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Results:Which Decade Was The Best For Christmas TV
90's
198 (78.26%)
00's
33 (13.04%)
2010's
22 (8.70%)
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The Official Christmas Radio Times Countdown And Christmas TV Thread 2016
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wizzywick
21-11-2016
It is looking like BBC1 may go straight into Christmas programming during daytime from my birthday - oops, from the 19th December. According to Programme Information, the Christmas edition of Father Brown is airing in the week leading up to Friday 16th December.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/pro...ek=201650&day=
CappySpectrum
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by smokeycat:
“It's amazing that the Guess the Cover Competition has been open for weeks yet loads of people wait until the very last minute. ”

Just like tax returns and renewing their passports?
Claires_dad
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“claires_dad will confirm, but didn't he get 43 entries last year?”


I can confirm that lat year there was an incredible 53 entries ! (that's the highest so far)
wizzywick
21-11-2016
.....The Scheduling Game

New for 2016

Be a Christmas TV scheduler. Devise a fantasy schedule for any of the specified days and if you are close enough to the actual finalised schedule, you'll win a prize.

Full details will be revealed from around 4pm today!

marke09's Ratings Game

Guess the TV ratings of some shows aired on Christmas Day itself and you'll win a prize!
Full details to be revealed once the schedules are confirmed!

So, still plenty to keep us amused between now and Christmas!
judomole
21-11-2016
while we wait to see who wins the RT Christmas cover competition
I was struck again by how many of the traditional guesses on this forum would be so much better the cover we end up with
Also well done to all the entrant's and good luck

I was also thinking that even if you took the classic 1977 cover with the amount of lettering that is put on the cover nowadays (e.g. win free book ,14 day guide to films etc) it would not look as striking as it did back then
davads
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by judomole:
“I was also thinking that even if you took the classic 1977 cover with the amount of lettering that is put on the cover nowadays (e.g. win free book ,14 day guide to films etc) it would not look as striking as it did back then”

No barcode to get in the way back in those days either... I believe that came in at some point in 1989, so that year's double issue was the first to carry it.
marke09
21-11-2016
Apparently today is World TV Day today so Happy World TV Day!
SHANK0055
21-11-2016
Radio 2 has just plugged their Christmas special of Friday Night is Music Night on 10th December which is a one-off Christmas concert of A Christmas Carol starring Mark Gatiss as Scrooge.

Quote:
“Concert Information

Mark Gatiss stars as Scrooge, in Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol,' in BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night's special Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall. The concert includes six scenes from the Dickens classic, with an all star cast including Lee Ingleby, Rosie Caviliero and Desmond Barrit, along with Christmas classics from Katie Melua and the Gori Women’s choir, star singers Shaun Escoffrey, John Owen-Jones, Rosalie Craig and Louise Dearman, plus the Capital Voices and the seventy piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Richard Balcombe. Among the music, 'White Christmas', 'Sleigh Ride', 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas', 'Felice Navidad', ' O Holy Night', 'The Carol of the Bells', ’Joy to the World and many more. Presented by Ken Bruce.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ez88gw
marke09
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by SHANK0055:
“Radio 2 has just plugged their Christmas special of Friday Night is Music Night on 10th December which is a one-off Christmas concert of A Christmas Carol starring Mark Gatiss as Scrooge.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ez88gw”

Sounds good hope they put it on the red button
Cory_Osborn2
21-11-2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRu8...ature=youtu.be
Mcdonald's Christmas Advert.

I think 'The Doll' looks like Susan Harper from My Family lol.
marke09
21-11-2016
Filming has begun on a brand new 40-minute Outnumbered Christmas Special for BBC One, after nearly a three year gap.

It's Boxing Day and the Brockman family have to carry out a special mission for Grandad. They encounter car problems, child problems, parent problems, emotional problems and World War Two. If the adults can't sort things out the children will have to. Like all families, everything has changed and everything remains the same.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...ered-christmas
blueisthecolour
21-11-2016
When does the RT start doing it's usual cover tease?
marke09
21-11-2016
Radio Times has now added a separate Christmas section to its website

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tag/christmas%202016
Claires_dad
21-11-2016
According to digiguide

Sunday 11th December
Channel 4 (Premiere)
6.15pm Paddington (2014)
marke09
21-11-2016
Last Year's slow TV treat - All Aboard the Sleigh Ride is now out on DVD

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...ial-was-filmed
SHANK0055
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by Claires_dad:
“According to digiguide

Sunday 11th December
Channel 4 (Premiere)
6.15pm Paddington (2014)”

Great film

I'm just a bit surprised they didn't save it for Christmas eve/day/boxing day
SHANK0055
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by marke09:
“Last Year's slow TV treat - All Aboard the Sleigh Ride is now out on DVD

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...ial-was-filmed”

I had that on while putting presents out last Christmas eve

I wouldn't want the dvd though
dave2702
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by Breaking_News:
“Can you get YouTube on your TV? There are lots of Laurel and Hardy Films on there ! ”

I don't know if its the same for Youtube but the ones for sale on Amazon Prime seem to have been rescanned, but clearer than the DVD copies
marke09
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by SHANK0055:
“I had that on while putting presents out last Christmas eve

I wouldn't want the dvd though”

hopefully will be repeated sometime this year
Boyontbridge
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by marke09:
“My Sainsburys are selling real Christmas Trees for £10 - will they last until Christmas if bought so early?

And what a con! FREE CHRISTMAS TREE shouts today's Daily Mail but then you need to read the small print - mail rewards membership needed a unique number and £9.99 p&p so not as free as they have you believe!

B&M are selling 6ft artificial ones for £9.99!”

Buy a real tree - when you get it home, saw about 1 inch off the bottom. Get it straight in to it's stand and fill with water, then keep watered. (it will absolutely soak it up the first couple of days). Keep it watered and it will look and smell fantastic for 5 or 6 weeks
wizzywick
21-11-2016
Become a Christmas TV Scheduler and try and win a prize!

THE SCHEDULING GAME

For the first time ever, enter those fantasy schedules into a competition! We all love devising fantasy schedules, so this year, I thought I'd launch a contest to try and establish just how good at scheduling we are!

If you would like to enter, choose any day or channel from the list below and simply try and work out what will air in what slot.

All you need do is create a schedule from 1pm until 11pm (give or take 20 minutes either side).

Then send me your schedule via Personal Message (so that your schedule doesn't influence others) between 5pm on Tuesday November 22nd and 5pm on Thursday November 24th.

Please don't send your schedules until 5pm on the 22nd because it won't be counted. Likewise, sending your schedule after 5pm on the 24th will result in me not accepting it.

The person who's schedule is closest to the actual schedule will win a brand new book of Radio Times Crossword puzzles.

If there is more than one winner, then all names will be put in a hat and a name selected randomly.

If there are no winners, then the person who included four correct programmes into their schedule will win. If there aren't any posters who scheduled four, then it will be three, then two then one.

I will not accept EastEnders, Emmerdale or Coronation Street as one of those "correct" programmes.

So, there you go. Now for the days that you can schedule programmes for:

CHRISTMAS EVE BBC1
CHRISTMAS EVE ITV
CHRISTMAS DAY C4
BOXING DAY BBC1
BOXING DAY ITV
HOLIDAY TUESDAY BBC1
HOLIDAY TUESDAY ITV

I would like ONE schedule per person. So you can choose any option from the above list, but just one!

All schedules that I receive via PM, will be posted on the forum on Thursday evening (24th November) (from 7pm).

So, tomorrow, at 5pm, the competition opens for 48 hours only!
blueisthecolour
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“Buy a real tree - when you get it home, saw about 1 inch off the bottom. Get it straight in to it's stand and fill with water, then keep watered. (it will absolutely soak it up the first couple of days). Keep it watered and it will look and smell fantastic for 5 or 6 weeks”

So if the tree is lasting until the 12th day of Christmas you'd better wait until December
jazzydrury3
21-11-2016
The last 2 years we have had one of those Little real Christmas trees and they have lasted both years 8 weeks, and even come epiphany they still didn't look dead
Claires_dad
21-11-2016
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“Become a Christmas TV Scheduler and try and win a prize!

THE SCHEDULING GAME

For the first time ever, enter those fantasy schedules into a competition! We all love devising fantasy schedules, so this year, I thought I'd launch a contest to try and establish just how good at scheduling we are!

If you would like to enter, choose any day or channel from the list below and simply try and work out what will air in what slot.

All you need do is create a schedule from 1pm until 11pm (give or take 20 minutes either side).

Then send me your schedule via Personal Message (so that your schedule doesn't influence others) between 5pm on Tuesday November 22nd and 5pm on Thursday November 24th.

Please don't send your schedules until 5pm on the 22nd because it won't be counted. Likewise, sending your schedule after 5pm on the 24th will result in me not accepting it.

The person who's schedule is closest to the actual schedule will win a brand new book of Radio Times Crossword puzzles.

If there is more than one winner, then all names will be put in a hat and a name selected randomly.

If there are no winners, then the person who included four correct programmes into their schedule will win. If there aren't any posters who scheduled four, then it will be three, then two then one.

I will not accept EastEnders, Emmerdale or Coronation Street as one of those "correct" programmes.

So, there you go. Now for the days that you can schedule programmes for:

CHRISTMAS EVE BBC1
CHRISTMAS EVE ITV
CHRISTMAS DAY C4
BOXING DAY BBC1
BOXING DAY ITV
HOLIDAY TUESDAY BBC1
HOLIDAY TUESDAY ITV

I would like ONE schedule per person. So you can choose any option from the above list, but just one!

All schedules that I receive via PM, will be posted on the forum on Thursday evening (24th November) (from 7pm).

So, tomorrow, at 5pm, the competition opens for 48 hours only!”

Just to clarify we can include the soaps in our schedules but they won't count towards the final score?
jazzydrury3
21-11-2016
With no points for any of the soaps, are we discounting any may decided to show a Christmas Eve Ep.
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