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These are a few of the decent things on TV this year over the festive period. Please feel free to add what you will be watching, it might give us some ideas to look out for.


Christmas Day BBC1 20.30
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
New escapade with Nick Park's claymation duo begins with our heroes plying a roaring trade with their new Top Bun bakery business. But with a murderer on the loose targeting bakers - and Wallace distracted by the charms of Piella Bakewell - it falls to Gromit to uncover the killer's identity.


Boxing Day ITV1 19.00
Harry Hill's TV Burp Reveiw of the Year
Nothing escapes Harry and to prove it these are moments you may think he missed between series. Soaps are well represented but others also remembered include Ray Mears, Trinny and Susannah, plus a few unexpected revelations.


Monday 29th Dec Five 19.15
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2008. Starts Monday and is on every day this week. This year it's looking at computers in the modern age starting with the microprocessor


Tuesday 30th Dec BBC2 22.00
All New Shooting Stars
The cult show returns for a one-off special, with Vic, Bob and Matt battling to outdo one another for comic lunacy. Team captains Ulrika Jonsson and Jack Dee, with special guests Peter Jones, Kate Garraway, Christine Walkden and Dizzee Rascal do their best to keep up.


New Year's Day BBC2 20.00
Three Men in More than One Boat
1/2. Emboldened by the not entirely stress-free success of their two previous nautical trips, Griff, Dara and Rory hatch a plan to sail along the Cornish coast, then on to the Scilly Isles in time for Europe's most spectacular bird migration. But with Rory in charge of vessel procurement, things don't get off to the smoothest of starts.


2nd Jan BBC4 22.00
Prog Rock Britannia
Bill Bruford, Ian Anderson and the ever-amusing Rick Wakeman help to remind us of the excellence (the cultured musicality of early Genesis) and the excess (band names on the tops of lorries that were visible only by helicopter). This honest, entertaining history highlights the classical cornerstones of the prog edifice, whisking us from Procul Harum's Hammond progenitor, A Whiter Shade of Pale, and Arthur Brown's flaming headgear to the Fripperies of King Crimson and artists Roger Dean's gatefold wizardry.

Sitting in front of the television isn't really high on my list of priorities during the Christmas holiday. Tonight though, I will be watching Shameless at 10-50.
      I model myself very closely on dear old Frank

Thanks for that Lorna. I won't need to buy the Radio Times now. Good list, by the way. Happy Christmas to you both.

Just watched the Rab C Nesbitt Xmas Special at 9 which i thoroughly enjoyed.

Thanks for alerting us to this Lorna.  Kind of prgramme that I like record to show in class.

The Crooked House Trilogy of ghost stories on BBC4, 10.30 pm, has been good over the last two nights.  Final Story tomorrow.

You can watch the previous two stories on iPlayer.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gf5l2

I do like a good ghost story at Christmas 

Oh dear, am I turning into a geek? I read the above and was thinking I had my festive viewing sorted, then I remembered I am taking Mrs Remy to Paris to see the New Year in.
Do I tell her we cant go or do I try to get the Freeview to record it?......
I think I have just answered my own question..... hope she doesnt see this post...lol

Remy