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Results:Which Decade Was The Best For Christmas TV
90's
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00's
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2010's
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The Official Christmas Radio Times Countdown And Christmas TV Thread 2016
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Boyontbridge
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by marke09:
“A bit too early but

Forecast issued
Update 1, 03/09/2016
The computer says [Issued 06/09/2016 16:14:48]
The regional Christmas weather predictions are updated daily using medium and long range forecast data. They may indicate very different prospects to the TWO forecast above. Who will be right?

It's expected to be too mild for snow in the south.
It's expected to be too mild for snow in Wales.
It's expected to be too mild for snow in the Midlands.
Snow is expected in the north
Snow is expected in Scotland
Cold but dry conditions are expected in Northern Ireland
Snow is expected in the Republic of Ireland

https://www.netweather.tv/forum/topi...hristmas-2016/

Summary

Early indications suggest the coming winter may be significantly different to the last one. The combination of lower solar activity, a weak La Nina and an easterly QBO phase may favour a less cyclonic pattern and perhaps increase the risk of colder outbreaks.”

My wife is good friends with a meteorologists who forecasts and presents weather for an ITV station. She has long maintained that anything beyond a 5 day forecast is guesswork.
I am a regular viewer of BBC4's 'Weather for the Week Ahead' what they predict 5 days ahead still invariably changes. Example, this weekend we are having a Birthday BBQ. Last Sunday they were saying Warm weather-winds from the south bringing hotspells midweek lasting well in to the weekend. Brilliant I thought. By Wednesday they were predicting a band of rain more or less over Britain for most of Saturday. Shit I thought. By today they say that the rain is coming tonight and will have cleared from the North by mid-morning. Great............I think.
Moreover, we haven't had a severe winter since 1963 (I think) and we've not had a scorching summer since 1976. Sooner or later we will get one or t'other. It's for this reason many so called forecasters predict a severe winter/hot summer year after year, sooner or later they will be right. At least one newspaper will have 'Britain set for Artic Winter' at some point in October just as next March it will predict a Red Hot Summer. It happens year on year off. The only thing you can rely on is these forecasts will happen.
My point is - It's Pointless. You cannot accurately predict the weather weeks (let alone moths) in advance.
Boyontbridge
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“Ok. As it's September, I thought I'd devise my first Christmas schedule for BBC1. What do you reckon? Can you do better? Who will be right?

CHRISTMAS EVE

2.55pm Film: Oz: The Great and Powerful
4.50 Pointless Celebrities
5.40pm BBC News, Weather
6.00 Film: Maleficent
7.30 The Great Christmas Bake Off
8.30 EastEnders
9.00 Jonathan Creek
10.30 Not Going Out
11.15 BBC News, Weather
11.35 The National Lottery Draws
11.45 Midnight Mass

CHRISTMAS DAY

3.10pm Peter Pan Goes Wrong
4.40 Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
5.05 BBC News
5.20 Strictly Come Dancing
6.30 Doctor Who
7.30 Call The Midwife
8.45 EastEnders
9.45 Mrs. Brown's Boys
10.20 Michael McIntyre's Christmas Big Show
11.10 BBC News
11.20 On Christmas Night
11.25 Film: Iron Man 3

BOXING DAY:

2.50pm Father Brown
3.35pm Film: Monsters University
5.10pm BBC News
5.30 Celebrity Mastermind
6.00 Awful Aunt
7.00 The Great Christmas Bake Off
8.00 EastEnders
8.30 Would I Lie to You?
9.00 Witness for the Prosecution
10.00 BBC News
10.20 Match of the Day

HOLIDAY TUESDAY

6.30pm Now You See It
7.00 Celebrity Mastermind
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Holby City
9.00 Witness for the Prosecution
10.00pm BBC News
10.20 To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters”

I Think I can do better, for a start I'd lose Eastenders, Strictly, Midwife, Brown, McIntired, Holby. Not sure what I'd replace them with off the yop of my head but given 2 months lead in I'd have a damn good try.
Boyontbridge
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by marke09:
“I do Not believe it! She is on tour 24 miles from me TONIGHT!”

Don't worry Marke09 - Black Out cutains and ear defenders should ensure you don't suffer any fall-out from the event
Claires_dad
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“I Think I can do better, for a start I'd lose Eastenders, Strictly, Midwife, Brown, McIntired, Holby. Not sure what I'd replace them with off the yop of my head but given 2 months lead in I'd have a damn good try.”

You wouldn't be right though as there's no way BBC won't be showing EastEnders or Call the Midwife on Christmas Day! (he says confidently)
Boyontbridge
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Anthony_Ryan:
“For some people eating mince pies at Christmas is festive tradition. However some supermarkets are selling pies that have the end of October as best before date !
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-supermarkets”

Should be illegal. Far too early, it's all well and good looking forward to Christmas but experiencing mince pies in September is wrong. We'd enjoy it much more if we were made to wait.
Claires_dad
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“Ok. As it's September, I thought I'd devise my first Christmas schedule for BBC1. What do you reckon? Can you do better? Who will be right?

CHRISTMAS EVE

2.55pm Film: Oz: The Great and Powerful
4.50 Pointless Celebrities
5.40pm BBC News, Weather
6.00 Film: Maleficent
7.30 The Great Christmas Bake Off
8.30 EastEnders
9.00 Jonathan Creek
10.30 Not Going Out
11.15 BBC News, Weather
11.35 The National Lottery Draws
11.45 Midnight Mass

CHRISTMAS DAY

3.10pm Peter Pan Goes Wrong
4.40 Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
5.05 BBC News
5.20 Strictly Come Dancing
6.30 Doctor Who
7.30 Call The Midwife
8.45 EastEnders
9.45 Mrs. Brown's Boys
10.20 Michael McIntyre's Christmas Big Show
11.10 BBC News
11.20 On Christmas Night
11.25 Film: Iron Man 3

BOXING DAY:

2.50pm Father Brown
3.35pm Film: Monsters University
5.10pm BBC News
5.30 Celebrity Mastermind
6.00 Awful Aunt
7.00 The Great Christmas Bake Off
8.00 EastEnders
8.30 Would I Lie to You?
9.00 Witness for the Prosecution
10.00 BBC News
10.20 Match of the Day

HOLIDAY TUESDAY

6.30pm Now You See It
7.00 Celebrity Mastermind
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Holby City
9.00 Witness for the Prosecution
10.00pm BBC News
10.20 To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters”

With Christmas Eve being a Saturday I don't think there will be an EastEnders episode that evening.

Also not sure that BBC will move away from their tried and trusted 3.10pm film on Christmas Day.

Think you may be right with the 2 part Witness for the Prosecution being on Boxing Day & Holiday Tuesday though.
Boyontbridge
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Claires_dad:
“You wouldn't be right though as there's no way BBC won't be showing EastEnders or Call the Midwife on Christmas Day! (he says confidently)”

Correct, because all they care about are ratings, ratings, ratings. Let's be honest here, you can show whatever you want on Christmas night and there will be millions tuned in. They're not bothered about viewers and certainly not bothered in trying to produce, quality, one off, entertainment.
As much as I dislike Strictly, Mcintired, Browns, they are all programmes you don't need to have watched previously, the whole family can sit down and watch it together. If you don't watch Eastenders..........TOUGH...........we must show it because it's a rating winner. It's absolutely dispicable to show a soap (which might allienate half the viewers) just because it's a ratings winner.
Billy_Value
09-09-2016
Where does songs of praise fit in on a Sunday Christmas day, is it shifted to BBC 2
Boyontbridge
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Claires_dad:
“With Christmas Eve being a Saturday I don't think there will be an EastEnders episode that evening.

Also not sure that BBC will move away from their tried and trusted 3.10pm film on Christmas Day.

Think you may be right with the 2 part Witness for the Prosecution being on Boxing Day & Holiday Tuesday though.”

Christmas Day Saturday - Boxing Day Sunday - No Eastenders? I'll eat my proverbial hat, no, better still, I'll sit through Michael McIntired's entire show if there's no Eastenders
Billy_Value
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“Christmas Day Saturday - Boxing Day Sunday - No Eastenders? I'll eat my proverbial hat, no, better still, I'll sit through Michael McIntired's entire show if there's no Eastenders”

NO, don't even joke about things like that, you could seriously harm yourself
Claires_dad
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“Christmas Day Saturday - Boxing Day Sunday - No Eastenders? I'll eat my proverbial hat, no, better still, I'll sit through Michael McIntired's entire show if there's no Eastenders”

Christmas Eve is a Saturday!

EastEnders will be on Christmas Day which is a Sunday and Boxing Day which is a Monday.
smokeycat
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“Christmas Day Saturday - Boxing Day Sunday - No Eastenders?”

Christmas Day Sunday, Boxing Day Monday.
Claires_dad
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Billy_Value:
“Where does songs of praise fit in on a Sunday Christmas day, is it shifted to BBC 2”

Last time Christmas Day was on a Sunday was 2011.

Songs of Praise - the Big Sing was on BBC1 at 11am that day.
marke09
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Boyontbridge:
“My wife is good friends with a meteorologists who forecasts and presents weather for an ITV station. She has long maintained that anything beyond a 5 day forecast is guesswork.
I am a regular viewer of BBC4's 'Weather for the Week Ahead' what they predict 5 days ahead still invariably changes. Example, this weekend we are having a Birthday BBQ. Last Sunday they were saying Warm weather-winds from the south bringing hotspells midweek lasting well in to the weekend. Brilliant I thought. By Wednesday they were predicting a band of rain more or less over Britain for most of Saturday. Shit I thought. By today they say that the rain is coming tonight and will have cleared from the North by mid-morning. Great............I think.
Moreover, we haven't had a severe winter since 1963 (I think) and we've not had a scorching summer since 1976. Sooner or later we will get one or t'other. It's for this reason many so called forecasters predict a severe winter/hot summer year after year, sooner or later they will be right. At least one newspaper will have 'Britain set for Artic Winter' at some point in October just as next March it will predict a Red Hot Summer. It happens year on year off. The only thing you can rely on is these forecasts will happen.
My point is - It's Pointless. You cannot accurately predict the weather weeks (let alone moths) in advance.”

Agree but its fun to see what they are suggesting and since that post the new forecast has it snowing in Wales and the Midlands

The computer says [Issued 09/09/2016 12:11:15]
The regional Christmas weather predictions are updated daily using medium and long range forecast data. They may indicate very different prospects to the TWO forecast above. Who will be right?

It's expected to be too mild for snow in the south.
Snow is expected in Wales
Snow is expected in the Midlands
Snow is expected in the north
Cold but dry conditions are expected in Scotland
Cold but dry conditions are expected in Northern Ireland
Cold but dry conditions are expected in the Republic of Ireland
pedrok
09-09-2016
That's this weeks questions sent off. A couple of difficult ones this week I thought, with one where I ended up guessing.

One of the great things of this quiz is looking back over some of the old tv schedules in either the claires_dad website, or the BBC Genome site. One question led me to a Christmas Eve schedule, from the mid 80's, I remember very well.
marke09
09-09-2016
I think the Apprentice Final will be on Wednesday 21 December rather than following Sports Review which to do justice to all our Olympians/Paralympians would need at least 3 hours
Hildaonpluto
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“I just PM'd your score Hilda. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how well you did this week. ”

I'm more than pleasantly surprised I'm delighted!
Thank You!
marke09
09-09-2016

An old interview from 2014 with Shem Law from radio Times

http://magculture.com/at-work-with-s...w-radio-times/
jazzydrury3
09-09-2016
With Christmas Eve being on a Saturday, I guess BBC1 schedule will be something similar to it is now.

10am Christmas Saturday Kitchen
11.30 Cookery Show
12 noon Football Focus, looking at upcoming Boxing Day games
marke09
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by jazzydrury3:
“With Christmas Eve being on a Saturday, I guess BBC1 schedule will be something similar to it is now.

10am Christmas Saturday Kitchen
11.30 Cookery Show
12 noon Football Focus, looking at upcoming Boxing Day games”


Back in 2011 when the last Christmas Day was a Sunday we had normal daytime programmes up to and including December 23rd except for a week of Only Fools repeats at 1.45pm
jazzydrury3
09-09-2016
I like Christmas Programming, but I think wal to wall from Monday 19 December would be too much.

It is not like BBC can pad it out with CBBC anymore, like they would when i was a kid.

They could put 2 films on from 1.45pm, and Still show some quiz show before the 6pm news.
J-Star
09-09-2016
Answers coming before midnight tomorrow Wizzy promise!
wizzywick
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by J-Star:
“Answers coming before midnight tomorrow Wizzy promise!”

Excellent. Look forward to getting them.
wizzywick
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by Claires_dad:
“With Christmas Eve being a Saturday I don't think there will be an EastEnders episode that evening.

Also not sure that BBC will move away from their tried and trusted 3.10pm film on Christmas Day.

Think you may be right with the 2 part Witness for the Prosecution being on Boxing Day & Holiday Tuesday though.”

In 2011 wasnt the schedule for Christmas Eve (Saturday) this?

4.50 Film: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
8.00 Merlin
8.45 EastEnders
9.20 Outnumbered
10.00 Lapland
Claires_dad
09-09-2016
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“In 2011 wasnt the schedule for Christmas Eve (Saturday) this?

4.50 Film: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
8.00 Merlin
8.45 EastEnders
9.20 Outnumbered
10.00 Lapland”

Ooops!
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