SO TODAY RTÉ and TV3 released their schedules for the festive period – and the highlight looks like it could be the Queen of Ireland Panti giving a Christmas Day message to the nation.
But Christmas wouldn’t be the same without the films – and here’s every single one that has been announced (with more to come):
RTÉ One
Gravity (Christmas Eve)
Brave (Christmas Day)
Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie (Christmas Day)
Captain Philips (St Stephen’s Day)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (St Stephen’s Day)
RTÉ One also announced other films that will be gracing our screens – but we’re still waiting on exact times and dates for these. However, we’ll still be able to feast our eyes on the following:
Lincoln
Les Miserables
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
It wouldn’t be Christmas without it.
Back to the Future
For the year that’s in it.
ALL of the Indiana Jones movies
Other festive classics that will get a run out will be:
White Christmas, The Sound of Music, It’s a Wonderful Life, High Society, Beaches, Up, Shrek the Third, Cars2, We Bought a Zoo
RTÉ 2
RTÉ 2 gives us no indication exactly when these will be on, but their festive offering is full of some modern big hitters:
Anchorman 2
Man of Steel
Elysium
Frankenweenie
I am Ali
Last year’s documentary on the great boxer Muhammad Ali.
Iron Man 3
One Direction: This is Us
Nostalgia for better, happier days with Zayn included.
And a few classics are thrown in there too:
- ET
- Happy Feet Two
- James and the Giant Peach
- Naked Gun
- Airplane!
TV3
And finally, here are all the films TV3 has announced for the coming weeks:
The Commitments
The Amazing Spider-Man
Hancock
Bewitched
Evelyn
Hitch
Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
Some of the other films popping up will be:
Men In Black 2, Casper and Stuart Little
As well as these old school Christmas classic:
Christmas Carol, Scrooged, Farewell Mr Kringle, Santa Clause The Movie and The Wizard Of Oz
Put on the fire and stick the feet up, these should only be watched in the cosiest of cosy festive settings.
