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Holiday/travel shows are there any good ones?

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It occurred to us at work today that none of us could think of any good or funny holiday or travel shows on TV at the moment? Are we missing out or being ignorant? Have you got any suggestions.

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  • fmradiotuner1fmradiotuner1 Posts: 20,490
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    I used to like Wish You Were Here.
    I don't think its on ITV any more.
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    fmradiotuner1 wrote: »
    I used to like Wish You Were Here.
    I don't think its on ITV any more.

    That's what I mean do producers not think we like holidays any more... On the other hand there are a lot of wedding shows. Where's all the other aspirational TV?
  • fmradiotuner1fmradiotuner1 Posts: 20,490
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    I know your on about TV shows.
    But if you have satellite you might want to check out Travel Channel 251
    Also Travel And Living on 265

    Also did BBC 1 ever have a holiday programme?
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    fmradiotuner1 wrote: »
    I know your on about TV shows.
    But if you have satellite you might want to check out Travel Channel 251
    Also Travel And Living on 265

    Also did BBC 1 ever have a holiday programme?

    Good plan. They had Louis Theroux and Stephen Fry in America, that kind of thing.
  • SmintSmint Posts: 4,694
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    I used to really like The Holiday Show with Penny Junor

    They would do sensible things like take one of the Balearic Islands, rate the beaches, nightlife etc and then give advice such as, "If you want good nightlife, go here or here, if you want peace and solitude, go here, if you want an upmarket resort . . ." etc

    Really useful information and about the places people actually went on holiday!

    Some of the other travel shows seemed to get more and more extreme or specialist. Fine if you wanted a week bungee jumping over virgin rainforest in January, not so useful if you want a week away with the kids in the summer holidays
  • Julie68Julie68 Posts: 3,137
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    I like The Secret Tourist when that is on. I also used to like Holiday Showdown.
    Thomas Cook, Thomson and Sky Travel also used to have their own channels on satilite tv but they're not on anymore.
  • cnbcwatchercnbcwatcher Posts: 56,681
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    I used to like Departure Lounge on BBC (this was around 2005). Not around any more though :(
  • fmradiotuner1fmradiotuner1 Posts: 20,490
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    Wanted Down Under is quite good but don't know if this could be travel.
  • eugenespeedeugenespeed Posts: 66,695
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    Didn't BBC1 have one in the 80's just called Holiday followed by the year.

    eg Holiday 87?
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    Departure Lounge, with links done live from Manchester Airport on a Friday night, with Nick Knowles, Angelica Bell and the legendary Simon Calder.

    They should SO do this again
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    Smint wrote: »
    I used to really like The Holiday Show with Penny Junor

    They would do sensible things like take one of the Balearic Islands, rate the beaches, nightlife etc and then give advice such as, "If you want good nightlife, go here or here, if you want peace and solitude, go here, if you want an upmarket resort . . ." etc

    Really useful information and about the places people actually went on holiday!

    Some of the other travel shows seemed to get more and more extreme or specialist. Fine if you wanted a week bungee jumping over virgin rainforest in January, not so useful if you want a week away with the kids in the summer holidays

    I think that was called The Travel Show. It was on bbc2 on a Thursday evening in the late 80's earl 90's.......very good programme.
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    The_Time_Being wrote: »
    Departure Lounge, with links done live from Manchester Airport on a Friday night, with Nick Knowles, Angelica Bell and the legendary Simon Calder.

    They should SO do this again

    Yep! another good one.
  • Gripper StebsonGripper Stebson Posts: 1,441
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    eugenespeed wrote: »
    Didn't BBC1 have one in the 80's just called Holiday followed by the year.

    eg Holiday 87?

    That show was on for many years. It started way back in about 1974 and ran till about 2006.

    Was a good show. Along with Wish You Were Here, these programmes should never have been axed. They were shown in a 7pm slot once per week(not all year round). Nowadays in those slots every week night we get The One Show and Emmerdale. :mad:
  • cnbcwatchercnbcwatcher Posts: 56,681
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    The_Time_Being wrote: »
    Departure Lounge, with links done live from Manchester Airport on a Friday night, with Nick Knowles, Angelica Bell and the legendary Simon Calder.

    They should SO do this again

    That's the show I was thinking of. Loved it.
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