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Worst DigiGuide update ever. Practically all TBAs, not worth even bothering to look at it.
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Worst DigiGuide update ever. Practically all TBAs, not worth even bothering to look at it.
however what I find most amusing is that Channel 5 is updated for Week 52 (X-Mas) but not for Week 51. Its not all bad, I now know when Watchmen is on, assuming it does not change ![]() That 1 hour EastEnders on Christmas Day says it all really given that we know its 2x40 minute episodes. Also no info on the Merlin season finale, was hoping to get that. |
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Nothing at all for ITV1 either.
Watchmen is a repeat. Mind you, the last time it was on 4HD the sound was all glitchy on Freeview. Maybe they'll have fixed that for this coming showing. |
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Nothing at all for ITV1 either.
Watchmen is a repeat. Mind you, the last time it was on 4HD the sound was all glitchy on Freeview. Maybe they'll have fixed that for this coming showing. |
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There are some things worth mentioning, thanks to Elgin for the following:
Saturday 17th 7:05 - Strictly Come Dancing 8:05 - Merlin 8:50 - National Lottery 9 - Strictly Come Dancing Results - One of The Royle Family Christmas specials (presumably last year's) is repeated at 9 on Sunday 18th. - Sports Personality Of The Year runs 8 - 10 on Thursday 22nd. - Christmas specials of Have I Got News For You and The Graham Norton Show on Friday 23rd - the latter extended to one hour. The Two Ronnies Sketchbook and Live At The Apollo continue to air. - Eastenders is down for 8:30 - 9:30 on Christmas Day and 9 - 9:30 on Boxing Day. - Holby City airs as normal on Tuesday 20th and 27th. - The One Show continues until Friday 23rd before its festive break. The interesting thing there is The Royle Family repeat, now, I strongly expect that to change, but does that suggest that they may expect ITV1 to air Downton Abbey on Sunday 18th? Obviously some stuff there is wrong, as I'm sure dan2008 may soon point out... |
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They should have offered The Voice to Jake Humphrey given his other presenting role has been scaled back in order to acquire The Voice.....
F1 was not cut in order to acquire The Voice - two totally different, unrelated, budgets. |
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It's funny, every year everyone slates ITV at Christmas for 'not trying', 'they get rubbish ratings because they show rubbish' etc
Now the BBC fan boys are getting rattled at the posibility of ITV actually doing something special this year It seems despite the annual complaining about ITV's lack of effort, they are actually secretly happy for it to continue this way! |
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It's funny, every year everyone slates ITV at Christmas for 'not trying', 'they get rubbish ratings because they show rubbish' etc
Now the BBC fan boys are getting rattled at the posibility of ITV actually doing something special this year It seems despite the annual complaining about ITV's lack of effort, they are actually secretly happy for it to continue this way! |
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ITV are making an effort? 1 episode of Downton Abbey counts as a effort?
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There are some things worth mentioning, thanks to Elgin for the following:
Saturday 17th 7:05 - Strictly Come Dancing 8:05 - Merlin 8:50 - National Lottery 9 - Strictly Come Dancing Results - One of The Royle Family Christmas specials (presumably last year's) is repeated at 9 on Sunday 18th. - Sports Personality Of The Year runs 8 - 10 on Thursday 22nd. - Christmas specials of Have I Got News For You and The Graham Norton Show on Friday 23rd - the latter extended to one hour. The Two Ronnies Sketchbook and Live At The Apollo continue to air. - Eastenders is down for 8:30 - 9:30 on Christmas Day and 9 - 9:30 on Boxing Day. - Holby City airs as normal on Tuesday 20th and 27th. - The One Show continues until Friday 23rd before its festive break. The interesting thing there is The Royle Family repeat, now, I strongly expect that to change, but does that suggest that they may expect ITV1 to air Downton Abbey on Sunday 18th? Obviously some stuff there is wrong, as I'm sure dan2008 may soon point out... |
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It's funny, every year everyone slates ITV at Christmas for 'not trying', 'they get rubbish ratings because they show rubbish' etc
Now the BBC fan boys are getting rattled at the posibility of ITV actually doing something special this year It seems despite the annual complaining about ITV's lack of effort, they are actually secretly happy for it to continue this way! Blimey... |
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ITV are making an effort? 1 episode of Downton Abbey counts as a effort?
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Well it hardly takes much more imagination to commission a Christmas special of Doctor Who, a Christmas special of Strictly, and a double EastEnders does it?
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It's funny, every year everyone slates ITV at Christmas for 'not trying', 'they get rubbish ratings because they show rubbish' etc
Now the BBC fan boys are getting rattled at the posibility of ITV actually doing something special this year It seems despite the annual complaining about ITV's lack of effort, they are actually secretly happy for it to continue this way! Quote:
On Christmas Day yes, of course there is a range of other programmes across the festive season that generally goes overlooked as usual.
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Well it hardly takes much more imagination to commission a Christmas special of Doctor Who, a Christmas special of Strictly, and a double EastEnders does it?
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Double EmFm, double Corrie, double Downton is special?
Blimey... They are damned if they do and damned if they don't in your book anyway, so why bother commentating? |
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It's not as if ITV has always died before the BBC on Christmas Day, their biggest coup came in 1987 when Coronation St took 27 million viewers on the strength of it being Hilda Ogden's last episode and in 1978 the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, their first on ITV, attracted 20 million( mind you it was a far poorer effort than their BBC shows, but the ratings were still excellent). However, it is just their worst Christmas Days, such as the notorious 1993 effort that featured three mediocre films and cheap daytime filler, tend to attract the most comment.
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...there is more to the BBC over Christmas, than that.
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- One of The Royle Family Christmas specials (presumably last year's) is repeated at 9 on Sunday 18th.
- Sports Personality Of The Year runs 8 - 10 on Thursday 22nd. And I wonder if they'll dare let Sports Personality over run this year with it leading into the weekday news. It'll be interesting to see how the show feels considering it's downsizing from an arena to the Don't Scare the Hare studio. |
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There are some things worth mentioning, thanks to Elgin for the following:
Saturday 17th 7:05 - Strictly Come Dancing 8:05 - Merlin 8:50 - National Lottery 9 - Strictly Come Dancing Results
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There's really no reason why they should put DA on Xmas Day itself if they were acting like a proper commercial broadcaster and purely thinking about it from a financial-side, but I guess they feel they might as well try something a bit different this year on Christmas Day and shake things up, even if it doesn't totally make sense commercially. If it doesn't work out, they can always revert back to the low-rated Poirot episodes from next year onwards.
Still I guess it serves the BBC right for a poor comissioning decision for Christmas day - the lack of a big comedy will be sorely missed. I still can't beleive that the tabloid press have been talking of ITV complaining of the BBC scheduling a clash with the X Factor final depsite Strictly ending at 20:15 for the vast majority of it's run... |
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That's Britain might just be the worst thing currently happening on the planet. I hope it does badly.
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You can imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and say the BBC chose to schedule say a new Wallace & Gromit short against The X Factor there'd be uproar from the commerical broadcaster.
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I still can't beleive that the tabloid press have been talking of ITV complaining of the BBC scheduling a clash with the X Factor final depsite Strictly ending at 20:15 for the vast majority of it's run...
I agree. Also the BBC are actually doing ITV a favour on the Sunday by moving SCD back to 7pm, so ITV really have no reason to complain..
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I still can't beleive that the tabloid press have been talking of ITV complaining of the BBC scheduling a clash with the X Factor final depsite Strictly ending at 20:15 for the vast majority of it's run...
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I agree. Also the BBC are actually doing ITV a favour on the Sunday by moving SCD back to 7pm, so ITV really have no reason to complain..
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Do we know how long Text Santa is on for on Christmas Eve ?
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