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The Official Christmas Radio Times 2014 Countdown Thread
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smokeycat
20-11-2014
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“Any more details on this smokeycat?”

The first British television broadcast was made by Baird Television's electromechanical system over the BBC radio transmitter in September 1929.





Sorry couldn't resist.
smokeycat
20-11-2014
Just realised we have gone past the 1000th post on this thread, and it's not even December yet.
smokeycat
20-11-2014
Actually, last year the 1000th post was on the 25th November, so not that amazing.
pedrok
20-11-2014
Originally Posted by Only_You:
“Apart from the film, I think you have that bang on! It is a shame as I am really against CTM on Christmas Day! It just feels so odd having it there! Boxing Day is the perfect fit for it IMO.”

Call the Midwife is one programme that should be on the tv on Christmas Day in my view.

For me Christmas evening tv should be a family viewing event, that is, tv that every member of the family could sit down and watch should they wish. From 5pm right through until 9:30pm. So, something such as CtM would very much sit there.

It is the likes of Eastenders and Mrs Browns Boys that I would want to see removed from that particular schedule. I just don't think there is any place for them within a family friendly tv line up.
wizzywick
20-11-2014
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“Every year since 2012 you have said CtM shouldn't be on Christmas Day yet it performs as well as DA which apparently, according to some posters, is perfectly fine for Christmas Day!

Christmas Day has for BBC1, been a day to showcase their top shows with Christmas specials. So with that in mind, let's look at it analytically:

Strictly: BBC1's biggest entertainment show. CHECK!
Call the Midwife: BBC1's biggest drama series. CHECK!
Doctor Who: BBC1's biggest family drama. CHECK!
EastEnders: BBC1's most succesful and biggest serial drama. CHECK!
Miranda/Mrs Browns' Boys: BBC1's two biggest sitcoms. CHECK!

So, yep, considering what Christmas Day has always stood for for BBC1 programming, Call the Midwife absolutely does belong on Christmas Day. To put it on any other day would be doing the show a big disservice. Programmes don't just get Christmas Day randomly, they never have done. Shows generally earn their Christmas Day slot by status. That's how it should be.

Boxing Day has often been the day to show one off dramas or films. It is the perfect day to launch three parters and special dramas such as The Borrowers in 2011.

Putting Call the Midwife on Boxing Day would not feel right. However, Esio Trot on Boxing Day would be perfect. To determine what will be on on Christmas Day means firstly you have to determine what the biggest shows the BBC have. Work out what these shows are and you can basically come up with The Christmas Day schedule.

Come Fly With Me was a rarity for Christmas day but its stars were well known and their comedy style was familiar to the audience, and it followed the regular, known programming.”

This is what I said yesterday.

Originally Posted by pedrok:
“Call the Midwife is one programme that should be on the tv on Christmas Day in my view.

For me Christmas evening tv should be a family viewing event, that is, tv that every member of the family could sit down and watch should they wish. From 5pm right through until 9:30pm. So, something such as CtM would very much sit there.

It is the likes of Eastenders and Mrs Browns Boys that I would want to see removed from that particular schedule. I just don't think there is any place for them within a family friendly tv line up.”

Whilst I agree that perhaps EastEnders is a bit gloomy and Mrs Browns Boys is a bit cheeky, both shows belong on Christmas day, for the very reasons I stated above. In the pre-EE era of the early 1980's, Dallas, BBC1's biggest soap of the time, also featured on Christmas Day.
digiblade
20-11-2014
Originally Posted by pedrok:
“Call the Midwife is one programme that should be on the tv on Christmas Day in my view.

For me Christmas evening tv should be a family viewing event, that is, tv that every member of the family could sit down and watch should they wish. From 5pm right through until 9:30pm. So, something such as CtM would very much sit there.

It is the likes of Eastenders and Mrs Browns Boys that I would want to see removed from that particular schedule. I just don't think there is any place for them within a family friendly tv line up.”

I distinctly remember my kids staring dumbfounded at the tv on xmas evening 2 yrs ago for the sight & alarming sound of a woman giving birth on this programme. It was at the very moment we were at the front door waving goodbye to our departing relatives. A strong reflex action kicked in as I sprinted into the lounge to turn it off quickly thinking they had somehow turned it over to some sort of hardcore porn channel (or worse still Channel 5).
"@#&/$#*! it's that b#@$^#y midwife thing!" said I, in partial relief. Kids just giggled and later asked the sort questions no parent wants to answer on xmas day.

Call the Midwife - essential family viewing!?
wizzywick
20-11-2014
Originally Posted by digiblade:
“I distinctly remember my kids staring dumbfounded at the tv on xmas evening 2 yrs ago for the sight & alarming sound of a woman giving birth on this programme. It was at the very moment we were at the front door waving goodbye to our departing relatives. A strong reflex action kicked in as I sprinted into the lounge to turn it off quickly thinking they had somehow turned it over to some sort of hardcore porn channel (or worse still Channel 5).
"@#&/$#*! it's that b#@$^#y midwife thing!" said I, in partial relief. Kids just giggled and later asked the sort questions no parent wants to answer on xmas day.

Call the Midwife - essential family viewing!?”

Perhaps you had indeed tuned the TV to a porn channel because there is NO nudity, NO gore, NO adult only scenes, and a woman being interpretated to be giving birth on Christmas night is hardly any worse than a skeletor type alien murdering people because they "were hungry" is it?

It is baffling how our own prejudices exaggerate certain things in life. You clearly don't like Call The Midwife so therefore it is nasty, horrible, unsuitable. Yet there have been family feature films on Christmas afternoon or evening that were far more graphic.

And, surely kids already know about childbirth? Isn't The Nativity Story actually based around that very scenario?
Claires_dad
20-11-2014
"Scrooge" starring Alastair Sim is being broadcast on movie mix, channel 32 on Freeview tomorrow at 1.10pm

Probably the best adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
EStaffs90
20-11-2014
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“Hello there, my guess is a living room with a log fire set in wartime era at Christmas (a window will depict snowy scene outside) perhaps with a newspaper clearly stating 1914 and a tv with something Christmassy on.”

From Wikipedia:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia:
“Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully demonstrated the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925”

Thus making 1914 just a little too early for television.
Billy_Value
20-11-2014
i do hope there s some nostalgic programmes on over the Christmas period
pedrok
20-11-2014
Originally Posted by Claires_dad:
“"Scrooge" starring Alastair Sim is being broadcast on movie mix, channel 32 on Freeview tomorrow at 1.10pm

Probably the best adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"”

Totally agree. Hopefully the b&w version, not the colour version.
Boyontbridge
21-11-2014
Originally Posted by Claires_dad:
“"Scrooge" starring Alastair Sim is being broadcast on movie mix, channel 32 on Freeview tomorrow at 1.10pm

Probably the best adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"”

No Probably about it CD. Not only is it the definative version it is also far and away the 'Christmas Story/Film/Book ever'.
No one has ever come anywhere near matching Alistair Sim's Scrooge I must have seen this film at least 20 times and never tire of it
Boyontbridge
21-11-2014
Originally Posted by pedrok:
“Totally agree. Hopefully the b&w version, not the colour version.”

Think it's been digitally remastered into colour. I remember a few years ago the new colour version was given away free with one of the Sunday Redtops. Watching it in B&W does give it a much more Dickensian feel. That said, with this film and Wonderful Life, they are so engrossing that 10 minuted in you forget that it's in B&W anyway.
Paul_Hayes
21-11-2014
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“No Probably about it CD. Not only is it the definative version it is also far and away the 'Christmas Story/Film/Book ever'.
No one has ever come anywhere near matching Alistair Sim's Scrooge I must have seen this film at least 20 times and never tire of it”

This is a little off-topic, but I've never understood the praise the Sim version gets. His performance is fine, but the unnecessary monkeying about with the story annoys me.

It's "A Christmas Carol"! You don't need to mess around with it! You're not better storytellers than Dickens, folks!

Anyway, back to Christmas TV 2014...
marke09
21-11-2014
Text Santa confirmed for Friday December 19 8pm - 11pm and 11.40 until 1 am ITV 1

Dont understand why they put this on on the night most people will break up for Christmas and therefore are out at parties or just getting drunk as it is generally known as Black Friday or Mad Friday
marke09
21-11-2014
For Royle Family fans who have GOLD

November 30th, 9:00pm, The Golden Egg Cup. Special Episode 5 on GOLD
December 8th, 10:00pm, The New Sofa. Special Episode 4 on GOLD
December 9th, 12:40am, The New Sofa. Special Episode 4 on GOLD
December 13th, 10:00pm, Joe's Crackers. Special Episode 6 on GOLD
December 14th, 12:50am, Joe's Crackers. Special Episode 6 on GOLD
marke09
21-11-2014
Music for Christmas on the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...ical-christmas
marke09
21-11-2014
first look at Esio Trot

http://insidemediatrack.com/2014/11/...hls-esio-trot/

with stars like Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench in it surely that would guarantee a big audience on Christmas Day if it can be fitted in
Boyontbridge
21-11-2014
Originally Posted by Paul_Hayes:
“This is a little off-topic, but I've never understood the praise the Sim version gets. His performance is fine, but the unnecessary monkeying about with the story annoys me.

It's "A Christmas Carol"! You don't need to mess around with it! You're not better storytellers than Dickens, folks!

Anyway, back to Christmas TV 2014...”

Personally I think it captures perfectly the era in which it was written

As for Tinkering with storylines for the screen version, we'd need a whole new forum for that one
Claires_dad
21-11-2014
Originally Posted by Paul_Hayes:
“This is a little off-topic, but I've never understood the praise the Sim version gets. His performance is fine, but the unnecessary monkeying about with the story annoys me.

It's "A Christmas Carol"! You don't need to mess around with it! You're not better storytellers than Dickens, folks!

Anyway, back to Christmas TV 2014...”

There's only a few additions but apart from those I find it actually more true to the book than any other version!
marke09
21-11-2014
Victoria Wood's musical That Day We Sang with Imelda Staunton + @mrmichaelball is glorious. Catch it on BBC2 at Xmas
marke09
21-11-2014
There is a Christmas TV preview in tomorrows TV Guide with The Sun
xzqzx
21-11-2014
Is there no top of the pops special for this xmas/ new year?
Claires_dad
21-11-2014
Originally Posted by xzqzx:
“Is there no top of the pops special for this xmas/ new year?”

I believe there will be, yes.
Rich_L
21-11-2014
Originally Posted by marke09:
“There is a Christmas TV preview in tomorrows TV Guide with The Sun”

All the crap about what might happen in the soaps, doctor who, strictly and downton one suspects.

On a limb - x-factor - or does that normally end before Christmas tv kicks off?
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