been at it again then.....

bolos.bsky.social•117 days ago

2014. The last year someone watched scheduled TV. Since then, the schedule has repeated itself over and over again in desperate, doomed cycle of nostalgia reminding us all of what we once used to be. *downs whisky and stares out onto the burning streets below* "Ha. Cracking cheese Gromit..." *cries*

wolves61.bsky.social•116 days ago

Maybe
Yes
Yes
No
No
Maybe
No
Definitely No

kattking.bsky.social•117 days ago

Is outnumbered on BBC2?

markgrimshawtism.bsky.social•117 days ago

BBC One on Boxing Day!

kattking.bsky.social•117 days ago

Thanks!

tracyh.bsky.social•117 days ago

Off to check if Threads will still be available on iPlayer on Christmas night.

iamricharddarby.bsky.social•117 days ago

No old only fools and horses

nules.bsky.social•117 days ago

Nonsense. Can't watch Strictly that early, how's my dad going to ask who the professional is after every single dance if he's busy trying to sort out the roasties?

lostinfilms.bsky.social•117 days ago

Only thing we will be watching from that line up is Wallace & Gromit. So as with many other recent years it'll Christmas films & festive comedy classics from boxsets here.

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