HD Heads-Up: Christmas Week Movies

The networks’ movie schedules overflow with the usual Christmas suspects in the week starting December 19, including evergreens Home Alone, Dirty Dancing, The Shawshank Redemption and The Full Monty.

There will be only three primetime free-to-air premieres: The Kindergarten Teacher (Maori TV, 8.30 Sunday), Finding Your Feet (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Friday) and Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (Three, 7.00 Friday).

Scheduled for Christmas Eve are:

• Home Alone (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Thursday)
• The Swan Princess Christmas (Maori TV, 7.00 Thursday)
• Philomena (Maori TV, 8.30 Thursday)
• Four Holidays (TVNZ 2, 9.00 Thursday)
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (TVNZ 2, 10.45 Thursday)

And for Christmas Night:

• Finding Your Feet (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Friday)
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Friday)
• Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (Three, 7.00 Friday)
• The Road To Eldorado (Maori TV, 7.00 Friday)
• Fat Albert (Duke, 8.00 Friday)
• The Shawshank Redemption (Three, 8.30 Friday)
• Scrooged (Maori TV, 8.30 Friday)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (TVNZ 2, 9.00 Friday)
• Revenge of the Nerds (Duke, 9.30 Friday)
• Revenge of the Nerds II (Duke, 11.00 Friday)
• Phenomenon (TVNZ 2, 11.10 Friday)

Here’s the rest of the HD line-up:

• Elf (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday)
• Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Three, 7.00 Saturday)
• The Silver Brumby (Maori TV, 7.00 Saturday)
• Panic Room (Duke, 8.30 Saturday)
• The Full Monty (TVNZ 1, 8.40 Saturday)
• The Butler (Maori TV, 8.40 Saturday)
• Risky Business (TVNZ 2, 8.45 Saturday)
• Collateral Beauty (Three, 9.10 Saturday)
• Pulp Fiction (TVNZ 2, 10.45 Saturday)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (TVNZ 1, 11.00 Saturday)
• Sleepwalker (Three, 11.10 Saturday)
• Jupiter Ascending (TVNZ 2, 1.35am Sunday)
• Zootopia (TVNZ 2, 7.50am Sunday)
• Kiwi Christmas (TVNZ 2, 12.30 Sunday)
• Peter Rabbit (TVNZ 2, 6.45 Sunday)
• The Holiday (Three, 8.30 Sunday)
• The International (Duke, 9.45 Sunday)
• Lady in the Water (TVNZ 2, 10.00 Sunday)
• Brother Bear (TVNZ 2, 7.25am Monday)
• Bridge to Terabithia (TVNZ 2, midday Monday)
• Love at the Christmas Table (Three, 1.00 Monday)
• Sherlock Holmes (Prime, 8.30 Monday)
• Brother Bear 2 (TVNZ 2, 7.25am Tuesday)
• Pure Country: Pure Heart (TVNZ 2, midday Tuesday)
• A Holiday Wish Come True (Three, 1.00 Tuesday)
• Joyful Noise (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Tuesday)
• Ride Along 2 (Three, 78.30 Tuesday)
• Bad Moms 2: A Bad Moms Christmas (TVNZ 2, 9.30 Tuesday)
• Hoot (TVNZ 2, 7.25am Wednesday)
• Christmas in Angel Falls (TVNZ 2, midday Wednesday)
• The Last Christmas Home (Three, 1.00 Wednesday)
• Dirty Dancing (Three, 8.30 Wednesday)
• Office Christmas Party (TVNZ 2, 9.30 Wednesday)
• James and the Giant Peach (TVNZ 2, 7.25am Thursday)
• Every Christmas Has a Story (TVNZ 2, midday Thursday)
• A Snow Globe Christmas (Three, 12.55 Thursday)
• Snowtime! (Three, 4.10 Thursday)
• Holiday Spin (Three, midnight Thursday)
• The Santa Con (Three, 1.30am Friday)
• Man From Snowy River (TVNZ 1, 2.10am Friday)
• Twelve Trees of Christmas (Three, 3am Friday)
• Man From Snowy River 2 (TVNZ 1, 3.50am Friday)
• The Christmas Consultant (Three, 4.30am Friday)
• The Star (TVNZ 2, 7.30am Friday)
• Holiday Wishes (Three, 8.20am Friday)
• Memories of Christmas (Three, 9.55am Friday)
• A Christmas Story (TVNZ 2, 10.05am Friday)
• A Snow White Christmas (Three, 11.20am Friday)
• Spotlight Under The Mistletoe (Three, 12.50 Friday)
• Blizzard (Maori TV, 1.00 Friday)
• Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (TVNZ 2, 1.15 Friday)
• The Nativity Story (TVNZ 1, 1.35 Friday)
• The Truth About Christmas (Three, 2.20 Friday)
• Jack Frost (TVNZ 2, 3.45 Friday)
• Another Christmas Coincidence (Three, 3.45 Friday)
• A Sunburnt Christmas (TVNZ 2, 5.25 Friday)
• Deck the Halls (Duke, 6.25 Friday)