the essential
What do the TV programs have in store for you this Christmas Eve? TV films, entertainment, musical shows, cartoons, games: there are plenty of choices! La Dépêche helps you see things more clearly.
A few hours before Christmas, the TV programs are varied and above all give pride of place to the family with cartoons, entertainment, musical programs, comedy shows and the essential bloopers. What are the highlights of this Tuesday, December 24? La Dépêche helps you see things more clearly.
Cartoons during the day
Go to the children's channels to enjoy cartoons during the day. On France 4: Raving Rabbids, Okoo-koo, Angelo the Resourceful, Dragons or Tom & Jerry. On Gulli: Kung-fu panda, Hotel Transylvania, Beyblade X, Garfield and company and Welcome to the Louds.
TV movies/daytime films
TV channels have been broadcasting Christmas TV films for several weeks. This is still the case for Tuesday December 24:
- “Next stop: Christmas” – TMC – 8:45 a.m.
- “Love at first sight in Santa Claus’ village” – TMC – 10:25 a.m.
- “Love at first sight before Christmas” – TMC – 12:10 p.m.
- “A prince under the tree” – NRJ12 – 12:40 p.m.
- “Santa” – France 2 – 13h55
- “Mother Christmas’ secret mission” – TF1 – 2 p.m.
- “The Christmas competition” – NRJ12 – 2:30 p.m.
- “My beloved Santa Claus” – 6ter – 3:50 p.m.
- “The Christmas scoop” – NRJ12 – 4:25 p.m.
- “A Christmas melody” – NRJ12 – 6 p.m.
This day is also an opportunity to watch “Maman j’ai missed l’avion again” on TF1 at 3:30 p.m. or even “Stuart Little 3” on 6ter at 7:20 p.m.
The bloopers
Do you like bloopers? So plug in C8. The channel will show a series of bloopers throughout the day. “Le Grand Bêtisier” will start at 9:05 a.m. and last until… 12:10 a.m.! You can alternate with TMC and its “Big Christmas Bloopers” between 1:55 p.m. and 5:25 p.m.
Prime time
TF1 – “The 12 Christmas Coups” – 9:10 p.m.
Jean-Luc Reichmann promises a magical evening which brings together the biggest candidates from his midday game and several personalities: Michèle Bernier, Jarry, Soprano, Patrick Fiori and Michel Fugain.
France 2 – “Don’t forget the children” – 9:10 p.m.
Eight mini-maestros, aged 10 to 13, will compete in four musical duels. The opportunity to sing great classics of French song and current tunes.
France 3 – Alexandra Ehle” – 21h05
France 3 is offering a rebroadcast of the series with Julie Depardieu, Bertrand Yerlès and Catherine Allégret.
Canal + – “Blue and company – 9:10 p.m.
This fantastical tale tells the story of Bea, a young motherless child whose father is due for surgery, who discovers that she can see and communicate with children's imaginary friends.
France 5 – “Mashatu, land of leopards” – 9:05 p.m.
A documentary immersed in the world of leopards in Botswana, Africa.
M6 – “The gold records of the year” – 9:10 p.m.
M6 pays tribute to the gold records that have rewarded artists for 50 years. Elodie Gossuin will receive many guests: Julien Doré, Pierre Garnier, Clara Luciani, Vitaa, Kendji Girac, Amir and Edddy de Pretto.
Arte – “Mongolia, the path of the eagle” – 8:55 p.m.
This documentary offers an immersion in Mongolian land where the last Kazakh nomads live. Today the girls are taking over.
C8 – “The great Christmas blooper – 9:10 p.m.
What would a Christmas evening be without bloopers? C8 tackles it with a compilation of the funniest videos and extracts, between laughs and falls and dumplings.
W9 – “The Marrakech of laughter” – 9:10 p.m.
Kev Adams, Micjkaël Youn, Jarry, Paul Mirabel, Redouanne Jarjane… find their performances at the Marrakech laughter festival in 2022.
TMC – “An air of bastards” – 9:10 p.m.
TMC is rebroadcasting the Enfoirés concert for the benefit of Restos du coeur recorded in Montpellier in 2022.
TFX – “The Student” – 8:35 p.m.
Want to re-watch “The Student” with Sophie Marceau and Vincent Lindon? This is the TV program that TFX is offering you this Tuesday, December 24.
NRJ12 – “Musical comedies” – 9:10 p.m.
The main characters of musical comedies gathered at the Dome in Paris: Rome & Juliette, Notre-Dame-de-Paris, Grease, Mozard l'Opéra rock, Le Roi Soleil…
LCP-Public Senate – “Da Gaulle, the man to be killed” – 8:30 p.m.
The Parliamentary Channel plans to broadcast a documentary on General de Gaulle and reviews the stratagems put in place to harm his interests.
France 4 – “Cartoons in concert” – 21h
Several orchestras from Denmark came together to perform the most famous tunes from cartoons and animated films, in Copenhagen, in May 2022.
CStar – “The 30 best-selling albums of the year – 9:10 p.m.
CStar lists the 30 best-selling albums in 2024.
Gulli – “A Christmas with the Louds – 9:05 p.m.
Children know the cartoon “Welcome to the Louds”. Gulli is offering a comedy this evening where actors play the characters of the Loud family.
TF1 Film series – “Camping Paradis – 9:05 p.m.
TF1 Séries films takes you to the campsite for a rebroadcast of an episode of the summer series “Camping paradise”.
6ter – “Half-sisters” – 9:10 p.m.
Scenario of this French comedy: three very different young women learn upon the death of their biological father that they are half-sisters and that they inherit a large apartment in Paris.
The second part of the evening
TF1 – “Friday anything goes” – 11:45 p.m.
Arthur offers a festive evening to end the year with Booder, Chantal Ladesou, Florent Peyre, Jarry, Ahmed Sylla, Inès Vandamme and Manu Payet.
France 2 – “Don’t forget the children” – 10:35 p.m.
This program is a compilation of the most memorable past editions of the young candidates.
France 3 – “Alexandre Ehle” – 10:35 p.m.
France 3 is rebroadcasting a new episode of the series with Julie Depardieu and Berrnard Yerlès.
Canal + – “Kamel the magician: believe in your dreams”
Kamel offers unusual and funny magic tricks in this show recorded in Paris at the Dejazet theater in 2023.
France 5 – “Zèbra, a colorful life” – 9:55 p.m.
After the leopards, France 5 continues its thematic evening on animals with a documentary on zebras.
M6 – “The 20 favorite French songs of the year” – 11:25 p.m.
Elodie Gossuin remains in charge of the evening of December 24 by revealing the 20 favorite songs of the French for the year 2022.
Arte – “A year among wolves” – 10:25 p.m.
This documentary takes you to the heart of the taiga, between Russia and Finland, the territory of the gray wolf.
C8 – “The great Christmas blooper – 10:45 p.m.
The blooper evening continues on C8 with the funniest images from television and the internet.
W9 – “The Marrakech of laughter” – 11:50 p.m.
The evening continues at the Marrakech Laughter Festival with the rebroadcast of the 2019 edition which welcomed Florence Foresti, Ary Abitan, Waly Dia and Jarry.
TMC – “An air of bastards” – 11:05 p.m.
Time for the second part of the Enfoirés concert recorded in Montpellier in 2022.
TFX – “La Boum 2” – 10:25 p.m.
The evening with Sophie Marceau continues on TFX. After “The Student”, re-watch “La Boum 2”.
NRJ12 – “Your ideal playlist of No. 1 hits in France” – 11:30 p.m.
NRJ12 offers the playlist of the greatest French and international hits.
Gulli – “A Really Loud Christmas” – 10:15 p.m.
After the comedy about the Loud family, Gulli continues several episodes of “Welcome to the Louds”.
TF1 Film series – “Camping Paradis – 10:55 p.m.
A second episode of “Camping paradisé” is rebroadcast on TF1 Séries films for the evening of December 24.
6ter – “Kaamelott” – 11:10 p.m.
6ter invites you to end the evening of December 24 with the adventures of King Arthur and his knights.
RMC Story – “I will sleep at your place” – 9:10 p.m.
Go on a trip to Rovaniemi in Finland in “I’ll sleep at your place” with Antoine de Maximy.
RMC Découverte – “Who wrote the Bible” – 9:10 p.m.
A documentary about the mysterious author of the Bible who remains unknown to this day. Archaeologists and scientists are trying to unravel the mystery.
Chérie FM – “Snapped: deadly vacation” – 9:05 p.m.
The story of a burglary of a sports store that goes wrong on Christmas Eve in Texas in the United States.
Midnight masses
Two channels will broadcast Pope Francis' midnight mass on the occasion of Christmas: France 2 and TMC live from the chapel of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. CNews is programming, for its part, a Christmas vigil followed by Christmas night mass at 11:30 p.m. in La Garenne-Colombes in Hauts-de-Seine.
