The Brits on VisionTV

Be sure to tune into VisionTV to see your favorite British characters celebrate the holiday season.

THE BRITS

The Dame Edna Christmas Experience!
Monday, December 5 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Tuesday, December 6 at 12:30am ET / 9:30pm PT
The megastar of megastars returns with this magnificent Christmas special. The people standing in her shadow include Lulu, Denis Healy, Roger Moore and Samantha Fox.

Are You Being Served? Christmas Cracker
Tuesday, December 6 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Monday, December 12 at 1:30am ET / 10:30pm PT
To improve Christmas sales, Mr. Grace decides that all the staff should wear novelty costumes – much to their annoyance.
All AYBS Christmas

Are You Being Served? Father Christmas Affair
Tuesday, December 6 at 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT
Monday, December 12 at 2am ET / 11pm PT
Mr. Grace offers a bonus for whoever agrees to play the store Santa; Mr. Grainger prepares to entertain at a seniors’ home.

Are You Being Served? Punch & Judy
Wednesday, December 7 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Tuesday, December 20 at 2am ET / 11pm PT
The staff of the ladies’ and gents’ departments don’t participate in a storewide strike, so to smooth things over, they present a life-size Punch and Judy show for the other employee’s children.

Are You Being Served? Christmas 1981
Wednesday, December 7 at 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT
Tuesday, December 27 at 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT
The staff want to get a coat-of-arms for Old Mr. Grace’s 90th birthday, but can’t figure out exactly from where his ancestors came.

Green Green Grass, Christmas Episode
Thursday, December 8 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
When Llewellyn arrives accusing the Boyce’s dog, Earl, of seducing his pedigree collie, trouble starts to brew in the village. Boycie doesn’t want his reputation to be scarred by having a sexually orientated pet. Things get a whole lot worse, when Mrs Cakeworthy overhears the Boyces talking about it and she assumes they’re talking about Tyler getting Beth pregnant. Then when Tyler overhears something being said he thinks that Mrs Cakeworthy is pregnant. Spiralling out of control, the rumours get more and more wild. Meanwhile, Tyler has a real Christmas surprise for Beth – a horse!

Yes, Minister Party Games Part One
Monday, December 5 at 1:30am ET / 10:30pm PT
Yes, Minister Party Games Part Two
Monday, December 5 at 2am ET / 11pm PT
Sir Humphrey leaves the dept of Administrative Affairs, and becomes Cabinet Secretary. During the Christmas break the Home Secretary is arrested for drink driving and has to resign. Then the Prime Minister also resigns so the party has to look for a compromise candidate.

Only When I Laugh – Away for Christmas
Wednesday, December 7 at 1:30am ET / 10:30pm PT
Wednesday, December 14 at 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT
Thursday, December 15 at 1:30am ET / 10:30pm PT
A new patient arrives as the ward is decorated for Christmas, and the guys argue about who will play Father Christmas.

One Foot in the Grave Christmas Special (1996)
Thursday, December 8 at 1am ET / 10pm PT
Thursday, December 15 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Victor and Margaret return from holiday to discover a man living in their garden shed, Victor takes a job as a gardener, and Mr. Swainey’s mother thinks aliens are taking her to Jupiter every night.

Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special 1996
Friday, December 16 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Monday, December 19 at 1am ET / 10pm PT
Christmas is coming in Dibley and Geraldine is having problems, not only with her sermon, but also with multiple invitations to Christmas lunch from the parishioners. First there is dinner with Jim and Frank, then dinner with David and Hugo, then dinner with Alice and her family? Surely three dinners in one day is all one can expect of a girl, right?

Jam & Jerusalem Christmas Special 2006
Monday, December 12 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Tuesday, December 13 at 1am ET / 10pm PT
The Women’s Guild members prepare to put on a Christmas Pantomime in the Town Hall, a yearly event that brings everyone in the town together, and it’s always directed by a rather disorganised Queenie. It’s the behind-the-scenes organization of Sal and Guild leader Eileen that really saves the day. The open auditions aren’t exactly Pop Idol standard, but there’s a part for everyone who wants to be involved. Sal’s daughter Tash insists on taking the lead role as she does every year, ignoring the fact that she may be getting a little old to play Cinderella.

Jam & Jerusalem Christmas Special 2007
Tuesday, December 13 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Wednesday, December 14 at 1am ET / 10pm PT
It’s exactly a year after the death of her husband, and Sal Vine is finding the anniversary hard to deal with. The only person that seems to care is Kate Bales from the local grieving group, and even then, the mention of death only serves to re-open her own, barely healed wounds. Meanwhile the Guild are tasked with setting up a web site to compete with the neighboring Guild at Hole. Will the ladies finally master the required technology to get their photos from the ‘stick’ up onto the computer, or will it all end in disaster?

Absolutely Fabulous Cold Turkey
Wednesday, December 14 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Thursday, December 15 at 1am ET / 10pm PT
It is Christmas Eve and Edina’s first Christmas at home for a long time. She’s making an effort – decorations, presents, etc – especially for the baby. Usually Patsy and Edina go on holidays at this time of year, and she has left it to the last moment to tell Patsy she won’t be going. Patsy collapses, stricken with depressing memories of her childhood at Christmas with a Pagan mother. Edina goes with her to the hospital, but is anxious to get home and continue with preparations – until the doctors tell her that it is serious and that she should call Patsy’s next of kin – Jackie. Jackie wants to inherit Patsy’s money and has no scruples about hurrying on Patsy’s death. Edina and Saffy arrive at the hospital, to be told by a nurse that Miss Stone has died. Is this the end of a perfect partnership?

Miranda – The Perfect Christmas
Monday, December 19 at 2am ET / 11pm PT
Wednesday, December 21 at 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT
Christmas is here and this year and Miranda tries – and fails – to put up with her family’s festive plans. What with her mother’s organisational chart, her father’s obsession with the weather and a nightmare ‘Best Christmas Jumper Party’, Miranda decides she simply can’t take any more and her and Stevie spend Christmas in Miranda’s flat with Gary, Clive and Tilly.

Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special 1997
Monday, December 19 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
A romantic special for the festive season. Exasperated by their ineptitude, the Vicar of Dibley turns Cupid and decides that Alice and Hugo should at least share a kiss – after all, they have been gazing soppily at each other for eleven years. Geraldine manages to arrange this, under close supervision, and the young couple go from strength to strength. The Vicar then fulfils one of her parishoner’s dreams when she allows him to experience his first proper kiss with her…and it is then not only Alice that receives a marriage proposal.

Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special 2004 Part One
Tuesday, December 20 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special 2004 Part Two
Wednesday, December 21 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
We return for a very special Christmas with the weird and wonderful characters of Dibley: the chocoholic vicar her not-so-bright best friend Alice and the men of the village, affectionately referred to even by themselves as ‘a bunch of morons’. As Geraldine’s 10th anniversary too, it’s double party time in this charming tale of alcoholism, gluttony, promiscuity and ecclesiastical disaster which, fortunately, ends very happily indeed. Come New Year, Geraldine is keen to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Live Aid; unfortunately, her enthusiasm isn’t quite matched by the villagers. She definitely doesn’t, however, want her 40th birthday mentioned, let alone celebrated. But could ‘Suzie’s Speed Dating Extravaganza’ be the perfect gift? Finally, in a strange twist of fate – the parishioners celebrate together in a way that Geraldine herself admits is the best birthday present she could have hoped for.

Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special 2006 Part One
Thursday, December 22 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special 2006 Part Two
Friday, December 23 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Everybody’s favourite village vicar returns in these two special length episodes. Geraldine is fed up with Townies buying weekend cottages in the village… until she meets one of them. Could charming, handsome Harry be Mr Right? Or is he Mr How Wrong Can You Be? When Harry asks Geraldine to marry him she can’t say yes quickly enough. Naturally, things don’t quite go according to plan. The vicar presiding over the wedding ceremony seems a little too fond of Geraldine, and the villagers seem determined to take over all the preparations for the big day. Would you want your wedding arranged by a bunch of deranged lunatics? And would you want the video to be shot in the style of Saving Private Ryan?

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