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Star Over Bethlehem (1977, 1979, 1981) - A live satellite transmission that featured Christmas music from around the world. US contributions included remotes from a shopping mall in Columbia, South Carolina and the CBN studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The following is a list of most watched programmes, excluding sporting events and news coverage. The mid-1980s introduction of in-week repeat showings accounts for six of the top ten programmes. On this measure, the 1996 Christmas edition of Only Fools and Horses is, not including figures for repeats, the most-watched non-documentary programme ...
It attracts 12.3 million viewers (on overnight figures) – the largest Christmas Day audience in more than a decade, and the year's highest non-sport overnight figure. [296] By early 2025, viewing figures reach 19.3 million, the UK’s most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since comparable records began in 2002. [ 297 ]
The 90-minute service features Christmas carols, music from the icon Abbey Choir, a sermon and Holy Communion. Held from 11 p.m to 12:30 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, (6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. ET), you can ...
The carols vary from year to year, although some music is repeated, and the service ends with the hymn "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". The order of service in 2024 is as follows: [23] Organ preludes "Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541" – music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) "Weihnachten, Op. 145 No. 3 – music by Max Reger (1873-1916)
A single Christmas Lecture, by G. I. Taylor, was the first to be televised, in 1936, on the BBC's fledgling Television Service. [9] They were broadcast on BBC Two from 1966 to 1999 and Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004. In 2000 one of the lectures was broadcast live for the first time.
Overnight viewing figures for Christmas Day indicate the Queen's Christmas Message to be the most watched television programme on 25 December, with a collective audience of 8.14 million viewers. The 2020 Christmas special of Call the Midwife on BBC One is second with 5.43 million viewers, and Blankety Blank is third with 5.26 million. [356] 30
Christmas Day highlights on BBC1 includes the second edition of the Only Fools and Horses episode Miami Twice. BBC1 show the terrestrial television premieres of Tim Burton 's blockbuster 1989 film Batman , starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson , as well as John Landis' 1988 comedy film Coming to America , starring Eddie Murphy .