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Seven swoops on National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

A Christmas tradition has been hijacked!

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A Christmas tradition has been hijacked, with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) switching from Nine to Seven.

It will air at 7pm Christmas night on Seven, bound to confuse plenty of viewers but is a coup for Seven. It will be followed by 1985’s National Lampoon’s European Vacation.

Nine will be left to air Elf at 7:30pm with 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation at 9:30pm.

On Wednesday Titanic will also screen on Seven for the first time.

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    1. Interestingly, Nine have stolen The Grinch from Seven (through Universal International), airs this Saturday night against The Polar Express, which Seven have stolen from Nine (through Warner Bros International Television).

    1. wow your lucky i called the judges on the voice idiots and got called out for it yet you got away with calling paleo pete an idiot congrats , never understood him being a judge on a food show were people cook food that he thinks is killing everyone and we should eat paleo

      1. As I recall your wording was ‘losers’ not idiots, but your comment was actually published together with a friendly note to lean towards more positive language. As other readers noted it was odd to call globally successful performers “losers.” But comments moderation is always a case by case basis and whilst I don’t profess to get it right every time, Pete Evans has been quite defensive of Paleo criticism, so there is a different context. Should you have further enqs. about comments moderation please drop me a line via Contact so we can resolve, cheers.

  9. Seven currently have an output deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution. Hence, many back-catalogue film rights switching from Nine to Seven. Also how classic Big Bang ended up on 7flix. I’m curious about Harry Potter now! And yes David, others are correct, “Titanic” (1997) had its FTA premiere on Seven in the early 2000s. But it is the first time back, since airing on other networks.

      1. Did you say ad free?
        You would never get a network showing a movie ad free in this day and age.
        Born too late I reckon (1998).

        P.S. Not a fan of romantic movies but I had to show my amazement at that piece of trivia.

  14. I’ve noticed Seven has been airing a lot of major titles which were previously the WB domain of Nine, together with other major titles that have usually belonged elsewhere. SBS has picked up quite a few too.

  16. I don’t know how many years 9 ran it on Christmas night but it became a tradition in itself. Now the tradition moves to 7 but they’ll probably show something different next year.

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