Billy found this on BB and posted it in the chatroom...

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/brigbother/dealep317/

This must be preliminary... cos it's wrong, I think.

According to the article Kes posted a few weeks ago, there are 2 episodes on 25/12 and 26/12, not 1, as those schedules suggest.

And, what's all this about:

Tues 2nd Jan - 4.45pm and 8pm (marked as a repeat)
Wed 3rd Jan - 4.45pm and 8pm (scheduled for only 30 mins)

Like Billy said, perhaps the 30 minutes episode is a deal at the first offer?

EDIT: Ok, apparently there are many people to thank for this source!

EDIT (again): Sorry for all the edits, the post wouldn't format properly.

Well, credit should really go to Travis, or at least centrino04...but yeah.

Pros: They aren't going to schedule DOND against Doctor Who. Thank god.
Cons: Another Double Deal Week? This is going to be really hard to follow, especially at Christmas.

They're only preliminary, anyway...once the Christmas Radio Times comes out we'll know for sure.

According to Christmas Day there is a TBA for 7:45-8.30pm. Therefore it's possible that is for the primetime special. Still its too early to say as anything could change at the last minute.

why would there be an ep on christmas day?? the kiddies will be opening their prezzies, people will be doing other stuff!

Oh, dang, that probably *would* overlap with Doctor Who then.

It had better not, or C4 are fools.

Kestral's topic - http://www.dond.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5537 - explains more about the 2 shows on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

That's never stopped millions of viewers tuning into Eastenders and Coronation Street!

You know, Rico, that is a very good point!

I'm having my doubts regarding the DoND schedule over Christmas. As I've been looking at the Channel 4 Sales site and their listings. According to the listings for Christmas DoND is all set for 4.15pm Mon-Fri but Christmas Day & Boxing Day has got TBA while the rest of week is a mixture of TBA and shows which cover the 8pm slot.

I'm starting to have doubts here. The people who will know the answer to this is h2005 and his filming dates list.

Sorry, even I'm baffled! I think that at one point they do take some time off, but I'm not sure about that.

These are the listings from the NOTW (When DOND is on and what it clashes with)

Christmas Eve
C4 - 5.15 DOND (45mins)
BBC1 - 4.50 Songs of praise, 5.25 (F) Chicken Run
BBC2 - 5.05 Carols from Kings, 5.30 Wild
ITV 1 - 5.15 ITV News, 5.30 TBA

Christmas Day
C4 - 4.10 DOND (50mins)
BBC1 - 3.10 (F) Monsters Inc., 4.35 My Family Christmas special
BBC2 - 2.10 Cosi Fan Tutte, 4.45 (F) TBA
ITV 1 - 4.10 ITV News, 4.25 TBA

C4 - 7.00 DOND (60mins)
BBC1 - 6.35 Eastenders, 7.05 (F) Pirates of the Caribbean
BBC2 - 7.00 Private life of a Masterpeice
ITV 1 - 7.05 Emmerdale

Boxing Day
C4 - 4.15 DOND (45mins)
BBC1 - 2.45 (F) Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 4.40 (F) Freaky Friday
BBC2 - 2.35 Giselle, 4.30 Final Score
ITV 1 - 4.10 TBA

C4 - 8.00 DOND (60mins)
BBC1 - 8.00 Holby City
BBC2 - 8.00 Ghosts of Christmas past
ITV 1 - 8.00 TBA

New Years Eve
C4 - 6.00 DOND (45mins)
BBC1 - 5.45 BBC News, 6.10 Antiques Roadshow
BBC2 - 5.40 Wakest Link, 6.25 Down with love
ITV 1 - 5.30 Steve Irwin Documentary, 6.30 ITV News

New Years Day
C4 - 4.45 DOND (45mins)
BBC1 - 4.40 Expedition Borneo, 5.10 The Sarah Jane Adventures
BBC2 - 4.30 Final Score, 5.15 (F) The Great Escape
ITV 1 - 4.15 (F) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Yes,I was just about to post what had been put over at Bother's Bar (thanks to Billy for letting me know)

24th December - 17.15
25th December - 16.10 & 19.00
26th December - 16.15 & 20.00
27th December - 16.15
28th December - 16.15
29th December - 16.15
31st December - 18.00
1st January - 16.45
2nd January - 16.45 & 20.00
3rd January - 16.45 & 20.00
4th January - 16.45
5th January - 16.45

Advance notice: Please could someone put these games on YouTube/UK Nova as I will be in London that day.
Thanks!

How will DOND fare over Christmas?

Here are my opinions on the matter...

Christmas Eve 5:15 - should do fine - Songs of Praise and Carols from Kings only attract a certain audience, and Chicken Run isn't exactly a major premiere.

Christmas Day 4:10 - Again, not much competition - except the My Family Christmas Special (assuming it's a new one), but that starts 25 minutes after DOND, so hopefully, people will be watching DOND and won't switch over to BBC1. We've yet to see what ITV 1 will show, though.

Christmas Day 7:00 - Eastenders, Pirates of the Caribbean and Emmerdale are going to be a struggle for DOND to beat - it's interesting though that they start at 7:05, and DOND starts at 7:00.

Boxing Day 4:10 - Not much competition, unless Freaky Friday is the premiere of the recent version, but still not much competition... unless ITV 1 pulls a ratings winner out of the bag!

Boxing Day 8:00 - Holby City is a ratings winner, so DOND may find it hard to keep up with them - also ITV 1's "TBA" sounds ominous...

New Year's Eve 6:00 - Not much competition.

New Year's Day - 4:45 - Not much competition.

Overall, I don't think DOND will do too badly over Christmas - even if ITV 1 put some ratings winners in their "TBA" slots, I don't think C4 has much to worry about!

Looking at the schedules, there's not much on to convince me away from DOND over the festive break.

Yeah, ITV are holding their cards close to their chest and that has to get C4 worried!

The best thing out of this is that DOND doesnt clash with Dr. Who which is usually the highest ranking programme on Christmas day.

They shouldn't switch over anyway. "My Family" is, quite literally, the worst thing ever.

'My Hero' must be a very very very very close second then...

There have been BBC 1 "comedies" which have been a lot worse; but all I know is that My Family always has been a ratings winner... and still is!

Interesting, I was sure Who would clash...what time's that scheduled for?