As I have done in the last couple of years, my final post on this thread, on the final day of the Christmas Radio Times listings. And it feels a bit weird given that Hogmanay is still to come!!
And, as in the last two years, the amount of TV I have watched over the Christmas period is reducing. In fact, I didn’t watch a thing on either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, on either BBC1, BBC2, BBC 4, STV or Channel 4. I did turn on Sky News at just after 11pm on Christmas night, just as the news of George Michael dying was being announced.
It did record both episodes of Witness for the Prosecution. I posted my thoughts on this programme on another thread, but I will repeat them here. I thought it a horrid, nasty, miserable programme, that was all but a different storyline to the original Christie story, that it should have been called something else. A bleak programme, for a bleak year to be honest.
I will repeat my line about the price of the Radio Times at Christmas not being an issue for me, as it is the only copy I buy in a year. Given that I watch very little TV over the Christmas period, and, as I mentioned in a post a couple of weeks ago, I don’t actually use the Radio Times after my initial reading of it, I wonder why I still buy it.
And I still buy it for the same reason as I still like putting up the Christmas tree and the decorations; it is a part of Christmas. Like putting up the tree and decorations, buying the Christmas Radio Times is a tradition that takes us back to other times. I honestly cannot imagine my Christmas without the Christmas Radio Times lying around.
And so, the end of my last post on the 2016 thread. Except to thank you all once again for your contributions throughout the year. We may have differences on other threads, but we are friends here, and long may that continue. So, have a great new year, I wish you all, and your families, the very best for 2017, and I will see you on the 2017 thread soon.