Originally Posted by Breaking_News:
“ITV is shocking this year.
Countrywise on Christmas Day at 9.25am ?
Surely they have a christmas animation they could have shown.”
I agree ITV is having a very poor Christmas most agree,. The Lion King whilst a good film was made in 1994, and shown on Channel 4 in July 2016. Frozen is the top grossing animation and first time on terrestrial TV and three years old.
ITV has two hours of soaps to the BBC one hour, ITV has IMHO one good programme Maigret. ITV repeats you have been framed the very next day, in peaktime.
The BBC has Bake Off, ( repeated in the morning on Boxing Day) Dr Who, Strictly, Call the midwife, Mrs Brown so has a mixed line up.
To me the big dissatisfaction is circa 16 hours of repeated Harry Potter in peaktime on random days and hours on ITV, they did thst at Christmas before. Yes good films but on too often. BBC repeated films like Indiana Jones are off peak, afternoons etc when daytime TV is normally on.
Blankey Blank and Paul OGradys dogs may be OK, but both repeated in days.
ITV give up at times like 17/12 against Strictly they just show three old films.
The old argument then comes in advertising income is said to be low, but it's chicken and egg, if you have Harry Potter on every Christmas you get two million default viewers and low interest, however the sales start, the summer holiday booking season starts so there is demand from advertisers.