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RTE Television has unveiled a cracking Christmas schedule with a feast of festive programming for viewers to enjoy over the Christmas and New Year season. Lots of brand new home-produced entertainment, drama, lifestyle, factual and sports programming will be delivered as well as special seasonal versions of viewer favourites. Ireland's top comedy talent has been reigned in to provide a lift and plenty of laughs this Christmas with two brand new shows from Pat Shortt: Mattie and Inside the Crystal Ball, while childhood friends Tommy Tiernan and Hector O h'Eochagain join forces for a special hour-long comedy talk show filmed in front of a live audience in Galway in Tommy and Hector's Craic House The Christmas cheer continues as PJ Gallagher takes us on a thoroughly entertaining white knuckle ride through the crazy world of Irish motorbike riding in PJ Gallagher's Back in the Saddle. In all, thirteen new Entertainment programmes will be unwrapped over the Christmas season. It's back-to-back comedy on RTE Two on Stephen's night as PJ Gallagher is followed by Maeve Higgins' Yuletide Fancy Vittles and Podge and Rodge's Late Night Lock-Inn and Christmas Vittles as Maeve and her sister plan a big Christmas party in their house in Cobh. Ryan Tubridy wraps up the year in a Late Late Show featuring President Mary McAleese as well as some of the biggest names from the world of Irish sport and entertainment. n New Year's Eve, Marty Whelan and Kathryn Thomas are joined by Sharon Corr, Jon Kenny, Daniel O' Donnell, Clelia Murphy and Henry Shefflin as they try their luck for their chosen charities in a Celebrity Winning Streak, while later that night The All Ireland Talent Show will ring in the New Year live on RTE One with special surprise performances. RTE 2fm's Will Leahy presents Quiz of The Noughties promising a feast of nostalgia from the world of pop culture, politics, news and sport in a light-hearted look back at the decade, while Marty Whelan gives us a much needed feel-good look at the recession in Things That Went Boom in the Bust as he unveils a surprising list of businesses and products that have thrived. Ireland's Biggest "Hits" 2009 provides a fascinating overview of the past year from the perspective of Ireland's most popular web searches. In the brand new Corrigan's Live Christmas Cook-Along, Richard Corrigan will cook the perfect Christmas dinner in real time live from Farmleigh house, featuring live interaction with the audience at home. The Restaurant 5 Star Cook-Off sees Des Cahill and Derek Bannon go head-to-head, while Mary Kennedy and Simon Delaney try and regain some culinary kudos in The Restaurant 2 Star Cook-Off. RTE Television will also deliver a range of documentaries specifically commissioned for the Christmas season. In Stephen Gately: A Picture of You, those who knew the international pop star talk openly about the loss of their friend, while Band of Brothers - Sceal na Mulkerrins, recounts the remarkable journey of three young boys from Inis Mor in the Aran Islands, who won the 2009 All Ireland Talent Show displaying their indigenous traditional music and inventive sean-nos dancing capabilities. Ballybrando recounts the little known story of Marlon Brando's brief, but heartfelt Irish adventure in which a film he starred in began shooting in Ireland only to fold ten days later, while John Huston: An American in Galway, is an affectionate portrait of the Hollywood director's Irish years seen through the eyes of locals who crossed his path. In The Summer of 69: A National Geographic Photography Special, photographer Jim Sugar returns to Ireland 40 years on, charting the difference between the Ireland of 1969 and 2009.