Saturday December 31 – Friday January 6
RTEGUIDE RTE 2 – WEEK 1 – December 31 – Saturday – New Year’s Eve
06.50 Den Movie: Movie Toons: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(2003, Animation) The larger-than-life Jules Verne’s adventure about reclusive Captain Nemo, his magnificent submarine, the Nautilus, and the expedition to track him down.
08.00 Club Disney
Featuring Brandy and Mr. Whiskers; Disney’s Recess; and Disney’s The Buzz on Maggie.
09.30 Mary K in the Loft
Featuring Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action; Powerpuff Girls; New Scooby Doo Movies; and Static Shock.
11.10 Sister Sister
11.35 Cartoon Time
11.45 Dexter’s Laboratory
12.10 news2day Review of the Year
12.40 8 Simple Rules – Double Bill
“Sort of an Officer and a Gentleman” Parts 1 & 2.
13.30 RTÉ Sport on Two: Moto GP Review of the Year
A look back at the 2005 Moto GP season.
14.30 Festival of World Cultures 2005 Highlights
Highlights of this summer’s Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire.
15.30 Two: Civilisation: The Allies Who Fought For Hitler
16.20 Screen Two: The Guns of Navarone
(1961, War) Gregory Peck, David Niven. Director: J. Lee Thompson. A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
19.15 RTÉ Sport on Two: The Premiership
Highlights and analysis of all today’s action cross-channel.
21.00 Screen Two: Memento
(2000, Crime/Drama) Gut Pearce, Carrie Anne Moss. Director: Christopher Nolan.
A robber attacks a married couple, killing the woman and leaving the man for dead. As he convalesces, the man struggles to overcome amnesia through the chaos of memory loss induced by his injuries. Finding himself within rag-tag moments of his past, he attempts to remember the vital details and solve the mystery behind his wife’s murder.
23.05 The Panel – End of Year Special Dara O Briain presides in this special edition of the hit comedy “discussion” programme in which nothing and nobody is spared the attentions of Colin Murphy, Andrew Maxwell, Gráinne Seoighe, Neil Delamere – while guests David McWilliamns and Declan O’Rourke will have to have their wits about them.
00.05 Screen Two: You Talkin’ To Me? Dog Day Afternoon
(1975, Crime/Drama) Al Pacino, John Cazele. Director: Sidney Lumet. Based upon true events, a New York man and two accomplices are besieged in a bank with all the bank employees after his attempt to rob enough money to pay for his male lover’s sex change operation goes awry. What results is a two day media circus in which his private life and the humiliation of the police is laid bare for the whole city.
02.20 Screen Two: You Talkin’ To Me? American Graffiti
(1973, Drama) Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss. Director: George Lucas. A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
04.20 RTÉ Sport on Two: The Premiership
(Repeat)
06.00 Euro News
RTEGUIDE RTE 2 – WEEK 1 – January 01 – Sunday – New Year’s Day
06.50 Den Movie: Movie Toons: Globe Hunters: Around the World in 80 Days
(2003, Animation) This musical ’round the world journey stars three animals: a sassy cheetah, a nervous parrot, and a rebellious gorilla-followed in their quest by a mysterious “hunter”!
08.00 Club Disney
Featuring Disney’s Fillmore; Classic Cartoons; Disney’s Pepper Ann; and Lloyd in Space.
09.35 Mary K in the Loft
Featuring Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action; Powerpuff Girls; New Scooby Doo Movies; and Static Shock.
11.30 Cartoon time
11.40 Dexter’s Laboratory
12.05 8 Simple Rules
“Changes 53”
12.30 Den Movie: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
(2001, Animation) Debi Derryberry, Patrick Stewart. Director: John A. Davis. Jimmy Neutron is a boy genius and way ahead of his friends, but when it comes to being cool, he’s a little behind. All until one day when his parents, and parents all over Earth are kidnapped by aliens, it’s up to him to lead all the children of the world to rescue their parents.
Network Television Premiere
14.05 Screen Two: Gandhi
(1982, Drama) Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergin. Director: Richard Attenborough. Biography of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
17.30 Fair City Omnibus
20.00 Frame Two: Transplant Tourism
An expose of the global black market trade in human organs.
Richard is a retired Canadian businessman who opted to go overseas and buy a kidney from an anonymous donor in Turkey. Confronted with his own mortality, and the possibility he might die waiting for a life-saving transplant here in Canada, Richard made a choice many people consider immoral. This documentary reveals it’s no longer just exotic sites and sounds that bring wealthy tourists abroad, but a morally complex business of supply and demand.
21.00 Friends
“The One With Rachel’s Book” Everyone begins planning for the wedding and Phoebe moves in with Ross.
21.30 Screen Two: The Pianist
(2002, Drama) Adrien Brody, Ed Stoppard. Director: Roman Polanski. Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, was a celebrated composer and pianist who played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. During the brutal occupation, he eluded deportation and remained in the devastated Warsaw Ghetto. There, he struggled to stay alive even when cast away from those he loved. He would eventually reclaim his artistic gifts, and confront his fears, with aid from the unlikeliest source — a German officer who helped him hide in the final days of the war.
Network Television Premiere
00.15 Screen Two: You Talkin’ To Me? Taxi Driver
(1976, Drama) Robert de Niro, Cybil Shepherd. Director: Martin Scorsese. A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.
02.20 The Stranger Left No Card
A travelling entertainer is a stranger in a small town. He manages to endear himself to the inhabitants with his comic antics. However, behind the facade of the fool, there is much unknown about the stranger.
02.45 Less Than Perfect
“I Just Don’t Like Her”
03.10 Nightscreen
05.00 Euro News
RTEGUIDE RTE 2 – WEEK 01 – January 02 – Monday
07.00 Den Movie: Movie Toons: Dinosaur Island
(2003, Animation) Four teens cast in a pilot for a “Survivor” type TV series end up on an island on which dinosaurs and cavemen still live. The four must learn to trust one another if they are to make it out alive!
08.10 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
08.35 Jackie Chan Adventures
Wakey Wakey
08.55 Den Movie: Holiday in the Sun
(2001, Comedy) Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen. Director: Steve Purcell. The Olsen twins have an adventure in the Bahamas.
10.30 Jam
11.00 The Memoriser
11.30 8 Simple Rules – Double Bill
12.20 Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
12.45 Pokemon – Double Bill
13.35 Den Movie: The Powerpuff Girls: The Movie
(2001, Animation) In the city of Townsville, the frustrated Professor Utonium is gathering all the ingredients to make a perfect little girl (sugar, spice, and everything nice). But when his lab assistant, a monkey named Jojo, causes the accidental addition of Chemical X to the mix, the Professor ends up with not one but 3 perfect, powerful little girls.
14.55 Metalheads
15.05 All Grown Up
15.30 Sonic X
15.55 Yu-Gi-Oh
16.20 Danny Phantom
16.45 Phil of the Future
17.10 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
17.35 The Simpsons – Double Bill
“Lisa the Tree Hugger” / “Homer Vs, Dignity”
18.30 Home and Away
Scott’s concerned when Colleen reveals Jesse was off to see Troy; Leah and Dan arrive home from their honeymoon; Tasha tries to throw out Robbie’s old clothes. Episode 4004
19.00 The King of Queens – Double Bill
“Arthur Spooner” / “Window Pain” Carrie has been put in charge of overseeing a group of people who will be organizing and distributing legal documents for one of her firm’s big cases. Mike and Debi, a bright young couple, move in next door to Doug and Carrie.
19.50 Animal Rites
20.0 Two Civilisation: Raising the USS Monitor
Nearly 140 years after the armoured gunboat sank, US navy commander Bobbie Scholley and a team of scientists embark on a mission to recover the historic vessel’s gun turret
21.00 Father Ted
“Song for Europe” Ted is goaded by Father Dick Byrne into attempting to write a song for the Eurovision Song Contest.
21.30 Screen Two: The Glimmer Man
(1996, Action/Thriller) Steven Seagal, Keenan Ivory Wayans. Director: John Gray. In the jungles of the Third World, his unsuspecting targets would hear nothing. They’d sense nothing. And they’d see only a glimmer before it was too late–he would strike and be gone. His shadowy government superiors called him the Glimmer Man, and they dispatched him on the riskiest, most sensitive covert assignments in which the United States was never officially involved. Now, as detective Jack Cole, he has abandoned his former occupation and identity. When a serial murderer with a macabre, ritualistic style plunges the families of Los Angeles into terror, the L.A.P.D. are forced to summon the one man whose instinct and understanding of the criminal mind are unrivaled: Jack Cole from New York.
23.10 Screen Two: You Talkin’ To Me? Saturday Night Fever
(1977, Drama) John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney. Director: John Badham. Tony is an uneducated Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dancefloor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony’s attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things; she is moving across the river to Manhattan. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide to help one another to start afresh.
01.20 It’s All Relative – Double Bill
“The Santa that Came to dinner” / “What’s Up”
02.10 Nightscreen
05.00 Euro News
RTEGUIDE RTE 2 – WEEK 01 – January 03 – Tuesday
07.00 Den Movie: Movie Toons: Groove Squad Cheerleaders
(2003, Animation) As if competing in the annual cheerleading contest wasn’t stressful enough. A trio of cheerleaders and their wacky mascot friend are more than just pom poms and wild routines. They’re superheroes. Their first mission? To battle an evil, disco-loving scientist bent on taking over the world. Together they have to defeat a mad villian and his evil cheerleader daughter.
08.410 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
08.35 Jackie Chan Adventures
Wakey Wakey
08.55 Den Movie: The Tigger Movie
(2000, Animation) Tigger goes looking through the hundred-acre-wood to find his family.
10.30 Jam
11.00 The Memoriser
11.30 8 Simple Rules – Double Bill
12.20 Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
12.45 Pokemon – Double Bill
13.35 Cartoon Time – Double Bill
13.50 Den Movie: Stitch! The Movie
(2003, Animation) Along with Lilo and their adopted aunt and uncle, Pleakley and Jumba, Stitch sets out to free the other 625 alien experiments who make up his incredibly fantastic family.
Network Television Premiere
14.55 Metalheads
15.05 Rugrats
15.30 Transformers Energon
15.55 Yu-Gi-Oh
16.20 W.I.T.C.H.
16.45 My Parents Are Aliens
17.10 Sister Sister
17.35 Neighbours
Dylan is coerced into committing a serious crime; Steph and Max uncover an eerie secret; Foiled by Joe, Janelle puts a curse on her rival for Lyn’s living space. Episode 4826
18.00 The Simpsons
“The Computer Wore Menace shoes”
18.30 Home and Away
Kim is discharged from hospital; Leah takes a pregnancy test; Jesse lays flowers at the site of Chloe’s accident. Episode 4005
19.00 Two Extreme: Asteroid! The Doomsday Rock
The story of a multi-national team of gifted scientists who believe and intend to prove that the world’s largest environmental disaster is entirely preventable.
20.0 Two Wild: Secrets of the African Jungle
In the Backwaters – Rainy season in the Gabonese jungle.
21.00 Joey
“Joey and the Big Break” Part 1. Joey is on the set of “Deep Powder” but the fate of his character is still unknown. New series.
21.30 The Blizzard of Odd
Presented by Colin Murphy
22.00 Desperate Housewives
“Next” Rex is dead, and, new neighbours, the Applewhites have moved in. Gabrielle, Lynette, and Susan attempt to comfort Bree while Phyllis, Rex’s mother, arrives on Wisteria Lane. Meanwhile Mike and Susan deal with Zach while Gabrielle struggles with the two men in her life. New series.
22.25 RTÉ News on Two and European Weather
23.25 Killarney Historic Stages Rally 2005
Highlights of December’s Historic Stages Rally 2005 from picturesque Killarney.
00.25 Screen Two: Leaving Las Vegas
(1995, Drama) Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue. Director: Mike Figgis. Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who has lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and a non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
02.30 Whoopi
“What Child is This?” A bratty boy pesters Mavis, who’s further piqued by the lad’s pesky dad, a GOP functionary who offers Courtney a job with President Bush’s re-election campaign.
02.55 Screen Two: Ruby Cairo
(1992, Thriller) Andie McDowell, Liam Neeson. Director: Graeme Clifford. When Bessie Faro’s husband Johnny dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red. When she visits the airline’s terminal in Veracruz, she discovers her husband was pumping large amounts of money into bank accounts all over the world. As she begins systematically recovering her husband’s money, she discovers that someone else has beaten her to some of the accounts. Aided by Fergus Lamb, a chance acquaintance, she goes to Cairo to find some answers. But she is being followed.
04.55 Euro News
RTEGUIDE RTE 2 – WEEK 01 – January 04 – Wednesday
06.55 Den Movie: An American Tail IV: The Mystery of the Night Monster
(1999, Animation) Fievel, Tony, Tanya, Tiger, and their new friend, hot-shot reporter Nelly Brie, are on the trail of an alleged mouse-nabbing monster, rumours of which have made Manhattan’s rodent population tremble
08.10 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
08.35 Jackie Chan Adventures
Wakey Wakey
08.55 Den Movie: The Snow Queen
(1998, Animation) An animated retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fable which follows a young woman in her quest for her kidnapped lover, and her battle with the evil Snow Queen to save his soul.
10.25 Cartoon Time
10.30 Jam
11.00 The Memoriser
11.30 8 Simple Rules – Double Bill
12.20 Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
12.45 Pokemon
13.05 Cartoon Time
13.15 Den Movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
(1987, Comedy/Mystery) Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd. Director: Robert Zemeckis. A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit’s only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.
14.55 Metalheads
15.05 All Grown Up
15.30 Sonic X
15.55 Yu-Gi-Oh
16.20 Trollz
16.45 Shoebox Zoo
17.10 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
17.35 Neighbours
Karl puts his love for Susan before his Hippocratic oath; Alex comes clean to Susan; Bree rejects Rachel. Episode 4827
18.00 The Simpsons
“The Great Money Caper”
18.30 Home and Away
Jesse is till in shock over Chloe’s death; Ric is also pretty down after the accident; Cassie opens up to Matilda. Episode 4006
19.00 Friends
19.30 Cursai Ceoil
A look back at the best in music from the archives of Irish language programmes in the company of singer/songwriter and Corkonian, John Spillane.
20.00 Take Two: My Own Place
New series.
20.30 Take Two: Dublin Village
Crumlin
21.00 Early Doors.
Series 2, Episode 1. The brewery is threatening to close down the Grapes. New series
21.35 CSI: Miami
“Sex and Taxes” An IRS agent is killed while trying to repossess a delinquent taxpayer’s yacht. Soon after the CSIs discover a second IRS agent shot to death.
22.30 Ed Byrne’s Just for Laughs
Ed Byrne introduces the best of the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival from Montreal. (Repeat)
23.00 RTÉ News on Two and European Weather
23.30 Seinfeld
“The Limo” When George’s car breaks down at the airport, Jerry convinces a waiting limo driver that they are his intended passengers.
23.55 Screen Two: Girlfight
(2000, Drama) Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli. Director: Karyn Kusama. Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
02.00 King of the Hill
“Rich Hank, Poor Hank”
02.25 Screen Two: The Plough and the Stars
(1936, Drama) Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster. Director: John Ford. A young wife living in Ireland attempts to lead a quiet life away from political chaos. But she discovers that her husband is in the Irish Citizen Army planning a raid on the General Post Office.
03.35 Nightscreen
05.00 Euro News
RTEGUIDE RTE 2 – WEEK 01 – January 05 – Thursday
07.00 Den Movie: Freddie the Frog
(1992, Animation) A man-sized frog is recruited by British Intelligence to stop villains who are shrinking England’s national monuments.
08.10 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
08.35 Jackie Chan Adventures
Wakey Wakey
09.00 Den Movie: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
(1999, Animation) Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit.
10.20 Cartoon Time
10.30 Jam
11.00 The Memoriser
11.30 8 Simple Rules – Double Bill
12.20 Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
12.45 Pokemon
13.10 Cartoon Time
13.25 Den Movie: Old Yeller
1957, Adventure) Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker. Director: Robert Stevenson. Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860’s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. After a series of scrapes involving raccoons, snakes, bears and all manner of animals, Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to have a profound effect on the boy’s life.
14.55 Metalheads
15.05 Rugrats
15.30 Transformers Energon
15.55 Yu-Gi-Oh
16.20 The Tofus
16.45 My Parents are Aliens
17.10 Sister Sister
17.35 Neighbours
Heartbroken Susan calls off her engagement; Izzy breaks Ned’s heart; Bree makes up with the Kinski kids. Episode 4828
18.00 The Simpsons
“Skinner’s Sense of Snow”
18.30 Home and Away
Jesse is charged with manslaughter; Cassie enlists Matilda’s help in preparing a special meal for Ric; Jesse explains himself to Alf. Episode 4007
19.00 Friends
“The One With Rachel’s Assistant” Now an executive at her place of business, Rachel exercises the prerogative of hiring an assistant. Unfortunately for Ross, Rachel’s new employee turns out to be a stud-muffin named Tag.
19.30 Two Wild: Massive Nature
The Deep – Every year, countless millions of sardines head north up the coast of South Africa. In their wake follows an armada of the ocean’s greatest predators, sharks, dolphins, whales and birds.
20.00 Two Wild: Time Machine
Masters of Time
21.00 The Liffey Laugh
The new series live from Vicar Street kicks off with Limerick TV star Karl Spain; from Liverpool John Bishop; fresh from the Naked Camera live tour Maeve Higgins and newcomer Neil Hickey makes his TV debut. New talent to RTE Clare McKenna keeps the show on the road and reports backstage. New series.
21.30 Screen Two: Jaws
(1975, Action/Adventure) Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw. Director: Steven Spielberg. A young girl disappears off the coast of Amity Island. When her mutilated body washes ashore, Police Chief Brody suspects the worst, but the greedy mayor refuses to put out a business-killing shark alert. The victims pile up, and Brody is on a collision course with the great white enemy.
(Includes RTÉ News on Two and European Weather at 23.00)
00.10 Spooks
Episode 7 – MI5 are alarmed when the death of a young primary school teacher brings the number of paracetamol related fatalities to nine.
01.05 Murder Call
“Cat and Mouse” A wheelchair-bound artist is murdered in his own home.
02.00 Boston Public
“Chapter Seventy” Marla faces suspension after she slaps a student.
02.55 Screen Two: A Swingin’ Summer
(1965, Musical) Raquel Welch, The Righteous Brothers. Director: Robert Sparr. A new twist on the Beach Party theme—here we leave the beach behind and move the plot to the Lake Arrowhead mountain resort. A trio of teenagers spends the summer running the resort’s dance pavilion and books some fantastic rock n roll groups including the Righteous Brothers, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, the Rip Chords, Donnie Brooks, Jody Miller and even Raquel Welsh warbles her vocal chords on “Ready To Groove.”
04.25 Nightscreen
05.00 Euro News
RTEGUIDE RTE 2 – WEEK 01 – January 06 – Friday
07.00 Den Movie: Movie Toons: Inspector Gadget’s Last Case
(2003, Animation) The worlds wackiest crime fighter returns to battle his nemesis Dr. Claw. But Gadget is forced to take on his arch-enemy without his beloved Gadgetmobile – it’s been thrown on the junk heap and if Dr. Claw and his secret weapon have their way, Inspector Gadget will be next!
08.10 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
08.35 Jackie Chan Adventures
Wakey Wakey
09.00 Den Movie: The Snow Queen’s Revenge
(1996, Animation) An animated tale of kidnap, imprisonment and ruthless pursuit.
10.10 The Fairytaler: Hans Christian Andersen
10.30 Jam
11.00 The Memoriser
11.55 8 Simple Rules – Double Bill
12.45 Pokemon
13.10 Den Movie: Winning London
(2001, Comedy) Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen. Director: Craig Shapiro. The Olsen twins head off to London to take part in a UN symposium for students.
14.55 Metalheads
15.05 All Grown Up
15.30 Sonic X
15.55 Yu-Gi-Oh
16.20 Trollz
16.45 Phil of the Future
17.10 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
17.35 Neighbours
Episode 4829
18.00 The Simpsons
“Half-Decent Proposal”
18.30 Home and Away
Alf thinks Jesse is gutless; Cassie and Ric declare their love for each other; It’s Chloe’s funeral. Episode 4008
19.00 You’re A Star Plus
19.30 My Wife and Kids
“Open Your Heart”
20.00 Two Civilisation: Jutland – Clash of the Dreadnoughts
The Battle Of Jutland was the biggest naval battle in history. On the 31st of May 1916 – 251 British and German battleships set out to annihilate one another in the North Sea. In a vicious engagement that lasted over 12 hours – 25 huge ships were sunk and 8,600 lives were lost. This two-hour special tells the true story of the battle – deep dives to two sunken Dreadnoughts that lie 100 miles from shore and up to 60 metres deep will at last reveal why the British navy failed to score a decisive victory.
21.00 The War at Home
“Pilot” 16-year-old Hillary’s father, Dave, refuses to let her go out on a date with a guy older than her. So, to deceive him, she brings a new “study buddy” over to the house instead. At the same time, Dave and Vicky are having trouble trying to figure out how to understand their son, Larry. New series.
21.30 Screen Two: The Business of Strangers
(2001, Thriller) Stockard Channing, Julia stiles. Director: Patrick Stettner. An ambitious, successful business woman and her young new assistant, stuck overnight in an airport hotel, become engrossed in a complex, subtle game of control and manipulation. Network Television Premiere
23.00 Desperate Housewives
“Next” (Repeat)
23.55 Alias
“Blowback” Sydney and Vaughan are ambushed by unknown attackers.
00.50 Grounded for Life
“Policy of Truth”
01:15 Nightscreen
05:00 Euro News