Christmas Day TV Highlights

8am

SKY ONE Terry Pratchet’s Hogfather

9am

FIVE Stargate Atlantis “Home”

SKY TWO The Tenth Kinggdom

10am

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Helpless”

LIVING Wonder Woman “The Deadly Toys”

TROUBLE Kyle XY “Leap of Faith”

11am

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “The Zeppo”

SCI FI Firefly “The Train Job”

TROUBLE Charmed “Death Becomes Them”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Dax” – hey, at least VIRGIN 1 isn’t showing the exact same episodes they did yesterday, like a certain channel is with Buffy…

11.30am

ZONE HORROR The Collector

Noon

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Bad Girls”

SCI FI Firefly “Bushwhacked”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “The Passenger”

12.30pm

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

1pm

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Consequences”

SCI FI A Town Called Eureka “Many Happy Returns”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Move Along Home”

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

2pm

FX Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Doppelgangland”

SCI FI A Town Called Eureka “Before I Forget”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “The Nagus”

2.30pm

ZONE HORROR The Twilight Zone

3pm

SCI FI Who Wants to be a Superhero? – Comic book legend Stan Lee presides over the show where 11 wannabe superheroes compete for a chance to have their alter-egos immortalised in print.

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Vortex”

3.30pm

SKY ONE Futurama “A Pharaoh to Remember”

ZONE HORROR The Collector

4.00pm

SKY ONE Futurama “Godfellas”

SCI FI Who Wants to be a Superhero?

SKY TWO Stargate SG-1 “Descent”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Battle Lines”

4.30pm

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

5pm

SCI FI Who Wants to be a Superhero?

SKY TWO Stargate SG-1 “Frozen”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “The Storyteller”

5.30pm

ZONE HORROR Dark Shadows

6pm

SCI FI Who Wants to be a Superhero?

6.50pm

BBC1 Doctor Who “Voyage of the Damned” – go on, you know you want to

7pm

LIVING Ghost Whisperer “Giving Up The Ghost”

SCI FI Who Wants to be a Superhero?

7.30pm

ZONE HORROR The Twilight Zone

8pm

SKY ONE Terry Pratchet’s Hogfather

SCI FI Who Wants to be a Superhero?

TROUBLE Charmed “Something Wicca This Way Goes”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Destiny”

8.30pm

BBC3 Doctor Who Confidential

SKY TWO Futurama “Leela’s Homeworld”

9pm

DAVE Red Dwarf VI “Legion”

SCI FI Heroes “One Giant Leap”

TROUBLE Kyle XY “Leap of Faith”

VIRGIN 1 Star Trek: Enterprise “Dear Doctor”

9.40pm

DAVE Red Dwarf VI “Gunmen of the Apocalypse”

10pm

SCI FI Heroes “Collision”

10.20pm

DAVE Red Dwarf VIII “Only the Good”

11pm

DAVE Red Dwarf VI “Legion”

SCI FI Heroes “Hiros”

11.40pm

DAVE Red Dwarf VI “Gunmen of the Apocalypse”

Midnight

LIVING The X-Files “Deep Throat”

12.05am

FIVE Stargate Atlantis “The Storm”

12.20am

DAVE Red Dwarf VIII “Only the Good”

1am

DAVE Red Dwarf VI “Legion”

1.30am

SKY ONE Mutant X “Age of Innocence”

1.50am

SCI FI Odyssey 5 “The Shatterer”

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