It's Christmas time and you have your holidays booked, you relax on the sofa with a glass of wine and a ridiculous sized box of Quality Streets only to find there's nothing on the telly. Christmas should be a time of great TV but apart from the odd new 2-part drama and a dozen 'list' shows, informing us of the 'top 100 shockingly annoying celebrity songs in adverts', it seems increasingly difficult to find anything decent to watch.
Which is why Britflicks presents: Your Festive British Film TV Guide...in other words a list of British films on over the Christmas period. You can thank us with a mince pie later.
Sat 17th December
Casino Royale (2006 Dir. Marton Campbell) Stars. Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen 12.30pm ITV4
About A Boy (2002 Dir. Chris Weitz/Paul Weitz) Stars. Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult. 1.15pm ITV1
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007 Dir. David Yates) Stars. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint. 6.35pm ITV1
The Boat That Rocked (2009 Dir. Richard Curtis) Stars. Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans. 10.05pm ITV1
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987 Dir. Andrea Dunbar) Stars. Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp. 10.50pm More4
Sunday 18th December
Scrooge (1951 Dir. Brian Desmond Hurst) Stars. Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns. 1pm C5
Stardust (2007 Dir. Matthew Vaugh) Stars. Ian McKellen, Ben Barnes, Sienna Miller, Henry Cavill. 6.35pm Film4
Tuesday 20th December
Oliver Twist (2005 Dir. Roman Polanski ) Stars. Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jeremy Twist. 1.25pm Channel 4
Nowhere Boy (2010 Dir. Sam Taylor-Wood) Stars. Aaron Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas. 9pm Film4
Thursday 22nd December
The Young Victoria (2008 Dir. Julian Fellowes) Stars. Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson. 9pm BBC2
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007 Dir. Tim Burton) Stars. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonam-Carter. 9pm Film4
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997 Dir. Roger Spottiswoode) Stars. Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench, Jonathan Pryce. 10.35pm ITV1
The Football Factory (2004 Dir. Nick Love) Stars. Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Tamer Hassan. 11.15pm Film4
The Descent (2005 Dir. Neil Marshall) Stars. Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Saskia Mulder. 1.10am Film4
Friday 23rd December
Shakespeare In Love (1998 Dir. John Madden) Stars. Gwyneth Paltrow, Josephe Fiennes, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush. 12.50pm ITV3
Nativity! (2009 Dir. Debbie Isitt) Stars. Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins. 6.20pm BBC2
Tamara Drewe (2010 Dir. Stephen Frears) Stars. Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Tamsin Greig. 10.30pm BBC2
Saturday 24th December - Christmas Eve
The Chronicals Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (2005 Dir. Andrew Adamson) James McAvoy. 5.50pm BBC1
Son Of Rambow (2007 Dir. Garth Jenning) Stars. Jessica Hynes, Bill Milner, Neil Dudgeon. 9.20pm BBC3
Bronson (2008 Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) Stars. Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, James Lance, Matt King. 11.20pm Film
Sunday 25th December - Christmas Day
The Borrowers (1997 Dir. Peter Hewitt) Stars. John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie. 7.45am ITV1
James and the Giant Peach (1996 Dir. Henry Selick) Stars. Simon Callow, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite. 8.30am Channel 4
The Snowman (1982 Dir. Dianne Jackson) Stars. The Snowman, The Boy 2.30pm Channel 4
Monday 26th December
Mansfield Park (1999 Dir. Patricia Rozema) Stars. Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, James Purefoy. 12.45pm BBC2
Emma (1996 Dir.Douglas McGrath) Stars. Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming. 2.35pm BBC2
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sectrets (2002 Dir.Chris Columbus) Stars. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson. 3.30pm ITV1
Becoming Jane (2007 Dir. Julian Jarrold) Stars. Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, Maggie Smith. 5.10pm BBC2
Tuesday 27th December
In Bruges (2008 Dir. Martin McDonagh) Stars. Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes. 9pm Film4
Thursday 29th December
The Railway Children (1970 Dir.Lionel Jeffries) Stars. Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins. 10.55am ITV1
St Trinian's (2007 Dir.Oliver Parker) Stars. Gemma Aterton, Talulah Riley, Russell Brand, Rupert Everett. 6.55pm Film4
Dorian Gray (2009 Dir.Oscar Parker) Stars. Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Emilia Fox, Ben Chaplin. 9pm Channel 4
Notting Hill (1999 Dir.Roger Michell) Stars. Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Hugh Bonville, Rhys Ifans. 10.15pm ITV1
Friday 30th December
Children Of Men (2006 Dir. Alfonso Cuarón) Stars. Clive Owen, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore. 9pm ITV4
Control (2007 Dir. Anton Corbijn) Stars. Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Joe Anderson. 1.40am Film4
