Christmas TV (Part 1)

Information courtesy of Mrs Helen Smith, School Library Manager, Rawmarsh Community School: A Sports College, Rotherham.

Look out for these films and programmes on TV this Christmas that are all based on books and plays.


Saturday 20th December

10.25pm BBC2 V for Vendetta from the graphic novel by Alan Moore

Sunday 21st December

3.25pm BBC1 Dustbin Baby from the book by Jacqueline Wilson

6.30pm C4 Oliver Twist from the book by Charles Dickens

7.00pm C5 Christmas With the Kranks based on Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

7.45pm BBC1 Lark Rise to Candleford based on the books by Flora Thompson

Monday 22nd December

12.35pm C4 Christmas Carol: the Movie

2.50pm C5 Christmas Carol: the Musical

both from the book by Charles Dickens

4.00pm BBC1 The Cat in the Hat from the book by Dr Seuss

4.00pm ITV1 Agatha Christie's Poirot: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

5.55pm BBC2 Finding Neverland based on the story of J. M. Barrie and his story of Peter Pan

Tuesday 23rd December

11.55am C4 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from the book by Jules Verne

4.35pm BBC2 Seabiscuit from the book by Laura Hillenbrand

Wednesday 24th December - Christmas Eve

12.30pm C5 The Three Worlds of Gulliver based on the books by Jonathan Swift

3.00pm ITV1 The Polar Express from the book by Chris van Allsberg

4.50pm C5 Scrooge

6.45pm C4 Christmas Carol

both based on the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Thursday 25th December - Christmas Day

10.00am BBC2 My Fair Lady based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

3.10pm ITV1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

based on the third book in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

4.00pm C4 Scrooged based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

6.00pm BBC1 Doctor Who

6.45pm C5 Memoirs of a Geisha from the book by Arthur Golden

11.45pm BBC1 Bend it Like Beckham from the story by Narinder Dhami

Friday 26th December - Boxing Day

11.25am ITV1 Black Beauty from the book by Anna Sewell

11.50am BBC2 The Importance of Being Earnest from the play by Oscar Wilde

11.55am BBC1 Ella Enchanted from the book by Gail Carson Levine

1.25pm ITV1 The Railway Children from the book by E. Nesbit

5.50pm BBC1 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
from the book by C. S. Lewis

5.55pm BBC2 Nicholas Nickleby from the book by Charles Dickens

Saturday 27th December

12.00pm BBC2 Swiss Family Robinson from the book by Johann Wyss

1.55pm C5 Ivanhoe from the book by Sir Walter Scott

3.35pm ITV1 Emma from the book by Jane Austen

9.30pm BBC2 Starter for Ten from the book by David Nicholls


At the cinema this Christmas...

Twilight based on the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer

Inkheart from the book of the same name by Cornelia Funke

The Tale of Desperaux based on The Tale of Despereaux: by Kate DiCamillo