If you are looking for a good film in the United Kingdom then you need to be watching television channels such as Talking Pictures TV, Horror Channel and Film4. All of these are free to air channels meaning they can be viewed on Freeview. Here our pick of the TV Schedules:
- Talking Pictures TV available on Sky 328 | Virgin 445 | Freeview 81 | Freesat 306
- Horror Channel available on Sky | Virgin 149 | Freeview 70 | Freesat 138
- Film4 available on Sky 313 | Virgin 428 (SD) & 429 (HD) | Freeview 15
Talking Pictures specialise in showing older vintage material with many black and white films along with films into the 1970/80’s. If for instance you love the likes of Laurel and Hardy, Will Hay, Alfred Hitchcock then this is most definitely the channel for you. The good news continues as they add different films into the mix each month so you are not just watching the same films or TV series over and over again, UK Gold take note!
The Horror Channel shows a good mix of old and new horror/sci-fi films and also have network premieres every month to keep things fresh.
Film4 is a more general film channel which shows films from all genres. It has themed seasons such as Frightfest in which they show horror movies each night over a few weeks.
Meanwhile we always like to select our must see choices from all of the TV channels over the Christmas period.
What’s On Television – UK TV Schedules
| Day | Date | Time | Film / TV Series | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 17/12/2018 | 10:35 | King Solomon's Mines (1937) | Adventure - Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke & Anna Lee |
| Mon | 17/12/2018 | 13:45 | The Old Dark House (1963) | Comedy - Stars Fenella Fielding, Tom Poston, Robert Morley & Janette Scott |
| Mon | 17/12/2018 | 17:10 | Brats (1930) | Laurel & Hardy |
| Mon | 17/12/2018 | 20:00 | Danger UXB | TV Series |
| Mon | 17/12/2018 | 23:00 | The Gentle Touch | Crime Drama - Starring Jill Gascoine |
| Mon | 17/12/2018 | 0:00 | KOTCH (1971) | Comedy - Starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon & Deborah Winters |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 8:50 | Heavens Above! (1963) | Comedy - Starring Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Cecil Parker & Eric Sykes |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 11:10 | Valley Of Eagles (1951) | Adventure - Jack Warner & Nadia Gray |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 12:50 | Family Christmas – Glimpses | |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 18:00 | Devil Girls From Mars (1954) | Sci-fi |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 20:00 | Danger UXB | TV Series |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 22:50 | Christmas In Britain – Glimpses | |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 23:00 | The Gentle Touch | Crime Drama - Starring Jill Gascoine |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 0:00 | The Comeback Kid (1980) | Comedy - Stars John Ritter, Susan Dey, Patrick Swayze & Doug McKeon |
| Wed | 19/12/2018 | 8:35 | Spellbound (1945) | Drama - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck & Michael Chekhov |
| Wed | 19/12/2018 | 13:20 | Moulin Rouge (1952) | Drama - Director: John Huston. Stars Jose Ferrer & Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| Wed | 19/12/2018 | 19:45 | Christmas Carols in 1947 – Glimpses | |
| Wed | 19/12/2018 | 20:00 | Danger UXB | TV Series |
| Wed | 19/12/2018 | 23:00 | The Gentle Touch | Crime Drama - Starring Jill Gascoine |
| Wed | 19/12/2018 | 0:00 | Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1973) | Comedy - Stars Peter Sellers, Curt Jurgens, Francoise Pascal, Rula Lenska & Jenny Hanley |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 10:40 | Fighting Man of the Plains (1949) | Western - Stars Randolph Scott, Bill Williams & Victor Jory |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 12:30 | The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) | Laurel & Hardy |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 13:10 | The Devil & Daniel Webster (1941) | Drama - Starring James Craig as Jabez Stone |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 18:00 | Last Holiday (1950) | Drama- Stars Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell & Kay Walsh |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 19:45 | BFI: Christmas Under Fire | |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 20:00 | Danger UXB | TV Series |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 21:00 | Sleeping Tiger (1954) | Drama - Stars Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith & Alexander Knox |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 22:45 | The Christmas Truce of 1914 – Lest We Forget | |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 23:00 | The Gentle Touch | Crime Drama - Starring Jill Gascoine |
| Fri | 21/12/2018 | 8:50 | Since You Went Away (1944) | Drama - Stars Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple & Joseph Cotten |
| Fri | 21/12/2018 | 14:40 | Here Come The Huggetts (1948) | Comedy - Stars Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark |
| Fri | 21/12/2018 | 20:00 | Danger UXB | |
| Fri | 21/12/2018 | 22:45 | The Night Before Christmas – 1946 | Adaptation of the famous poem |
| Fri | 21/12/2018 | 23:00 | The Gentle Touch | |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 07:15 | The Trollenberg Terror (1958) | |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 08:50 | Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) | Will Hay |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 14:20 | Crooks Anonymous (1962) | Comedy - Starring Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter & Wilfrid Hyde-White |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 16:05 | The Long & The Short & The Tall (1961) | War - Stars Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey & Richard Harris |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 18:05 | Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) | Comedy - Starring James Booth, Barbara Windsor & Roy Kinnear |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 22:05 | All The Way Up (1970) | Comedy - Stars Warren Mitchell, Pat Heywood & Elaine Taylor |
| Sun | 23/12/2018 | 18:30 | A Night To Remember (1958) | Drama - Stars Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres & Honor Blackman |
| Sun | 23/12/2018 | 22:10 | Circle of Danger (1951) | Drama - Stars Ray Milland, Patricia Roc & Marius Goring |
| Sun | 23/12/2018 | 23:45 | Conrack (1974) | Drama - Stars Starring Jon Voight, Paul Winfield and Madge Sinclair |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 07:45 | Busy Bodies (1933) | Laurel & Hardy |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 08:10 | Scrooge (1935) | Stars Seymour Hicks |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 11:30 | Towed In A Hole (1932) | |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 11:55 | Home For Christmas (1990) | |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 13:55 | High Flight (1957) | Drama - Stars Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh & Anthony Newley |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 16:50 | For the Love of Ada | TV Series - Christmas Special - Starring Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles & Barbara Mitchell |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 17:30 | Great Expectations (1974) | Drama - Stars Michael York, Sarah Miles, Margaret Leighton, James Mason & Anthony Quayle |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 21:05 | The Holly and the Ivy (1952) | Drama - Stars Ralph Richardson & Celia Johnson |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 05:45 | Christmas Carols in 1947 | |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 06:00 | Good Morning, Boys (1937) | Will Hay |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 07:45 | Waterloo Road (1944) | Drama - Stars Stewart Granger, John Mills, Alastair Sim & Joy Shelton |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 09:20 | The Ugly Duckling (1959) | Drama - Stars Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith & Richard Wattis |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 11:15 | Bulldog Breed (1960) | Norman Wisdom |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 13:50 | Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (1951) | Alastair Sim |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 17:40 | Oliver Twist (1948) | Drama - Stars Alec Guinness, Robert Newton & Kay Walsh |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 01:05 | Prizzi's Honour (1986) | Jack Nicholson |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 08:05 | Bell Bottom George (1944) | Drama - Starring George Formby, Anne Firth & Reginald Purdell |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 10:30 | Beyond Christmas (1940) | Drama - Stars Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith & Charles Winninger |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 13:45 | Passport To Pimlico (1949) | Comedy - Stars Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren & Margaret Rutherford |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 18:15 | The Blue Lamp (1949) | Drama - Stars Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner & Jimmy Hanley |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 21:00 | Quatermass and the Pit (1967) | Mystery - Stars James Donald, Andrew Keir & Barbara Shelley |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 23:00 | Lured (1947) | Crime - Stars George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn & Boris Karloff |
| Thur | 27/12/2018 | 07:50 | Man of the Moment (1955) | Norman Wisdom |
| Thur | 27/12/2018 | 09:35 | Kill Her Gently (1957) | Thriller |
| Thur | 27/12/2018 | 13:05 | The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961) | Sci-fi |
| Thur | 27/12/2018 | 21:00 | All The Way Up (1970) | Comedy - Stars Warren Mitchell, Pat Heywood & Elaine Taylor |
| Thur | 27/12/2018 | 23:00 | Violent Playground (1958) | Drama - Stars Stanley Baker, David McCallum, Anne Heywood & Peter Cushing |
| Fri | 28/12/2018 | 08:00 | Chance of a Lifetime (1950) | Comedy - Basil Radford, Bernard Miles, Kenneth More, Patrick Troughton & Hattie Jacques |
| Fri | 28/12/2018 | 11:00 | Ghost Ship (1953) | Thriller - Directed by Vernon Sewell. Starring Hazel Court & Dermot Walsh |
| Fri | 28/12/2018 | 14:30 | The Blue Lamp (1949) | Drama - Stars Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner & Jimmy Hanley |
| Fri | 28/12/2018 | 23:10 | The Good Die Young (1954) | Thriller - Director: Lewis Gilbert. Stars Robert Morley, Joan Collins, Laurence Harvey & Margaret Leighton |
| Sat | 29/12/2018 | 06:00 | Convict 99 (1938) | Will Hay |
| Sat | 29/12/2018 | 10:55 | The Long Duel (1967) | Drama - Stars Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews and Andrew Keir |
| Sat | 29/12/2018 | 14:50 | Challenge For Robin Hood (1967) | Adventure - Stars Barrie Ingham, James Hayter & Leon Greene |
| Sat | 29/12/2018 | 21:05 | The Swimmer (1968) | Burt Lancaster |
| Sat | 29/12/2018 | 22:55 | The Old Dark House (1963) | Comedy - Stars Fenella Fielding, Tom Poston, Robert Morley & Janette Scott |
| Sun | 30/12/2018 | 11:30 | Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (1951) | Alastair Sim |
| Sun | 30/12/2018 | 15:15 | The Holly and the Ivy (1952) | Drama - Stars Ralph Richardson & Celia Johnson |
| Sun | 30/12/2018 | 18:05 | Oliver Twist (1948) | Drama - Stars Alec Guinness, Robert Newton & Kay Walsh |
| Mon | 31/12/2018 | 10:30 | The League of Gentlemen (1960) | Stars Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick & Roger Livesey |
| Mon | 31/12/2018 | 12:45 | The Winslow Boy (1948) | Stars Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke & Basil Radford |
| Mon | 31/12/2018 | 15:00 | Great Expectations (1974) | Stars Michael York, Sarah Miles, Margaret Leighton, James Mason & Anthony Quayle |
| Mon | 31/12/2018 | 21:00 | Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000) | Jon Newman, Prunella Scales, Marc Danbury and George Cole |
| Tue | 01/12/2019 | 14:15 | The One That Got Away (1957) | Stars Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon & Michael Goodliffe |
| Tue | 01/12/2019 | 18:00 | Genevieve (1953) | Stars: Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan and Kay Kendall |
| Tue | 01/12/2019 | 20:00 | Scream of Fear (1961) | Stars Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd & Christopher Lee |
| Tue | 01/12/2019 | 21:40 | House on Haunted Hill (1959) | Horror. Directed by William Castle. Starring Vincent Price & Carol Ohmart |
| Wed | 02/12/2019 | 10:55 | Blanche Fury (1948) | Crime: Stars Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger & Michael Gough |
| Wed | 02/12/2019 | 23:00 | Gumshoe (1971) | Stars Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw & Frank Finlay |
| Day | Date | Time | Film / TV Series | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 17/12/2018 | 11:00 | The Devil Rides Out (1968) | Hammer Horror - Christopher Lee |
| Tue | 18/12/2018 | 21:00 | The Eye (2008) | Mystery - Stars Jessica Alba |
| Wed | 19/12/2018 | 22:50 | The Mummy (1959) | Hammer Horror |
| Thur | 20/12/2018 | 21:00 | Don't Blink (2015) | Horror/Thriller |
| Fri | 21/12/2018 | 23:15 | The Strangers (2008) | Horror |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 21:00 | A Christmas Horror Story (2015) | Chilling festive anthology with William Shatner |
| Sat | 22/12/2018 | 23:00 | Hatchet (2006) | Horror |
| Sun | 23/12/2018 | 21:00 | The Children (2008) | A Christmas holiday goes horrendously wrong when the children turn on their parents |
| Sun | 23/12/2018 | 22:40 | Tales from the Crypt (1972) | Horror - Peter Cushing |
| Mon | 24/12/2018 | 21:00 | P2 (2007) | Horror |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 21:00 | Black Christmas (2006) | Horror |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 22:40 | A Christmas Horror Story (2015) | Chilling festive anthology with William Shatner |
| Tue | 25/12/2018 | 00:40 | The Fog (1980) | John Carpenter |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 22:40 | Night of the Living Dead (1990) | Remake |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 00:40 | The Vatican Tapes (2015) | Horror |
| Wed | 26/12/2018 | 02:30 | The Witches (1967) | Hammer Horror |
| Thur | 27/12/2018 | 21:00 | Curse of Chucky (2013) | Horror |
| Thur | 27/12/2018 | 22:55 | Vampires (1998) | John Carpenter |
| Fri | 28/12/2018 | 22:45 | Pandorum (2009) | Horror - Dennis Quaid |
| Fri | 28/12/2018 | 00:50 | The Hills Have Eyes (1977) | Directed by Wes Craven |
| Sat | 29/12/2018 | 15:00 | Stephen King's The Langoliers Series 1, Episode 1 | |
| Sat | 29/12/2018 | 16:55 | Stephen King's The Langoliers Series 1, Episode 2 | |
| Day | Date | Time | Film / TV Series | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 16/12/2018 | 01:15 | Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) | Horror |
| Day | Name | Channel | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas Eve | Busy Bodies (1933) - (Laurel & Hardy) | Talking Pictures TV | 7:45am |
| Scrooge (1935) - (Seymour Hicks) | Talking Pictures TV | 8:10am | |
| Towed In A Hole (1932) - (Laurel & Hardy) | Talking Pictures TV | 11:30am | |
| For the Love of Ada - Christmas Special (TV Series) | Talking Pictures TV | 4:30pm | |
| P2 (2007) | Horror Channel | 9:00pm | |
| The Holly and the Ivy (1952) | Talking Pictures TV | 9:05pm | |
| House On Haunted Hill (1999) | Horror Channel | 12:45am | |
| Christmas Day | Good Morning, Boys (1937) - (Will Hay) | Talking Pictures TV | 6:00am |
| Waterloo Road (1944) | Talking Pictures TV | 7:45am | |
| The Ugly Duckling (1959) | Talking Pictures TV | 9:20am | |
| Bulldog Breed (1960) - (Norman Wisdom) | Talking Pictures TV | 11:15am | |
| Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (1951) - (Alastair Sim) | Talking Pictures TV | 1:50pm | |
| Oliver Twist (1948) | Talking Pictures TV | 5:40pm | |
| Black Christmas (2006) | Horror Channel | 9:00pm | |
| A Christmas Horror Story (2015) | Horror Channel | 10:40pm | |
| The Fog (1980) - (John Carpenter) | Horror Channel | 12:40am | |
| Prizzi's Honour (1986) - (Jack Nicholson) | Talking Pictures TV | 1:05am | |
| Boxing Day | Bell Bottom George (1944) - (George Formby) | Talking Pictures TV | 8:05am |
| Beyond Christmas (1940) | Talking Pictures TV | 10:30am | |
| Passport To Pimlico (1949) | Talking Pictures TV | 1:45pm | |
| The Blue Lamp (1949) | Talking Pictures TV | 6:15pm | |
| Quatermass and the Pit (1967) | Talking Pictures TV | 9:00pm | |
| The Vatican Tapes (2015) | Horror Channel | 12:40am | |
| The Witches (1967) (Hammer Horror) | Horror Channel | 2:30am |
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UK Selected TV Schedules
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UK Selected TV Schedules - Highlights - Find out what films and television series are on your favourite TV channels such as Talking Pictures TV, Horror Channel, Film4 and more.
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