THE BBC yesterday announced a #27m package of films, comedy, and drama
-- with special editions of all the top shows -- to pull in viewers over
Christmas.
Del and Rodney go ''green'' to help save Peckham in Only Fools and
Horses and Dorien hangs her stockings on the bed hoping for more than
just a mince pie from Santa in Birds of a Feather on Christmas Day.
Veteran Agatha Christie sleuth Miss Marple, played by Joan Hickson,
takes on her final case in The Mirror Crack'd.
Even Eldorado gets in on the act with hopes of some seasonal ratings
cheer for the expats of the Costa del Sol.
A double helping of EastEnders sees an ultimatum for two-timing Arthur
over his relationship with Christine and busty blonde Pat comes under
suspicion for drink-driving in a timely reminder for viewers.
Miriam Karlin gets into the spirit as a Jewish ghost in So Haunt Me,
Stephanie Cole and Graham Crowden appear as loveable old fogies in
Waiting For God.
Lenny Henry, Victoria Wood, the compulsively uncouth Rab C. Nesbitt,
Harry Enfield, Ruby Wax, and Noel Edmonds all appear and Bruce Forsyth
celebrates 50 years in showbusiness with his friends.
Ian McShane's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search
of treasures, Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie
Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man, about a dangerous
fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital.
BBC2 launches John Sessions in Life With Eliza, a series of 10-minute
Edwardian comic monologues, and The Vampyr -- A Soap Opera is screened
on five consecutive nights of blood, gore, and music set in modern
times.
Terry Wogan has a second batch of comic clangers in More Auntie's
Bloomers -- volume one made him top of the ratings last year.
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