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Post by loobyloo on Oct 8, 2022 11:12:32 GMT 1
The Sting (1973)
Category: Film
ITV4
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Sat 8 Oct 2022
6:15pm-9:00pm (2 hours 45 minutes) Spain 7:15pm-10:00pm
Two conmen decide to swindle a mobster out of a fortune in revenge for the murder of a mutual friend. Enlisting the help of a host of crooks,
they quickly conjure up a brilliant scheme to make him pay for his crime. Oscar-winning Depression-era comedy drama, starring Robert Redford,
Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning and Eileen Brennan, and featuring one of the most distinctive scores in film history, courtesy of composer
Marvin Hamlisch
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 26, 2022 11:33:09 GMT 1
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Category: Film
BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102
Sat 26 Nov 2022
2:00pm-5:10pm (3 hours 10 minutes) Spain 3:00pm-6:10pm
A married Russian physician falls in love with another woman, but as their passionate affair plays out against the raging
backdrop of the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution, he is torn between his desires and his loyalty to his wife.
David Lean's epic drama based on Boris Pasternak's novel, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger,
Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay and Klaus Kinski
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 27, 2022 13:04:17 GMT 1
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Category: Film
Film4
Sky:313Virgin:429
Sun 27 Nov 2022
6:40pm-9:00pm (2 hours 20 minutes) Spain 7:40pm-10:00pm
Hapless youngster Kevin somehow manages to catch the wrong plane and finds himself heading for New York, while his family jets off to Florida.
Having got his hands on his father's credit card, he is enjoying the good life staying in a luxury hotel - until he bumps into two familiar
burglars with an axe to grind. Comedy sequel, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Brenda Fricker and Tim Curry
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 28, 2022 13:02:36 GMT 1
The Wife (2017)
Category: General
BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102
Mon 28 Nov 2022
11:15pm-12:50am (1 hour 35 minutes) Spain 12:15pm-1:50am
Successful writer Joe Castleman is delighted to receive an early morning telephone call from Sweden informing him that he has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
His steadfast wife Joan is equally delighted, but as she prepares to travel to Stockholm to support and encourage her husband, she reflects on her life from when she first met Joe,
her married literature tutor with whom she embarks on the affair which would change the course of their lives. Oscar-nominated drama, starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Max Irons
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Post by loobyloo on Nov 30, 2022 16:24:47 GMT 1
The Elephant Man (1980)
Category: Film
BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102
Wed 30 Nov 2022
11:50pm-1:50am (2 hours) Spain 12:50am-2:50am
In 1884, ambitious young surgeon Frederick Treves is intrigued by a sideshow freak billed as the Elephant Man.
He finds, behind the disfigured exhibit, an intelligent person called John Merrick, whose rehabilitation he undertakes,
with the severely deformed man's life being transformed by the friendship that develops between the two.
Fact-based drama directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud,
Wendy Hiller and Freddie Jones
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 1, 2022 17:19:52 GMT 1
The King's Speech (2010)
Category: Film
BBC Four
Freeview:106Virgin:108BT:106Freesat:108
Thu 1 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:50pm (1 hour 50 minutes) Spain 10:00pm-11:50pm
The younger son of George V struggles to cope with an uncontrollable stammer, prompting his wife to enlist the aid of an eccentric Australian
speech therapist. The support and friendship of the doctor prove invaluable when a crisis places the repressed prince on the throne, just as the outbreak of
the Second World War leaves the country in need of a strong king. Oscar-winning fact-based drama, starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 3, 2022 15:27:20 GMT 1
Downton Abbey (2019)
Category: Film
ITV1
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Sat 3 Dec 2022
7:00pm-9:15pm (2 hours 15 minutes) Spain 8:00pm-10:15pm
In 1927, Buckingham Palace informs Robert and Cora Crawley, the Earl and Countess of Grantham, that George V and Queen Mary will visit Downton Abbey
during a royal tour through Yorkshire. The occasion soon unleashes scandal, romance and intrigue - leaving the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
Director Michael Engler's drama based on the TV series, starring Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery and Maggie Smith
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 4, 2022 12:37:31 GMT 1
Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets
Category: General
Drama Channel
Freeview:20Sky:143Virgin:130BT:20Freesat:158
Sun 4 Dec 2022
1:20pm-3:40pm (2 hours 20 minutes) Spain 2:20pm-4:40pm
Feature-length drama based on Catherine Cookson's novel set in early 20th-century Newcastle. Worker John O'Brien lives near poverty
in a small house in the workers district, yet falls in love with teacher Mary, daughter of a rich family. Despite the pressures exerted by the
social difference, the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroy their relationship. Starring Sean Bean and Clare Holman
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 8, 2022 19:41:07 GMT 1
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Category: Film
BBC Four
Freeview:106Virgin:108BT:106Freesat:108
Thu 8 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:45pm (1 hour 45 minutes) Spain 10:00pm-11:45pm
A stuffy English barrister representing a jewel thief is targeted by his client's partners in crime - a seductive American crook
and her dim-witted would-be philosopher lover who will go to any lengths to discover where the diamonds from their last heist have been hidden.
Crime comedy, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin and Tom Georgeson
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 9, 2022 18:00:16 GMT 1
Film Love Actually (2003)
Category: Film
ITV2
Freeview:6Sky:118Virgin:115BT:6Freesat:113
Fri 9 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour) Spain 10:00pm-11:00pm
Ten interlinked stories of people searching for and finding love. While the newly elected, bachelor British prime minister is smitten
by a junior staff member at 10 Downing Street, a heartbroken writer heads for France to get over a failed relationship, and a faded rock star
aims to reinvent himself in time for Christmas. Richard Curtis's romantic comedy, with Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman,
Colin Firth, Bill Nighy and Liam Neeson
Film Love Actually (2003)
Category: Film
ITV2
Freeview:6Sky:118Virgin:115BT:6Freesat:113
Fri 9 Dec 2022
10:05pm-11:45pm (1 hour 40 minutes) Spain 11:05pm-12:45am
Ten interlinked stories of people searching for and finding love. While the newly elected, bachelor British prime minister is smitten
by a junior staff member at 10 Downing Street, a heartbroken writer heads for France to get over a failed relationship, and a faded rock star
aims to reinvent himself in time for Christmas. Richard Curtis's romantic comedy, with Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman,
Colin Firth, Bill Nighy and Liam Neeson
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 10, 2022 16:51:48 GMT 1
Taken (2008)
Category: Film
ITV1
Freeview:3Sky:103Virgin:103BT:3Freesat:103
Sat 10 Dec 2022
10:50pm-12:35am (1 hour 45 minutes) Spain 11:50pm-1:35am
An American teenager travelling through Europe is abducted by a gang of sex traffickers. However, what the kidnappers do not realise is
that the girl's father is a former CIA agent, who employs all his old skills as he searches for the criminals and tries to rescue his daughter.
Thriller, starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 11, 2022 17:15:37 GMT 1
Time Without Pity (1957)
Category: Film
Legend
Freeview:41Sky:148Virgin:149BT:39Freesat:137
Sun 11 Dec 2022
6:45pm-8:30pm (1 hour 45 minutes) Spain 7:45pm-9:30pm
An alcoholic writer returns home after years living abroad when he learns his estranged son has been convicted of murder and sentenced to hang.
Although his attempts at reconciliation are rejected, he spends the last 24 hours before the execution trying to prove his son is innocent by identifying the real killer.
Mystery, starring Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern and Peter Cushing
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 14, 2022 20:59:03 GMT 1
Out of Sight (1998)
Category: Film
BBC One
Freeview:1Sky:101Virgin:101BT:1Freesat:101
Wed 14 Dec 2022
10:40pm-12:35am (1 hour 55 minutes) Spain 11:40pm-1:35pm
A charming bank robber breaks out of jail and takes a female US Marshal hostage. Managing to escape, she sets out to track him down as he
prepares for one last job - but as the chase intensifies, so do their feelings for each other. Steven Soderbergh's romantic crime drama,
based on Elmore Leonard's novel, with George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames and Don Cheadle
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 17, 2022 19:19:25 GMT 1
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Category: Film
BBC Two
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Sat 17 Dec 2022
7:25pm-9:35pm (2 hours 10 minutes) Spain 8:25pm-10:35pm
A Nazi secret agent plans to kidnap Winston Churchill while the prime minister spends a weekend in the Norfolk countryside,
and plants covert operatives in the area ready for his arrival. Second World War adventure, adapted from Jack Higgins' novel,
starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle and Jean Marsh
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 18, 2022 11:18:55 GMT 1
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Category: Film
GREAT! movies
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Sun 18 Dec 2022
4:45pm-9:00pm (4 hours 15 minutes) Spain 5:45pm-10:00pm
An enigmatic British Army officer tries to unite the Arab nations against the Turks during the First World War, but comes into conflict with
the military authorities when he engages the enemy with guerrilla tactics instead of more conventional methods. However, his increasingly torn loyalties
leave him close to madness. Oscar-winning epic drama directed by David Lean, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 18, 2022 17:29:05 GMT 1
The Italian Job (1969)
Category: Film
Channel 5
Freeview:105Sky:805Virgin:105BT:105Freesat:105
Sun 18 Dec 2022
5:50pm-6:55pm (1 hour 5 minutes) Spain 6:50pm-7:55pm
A crook assembles a motley gang to steal £4million in gold bullion from an Italian armoured car, which brings Turin to a standstill
and enables the robbers to make a quick getaway in a fleet of Minis - but they end up falling foul of the Mafia along the way. Crime comedy,
starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Tony Beckley and John Le Mesurier
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The Italian Job (1969)
Category: Film
Channel 5
Freeview:105Sky:805Virgin:105BT:105Freesat:105
Sun 18 Dec 2022
7:00pm-8:00pm (1 hour) Spain 8:00pm-9:00pm
A crook assembles a motley gang to steal £4million in gold bullion from an Italian armoured car, which brings Turin to a standstill
and enables the robbers to make a quick getaway in a fleet of Minis - but they end up falling foul of the Mafia along the way. Crime comedy,
starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Tony Beckley and John Le Mesurier
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 19, 2022 17:34:14 GMT 1
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Category: General
ITV4
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Mon 19 Dec 2022
11:10pm-12:10am (1 hour) Spain 12:10am-1:10am
An uncompromising major is placed in charge of a seemingly suicidal mission to destroy a French chateau being used as a base by Nazi officers.
Needing tough but expendable soldiers for the task, he recruits 12 hardened criminals from a military prison. Second World War action adventure,
starring Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Donald Sutherland
Continues
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Category: General
ITV4
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Tue 20 Dec 2022
12:15am-2:05am (1 hour 50 minutes) Spain 1:15am-3:05am
An uncompromising major is placed in charge of a seemingly suicidal mission to destroy a French chateau being used as a base by Nazi officers.
Needing tough but expendable soldiers for the task, he recruits 12 hardened criminals from a military prison. Second World War action adventure,
starring Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Donald Sutherland
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 20, 2022 19:54:42 GMT 1
The Good Liar (2019)
Category: Film
BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102
Tue 20 Dec 2022
9:00pm-10:45pm (1 hour 45 minutes) Spain 10:00pm-11:45pm
Con man Roy Courtnay sets his sights on the recently widowed Betty McLeish, who is worth millions. However, what should have been a simple swindle
escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with very high stakes. Director Bill Condon's crime thriller based on the novel by Nicholas Searle,
starring Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen and Russell Tovey
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 22, 2022 20:49:18 GMT 1
Braveheart (1995)
Category: Film
BBC Two
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Thu 22 Dec 2022
10:15pm-1:05am (2 hours 50 minutes) Spain 11:15pm-2:05am
Account of the life of medieval Scottish hero William Wallace. After the slaughter of his father and brother, young Wallace is taken
in by his uncle, who teaches him how to use not only his brawn but his brain - which he employs to great effect years later when he resolves to drive
the English out of Scotland. Oscar-winning historical epic, directed by and starring Mel Gibson. With Patrick McGoohan, Sophie Marceau and Catherine McCormack
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 23, 2022 19:45:05 GMT 1
The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Category: General
BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102
Fri 23 Dec 2022
10:30pm-12:15am (1 hour 45 minutes) Spain 11:30pm-1:15am
After a series of violent murders scandalises Victorian London, the media-dubbed Limehouse Golem strikes fear into the hearts of the public.
Into this melting pot is thrust well-intentioned inspector John Kildare, who has never been given a murder case before.
The Scotland Yard sleuth knows he has been set up to fail, but soon uncovers a lead that implicates Karl Marx,
George Gissing and the popular music hall star Dan Leno. He follows the trail, wherever it may lead,
through the seediest and most intriguing parts of London. Thriller, starring Bill Nighy, Douglas Booth and Olivia Cooke
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 24, 2022 17:35:46 GMT 1
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Category: Film
Channel 4
Freeview:104Sky:138Virgin:141BT:104Freesat:126
Christmas Eve
10:40pm-12:55am (2 hours 15 minutes) Spain 11:40pm-1:55am
A London man's misfortunes in love look set to change when he meets an American beauty. However, the prospect of a transatlantic
relationship succeeding seems slim, so the pair go their separate ways - only for him to realise he is unable to get her out of his mind.
Richard Curtis's comedy, with Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow and James Fleet
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 25, 2022 19:45:23 GMT 1
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Category: General
5Action
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Christmas Day
7:45pm-9:00pm (1 hour 15 minutes) Spain 8:45pm-10:00pm
A grizzled drifter rescues a nun from a gang of rapists and gets roped into escorting her across the Mexican desert.
He gradually realises there is more to his new companion than meets the eye - and she may be hiding a surprising secret.
Don Siegel's Western, starring Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fabregas, Alberto Morin and John Kelly
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 26, 2022 17:14:31 GMT 1
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Category: General
BBC Two
Freeview:102Sky:102Virgin:102BT:102Freesat:102
Boxing Day
5:30pm-7:30pm (2 hours) Spain 6:30pm-8:30pm
Oppressed Mexican villagers cross the border into America looking to buy guns to defend their homes and crops from bandits.
Instead they encounter an enigmatic loner who persuades them to hire a band of gunslingers to teach the villagers how to fight
before the marauders return. Western, with Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn and Eli Wallach
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 27, 2022 16:06:06 GMT 1
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Category: General
ITV4
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Tue 27 Dec 2022
3:30pm-4:30pm (1 hour) Spain 4:30pm-5:30pm
Two notorious outlaws' routine of bank and train robberies is cut short when a seemingly unstoppable posse is formed to catch them.
The pair plan to flee America and start a new life in Bolivia, with the Sundance Kid's schoolmistress lover in tow -
but staying ahead of the law is not so easy. Western, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Category: General
ITV4
Freeview:26Sky:120Virgin:118BT:24Freesat:117
Tue 27 Dec 2022
4:35pm-5:45pm (1 hour 10 minutes) Spain 5:35pm -6:45pm
Two notorious outlaws' routine of bank and train robberies is cut short when a seemingly unstoppable posse is formed to catch them.
The pair plan to flee America and start a new life in Bolivia, with the Sundance Kid's schoolmistress lover in tow -
but staying ahead of the law is not so easy. Western, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross
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Post by loobyloo on Dec 28, 2022 17:39:02 GMT 1
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Category: Film
Channel 5
Freeview:105Sky:805Virgin:105BT:105Freesat:105
Wed 28 Dec 2022
4:20pm-5:20pm (1 hour) Spain 5:20pm-6:20pm
The sword-wielding saviour of Spanish California returns after 20 years in prison, tutoring a thief to take over his heroic role
and tackle corrupt government officials, who are using slave labour to mine gold illegally. Both mentor and pupil have personal scores
to settle with their enemies, led by a ruthless governor and a psychotic military officer.
Swashbuckling adventure, with Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
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The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Category: Film
Channel 5
Freeview:105Sky:805Virgin:105BT:105Freesat:105
Wed 28 Dec 2022
5:25pm-7:00pm (1 hour 35 minutes) Spain 6:25pm-8:00pm
The sword-wielding saviour of Spanish California returns after 20 years in prison, tutoring a thief to take over his heroic role
and tackle corrupt government officials, who are using slave labour to mine gold illegally. Both mentor and pupil have personal scores
to settle with their enemies, led by a ruthless governor and a psychotic military officer.
Swashbuckling adventure, with Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
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