Only joking

(Actually, part of me is curious to see if anybody bookmarks this and resurrects it around September! )

LMAO

I wont be doing that

I think that we can confidently predict that, despite the edition being advertised as being available from <insert date> most newsagents and supermarkets will not display it until about a week later.

I can predict now that after perrusing the edition for the best part of two hours , they will still only show 2 programmes worth watching & a few half decent films will be shown when its time to goto bed. Dr Who will be another shouting/explosion fest & the funniest programmes shown will be repeats of Morecambe & Wise , The Two Ronnies & Dads Army.

Why they just dont save money this year & reprint the 2008 one save evrybody the hassle.

This past 2 weeks have gone to quick.

Everythings back to normal again.

And the cover will have a picture of David Tennant with a dalek wearing a santa hat about to exterminate him!

You heard it first right here!

Thank god for that!



We all know some saddo will do exactly that!

ITV 1

Christmas Eve 2009

5.00 CITV
6.00am GMTV
9.25 Dickinson Real Deal
10.30 Christmas Cooks
11.30 Film:
1.15pm ITV News
1.30 Goodnight Mister Tom
3.30 Film: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
5.45 Youve Been Framed
6.45 ITV News
7.00 Emmerdale
7.30 Airline
8.00 The Bill
9.00 Midsomer Murders
11.00 ITV News
11.15 Christmas Special
12.15am Film:
2.00
3.00 ITV Nightscreen

Is it that time already

Better hotfoot it up to M & S in Tring so I can be the winner for the third year in a row.
I put mine in the recycle bin this morning, and as the first to get it this year I therefore had use of it for longer than anyone.
If we had a pet I could use it for bedding and get many more weeks of use out of it.
It may be recycled as loo paper, so I may yet get to use it again!
Last edited by stevehotspur : 03-01-2009 at 19:10

Have to say it was very sad today having to put away the 2008 Christmas Radio times.

It has been my Friend over the last 2 weeks and sadly it has passed away.

Rip dear Friend we will always remember you as you made me a happy man but now its time for you to rest in peace forever(well till next christmas that it!!!)

Goodbye Dear Friend

OH COME ON your having a laugh ain't yer an RT christmas 2009 countdown .wake me up near the time:sleep:

Hi! Davads
Good on you for starting such a light hearted thread, don't you think the days race by now?.

It seems only yesterday we were looking forward to celebrating the millennium, yet here we are not only into the last year of the first decade of the new millennium. But January 3rd already.

Good on you again.

I take it you are joking / being ironic?
If not, maybe you should be a little concerned for your own state of mind.
The 'Countdown to' the 2008 edition didn't amaze me as it is typical of this forum, but it did make me feel better about my own state of mind.
Which was nice.


Get a shredder, saves on that manual ripping up.

Tempted to keep the recent copy and see if next year's line up is even worse,which I doubt is probably impossible to achieve.:sleep:

lets hope that next christmas's double issue is on time unlike this years

Anyone who has kept their Christmas Radio Times issues over the years may be interested in the following. These were the final prices paid in recent in e-bay auctions.

Mint = Perfect
Good = May be some wear or newsagent scribble
OK = Some programmes may be marked
Marked = Heavily marked by pen

1953 (ok)..........................£42.99

1964 (ok)..........................£51.00

1965 (mint)...................... £51.00

1966 (ok)..........................£42.99

1967 (ok)..........................£62.00

1975 (good).....................£26.01

1987 (marked)................. £3.21
1987 (ok)..........................£5.53

1991 (mint).......................£5.50

1992 (good).....................£3.01

1999 (good).....................£3.01

2008 (mint).......................£9.50 (yes really!)

(The first double issue was 1969, before this they were still weekly issues)

no chance, you missed out Corrie.......lol

it will more than likely be

5.00 CITV
6.00 GMTV
9.00am Noels Christmas Presents
9.30am Christmas with Jeremy Kyle
10.30am Rising Damp
11.30 Film The Great Escape
1.15pm ITV News
1.25pm Loose Women
2.00pm Dickensons real deal
2.30pm I'm a celebrity 2009 Review
3.00pm Spin Star
3.30pm Film Lady and the Tramp
5.10pm Golden Balls
5.45pm The Choir of Peterborough Celebrate Christmas
6.30pm Evening New and Weather
7.00pm Emmerdale
7.30pm Corrie Becky and Steve's Wedding........lol
8.00pm The Bill
9.00pm Corrie Becky and Steve's Divorce
9.30pm A Touch Of Frost
10.30pm Film Romancing the Stone
10.45pm News
11.00pm Film Romancing the Stone continued
12.15am Film:Highlander
2.00am Nightwatch with Steve Scott
3.00 ITV Nightscreen[/quote]

But Corrie isn't usually on on Christmas Eve which is the day that fugitive was listing

oh lol, well what would i know, i'm forced to watch Corrie anyway

You're probably right though.

I only ever tend to by the Radio Times at Christmas and normally they have something a little more "traditional" on the front cover.

Having Wallace & Grommit on the front was a bit of a disappointment.

Not always though as this selection shows http://www.radiotimes.com/content/fe...mas-covers/01/

I was just about to call you a sad git.

This is a very excellent thread! I found the 2008 countdown too late - in January this year - and have just put "The Official Christmas Radio Times Countdown Thread" into Google, only to be taken here. FANTASTIC! It's never too early to look forward to the Christmas Radio Times, and Christmas starts (for me at least) in September, when Christmas cards and chocolate selection packs appear in the shops; and we are already half way to September! Call me 'sad' if you like, I don't care!

Only 40 weeks to go now!!!!!

When do they start planning the Christmas copy??