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Northern Lights


            Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about.
Colin married Jackie and Howie married her sister Pauline. Howie bought a house in a nice Close, Colin bought one next door. Both found jobs at the same parcel freight depot and both are scrapping for that coveted foreman's job. They can't even drive to work without a row about who has the best car degenerating into all out war.
At school it was the usual stuff, but as they got older, unfortunately, they didn't seem to grow any wiser. Colin and Howie are now in their thirties, both happily married and living in the same street. But despite their grown-up responsibilities they're still locked in a schoolboy obsession with outdoing each other. Once it was football, girls and clothes, now they compete over cars, jobs and... Christmas decorations on their homes!
When Colin buys a few Christmas lights for his house, even he could not have predicted the impact they would have on his and his friend's lives. As they cover their houses with an ever-expanding and costly array of lights and animatronic animals, they seem oblivious to the damage wreaked on their marriages and their lives. Can anything bring them to their senses?
    

Christmas Lights


            Colin loves Christmas. It's his favourite time of the year. He loves everything about it - the food, the telly, the presents... everything. But most of all he loves Santa and he particularly loves being Santa at his childrens' school.Meanwhile, Howie hates Santa and thinks it's all a waste of time. His marriage has broken down and he won't get to see his four-year-old daughter on Christmas morning. The whole idea of Christmas just makes him feel sad and lonely - and Santa, with his stupid grin, big red coat and ho ho ho just rubs salt in the wound.But this year things are different. This year the school don't need Colin to be Santa for the kids - they're doing a PC friendly 'Caribbean Carnival' instead. And at home his eldest son Leyton is trying to convince Liam that Santa doesn't really exist.This year it's Howie who is dressing up as Santa, first as a last minute replacement in a massive shopping centre grotto and then, as a result of that success, he's asked to represent England at the World Santa Championships in Lithuania.Colin is gutted but manages to tag along as Howie's supporter. But there's a catch: the only way he can go is if he goes as an elf, a girl elf with bells on his shoes. But embarrassing costumes are the least of Colin's problems.The Santas of the world are a strange bunch - competitive Aussies, kamikaze Japanese, drunken Welshmen, wrestling Iranians and humourless Germans. To make matters worse, Howie keeps losing, he's letting himself down, letting Colin down, but most importantly letting England down.Their friendship reaches breaking point, but the biggest threat comes in the shape of the enigmatic Rainbow Santa who, along with his supporters, seems to have a very different attitude to the event - one that places all the Santas, including Colin and Howie, in mortal danger.If Howie and Colin are to save the day, they've got to patch up their friendship and start working together again. And if they're going to get back home in time for Christmas Howie is going to have to get his faith back in Santa Claus.
    

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