BBC's Christmas TV schedules 含む just FOUR hours of 初めの 宗教的な shows across 300 hours of festive programming

  • 宗教的な shows to （不足などを）補う いっそう少なく than 3 per cent of BBC's festive schedule
  • Only eight of the 300 hours of Christmas programming is Christian-主題d
  • Even いっそう少なく of that 生産（高） is 初めの, as four of those hours are only repeats
  • In 2005 there were eight hours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day alone
  • See the 最新の news on the BBC's 最高の，を越す shows at www.dailymail.co.uk/bbc?

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初めの 宗教的な shows will （不足などを）補う just four hours of the BBC's 300 hours of festive programming this Christmas - an 生産（高） which has shrunk かなり from a １０年間 ago.

In 2005 the 放送者 空気／公表するd eight hours of Christian programming on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day alone, the same total that is scheduled over a seven-day period this year.

On 最高の，を越す of the four hours of 初めの 宗教的な-主題d television are two repeats - Westminster Abbey and David Suchet’s In The Footsteps Of St Paul - but the total still equates to いっそう少なく than 3 per cent of the 会社／団体's 全体にわたる festive schedule.

Original religious shows will make up just four hours of the BBC's 300 hours of festive programming this year, including an episode of Songs of Praise which is due to air in the lead-up to Christmas (pictured in 2014)

初めの 宗教的な shows will （不足などを）補う just four hours of the BBC's 300 hours of festive programming this year, 含むing an episode of Songs of 賞賛する which is 予定 to 空気／公表する in the lead-up to Christmas (pictured in 2014)

New Christian-主題d shows 含む Midnight 集まり, Carols From Kings and On Angels Wings by Michael Murpurgo, によれば David Stephenson and Caroline Wheeler at the Sunday 表明する.

The Big Christmas Sing and Songs of 賞賛する will also 空気／公表する in the lead-up to Christmas.?

Andrea Williams, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Christian 関心, told the Sunday 表明する: 'Surely it’s not too much to ask that, amongst all the Christmas specials and repeats, our 国家の 放送者 give us some 適切な時期 to remember the events of that first Christmas and their 耐えるing significance?

'It will be 悲劇の if the BBC buries all that out of some misplaced 世俗的な 苦悩 and 否定するs people the chance to 反映する on the Christmas message of hope and 好意／親善.'

A BBC 広報担当者 said: 'As ever, the BBC will 申し込む／申し出 audiences a wide mix of 宗教的な programming this Christmas 含むing major and much-loved broadcasts for Midnight 集まり and the Christmas Day service on BBC One and Carols from Kings on BBC Two.?

On to p of the four hours of original religious-themed television are two repeats - Westminster Abbey and David Suchet’s In The Footsteps Of St Paul (pictured)

On 最高の，を越す of the four hours of 初めの 宗教的な-主題d television are two repeats - Westminster Abbey and David Suchet’s In The Footsteps Of St Paul (pictured)

'無線で通信する 最高潮の場面s 含む the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Christmas Eve on 無線で通信する 4, as part of 無線で通信する 3’s Northern Lights season Andrew Brown 令状s for The Essay on 無線で通信する 3 Christmas night and Clare Balding 現在のs Good Morning live on Christmas Day, 無線で通信する 2.?

'These are …を伴ってd by a wide variety of programming across TV and 無線で通信する throughout the Christmas period, 申し込む／申し出ing audiences a 範囲 of ways to celebrate with the BBC.'

It comes two weeks after?Britain's biggest cinema chains banned the 審査 of a film in which the 大司教 of Canterbury and members of the public recite the Lord’s 祈り ? 説 it could be 不快な／攻撃 to movie-goers.

The cinema chains' advertising 機関 数字表示式の Cinema マスコミ 刺激するd fury last month when The Mail on Sunday 明らかにする／漏らすd that it 辞退するd to show the short film because it might upset audiences.??

Last month the Church of England 脅すd 合法的な 活動／戦闘 against Odeon, Cineworld and Vue?cinemas, 説 it was the 犠牲者 of 宗教的な 差別.

The church had planned to run the 60-second clip in cinemas across the UK before the new 星／主役にする Wars blockbuster, which opens a week before Christmas.?

But a 決定／判定勝ち（する） was made to 封鎖する the film, even though it was given a 全世界の／万国共通の 証明書 by the British Board of Film 分類 ? meaning anyone, of any age, can watch it ? and 認可するd by the Cinema Advertising 協会.

大司教 Justin Welby 反応するd with fury, telling The Mail on Sunday: ‘I find it 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の that cinemas 支配する that it is 不適切な for an advert on 祈り to be shown in the week before Christmas when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

‘Billions of people across the world pray this 祈り on a daily basis. I think they would be astonished and 深く，強烈に saddened by this 決定／判定勝ち（する）, 特に in the light of the テロリスト attack in Paris where many people have 設立する 慰安 and solace in 祈り.

‘This advert is about as “不快な／攻撃” as a carol service or church service on Christmas Day.’

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