Originally Posted by leicslad46:
“We will never know what is going to be shown on christmas eve to boxing day but one thing is for sure is that soaps and celebrity gameshows will dominate the schedule and that is sad as christmas tv wasnt like this in the good old days of the seventies/early eighties. Everyone has an opinion and that is mine”
Oh really?
BBC1 1980
Quote:
“5.55pm Tom and Jerry (or Regional News)
6.00pm Film : Pollyanna (1960)
starring Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman
and Karl Malden
8.15pm Val's Special Years of Christmas
Val Doonican with Gemma Craven,
Roy Hudd, Gilbert O`Sullivan
and the boys of St Paul`s Church Choir
9.00pm News with Kenneth Kendall
9.15pm Film : Big Jake (1971)
starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara
and Richard Boone
11.05pm Placido Domingo's Christmas Choice
with Donald Sinden, Bob Peck,
Kiri Te Kanawa, Peter Glossop,
Kevin Keegan, Bernard Levin and
the Choir of Chichester Cathedral
11.50pm Midnight Eucharist from Carlisle Cathedral”
So in PEAK TIME BBC1 you had 45 minutes of original BBC content, is that really so much better than what we get now?
For what it's worth I think Christmas TV in this country peaked in the early 90s and what we get now is pretty average, but lets what pretend the 70s/80s was any good.