Schedule Wednesday 30th December 2009
11:30am30 min
Ballylenon
Series 7, Episode 6Vera and Muriel experience the fallout from Mr. Gallagher's discovery.
6:15pm15 min
The News At Bedtime
Episode 5Mary Mary reports on a medical mystery involving and old woman who swallowed a fly.
6:30pm
(repeat)
Ayres On The Air
Series 3, Episode 1 - PassionPam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, anecdotes and sketches. Featuring poems about the difficulty of getting a new mattress up the stairs and the heartfelt plea 'Don't Ask Me To the Wedding'.
7pm30 min
Big Top
Episode 6 - ThiefErasmus's criminal past comes back to haunt him when he is accused of a series of burglaries.
9pm
(repeat)
Greatest Christmas Comedy Moments
Channel 5 counts down Britain's best-loved Christmas TV comedy favourites.
9pm
(repeat)
Live At The Apollo
A selction of three editions of the show, featuring Jack Dee, Michael McIntyre, Rhod Gilbert, Rich Hall and Lee Mack.
9:05pm
(repeat)
Micro Men
Comedy drama about the rise and fall of the home computer market in the 1980s. Stars Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman.
10pm60 min
Unwrapped With Miranda Hart
Episode 1 - 2009 Unwrapped With Miranda HartMiranda Hart hosts a look back at the defining cultural, political and televisual moments of the year, remembering the events that shaped the world in 2009, or would have done if they'd actually happened.
10:30pm30 min
We Need Answers
Series 2, Episode 5 - LanguageFormer EastEnder and comic actress Tracy-Ann Oberman competes against best-selling author of The Long Firm, Jake Arnott. In the physical challenge, Tracey-Ann takes on Jake in composing a sentence using alphabet spaghetti.
10:35pm
(repeat)
The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year
Episode 6 - The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2008With James Corden, Sean Lock, Claudia Winkleman, Davina McCall, Michael McIntyre and Dara O'Briain.
11pm
(repeat)
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Episode 1 - Fawlty Towers: Re-OpenedJohn Cleese hosts a special tribute to what is arguably the finest sitcom ever made.
11pm45 min
Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas
This searing in-depth documentary tells the story of how a lot of people, some of whose names the makers never really got to grips with, stood in a wet field trying to make a funny programme for Christmas.
11pm
(repeat)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Panel game based on the world of rock and pop music, featuring comedians and musicians.
11pm30 min
All Bar Luke
2009 Special, Christmas SpecialDesignated driver Luke Walsall and his disastrous social life returns for a half-hour Christmas special. Luke ferries Lee and Hayley between Christmas dinners with their parents nursing family conflict, marital breakdown and his own broken heart in typically fumbling style.
11pm
(repeat)
Cowards
Episode 3Sketches include a restaurant that will allow you to order anything; an animation featuring Martin Clunes looking for friends to join him for a game of football; and an over-subscribed dinner party.
11:30pm
(repeat)
I'm Alan Partridge
Episode 4, Basic Alan: Since Alan is the only guest at the Linton Travel Tavern, the manager decides to close it for refurbishment, leaving Alan at a loose end.
11:30pm
(repeat)
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Gameswipe, Special - Charlie Brooker's GameswipeCharlie Brooker, with the help of Dom Joly, Graham Linehan and Dara O Briain, looks at video games and their relationship with the media.
Midnight
(repeat)
Grumpy Old New Year
Middle-aged celebrities have a good whinge about the New Year festivities - the compulsory partying, the staying up late and more.