Up was on Sky movies yesterday, would be a perfect Christmas day film, SO cute & also very poignant, good for all ages. I'm looking forward to seeing Ratatouille, but the others are yawnville.
BBC2 has a few good ones Revelutionary Road and The Young Victoria.

Sad, but expected.

The Royal Bodyguard is the main comedy highlight, and is clearly going to launch on Christmas Day I suspect.

Downton permitting.....

Pleasure. Just trying to do my bit for thread maintenance! (We're not all that good when rzt and DMN aren't around, are we )

Very solid figure for Strictly - with a particularly good peak for the big exit. Not a nice night for TXF though. It really shouldn't be shedding 700k week-on-week at this stage of the competition - the yearly % comparison won't make very pretty reading.

Now, where's that Christmas Press Pack...

..and it did Disney Cinemax first, about a year ago.

agreed none of those films are inspiring, and a slight repeat will Have I Got News For You be a clip shows, the format does not suit a Christmas special.

Also no mention of the series finale of Merlin

Ooh, missed those. Looking forward to seeing both of them.

If it was airing,it would have to wait until New Year's Day like Wall-E last year and it wouldn't be in the Christmas press pack which covers [Dec 17-30]. I suspect Sherlock will be in the next one.

Yes nobody can spin Daybreak as doing well after recent stories. The show is better than when it started but people just won't watch it.

Sounds like it could be the BBC's best Christmas in years.

Loads of gems in those programme highlights!

no mention of Sherlock

edit: just saw jake lyle post

There might be more films that have yet to be comfirmed though. so you never no up might still be shown

Yeah, like Jake said it could still be shown at New Year.

I doubt it will be over Christmas though as they definitely would have listed it.

The X Factor results show usually adds a shedload in timeshift but isn't that one of the closest gaps between the results shows in quite some time?

Strictly's Wembley shows were a visual feast and it seems casual viewers appreciated it more than regular viewers. If it becomes an annual thing I can see it being great for ratings.

Good to see The Gruffalo's Child confirmed. I wonder how that one crept under the radar for so long? I would think that's a certainty for Christmas Day teatime, considering how the first one performed in 2009.

The movies selection is a bit bare, but I was expecting that. I was looking back over yearly box offices a few days ago and thought the BBC's Disney and Dreamworks deals wouldn't bear much fruit this year. Just the way that the timing has fallen, unfortunately.

Trailer HERE

I'm still betting on Ratatouille, they could have shown that last year but they held it back.The last time they did that it was for The Incredibles, which then got the Christmas Day slot.

Christmas Schedule- Predictions
BBC- ONE
2.00 Top Of the Pops
3.00 The Queen
3.10 Ratatouille
5.00 BBC News
5.15 Strictly Christmas- preview[they used this as a slot filler a few years ago]
5.30 The Gruffalo's Child
6.00 Eastenders
6.40 Doctor Who
7.40 Strictly Come Dancing
8.40 Eastenders
9.20 The Royal Bodyguard.
9.50 Absolutely Fabulous
10.20 Michael Mcintyre
11.10 BBC News
11.20 Speed

I suspect they wont have a Strictly preview, they'll just pull the schedule back 10 minutes.

Question is will they go for a double bill to fill the 9PM hour or pair it with something else (Absolutely Fabulous presumably)? Or I suppose they could split EastEnders and do a 30-40 minute episode at 9PM leading into the Royal Bodyguard at 9:30ish... (If ITV lose their minds and put Downton on Christmas Day I suspect that's what'll happen actually).

Luckily Speed's on Channel 5 in a couple of weeks so I think we can rule it out this year. (phew!)

Other than that, not a bad fantasy schedule above. Ratatouille would be preferable to Monsters vs Aliens although I still have a feeling they'll go for the latter. Meanwhile the highlight of the day The Royal Bodyguard gets the best slot possible.

im not seeing it, cant find the magic spark I was looking for. Also it looks very under populated.

Big rating for Home Alone 2 on E4 last night- 755k inc. +1. A little surprised they didn't schedule it on the main channel again a bit nearer to Christmas, as even though they've already shown it on C4 in 2011 these films always rate very well at this time of year.

The last time I saw full data, it added 800k in timeshift V 500k for Strictly. Not exactly shedloads imo.

Yeah I can't say its jumping out at me. The description of an urban fairytale makes it sound much more interesting and exciting than it actually appears to be.

Given the prominence attached to Ab Fab, indeed the quote from George at the end names it ahead of David Jason's return, I would say they will be paired up in the Royle slot.

Indeed, I will wager the reason Walliams tweeted about TRB launching in November but it then being held back is because they realised Cash/Aherne/ITV couldn't deliver on TRF. So this is Plan B.

I'm sure it's more than that when +1 and HD are included.

I also think the BBC will make a real effort to promote AbFab's return across all platforms, much more than they did for the 2003/2004 revivals, such that the return of AbFab and Jason will be the event TV this Christmas.

More than the latest 2 hour instalment of period soap...