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War Horse (2011)
Category: Film

BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102

Sat 12 Nov 2022
5:15pm-7:30pm (2 hours 15 minutes) Spain 6:15pm-8:30pm

A farmer's son forms a close bond with a horse he trains, but is forced to give the animal up when it is sold to the British army during the First World War.
The horse passes through various owners on both sides as he travels across the battlefields of France, while the boy refuses to give up on being reunited.
Steven Spielberg's drama based on Michael Morpurgo's book, starring Jeremy Irvine, Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch

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Here Before (2022)
Category: General

BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102

Sun 13 Nov 2022
10:30pm-11:50pm (1 hour 20 minutes) Spain 11:30pm-12:50am

A bereaved mother bonds with the daughter of her new neighbours as she reminds her of her own late child, but her husband grows concerned as his wife's
infatuation with the young girl spirals into increasingly erratic behaviour. Psychological thriller, starring Andrea Riseborough and Jonjo O'Neill

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Philomena (2013)
Category: General

BBC Four
Freeview:106Virgin:108BT:106Freesat:108

Thu 17 Nov 2022
9:00pm-10:30pm (1 hour 30 minutes) Spain 10:00pm-11:30pm

A teenager in 1950s Ireland becomes pregnant, and is sent to a home for 'fallen women', while her baby
is forcibly taken from her and sent to America to be adopted. Fifty years later, she meets a disillusioned
political journalist who attempts to reunite her with her son. Fact-based drama,
starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan

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Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
Category: Arts/Culture (without music)

Season 1 Episode 1 of 3

BBC Two
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Fri 25 Nov 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Cat Among the Pigeons Part one of three. The historian investigates the complex factors that shaped the dark imagination of a refined
Devonshire lady, discovering family secrets and a childhood haunted by a sinister figure. Focusing on the first third of Agatha Christie's life,
this episode unearths the surprising roots of her most compelling themes, the inspiration for some of her greatest creations, and the secrets
that the enigmatic Christie herself kept carefully hidden from public view

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The Real Doctor Zhivago
Category: News/Current Affairs

BBC Four
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Mon 28 Nov 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago,
a novel that took the author 20 years to write while knowing it could result in his death

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A Royal Grand Design
Category: Education/Science/Factual

ITV1
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Wed 30 Nov 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Documentary offering an exclusive insight into an ambitious secret project that King Charles has been working on for over a decade
- the purchase and restoration of Dumfries House, an 18th century stately home in the most rundown area of the UK. Filmed over a decade, the film
follows King Charles' painstaking journey to turn the house into a self-sufficient property which would help to regenerate the local community

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Inside the Tower of London
Category: News/Current Affairs

Season 5 Episode 6 of 7

Channel 5
Freeview:105Sky:805Virgin:105BT:105Freesat:105

Thu 1 Dec 2022
8:00pm-8:58pm (58 minutes) Spain 9:00pm-9:58pm

On Thursday 8 September, news arrives that would change the nation's history. The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is announced after 70 years on the throne.
It's a time of deep sadness for the Tower staff and for the yeoman warders, some of whom have met the Queen in their role as royal bodyguards. As a royal palace, with
special links to the Royal Household, the Tower enters a two-week official period of mourning

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Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
Category: Arts/Culture (without music)

Season 1 Episode 2 of 3

BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102

Fri 2 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Destination Unknown On the evening of December 3, 1926, Agatha Christie left her home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, in her Morris Cowley.
Ten days later, Agatha was discovered in a hotel in Harrogate, claiming to have lost her memory. Lucy Worsley delves into this traumatic,
watershed moment in Christie's life. She visits the key locations, from the chalk pit where Agatha crashed her car to Abney Hall,
the grand house where she took refuge (and which would inspire several of her books)

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Dirty Dancing (1987)
Category: Film

Channel 5
Freeview:105Sky:805Virgin:105BT:105Freesat:105

Sat 3 Dec 2022
6:20pm-7:20pm (1 hour) Spain 7:20pm-8:20pm

A dance instructor at a 1960s resort hotel fears his career will be jeopardised when his regular partner is forced to pull out of an important show
in which they are due to perform. Luckily, a naive teenager is happy to step in, and is treated to a whirlwind holiday education in life, love and expressing herself.
Romantic drama, with Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach



Dirty Dancing (1987)
Category: Film

Channel 5
Freeview:105Sky:805Virgin:105BT:105Freesat:105

Sat 3 Dec 2022
7:25pm-8:25pm (1 hour) Spain 8:25pm-9:25pm

A dance instructor at a 1960s resort hotel fears his career will be jeopardised when his regular partner is forced to pull out of an important show
in which they are due to perform. Luckily, a naive teenager is happy to step in, and is treated to a whirlwind holiday education in life, love and expressing herself.
Romantic drama, with Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Category: Film

5STAR
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Sun 4 Dec 2022
10:00pm-11:05pm (1 hour 5 minutes) Spain 11:00pm-12:05am

In the aftermath of the Normandy landings, a group of American soldiers scours the battlefields of France in search of a missing infantryman,
who has been given compassionate leave to return home because his brothers have been killed in the conflict. Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Second World War drama,
starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper and Vin Diesel. It won five Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Director.
The film makers also took home a couple of Baftas for Best Sound and Best Special Effects

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The Company You Keep (2012)
Category: Film

BBC Two
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Mon 5 Dec 2022
11:15pm-1:10am (1 hour 55 minutes) Spain 12:15am-2:10am

A respected lawyer is forced to go on the run when a reporter exposes the truth about him - he is really a member of a radical militant group wanted for
questioning in a murder case, who has been living under a fake identity for 30 years. As the fugitive goes in search of his old allies for sanctuary, the reporter delves into
his past and uncovers disturbing secrets. Thriller based on the novel by Neil Gordon, directed by and starring Robert Redford, with Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie and Susan Sarandon

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Misery (1990)
Category: Film

4seven
Freeview:110Virgin:203BT:110

Tue 6 Dec 2022
10:00pm-12:05am (2 hours 5 minutes) Spain 11:00pm-1:05am

A successful author finds his relief at being rescued from a near-fatal car crash is severely tempered by the discovery that his saviour is a
fan with psychopathic tendencies. The situation takes a turn for the worse when she discovers he has killed off her favourite character - and sets
about coercing him to do a rewrite in nightmarish fashion. Oscar-winning thriller, starring James Caan, Kathy Bates and Lauren Bacall

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Fatal Attraction (1987)
Category: Film

5STAR
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Wed 7 Dec 2022
10:00pm-11:00pm (1 hour) Spain 11:00pm-12:00am

A married lawyer has a one-night stand with a business associate while his wife and children are out of town. He hopes to keep his
infidelity a secret, but she is determined to continue the relationship, and begins obsessively stalking him and his unsuspecting family.
Thriller, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer



Fatal Attraction (1987)
Category: Film

5STAR
Freeview:32Sky:128Virgin:151BT:30Freesat:131

Wed 7 Dec 2022
11:05pm-12:30am (1 hour 25 minutes) Spain 12:05am-1:30am

A married lawyer has a one-night stand with a business associate while his wife and children are out of town. He hopes to keep his
infidelity a secret, but she is determined to continue the relationship, and begins obsessively stalking him and his unsuspecting family.
Thriller, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer

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I Am Ruth
Category: General

Season 3 Episode 1

Channel 4
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Thu 8 Dec 2022
9:00pm-11:05pm (2 hours 5 minutes) Spain 10:00pm-12:05am

I Am Ruth Dominic Savage and Kate Winslet's one-off drama is a contemporary story touching on the endemic mental
health crisis affecting young people. Winslet co-stars as Ruth, a loving and concerned mother who witnesses her teenage daughter
Freya retreating into herself as she becomes more and more consumed by the pressures of social media. With Mia Threapleton

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Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
Category: Arts/Culture (without music)

Season 1 Episode 3 of 3

BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102

Fri 9 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Unfinished Portrait Part three of three. In 1930, recovering from a personal crisis, Agatha Christie fell in love with and married Max Mallowan.
This relationship, and the security it brought, saw Agatha enter the most prolific and successful chapter of her career. This would be the period in which
Agatha penned some of her most famous and enduring bestsellers, including Murder on the Orient Express. Lucy follows in Agatha's footsteps to discover the roots
of these works and explores how, in later life, Agatha achieved global celebrity - but remained very much the anonymous observer, hiding in plain sight

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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Channel 4
Freeview:104Sky:138Virgin:141BT:104Freesat:126

Sat 10 Dec 2022
9:15pm-11:25pm (2 hours 10 minutes) Spain 10:15pm-12:25am

An American businessman travelling on the Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris tries to hire Hercule Poirot to be his bodyguard as he has had
death threats made against him. The sleuth refuses, but wakes up the following morning to learn the man has been stabbed to death while the train was
held up by heavy snow - and there is no shortage of suspects among the passengers. Agatha Christie mystery, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh,
with Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi and Johnny Depp

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Strike
Category: Detective/Thriller

Season 5 Episode 1 of 4

BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101

Sun 11 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Strike: Troubled Blood Return of the crime thriller based on books by JK Rowling. Strike is hired by a woman to find her mother,
who went missing in 1974 when a serial killer was at large, leading to decades of speculation that she was another of his victims.
While searching through the missing woman's belongings, Robin finds an anonymous and crude threatening letter

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Strike
Category: Detective/Thriller

Season 5 Episode 2 of 4

BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101

Mon 12 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Strike: Troubled Blood The investigation takes a dangerous turn when suspicion falls on a ruthless 1970s gangster, whose son is still
a force to be reckoned with in London's gangland. A disturbing piece of evidence leads Robin and Strike into the city's underworld, and Robin
risks her life by pursuing a vicious suspect. A surprise visitor appears at the office, claiming to have a signed confession from the killer

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Strike
Category: Detective/Thriller

Season 5 Episode 3 of 4

BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101

Sun 18 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Strike: Troubled Blood Spurred on by the father of a young woman who also went missing in the 1970s, the detectives attempt to
outwit a serial killer incarcerated in Broadmoor who may hold the key to the case. The prisoner wants to be released from
the psychiatric hospital in favour of a normal prison in return for his assistance, and offers cryptic clues
as to where a murder victim may be buried

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Strike
Category: Detective/Thriller

Season 5 Episode 4 of 4

BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101

Mon 19 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm

Strike: Troubled Blood The detectives track down Douthwaite by realising that he uses famous singers as his aliases.
He and Robin head to the guesthouse in Skegness that he's now running with his wife. He denies any involvement in Margot's disappearance
and seems genuinely scared to have his new identity discovered. Strike realises that Margot's killer has been responsible for many other murders
which have gone undetected over the years, and sets out to entrap them.

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Top Gun (1986)
Category: Film

Sky Showcase
Sky:106Virgin:109BT:355

Tue 20 Dec 2022

9:00pm-11:00pm (2 hours) Spain 10:00pm-12:00am
An arrogant pilot's maverick flying skills earn him a place in an elite US Navy school, where he comes into conflict with a fellow student
and falls for his civilian instructor. A tragedy in the air threatens to end his military career - until an international incident offers him a chance
to redeem himself. Aerial action adventure, starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt

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The Holiday (2006)
Category: Film

ITV2
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Thu 22 Dec 2022
8:00pm-9:05pm (1 hour 5 minutes) Spain 9:00pm-10:05pm

Two single women living on opposite sides of the Atlantic agree to exchange houses over the Christmas holidays. In their new surroundings, both women
unexpectedly encounter prospective partners, but as the house swap draws to a close, difficult decisions have to be made about their blossoming relationships.
Romantic comedy, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jack Black, Jude Law and Eli Wallach



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The Holiday (2006)
Category: Film

ITV2
Freeview:6Sky:118Virgin:115BT:6Freesat:113

Thu 22 Dec 2022
9:10pm-10:40pm (1 hour 30 minutes) Spain 10:10pm-11:40pm

Two single women living on opposite sides of the Atlantic agree to exchange houses over the Christmas holidays. In their new surroundings, both women
unexpectedly encounter prospective partners, but as the house swap draws to a close, difficult decisions have to be made about their blossoming relationships.
Romantic comedy, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jack Black, Jude Law and Eli Wallach

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The Blind Side (2009)
Category: General

ITVBe
Freeview:28Sky:131Virgin:119BT:26Freesat:118

Fri 23 Dec 2022
8:00pm-9:05pm (1 hour 5 minutes) Spain 9:00pm-10:05pm

A middle-class family take in a hulking homeless teenager, who has no education or skills to speak of. The indomitable wife encourages him
to turn his life around, helping him to get the grades he needs for a college scholarship and hone his sporting skills to become an American football player.
Fact-based drama, starring an Oscar-winning Sandra Bullock alongside Quinton Aaron and Tim McGraw

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Home Alone (1990)
Category: Film

Channel 4
Freeview:104Sky:138Virgin:141BT:104Freesat:126

Christmas Eve
5:25pm-7:25pm (2 hours) Spain 6:25pm-8:25pm

A boy has to fend for himself when he is accidentally left behind after his family jets off to Paris for Christmas.
The youngster initially enjoys his freedom, but is soon forced to resort to ingenious booby traps to defend the family home
from two dim-witted burglars. Comedy, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara and John Candy