Source: TV Times
With thanks to Jason Wright
5:40am The Magic Roundabout
5:45am Alfie Atkins
5:55am Sesame Street
6:55am The Magic Roundabout
7:00am Investigators
7:25am Insektors
8:00am The Big Breakfast
Entertainment and news from the Big Breakfast house with Johnny Vaughan, Liza Tarbuck and Sara Cox.
10:00am The Bigger Breakfast
With episodes of Malibu, Johnny Bravo and Dawson’s Creek.
12:20pm Famous Fred
Award-winning animation about the life of Fred, an ordinary tomcat to humans, but a legendary figure among the neighbourhood’s other inhabitants. With the voice of Lenny Henry.
12:50pm 4 Dance
Two films about Britain’s top contemporary choreographers. Tablecloth Garden is a film inspired by the relationship between modern photographic images and Renaissance paintings. Then 13 Different Keys features Siobhan Davies’s collaboration with three dancers from the Royal Ballet and two from her own company in a fusion of the classical and modern.
1:50pm Channel 4 Racing
Brough Scott introduces today’s live horse racing from both Cheltenham and Fontwell Park. With Alastair Down, John Francome, Graham Goode, Simon Holt, John McCririck and Jim McGrath.
4:15pm Countdown
Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman present the grand final of the Champion of Champions series.
5:00pm FILM: The Railway Children (1970)
Three children move to Yorkshire with their mother after their father is falsely imprisoned for treason. Starring Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter and Bernard Cribbins.
6:55pm Channel 4 News Summary
7:00pm 1000 AD
Documentary examining what life was like in Anglo-Saxon Britain at the beginning of this millennium. Using reconstructions and interviews with historians, the film looks at the everyday life of a community of that time, as well as their aspirations, beliefs, fears and views of the world around them.
8:00pm Brookside
Joey walks out on Niamh on the stroke of midnight, Gemma buys ecstasy from Dave with disastrous consequences, Mike and Rachel celebrate the birth of their son, and Jimmy’s arch is unveiled.
8:30pm Millennium: The Musical
Anarchic animated musical taking a cynical look at the past 1000 years of British history.
9:00pm Father Ted Christmas Special
Another chance to see the 1996 Christmas edition of the cult comedy. Father Ted saves the day when a group of priests ends up in a shop’s lingerie department. But when he’s rewarded for his quick thinking, he finds himself in a world of bitterness and jealously.
10:00pm Eurotrash’s Big Bang
To mark the 100th edition of the entertainment show which reveals the best, worst and weirdest in Europe, Antoine de Caunes presents highlights from the past 12 series. With guest appearances from Eddie Izzard, Graham Norton, Lily Savage and former presenter Jean Paul Gaultier.
11:15pm FY2K: Graham Norton Live
Graham Norton and his guests, linked through internet, phone and satellite, welcome in the new millennium with a mixture of comedy, entertainment and surprises.
12:35am The Biggest Breakfast Ever
A special all-night edition of the show to celebrate the start of the year 2000. Hosts Johnny Vaughan and Liza Tarbuck are joined by Richard Bacon, Sara Cox and Phil Gayle to cut through the millennial madness and offer and alternative line-up of features, interviews, outside broadcasts and competitions.
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