Get ready to mark your calendars.
It’s time to free up some space on your TV box because that most anticipated of schedules has arrived, the movie lineup on terrestrial TV in Ireland this Christmas.
We won’t keep you waiting; below is the pick of the bunch of the movies on RTÉ and Virgin Media over the festive season all you have to do now is look forward to parking your arse on the couch.
RTÉ
Unlike Virgin Media and TG4, the national broadcaster hasn’t provided an exact time or transmission date for their Christmas movies just yet. We do know, however, that the schedule will feature all of the movies outlined below…
The Christmas Letter is a new Irish animation based on the true story of a Christmas letter to Santa found in Terenure in Dublin decades after it was sent, with the voices of Catriona Balfe and Fiona Shaw.
Beauty and the Beast is arguably the best live-action remake that Disney have made to date.
Paddington 2 is genuinely great with Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson playing to the rafters.
Bridget Jones’s Baby is a safe bet to settle down on the couch with while Damo and Ivor – The Movie, well, it’s not the best of the bunch.
Office Christmas Party is extremely underrated while younger viewers will enjoy the likes of Storks and Irish movie Float Like A Butterfly, with Hazel Doube as a woman champion boxer.
It’s not Christmas without a few classics and RTÉ will show the likes of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Santa Claus 2, Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire.
As is the norm, we’ll also be getting plenty of Indiana Jones and Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy.
Virgin Media
Circle Of Friends – 16 December, 9pm, Virgin Media Three
Furious 7 – 22 December, 9pm, Virgin Media Two
Three Kings – 23 December, 11:30pm ,Virgin Media Two
Die Hard 4 – 24 December, 9pm, Virgin Media One
The Pursuit of Happiness – 24 December, 9pm, Virgin Media Two
The Wizard of Oz – 25 December, 4.50pm, Virgin Media One
The Other Guys – 25 December, 9pm, Virgin Media Two
The Snapper – 26 December, 9pm, Virgin Media One
The Man from U.N.C.L.E – 27 December, 9pm, Virgin Media 2
Cardboard Gangsters – 27 December, 10pm, Virgin Media One
John Wick – 28 December, 9pm, Virgin Media Two
Lethal Weapon 3 – 29 December, 9pm, Virgin Media Two
A Date for Mad Mary – 29 December, 9pm, Virgin Media One
Virgin on Demand will also have Home Alone, Frozen, Love Actually and The Harry Potter Collection.
