With Dermot Murnaghan and Natasha Kaplinsky.
Timetable on Monday 22 December
Then The National Lottery Daily Play
Ends 11.15.
Arthur
Coping with Mr Ratburn's classroom, and the all-school spellathon.
9.25 The Woody Woodpecker Show
Presents are stolen, Chilly feels cold and Woody tries to do some good deeds.
9.50 Looney Tunes Bugs appears on a menu.
10.00 The First Snow of Winter
Animation. A little duck misses the annual migration.
10.30 Rugrats
The two-part story concludes as the gang try to give Dil a special Christmas.
10.55 Taz-Mania
Taz feels rejected at Christmas.
Seasonal comedy starring
Dudley Moore. After creating havoc at the North Pole, Patch, one of Santa's elves, heads for New York to make a name for himself. Review page 53.
Director Jeannot Szwarc (1985. U)
Weather
Dead Heat. After Jessica Fletcher 's niece, a jockey, rides a surprise winner, the owner of the horse is found dead. Starring
Angela Lansbury.
Animated fantasy adventure featuring the voices of John Cleese , Geoffrey Rush and Sam Neill. Koala bear Bunyip Bluegum heads off in search of his missing parents. On his journey he meets Albert, a magical pudding who can adopt any flavour he wants and never runs out. Review page 54. Director Karl Zwicky (2000, U)
Ends 5.30.
The Wild Thornberrys
Eliza's attempts to help animals over Christmas backfire.
4.10 The Basil Brush Show
Will Basil succeed in having a traditional
Christmas?
4.35 The Fairly Odd Parents
Timmy causes global havoc with a Christmas wish.
5.00 Blue Peter
The team open the Christmas songbook and perform classics including a Brazilian version of White Christmas.
A woman in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, sells her clutter in the hope of raising funds for a flight to the Canadian Arctic to be reunited with her childhood Inuit friends.
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With George Alagiah and Sian Williams. Including a weather summary.
Details on Monday 22 December
Followed by Weather with Alex Deakin.
In the last ever programme of the long-running series, a tiny shitzhu is choking on a large bone and two Jack Russells are stuck in a crevice. Plus Jamie Darling meets the animal actors starring in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. With Rolf Harris. Executive producer; Clare Sillery; Series producer Tony Moulsdale
Alfie is determined to make his wedding run like clockwork. The next visit to Walford is tomorrow at 7.30pm.
Writer Bob Ritchie For cast on Monday 22 and Monday 29 December
Repeated at 10pm on BBC3 www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders
Kath, Ric, Jess and Kelly learn the value of friendship on Holby City's wards.
Writer Leslie Stewart : Producer Emma Turner : Director James Strong
MEDICAL DRAMA
Holby City 8.00pm BBC1
It may be the season to be jolly, but Nic (Liam Garrigan) and Kelly (Rachel Leskovac) don't have much to laugh about. After the explosive end to last week's episode, the pair are brought into Holby City Hospital fighting for their lives. Nic is the more badly injured of the two and has to be kept heavily sedated. His prognosis isn't good and, not surprisingly, the nursing staff treat him with thinly disguised contempt for putting them all through such hell. And of course Kath is understandably shaken at having Kelly around again.
While this is a decidedly downbeat storyline for the festive period (and matters don't improve in next week's episode, by the way), the arrival of Rowland Rivron, who guest stars as an overweight travelling salesman trying to flog snowstorms, may raise a smile or two among Holby stalwarts. JR
Crime thriller starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. When a serial killer begins terrorising New York it falls to a paralysed forensic expert and a rookie female cop to try and interpret the cryptic clues he leaves at the scene of his crimes. Review page 54.
Det Kenny Solomon Mike McGlone Detective Paulie Sellitto Ed O'Neill Director Phillip Noyce (1999.15)
With Huw Edwards. Regional News
Weather with Alex Deakin.
Musical drama starring John Travolta. Tony Manero works in a dead-end job, but on Saturday nights he becomes the - disco king at his local nightclub. Review page 54.
Director John Badham (1977.18)
Followed by Weatherview
Period drama based on the real-life relationship between mobster Sam Giancana and singing star Phyllis McGuire , starring John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker. Review page 54.
Director John N Smith (1995. 18)
Signed programmes. Ends 4.55.
Time Flyers Unearthing a sad story in Sheffield.
First shown on BBC2
3.25 Innovation Nation The would-be inventor's shortlisted ideas are tested to the limit.
3.55 Nation's Favourite Christmas Food The top 11 gastronomic choices. Shown on Saturday 20 December at 9am on BBC2
