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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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H of De Vil
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by A.D.P:
“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.”

BBC repeat stuff ADP, or is the BBC beyond criticism in regards to repeats? I wonder how many times MBB Christmas specials will be repeated? I never hear you complain about these being repeated in January slots every year.

ITV haven't shown the Harry Potter films for 2 YEARS!. They didn't do it 'the year before'. I've highlighted this twice, and yet you still suggest ITV have aired it 'every year'.

BIB You complain that ITV is putting in little effort yet showing The Lion King, Disney's biggest grossing film on Christmas Day, but that is still not good enough. I think you are more concerned ITV will dent Frozen given they are giving the BBC some competition.

The only thing in your post I agree with is airing The Hobbit against SCD. They should put in more effort, but to them its not worth it.

And btw, before you say it, I'm not following you around, I've posted in this thread before.
A.D.P
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by H of De Vil:
“BBC repeat stuff ADP, or is the BBC beyond criticism in regards to repeats? I wonder how many times MBB Christmas specials will be repeated? I never hear you complain about these being repeated in January slots every year.

ITV haven't shown the Harry Potter films for 2 YEARS!. They didn't do it 'the year before'. I've highlighted this twice, and yet you still suggest ITV have aired it 'every year'.

BIB You complain that ITV is putting in little effort yet showing The Lion King, Disney's biggest grossing film on Christmas Day, but that is still not good enough. I think you are more concerned ITV will dent Frozen given they are giving the BBC some competition.

The only thing in your post I agree with is airing The Hobbit against SCD. They should put in more effort, but to them its not worth it.

And btw, before you say it, I'm not following you around, I've posted in this thread before.”

Thank you for your healthy interest in every one of my posts.

You have gone around a number of threads, really " talking up" ITV, here, The Ratings thread, and the Christmas BBC Vs ITV thread, and do seem to jump on anyone who doesn't agree?

As you highlighted my comment re Harry Potter was, " they have done this before" and whilst you complain, you actually agree with me they have done thus before.

Circa 16 hours in prime time of HP repeated films, but we are not allowed to mention it as it's censored, a trade secret.
H of De Vil
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by A.D.P:
“Thank you for your healthy interest in every one of my posts.

You have gone around a number of threads, really " talking up" ITV, here, The Ratings thread, and the Christmas BBC Vs ITV thread, and do seem to jump on anyone who doesn't agree?”

Does it sound familiar? I've seen you do exactly the same re. BBC1.

You act like criticism of ITV is allowed (which it is), but any criticism of the BBC must be shut down. Hence any negative BBC threads have been visited by you. How can you not see this?
A.D.P
09-12-2016
Originally Posted by H of De Vil:
“Does it sound familiar? I've seen you do exactly the same re. BBC1.

You act like criticism of ITV is allowed (which it is), but any criticism of the BBC must be shut down. Hence any negative BBC threads have been visited by you. How can you not see this?”

I am not allowed to criticise ITV.
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littlealisha
09-12-2016
According to the Film On Freeview site all eight Harry Potter films were last shown on Freeview in May, June and July 2015 xxx
http://www.viewfilm.net/search/?sear...ch-action=true
jay04
10-12-2016
has any body noticed no channels are showing elf this Christmas
snafu65
10-12-2016
Originally Posted by jay04:
“has any body noticed no channels are showing elf this Christmas”

Has anybody noticed it? There's a thread about it?!
Charnham
10-12-2016
Originally Posted by snafu65:
“Has anybody noticed it? There's a thread about it?!”

there is also an article about it, not sure its I would call it news worthy but no mater
pedrok
10-12-2016
Apart from the odd thing here and there, pretty uninspiring schedule this year. Christmas Eve, I think, is bad across all channels. I know what it will watch on Christmas night, Maigret on STV. The BBC1 Christmas night schedule is all but identical to the past five or six years.

Witness for the Prosecution might be good, but split over nights, I think it will lose some of its intrigue. I might get to see Casablanca eventually.
Pizzatheaction
10-12-2016
Today, I threaded a needle with my eyes closed, and scored 180 with my back to the dartboard.

No Christmas RadioTimes, but you can't expect miracles.
marke09
10-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pizzatheaction:
“Today, I threaded a needle with my eyes closed, and scored 180 with my back to the dartboard.

No Christmas RadioTimes, but you can't expect miracles.”

which regional edition do you get?
Pizzatheaction
10-12-2016
Originally Posted by marke09:
“which regional edition do you get?”

South/West/South West, even though I live in Wales.
jazzydrury3
10-12-2016
I noticed my Digitally copy of the RT got update for the Christmas Double Issue yesterday, not sure what though
shaggy_x
10-12-2016
Got the Christmas issue delivered today. Skimmed through it and found nothing really inspriting. Was hoping for at least a repeat of Sherlock before the new season which I'm guessing starts on New Year's Day
Claires_dad
10-12-2016
Originally Posted by shaggy_x:
“Got the Christmas issue delivered today. Skimmed through it and found nothing really inspriting. Was hoping for at least a repeat of Sherlock before the new season which I'm guessing starts on New Year's Day”

Yep, Shelock starts 8.30pm New Year's Day on BBC1 with the following two episodes on Sunday 8th and 15th January (time to be confirmed)
marke09
10-12-2016
The three episodes of Sherlock series 3 are being repeated back to back on New Year's Day on the Alibi Channel
marke09
10-12-2016
Went to Sainsbury's earlier and Radio Times seems to be selling well - the only one with loads left is Tv Choice - obs dont know how many they had in in the first place but TV Times doing well too
shaggy_x
10-12-2016
Originally Posted by marke09:
“The three episodes of Sherlock series 3 are being repeated back to back on New Year's Day on the Alibi Channel”

They're already actually available on box sets on the alibi channel on sky. I was hoping for a repeat of the whole first three seasons plus last years one off
Breaking_News
11-12-2016
If you like Christmas you'll like this "John Lewis ad" Style Music Video from Katie Melua

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3u8stDTwZY
Anthony_Ryan
11-12-2016
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.”

It could have been worse Breaking News, they might have put Jeremy Kyle on instead !
Pizzatheaction
12-12-2016
So, six days after it went on sale in my local shops, and nine days after it went on sale in London and the South East, a subscriber copy of Radio Times finally makes its way through my letterbox, complete with Second Class postage.
gomezz
12-12-2016
Still a day ahead of the regular day for subscription copies to fall on the door mat then.
PaulJoseph22
12-12-2016
I thought the Guides this year would have run from 24th December to 6th January 2017.
Would have been nice to have New Years Eve & New Years Day.
Pizzatheaction
12-12-2016
Originally Posted by gomezz:
“Still a day ahead of the regular day for subscription copies to fall on the door mat then.”

No.

Six days later than the first year I subscribed.

RT subscriptions have gone to the dogs.
Claires_dad
12-12-2016
Originally Posted by PaulJoseph22:
“I thought the Guides this year would have run from 24th December to 6th January 2017.
Would have been nice to have New Years Eve & New Years Day.”

This has been fully discussed in this thread.

The reason is because Christmas Day is a Sunday so as is usual (or has been since 1977!) this year's issue covers 17-30 December.

This is because when it went to print the New Year schedules hadn't been confirmed, and because there are more Christmas related programmes in the week up to Christmas than there is in the first week of January with most channels reverting to near normal schedules from January 2nd.
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