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[smb]

8:30 PM - BBC2 - University Challenge: The Professionals
8/12
Jeremy Paxman asks the questions as a team from the Chess Society does battle with a team from the V&A museum. 

i have yet to find somebody who watches this!!!

[dondon]

I wouldnt be so sure!!
Im not admitting to anything though!

[bred]

4:30 PM - BBC2 - World Athletics Championships 2005
Live action from the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki,
introduced by Sue Barker, Jonathan Edwards, Colin Jackson and Michael Johnson. Commentary by Steve Cram, Paul Dickenson, Brendan Foster and Stuart Storey. Sally Gunnell and Hazel Irvine report.
4:35pm Women's discus final
4:40pm Women's 100m hurdles round one.
5:25pm Men's 200m round two. The British men's contingent negotiates another heat.
6:00pm Men's 3,000m steeplechase final. Olympic and world steeplechase champ Saif Saaeed Shaheen defends the title he won in one of the most thrilling distance races ever seen, two years ago in Paris.
6:25pm Women's 800m final. Kelly Holmes is not competing in Helsinki, so it's left to Susan Scott to mount the British challenge.
6:45pm Decathlon 400m
7:25pm Men's 400m hurdles final. The Dominican Republic's Felix Sanchez attempts to eclipse the great Ed Moses with a third straight title, though he will have to contend with lively American Kerron Clement.

6 PM - Channel 4 - The Simpsons
Homer Defined
Homer falls asleep on the job, unaware that a nuclear meltdown is occurring in the plant. Meanwhile, Bart is banned from seeing Milhouse because he is a bad influence.

7:30 PM - Scottish - Get Galloway
A rare insight into the chaotic life of maverick MP George Galloway during one of the most important years of his political career. After a landmark victory in the General Election, the Scot headed for Washington to take on the US Senate. This programme charts his journey there and what happened when he returned from his historic performance on the world stage.

8 PM - BBC1 - Match of the Day Live
Champions League Third-Round Qualifer: Manchester Utd v Debrecen
The 2005/06 season begins in earnest as Manchester United play their first competitive game of the Malcolm Glazer era. Gary Lineker presents live coverage as United take on Debrecen in the first leg of their third-round Champions League qualifier. The Premiership opener against Everton is also just four days away, so can Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and co put a summer of turmoil behind them and kick off the season in style?

9 PM - Channel 4 - Born to be Different
1/3
Here's a programme designed to have us weeping into our sofa cushions. It's a set of tales about small children with disabilities and the struggles of their long-suffering parents. It's familiar ground: scenes of tearful mums and dads hugging in hospital corridors, toddlers on gurneys and doctors trying to sound upbeat. But what could be just emotive becomes genuinely uplifting as the programme goes on. You're lost in admiration for mothers such as Vicky, whose daughter Shelbie is dependent on oxygen machines. An intimate and unsentimental documentary.

11 PM - Scottish - Badiel and Skinner Unplanned
Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - unscripted and totally unrehearsed - tackle subjects suggested by a studio audience.

[Ally]

Spooks. It's on now. It's quality!

[smb]

yeah i noticed that!

[tupacshakur]

Today, SkySports 3 - WWE RAW

[bred]

The Cider House Rules is on tonight at 9:10 PM on Channel 4.

[Lesley]

8pm, channel 5, Dirty Dancing.

That is all

[bred]

7 PM - BBC1 - The Story of God

The God of the Gaps

Robert Winston presents a documentary series on the history of man's quest to understand the nature of God. He examines how belief in God had been challenged in the modern world by secular ideas, in particular science, and looks at how people of all religious beliefs have over the centuries accommodated their faith with the pursuit of knowledge. Also, how advances in astronomy, physics and biology challenged religious beliefs, and the past and current debates over Darwin's theory of evolution.


Radio Times

[princess]

Did anyone else watch the Catherine Tate Christmas special last night? I think she's brill.

[The Wedge Effect]

I watched it. Hilarious.

[Ally]

I don't like that show anymore. The 'Am I bovvered?' thing is just getting irritating now. =/

[bred]

Some of the films you might want to watch over the next few days (the number preceeding each film is the IMDB rating out of 10):

Christmas Eve

7.2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 4 PM BBC1

7.0 Bridget Jones's Diary 9:40 PM BBC1

6.6 Gorky Park 10:55 PM Five


Christmas Day

8.8 Casablanca 2:40 PM Five

8.0 Shrek 3:10 PM BBC1

7.8 Dances with Wolves 4:45 PM Five

6.8 The Importance of Being Earnest 8 PM BBC2

7.9 The Untouchables 0:05 AM (26th) ITV1


Boxing Day

7.8 Minority Report 9 PM BBC1

8.0 Young Frankenstein 11:40 PM BBC2

December 27th

7.4 The Quiet American 9 PM BBC2

8.7 Once Upon a Time in the West 11:05 PM BBC2

8.5 Taxi Driver 12 midnight C4


December 28th

7.3 The Italian Job 3:25 PM BBC1

7.0 Signs 8:30 PM BBC1

7.6 Dangerous Liasons 11:20 PM BBC2


December 29th

7.2 The Goonies 10:45 AM BBC1

5.9 The Man in the Iron Mask BBC1

6.8 The Shipping News 9 PM BBC2


December 30th

8.6 Goodfellas 10:40 PM Five

7.3 Insomnia 11:10 PM BBC1

7.1 8 Women 11:55 PM C4


Enjoy.

[djh1878]

December 30th

8.6 Goodfellas 10:40 PM Five

Brilliant movie!

[bred]

9 PM Ce Soir

Take your pick:

BBC1, Sweeney Todd

Two throat-slashings, a dismembering, the removal of a bullet without anaesthetic, an illegal abortion and an amputation. No, it's not some weird change of direction for Richard Four Weddings and a Funeral Curtis, merely the contents of the first half-hour of this extraordinarily gruesome drama. The always watchable Ray Winstone is Sweeney Todd, a tormented and unhappy barber who channels his sadness into slashing the throats of his customers before chopping them up and sending the bits to the bakery next door to be made into pies. He's helped by the owner of said pie shop, the comely Mrs Lovett (Essie Davis) who, along with her remarkably cantilevered bosom, holds Sweeney Todd in her thrall. It's all very atmospheric, and you can almost smell stinky 18th-century London. And there are moments of black humour. But blimey, you'll need a strong stomach.
RT reviewer: Alison Graham


BBC2, Three Men in a Boat

1/2
Initially, this looked cringe-making to me. Three comedians mess about in a rowing boat to re-create Jerome K Jerome's trip up the Thames, the kind of TV travelogue that sounds like a load of rusty rowlocks. How wrong could I be? Something in the chemistry between Griff Rhys Jones, Rory McGrath and the younger Dara O'Briain works a treat and the result is very funny in the way that only silly, off-the-cuff, joshing comedy can be. The trio make some pleasant stops along their way, such as David Gilmour's palatial houseboat-cum-studio. "Nice of him to let us in unannounced," they say. Yeah right, the publicity-shy Pink Floyd guitarist with a solo album out soon had no idea at all that three comics and a camera crew were about to turn up. And wrestling isn't fixed. Despite such fakery, there's loads to enjoy here, including a scurrilous anecdote about David Seaman, a prickly meeting between Dara and Antony Worrall Thompson, and some lovely scenery, too. The concluding part is on Thursday.
RT reviewer: David Butcher


Scottish, Teenage Tourettes Camp

There are moments in this documentary that are like a Little Britain sketch. Except this isn't funny. It follows five British teenagers with the incurable neurological disorder Tourette syndrome as they spend a week in a special American summer camp. Here there's no need to suppress the random verbal outbursts, uncontrollable twitches and strange noises that society finds so unacceptable. Everyone's doing it. The kids are accepted, not ostracised, so they can relax and find new ways to manage their antisocial tics. For us it's a rare chance to see past the offensive behaviour, understand how difficult this inherited condition makes their life and feel a sympathy we may not have had at the outset.
RT reviewer: Jane Rackham


BBC4, The Life and Times of El Niño

With concern about the cooling of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, here's a timely film about the disruption of currents in the Pacific. Every few years, when the trade winds subside, warm waters roll eastward across the Pacific. The current is named El Niño - the Christ child, because it first appears at Christmas - and it wreaks havoc. But could it grow even more fearsome?
RT reviewer: Geoff Ellis

[smb]

this once i think i will watch bbc2. tbh, i have actually have grown quite fond of the channel over recent months