TV stations offer special programs for Christmas
TV stations offer special programs for Christmas
JAKARTA (JP): Private television channels have prepared
special shows for viewers stretching out at home over the
Christmas and New Year period.
Christmas specials start today with The Christmas Wife at
7:30. It is about a grandfather who seeks a holiday companion
through an agency.
Entertainment is provided for all tastes -- special cartoons
and variety shows, a string of movies for fans of Indian films,
actions, comedies, and Hollywood classics.
Also today, HBO offers the The Fisher King starring Robin
Williams and Jeff Bridges at 3 p.m. Jakarta time. It will be
repeated Friday.
On Dec. 24, Ben Kingsley stars in Joseph on SCTV at 9:30 p.m.,
followed by Jacqueline Bisset in Rich and Famous at midnight.
TPI is showing the Snow White cartoon on Dec. 24 at 5:30 p.m.
On Christmas Day mass will be aired live from the Vatican at 6
a.m. and a local mass from Central Java at 3 p.m. by Indosiar..
Christmas Day films include Yes Virginia: There is a Santa
Claus, on ANteve at 10:30 p.m. RCTI will show musical drama Natal
Dipersimpangan at 3 p.m.
On the same day Twilite Orchestra performs its Simponi
Desember on Indosiar at 9:30 p.m. Classics will include Johan
Strauss Jr.'s Voices of Spring and The Blue Danube. Singers will
include soprano Aning Katamsi, who will perform an aria from the
opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.
Mr. Bean also greets fans on Christmas Day on SCTV at 7:30
p.m.
On Dec. 26 comedian Lucille Ball stars in Mame at midnight on
SCTV. The next day, SCTV's midnight show is Bonnie and Clyde.
Dennis the Menace is on Dec. 30 at 9 a.m. on RCTI.
Mini series scheduled over the holiday period includes
Gulliver's Travels from Dec. 30 to Jan. 2, on RCTI at 11 a.m.
A four-hour wayang golek show begins just after midnight on
New Year's Eve, on TPI.
President Soeharto's New Year's Eve address at 7:30,
inescapable on all channels. This is the time to phone your
friends.
On a less serious note, find out about your fortunes from
popular soothsayer Putri Wong Kam Fu, who will appear on ANteve
on New Year's eve at 9:30 a.m.
On more specific issues, cultural critic Emha Ainun Nadjib and
political observer Sayidiman Suryohadiprodjo, a retired army
general, will share their thoughts on ANteve.
On New Year's Eve, HBO viewers can enjoy Junior at 11 p.m.
starring a "pregnant" Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But a live view on what New Year's Eve means to many Jakartans
-- a night of ecstatic dancing with their idols -- can be seen on
TPI at 8 p.m., when King of dangdut music Rhoma Irama and other
stars perform at Taman Mini Indonesia Indah. (anr)