I too was wondering this It's usually out around the time rte announce the christmas tv schedule, which i googled and couldn't find. I like to get stuck into the bumper crossword early it's kind of a competitive thing in my family.
I got the sky christmas magazine a week ago.
I use www.radiotimes.com. This includes programme listings for loads of channels, including those carried on ntl digital and SKY. It is current day + 13 days forward so it'll be covering the Christmas period from next week.
One view it shows is everything on your selected channels, by hour of the day, so you can easily see where family conflicts could arise.
I thought it would be out this week and that they'd deliver it to the shops with this weeks rte guide, usually around wednesday i think but they didn't. It did come out earlier this week though (dave fanning on the front i think) so maybe the christmas guide will be out this weekend.
I'll know anyway because within a half an hour of it hitting the shops my cousins will ring me to tell me they've finished the crossword and ask how many am I stuck on :mad: