December 24 – December 30
RTEGUIDE RTE 1 – WEEK 52 – December 24 – Saturday – Christmas Eve
05.00 Euro News
07.15 Morning Movie – Elvis Season – King Creole
(1958, Musical) Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones. Director: Michael Curtiz. Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won’t take no for an answer…
09.20 The Symphony Sessions
Featuring the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. (Repeat)
10.20 Morning Movie: Showboat
(1951, Musical) Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner. Director: George Sidney. The “Cotton Blossom”, owned by the Hawk family, is the show boat where everyone comes for great musical entertainment down south.
12.20 EastEnders
Episode 920 (Repeat)
12.55 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
13.05 Last of the Summer Wine
13.40 Matinee Double Bill: Oliver!
(1968, Musical) Mark Lester, Ron Moody. Director: Carol Reed. Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
16.00 Matinee Double Bill: Sister Act
(1992, Comedy) Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel. Director: Emile Ardolino. When a worldly singer witnesses a mob crime, the police hide her as a nun in a traditional convent where she has trouble fitting in.
(Includes Nuacht RTÉ followed by News for the Deaf at 17.00)
(Followed by European Weather)
18.00 The Angelus
18.01 RTÉ News: Six One
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
18.25 Christmas Carols From Cork
RTE and Cork European Capital of Culture 2005 combine forces to present this Carol Concert from Cork.
Among those giving readings will be President Mary McAleese as well as the captains of the three 2005 All-Ireland winning teams, all from Cork. The programme will include music from James Galway, Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, Majella Cullagh, G4, Catherine Leonard, Iarla Ó Lionnárd, tenor Denis O’Neill, harpist Jean Kelly and 600 choristers from all over Cork, with the Orchestra of the Cork School of Music, conducted by Geoffrey Spratt.
19.25 Winning Streak
Derek Mooney hosts the National Lottery game show with the big money prizes.
20.25 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
20.35 Christmas Eve Movie Premiere: Die Another Day
(2002, Action/Adventure)Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry. Director: Lee Tamahori. It’s up to James Bond to discover the connection between a North Korean terrorist and an adventurous diamond broker whose looks may be deceiving.
23.00 Midnight Mass
Live from St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Pope Benedict’s first Christmas Mass.
00.55 Late Late Movie Double Bill: Stir Crazy
(1980, Comedy) Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor. Director: Sidney Poitier. New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they’re sent to prison! Soon our heroes, imprisoned with a wild assortment of inmates, are trying to make the best of a bad situation. With 120-year sentences, it certainly doesn’t look as though they’re getting out anytime soon.
03.00 Late Late Movie Double Bill: Citizen Kane
(1941, drama) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton. Director: Orson Welles. Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, Xanadu, speaking a single word: “Rosebud”. In an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, a reporter tracks down the people who worked and lived with Kane; they tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane’s life but not enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath.
RTEGUIDE RTE 1 – WEEK 52 – December 25 – Sunday – Christmas Day
04.55 Euro News
06.45 Morning Movie: King Kong
(1933, Adventure) Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong. Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. An expedition exploring a remote island capture a gigantic ape and bring him back to New York for exhibition. A beautiful actress who accompanies them is menaced when the monster’s love for her causes him to break out.
08.20 Morning Movie: An American in Paris
(1951, Musical) Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron. Vincente Minnelli. Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.
10.10 Christmas Day Service
Parishioners of Rathfarnham Church of Ireland Parish, Dublin are led by Rev. Ted Woods.
10.55 Urbi et Orbi
Pope Benedict XVl gives his first Christmas Greeting and Blessing to a worldwide audience. Live from Rome.
11.30 Mass for Christmas Day
From Holy Family Residence, Roebuck Road, Dublin. Residents in this retirement home, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, are joined by their children and grandchildren to celebrate the feast of Christmas.
Celebrant: Fr Brendan Purcell.
12.35 Christmas Day Matinee: The Wizard of Oz
(1939, Musical) Adventure) Judy Garland, Frank Morgan. Director: Victor Fleming.
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
14.15 The Poet, the Shopkeeper and Babu
observational documentary by
award-winning director, Neasa Ní Chianáin, who travels with poet Cathal Ó
Searcaigh from his remote cottage in Donegal where he grew up, to faraway
Nepal, a country that he has adopted. We share memories of Cathal’s growing up as an only child, and learn how Nepal has brightened his life since his fateful meeting with Prem, a young Nepalese man who has become his ‘adopted son’. In a country where marriages are arranged, Cathal chose a wife for Prem, built him a house, bought his ‘son’ a shop in Kathmandu, and is now the proud ‘grandfather’ of Prem’s first child. In a land rich with ritual and ceremony, a sacred goat also plays an important part in their lives.
14.45 Christmas Day Greetings From the Primates of All Ireland
14.55 Christmas Day Movie Premiere: Scooby-Doo
(2002, Comedy/Adventure) Freddie Prinze Jnr., Sarah Michelle Gellar. Director: Raja Gosnell. Two years after a clash of egos forced Mystery Inc. to close its doors, Scooby-Doo and his clever crime-solving cohorts Fred, Daphne, Shaggy and Velma are individually summoned to Spooky Island to investigate a strange series of paranormal incidents at the ultra-hip Spring Break hot spot.
Concerned that his frightfully popular resort might truly be haunted, Spooky Island owner Emile Mondavarious tries to reunite those notoriously meddling detectives to solve the mystery before his supernatural secret scares away the college crowd.
16.20 Christmas Day Movie Premiere: Ice Age
(2002, Animation/Adventure) John Leguizamo, Denis Leary. Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha. Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a stupid sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed tiger named Diego, and an acorn-loving saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The four reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age.
17.35 Fair City
Rita and Bela enjoy being back together over Christmas with their family around them. Brendan is shocked when he arrives at Jo and Dermot’s for Christmas dinner and finds Deirdre there. Dominic’s odd mood over dinner in Carol’s makes things awkward for Tracey while Carol is taken aback when Sylvester makes a drunken pass at her. Lorcan and Ali celebrate their new life as husband and wife. Joseph and Pete conspire to get back at Dominic while Pete sprays racist graffiti on the Udenze’s house. (Includes The Angelus at 18.00 followed by RTÉ News: Six One and Weather Forecast)
18.40 Christmas Day Movie Premiere: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(2003, Adventure/Comedy) Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom. Director: Gore Verbinski. When Elizabeth Swann, the daughter of Governor Swann is kidnapped by a group of pirates led by Captain Barbossa and taken aboard their ship, The Black Pearl, Will Turner, the young man who loves Elizabeth despite the fact that she is promised to another, sets out to rescue her. But he can’t do it alone, so he enlists the help of swashbuckling ship captain Jack Sparrow. Together the two chase after The Black Pearl, but they soon discover that the captain and crew aren’t your average pirates. (Followed by RTÉ News and Weather Forecast)
21.00 EastEnders
22.00 A Killinaskully Christmas Carol
When Dan fails to get into the Christmas spirit, he is subject to a series of nocturnal visitations until he sees the error of his ways.
What the Dickens can it all mean?
22.25 Christmas Night Movie Premiere: Chicago
(2002, Musical) Catherine Zeta Jones, Renne Zellweger. Director: Rob Marshall. Everyone loves a legend, but in Chicago, there’s only room for one. Velma Kelley burns in the spotlight as a nightclub sensation. When she shoots her philandering husband, she lands on Chicago’s famed murderess row, retains Chicago’s slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn, and is the centre of the town’s most notorious murder case, only increasing her celebrity.
Roxie Hart, seduced by the city’s promise of style and adventure, dreams of singing and dancing her way to stardom. When her abusive lover tries to walk out on her, she too ends up in prison. Billy recognizes a made-for-tabloids story, and postpones Velma’s court date to take on Roxie’s case. Infamy is Roxie’s ticket to stardom. Billy turns her crime of passion into celebrity headlines, and in this town, where murder is a form of entertainment, she becomes a bona-fide star — much to Velma’s chagrin.
00.10 Christmas Night at the Movies: Michael Collins
(1996, History/Drama) Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn. Director: Neil Jordan. Depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins, the ‘Lion of Ireland’, who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State (Eire) in 1921.
02.15 Late Late Movie: Rear Window
(1954, Mystery/Suspense) James Stewart, Grace Kelly. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbours. He begins to suspect that the man opposite may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his society model girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his nurse Stella to investigate.
RTEGUIDE RTE 1 – WEEK 52 – December 26 – Monday – St. Stephen’s Day
04.05 Euro News
07.20 Morning Movie – Elvis Season: Blue Hawaii
(1961, Musical) Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman. Director: Norman Taurog. Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His father wants him to go to work at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, but Chad is reluctant. So Chad goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend’s agency.
09.10 Morning Movie: North by Northwest
(1959, Thriller) Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies and the government whilst being helped by a beautiful blonde.
11.35 EastEnders
(Repeat)
12.50 RTÉ News: One O’Clock
(Followed by Farming Weather)
13.00 Home and Away
Episode 3999
13.30 Matinee: The Sound of Music
(1965, Musical) Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer. Director: Robert Wise. Maria had longed to be a nun since she was a young girl, yet when she became old enough discovered that it wasn’t at all what she thought. Often in trouble and doing the wrong things, Maria is sent to the house of a retired naval captain, named Captain Von Trapp, to care for his children. Von Trapp was widowed several years before and was left to care for seven ‘rowdy’ children. The children have run off countless governesses. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a little love to change their attitudes. Maria teaches the children to sing, and through her, music is brought back into the hearts and home of the Von Trapp family.
16.40 Nuacht RTÉ
(Followed by News for the Deaf)
16.50 St. Stephen’s Day Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(2002, Fantasy/Adventure) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. Director: Chris Columbus. Young wizard Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione (Watson) face new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to discover a dark force that is terrorizing the school. (Includes The Angelus at 18.00 followed by RTÉ News: Six One and Weather Forecast)
20.00 EastEnders
20.30 Return to Tsunami
RTÉ’s Late Late Show producer Bill Malone was in Khao Lak (Thailand) last December on the day the tsunami struck. A 10-metre high tidal wave devastated the region, leaving over 4,000 people dead in this sparsely populated tourist paradise. Although caught in the wave, Bill and his girlfriend Elka miraculously escaped. Three months later he was drawn back to the place where he should have died, to try and piece together how he escaped and to document his personal story.
21.00 RTÉ News: Nine O’Clock
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
21.20 Christmas with the King
It’s an Elvis-fest for fans as they join Kevin Doyle as “The King” and ‘The Way It Was Orchestra’ for a unique night of classic Presley songs and festive fun. Having packed out venues from The Olympia to The Point (where they played with TCB – Elvis’ original backing band!), Kevin and the band bring their inimitable Elvis show to the small screen, joined by an array of musical stars including Dickie Rock, Chris de Burgh, Dave Browne from Picturehouse, George Murphy (the You’re a Star show stealer) and newcomer Claire Sproule. Dustin the Turkey is there too. Enjoy!
22.20 St. Stephen’s Night Movie Premiere: Evelyn
(2002, Drama) Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies. Director: Bruce Beresford. Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Noel and Brendan, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.
00.10 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast and An Evening Prayer)
00.15 Late Late Movie Double Bill: Stargate
(1994, Sci-Fi) Kurt Russell, James Spader. Director: Roland Emmerich. An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra
02.25 Late Late Movie Double Bill: The Third Man
(1950, Thriller) Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton. Director: Carol Reed. An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend’s involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
RTEGUIDE RTE 1 – WEEK 52 – December 27 – Tuesday
04.05 Euro News
07.10 Morning Movie – Elvis Season: G.I. Blues
(1960, Musical) Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse. Director: Norman Taurog. Tulsa is a specialist in the US Army stationed in Germany. He loves to sing and has dreams to run his own nightclub when he leaves the army….but dreams don’t come cheap.
09.00 Morning Movie: Funny Girl
(1968, Musical) Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif. Director: William Wyler. The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
11.55 EastEnders
(Repeat)
12.30 Telly Bingo
12.45 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
12.50 Home and Away
Episode 4000
13.30 Celtic Woman
14.20 Matinee: Titanic
(1997, Adventure/Romance) Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. Director: James Cameron. In his search for a blue diamond once owned by Louis XVI that was believed to have gone down with the Titanic, Brock Lovett discovers an intriguing sketch of a beautiful woman wearing the diamond on her neck. When the sketch appears on a news program, an old lady steps forward, claiming to be the woman in the drawing. She then recounts a beautiful story that took place on the ill-fated ship, a story of love that knew no boundaries.
(Includes Nuacht RTÉ followed by News for the Deaf at 17.00)
(Followed by European Weather)
18.00 The Angelus
18.01 RTÉ News: Six One
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
18.30 Tsunami – One Year On
This one-hour documentary reflects on the unique humanitarian response to the tsunami in South East Asia on 26th December 2004. In January Frontier Films producer/director Edel O’Brien travelled to Sri Lanka and witnessed first-hand the chaos and devastation. Over 35,000 people had died and half a million people were left homeless. The media coverage and the scale of the response from the international community was unprecedented. 347 official charities and thousands of volunteers arrived in Sri Lanka, where over $750 million had been pledged in emergency relief. This was the most well-funded, well reported natural disaster in history; however when the programme crew returned six months later they discovered that despite the huge amount of money and goodwill there is no such thing as a quick fix.
19.30 EastEnders
20.00 Fair City
Darren is taken aback when he sees Bela entering Rita’s bedroom while Rita and Bela agree they want to get back together. Deegan reminds Mick that they are keeping an eye on him. Suzanne accuses Morgan of racism after Morgan insults Joshua and Louise.
20.30 The Restaurant – Christmas Special
In the kitchen for the second programme is Ireland’s national rugby coach Eddie O’Sullivan (who’ll be cooking something “scrumtious” no doubt!).
21.00 RTÉ News: Nine O’Clock
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
21.20 Coulter and Company – Christmas Special
This special Christmas edition of Phil Coulter’s hugely popular show celebrates the 1960s “Ballad Boom” in Ireland, when Irish songs suddenly became all the rage in ballrooms and concert venues – a revival that was helped by the exposure the new stars of this genre got on “Telefis Éireann” (as the new service was then called). Phil is joined by some of the big personalities of that era for a nostalgic hour of music and song. Taking part are Dermot O’Brien, Johnny McEvoy, Jimmy Crowley and the New Barleycorn group, along with some of today’s current musical crop – banjoist extraordinaire Gerry O’Connor and guitarist Donagh O’Malley.
22.25 Movie: Out of Sight
(1998, Crime/Comedy) George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez. Director: Steven Soderbergh. Charming bank robber Jack Foley escapes from prison and takes a female federal marshal hostage. Foley and the marshal fall in love, though both suspect a happy ending is not in the cards — especially since she’s part of the manhunt to put him back behind bars.
00.40 RTÉ News
(Followed by An Evening Prayer)
00.45 Late Late Movie Double Bill: Pale Rider
(1985, Western) Clint Eastwood, Carrie Snodgrass. Director: Clint Eastwood. A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
02.55 Late Late Movie Double Bill: Of Mice and Men
(1939, Drama) Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr. Director: Lewis Milestone.
Cousins George Milton and Lennie Small are itinerant workers in Depression-era California. They dream of saving enough to buy a ranch. But this seems unlikely, since they are constantly being fired due to the feeblemindedness of the mountainous Lennie. Soon after hiring on at a new ranch, they must confront the pugnacious Curly, while trying to deal with his flirtatious wife, Mae.
04.40 Telly Bingo
(Repeat)
RTEGUIDE RTE 1 – WEEK 52 – December 28 – Wednesday
04.55 Euro News
06.25 Morning Movie – Elvis Season: Paradise, Hawaiian Style
(1966, Musical) Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh. Director: Michael Moore. Rick Richards is a helicopter pilot who wants to set up a charter flying service in Hawaii — along the way he makes some friends, including a young Hawaiian girl and her father, romances Judy Hudson, and sings a few songs.
08.10 The Symphony Sessions
09.10 Morning Movie: The King and I
(1956, Musical/Romance) Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr. Director: Walter Lang. After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better.
(Followed by RTÉ News and Weather Forecast)
11.40 EastEnders
(Repeat)
12.15 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
12.40 Home and Away
Episode 4001
12.50 Matinee Double Bill: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(1968, Adventure/Comedy) Dick Van Dyke, Adrian Hall. Director: Ken Hughes. An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can’t seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skullduggery to get their hands on it.
15.30 Matinee Double Bill: The Count of Monte Cristo
(2002, Adventure) Guy Pearce, Richard Harris. Director: Kevin Reynolds. A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous “friends,” escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
(Includes Nuacht RTÉ at 17.00 followed by News for the Deaf)
(Followed by European Weather)
18.00 The Angelus
18.01 RTÉ News: Six One
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
18.30 Reeling in the Years – 1999
19.00 When Dreams Come True – Christmas Special
Ray D’Arcy helps some festive dreams come true.
19.30 Bing’s Favourite Irishman
At Christmas time, thoughts turn to Bing Crosby and White Christmas. The singer had Irish roots and had many friends here – in particular Dublin showbiz entrepreneur George O’Reilly, whom he first met in 1953. This nostalgic documentary tells the story of their 24-year friendship and Bing’s Irish connections. George, who brought Bing to Ireland to record a television show, has collected an archive of Bing memorabilia, correspondence and photographs. (He also found an Irish nanny for Bing’s family). We revisit George’s memories of trips to Bing’s Hollywood and meetings with stars of that era including Bob Hope and Nat King Cole.
19.57 Lotto
20.00 EastEnders
20.30 Fair City
Tracey finds the courage to confront Dominic with the truth about her past. Bela and Rita plan to tell their children about their relationship. Nina and Gabriel question Suzanne about her knowledge of Pete. Brendan is relieved at the Medical Council’s verdict.
21.00 RTÉ News: Nine O’Clock
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
21.25 The Midweek Movie: The Recruit
(2003, Thriller) Al Pacino, Colin Farrell. Director: Roger Donaldson. New CIA recruit James Clayton is a top prospect and his intelligence and unconventional attitude attract the attention of veteran CIA agent Walter Burke. The veteran takes Clayton under his wing, teaching him the ropes and the rules of the game. Soon, he gives the rookie a special assignment — to root out a mole within their ranks. But Clayton soon realises that he can trust no one and that nothing is as it seems. Network Television Premiere.
23.30 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast and An Evening Prayer)
23.35 Late Late Movie Double Bill: G.I. Jane
(1998, Action) Demi Moore, Viggo Mortenson. Director: Ridley Scott. Navy Intelligence officer Lt Jordan O’Neil becomes a test case when she is recruited to become the first woman allowed to train for the covert operations unit known as the Navy SEALS. She is not expected to succeed and many high ranking military and government officials, including Senator Lillian DeHaven, are counting on her to fail. O’Neil persists, and when the recruit’s final training exercise is diverted to aid and rescue American troops in the Middle East, the Master Chief is wounded and O’Neil must summon all her leadership abilities to save him and the mission.
02.05 Late Late Movie Double Bill: The Man Who Would Be King
(1975, Adventure) Sean Connery, Michael Caine. Director: John Huston. This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right.
RTEGUIDE RTE 1 – WEEK 52 – December 29 – Thursday
04.40 Euro News
08.10 Morning Movie – Elvis Season: Fun in Acapulco
(1963, Musical) Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress. Director: Richard Thorpe. Mike Windgren is a former trapeze artist who’s suffered from vertigo ever since accidentally dropping his partner during a performance. Working as a lifeguard/entertainer at an Acapulco resort, Mike falls in love with social director Margarita Dauphine. With her help, he overcomes his fear of heights in a spectacular high-dive finale.
09.45 The Symphony Sessions
10.45 Morning Movie: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(1953, Comedy/Musical) Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe. Director: Howard Hawks. Lorelei and Dorothy are just “Two Little Girls from Little Rock”, lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
12.25 EastEnders
(Repeat)
13.00 RTÉ News: One O’Clock
(Followed by Weather Forecast and Cinnlinte Nuachta)
13.10 Home and Away
Episode 4002
13.40 Matinee Double Bill: Back to the Future Part II
(1989, Adventure/Sci-Fi) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd. Director: Robert Zemeckis. After visiting 2015, Marty must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985… without interfering with his first trip.
15.40 Matinee Double Bill: Back to the Future Part III
(1990, Adventure/Sci-Fi) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd. Director: Robert Zemickis. Stranded in 1955 after a freak burst of lightning, Marty must travel to 1885 to rescue Doc Brown from a premature end. Surviving an Indian attack and unfriendly townsfolk, Marty finds Doc Brown the blacksmith. But with the Doc under the spell of the charming Clara Clayton, it’s up to Marty to get them out of the wild west and back to the future.
(Includes Nuacht RTÉ followed by News for the Deaf at 17.00)
(Followed by European Weather)
18.00 The Angelus
18.01 RTÉ News: Six One
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
18.30 Keith Barry Live With Friends
Keith Barry has been delighting RTÉ audiences over the past two years with his unique brand of magical entertainment in “Close Encounters with Keith Barry”. Keith’s stage show, “Brainwashed” then went on to baffle and enthrall sold out audiences. Now the mystery, suspense and excitement of Keith’s live show will be brought to RTÉ viewers in this one-hour Christmas Special, shot at a Dublin venue in front of a celebrity filled audience. “Brainwashed”, the result of two years’ development, has also helped land him a four-year TV deal with America’s CBS Network – so Keith is on course soon to become a household name in the US.
19.30 EastEnders
20.00 Fair City
Pete is furious when he discovers that Joshua has damaged his car. The Doyles say their goodbyes to Darren and Tiffany while Louise asks Rita if she is going to remarry Bela. Dominic agrees to take Tracey back while Tracey wonders how he found out about her past.
20.30 Fawlty Towers
21.00 RTÉ News: Nine O’Clock
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
21.30 The Daniel O’Donnell Show – Christmas Special
Daniel hosts an evening of festive music and chat with some very special guests.
22.30 One Faithful Harp – The Life and Music of Thomas Moore
Featuring original new settings by musicians and singers including Christy Moore, Luka Bloom, Eimear Quinn, Michael Mc Glynn, Steve Cooney, Laoise Kelly, and Iarla O Lionaird, and unexpected archive recordings by artists like Nina Simone and Joe Strummer of the Clash this film is a long overdue reassessment of Thomas Moore’s life and work. With contributors like Seamus Heaney, Prof Kevin Whelan, Fintan O’Toole, Nicholas Carolan, Dr Gerry Lyne and others this programme will present the Moore repertoire in exciting – even subversive interpretations, against a commentary which will address the controversial questions that surround Moore.
23.30 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast and An Evening Prayer)
23.35 Late Late Movie Double Bill: The Field
(1990, Drama) Richard Harris, John Hurt. Director: Jim Sheridan. For many years rugged individualist Bull McCabe has been cultivating a small plot of rented land, nurturing it from barren rock into a fertile field. Now, however, the widow who owns the land plans to sell it at auction. The infuriated Bull shows up at the bidding, secure in his belief that none of his neighbours will dare bid against him. But Bull has not taken into consideration a wealthy Irish-American, who intends to pave over the land and bring new industry to the area.
01.45 Late Late Movie Double Bill: Out of Africa
(1985, Drama) Meryl Streep, Robert Redford. Director: Sydney Pollack. In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.
RTEGUIDE RTE 1 – WEEK 52 – December 30 – Friday
04.30 Euro News
06.30 Morning Movie – Elvis Season: Girls! Girls! Girls!
(1962, Musical) Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens. Director: Norman Taurog. Ross Carpenter is a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
08.25 The Symphony Sessions
09.25 Morning Movie: South Pacific
(2001, Musical) Glen Close, Harry Connick Jr. Director: Richard Pearce. During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart.
(Followed by RTÉ news and Weather Forecast)
11.55 EastEnders
(Repeat)
12.30 Telly Bingo
12.45 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast and Cinnlinte Nuachta)
12.55 Home and Away
Episode 4003
13.25 Matinee Double Bill: The Pink Panther Strikes Again
(1976, Comedy/Crime) Peter Sellars, Herbert Lom. Director: Blake Edwards. Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn’t succeed at first, so he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doom’s Day machine and demand that someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will use the machine to wipe out whole cities and even whole countries… With about 22 assassins from all over the globe on his tail, Clouseau decides to find Dreyfus alone and put him back in the mental asylum.
15.25 Matinee Double Bill: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977, Sci-Fi/Drama) Richard Dreyfus, Melinda Dillon. Director: Steven Spielberg. A line worker, after a encounter with UFO’s, feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
(Includes Nuacht RTÉ followed by News for the Deaf at 17.00) (Followed by European Weather)
18.00 The Angelus
18.01 RTÉ News: Six One
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
18.25 The Big Big Movie: Johnny English
(2003, Comedy) Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich. Director: Peter Howitt. When all but one of MI5’s top agents are killed in an explosion. It is left to the inept Johnny English to try and solve who has stolen the crown jewels from the Tower of London. Accompanied by his assistant Bough, Johnny bungles his way through one scrape after another.
Network Television Premiere
20.00 EastEnders
20.30 Behind the Scenes at Killinaskully
There is no such place as Killinaskully … but Pat Shortt’s hit comedy series is filmed on location in two Tipperary villages, Killoscully and Ballinahinch, and in this programme the cameras focus on the people of the real villages to find out what they think of the whole business of camera crews and thespians and the like invading the place to put them on the national map. They’re all delighted, it seems, and already the tourists are flocking there at the rate of two a month, seeking out the real pub (Ryan’s Bar) where so much of the Ballinaskully shenanigans happen.
21.00 RTÉ News: Nine O’Clock
(Followed by Weather Forecast)
21.25 How Was 05 For You?
What were the ten best and the ten worst things people remember about the year 2005? A nationwide Lansdowne Marketing survey provides the answers and presenter
Presented by Joe Duffy
22.25 Gaybo’s Grumpy Men
Gay Byrne listens to the grumbles and gripes of Irish men. What is it that irritates them, raises their blood pressure, and drives them mental? Among his guests are Jon Kenny, Dave Fanning, Brendan O’Carroll, John O’Shea and David Norris
23.25 RTÉ News
(Followed by Weather Forecast and An Evening Prayer)
23.30 Late Late Movie Double Bill: The War of the Roses
(1989, Comedy) Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner. Director: Danny De Vito. The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D’Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far..
01:35 Late Late Movie Double Bill: 29th Street
(1991, Comedy) Danny Aiello, Anthony LaPaglia. Director: George Gallo. Based on a true story, a man growing up in a tough New York neighbourhood has a gift for finding himself in the worst possible jams…and always getting out. He is the first New York Lottery winner.
03.20 Telly Bingo
(Repeat)