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Christmas Day: BBC or ITV?
As these two channels generally have the shows that gain the most viewers, which channel would you prefer to watch on Christmas Day, looking at the schedules below?
BBC1 6am Breakfast 9:00 Cbeebies: The Nutcracker 9:45 Dragon: Legend of the boneknapper dragon 10:00 Christmas Day Service 11:00 Songs of Praise 11:40 BBC News 11:50 FILM: The Croods 1:20 Shaun the Sheep: The Farmers Llamas 1:50 Top of the Pops 2:50 BBC News 3:00 HM The Queen 3:10 FILM: Frozen 4:45 The Great Christmas Bake Off 5:45 Doctor Who 6:45 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 8:00 Call the Midwife 9:30 EastEnders 10:30 Mrs Brown's Boys 11:00 The best of Tracy Ullman's Show 11:30 BBC News 11:45 On Christmas light 11:50 Would I lie to you at Christmas? 12:20 Have I got a bit more news for you 1:05 Citizen Khan 1:35 FILM: While you were sleeping 3:10 BBC News ITV: 6am CITV 8:25 Weekend 9:25 Countrywise 9:55 FILM: Despicable Me 2 11:55 FILM: Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets 3pm HM The Queen 3:10 ITV News 3:25 FILM: The Lion King 4:55 ITV News 5:15You've been framed 5:45 Emmerdale 6:45 Paul O'Grady: For the love of dogs 7:45 ITV News 8:00 Coronation STreet 9:00 Maigret 11:00 FILM: Love Actually 1:30am Nightscreen Out of the two, I prefer BBC |
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I can't imagine me watching much of the main two channels this year. I'll watch Bake Off and Mrs Brown's Boys if it's a new episode but other than that there's nothing that I haven't watched before or that I'm remotely interested in.
Looks like a Netflix/DVD night. |
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BBC1 for Doctor Who and ITV for Maigret but other than that not much
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I'm watching The Great Christmas Bake Off, Call the Midwife, and Mrs Brown Boys on BBC1. So I chose BBC.
Other than possibly recording For the Love of Dogs on ITV, they couldn't even pay to watch the rest of their rubbish schedule. I love Harry Potter, but I definitely wouldn't sit through one of the films on ITV with all their annoying ads. |
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As these two channels generally have the shows that gain the most viewers, which channel would you prefer to watch on Christmas Day, looking at the schedules below?
BBC1 6am Breakfast 9:00 Cbeebies: The Nutcracker 9:45 Dragon: Legend of the boneknapper dragon 10:00 Christmas Day Service 11:00 Songs of Praise 11:40 BBC News 11:50 FILM: The Croods 1:20 Shaun the Sheep: The Farmers Llamas 1:50 Top of the Pops 2:50 BBC News 3:00 HM The Queen 3:10 FILM: Frozen 4:45 The Great Christmas Bake Off 5:45 Doctor Who 6:45 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 8:00 Call the Midwife 9:30 EastEnders 10:30 Mrs Brown's Boys 11:00 The best of Tracy Ullman's Show 11:30 BBC News 11:45 On Christmas light 11:50 Would I lie to you at Christmas? 12:20 Have I got a bit more news for you 1:05 Citizen Khan 1:35 FILM: While you were sleeping 3:10 BBC News ITV: 6am CITV 8:25 Weekend 9:25 Countrywise 9:55 FILM: Despicable Me 2 11:55 FILM: Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets 3pm HM The Queen 3:10 ITV News 3:25 FILM: The Lion King 4:55 ITV News 5:15You've been framed 5:45 Emmerdale 6:45 Paul O'Grady: For the love of dogs 7:45 ITV News 8:00 Coronation STreet 9:00 Maigret 11:00 FILM: Love Actually 1:30am Nightscreen Out of the two, I prefer BBC |
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ITV seem to be getting a bit carried away with news bulletins though I suspect that, unless something major happens, they will be mainly pre-recorded reports.
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Both pretty naff but the Sky planner will hopefully be full enough.
Who's watching 90 minutes of Call the Midwife? And how's a one off GBBO going to work? ITV wise, I thought YBF was left behind in the 90s and Love Actually and The Lion King are repeated ad nauseam. |
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I hate Xmas day tv these days it's so bad with record top of the pops and watch eastenders and that is it
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We never have the tele on Christmas day or Boxing day but we do record HM the Queen and this year we will record the Maigret.
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Always BBC all day on Christmas Day, recording Emmerdale and probably Maigret from ITV but that'll be all
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Both pretty naff but the Sky planner will hopefully be full enough.
Who's watching 90 minutes of Call the Midwife? And how's a one off GBBO going to work? ITV wise, I thought YBF was left behind in the 90s and Love Actually and The Lion King are repeated ad nauseam. YBF I agree. Crap filler. |
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As these two channels generally have the shows that gain the most viewers, which channel would you prefer to watch on Christmas Day, looking at the schedules below?
BBC1 6am Breakfast 9:00 Cbeebies: The Nutcracker 9:45 Dragon: Legend of the boneknapper dragon 10:00 Christmas Day Service 11:00 Songs of Praise 11:40 BBC News 11:50 FILM: The Croods 1:20 Shaun the Sheep: The Farmers Llamas 1:50 Top of the Pops 2:50 BBC News 3:00 HM The Queen 3:10 FILM: Frozen 4:45 The Great Christmas Bake Off 5:45 Doctor Who 6:45 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 8:00 Call the Midwife 9:30 EastEnders 10:30 Mrs Brown's Boys 11:00 The best of Tracy Ullman's Show 11:30 BBC News 11:45 On Christmas light 11:50 Would I lie to you at Christmas? 12:20 Have I got a bit more news for you 1:05 Citizen Khan 1:35 FILM: While you were sleeping 3:10 BBC News ITV: 6am CITV 8:25 Weekend 9:25 Countrywise 9:55 FILM: Despicable Me 2 11:55 FILM: Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets 3pm HM The Queen 3:10 FILM: The Lion King 4:55 ITV News 5:15You've been framed 5:45 Emmerdale 6:45 Paul O'Grady: For the love of dogs 7:45 ITV News 8:00 Coronation STreet 9:00 Maigret 11:00 FILM: Love Actually 1:30am Nightscreen Out of the two, I prefer BBC |
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ITV just haven't bothered have they, crap channel that it is. It'll be BBC for me unless there's summit better on elsewhere or I get a nice DVD in my stocking!
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ITV just haven't bothered have they, crap channel that it is. It'll be BBC for me unless there's summit better on elsewhere or I get a nice DVD in my stocking!
ITV's Christmas Eve is better than Christmas Day. |
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Neither....Christmas Day tv especially in the evening onwards hasn't had any show that appeals to me for several years now.
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I suspect that Paul O' Grady for the love of dogs will be a repeat.
May well watch the last few episodes of series 5 of Ripper Street. |
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Of the Christmas Day programmes Mum watches You've Been Framed, Emmerdale, For The Love Of Dogs, Corrie, Midwife, EastEnders and Mrs Brown. She'll probably watch the ITV stuff and record the BBC1 stuff. Mum likes to go to bed at 10pm hence why we would record EastEnders and Mrs Brown but she might be persuaded to stay up late to watch EastEnders as we'll be able to lie in on Boxing Day.
The only programme from the BBC1 and ITV Christmas Day schedules that I watch is Dr Who and I'm not particularly fussed about that this year. Suspect it'll be as forgettable as last year's Christmas episode. The sooner the Doctor hooks up with his new companion the better. There's quite a lot I'll be watching over the festive fortnight but not much of it is on Christmas Day. |
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I suspect that Paul O' Grady for the love of dogs will be a repeat.
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I suspect that Paul O' Grady for the love of dogs will be a repeat.
May well watch the last few episodes of series 5 of Ripper Street. |
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I don't watch much television at all but it would be the BBC every time. Cannot stand watching anything with adverts in.
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BBC: Doctor Who and WILTY if I'm still conscious! (Blinking late, isn't it. Might be an iplayer job.)
ITV: Nowt. Then again, never really watched much TV on the day itself. |
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The post-watershed comedy on BBC seems weak. An hour and a half of call the midwife seems excessive to me. I think an hour for a Christmas special is quite sufficient.
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Whatever I watch at Christmas, I will have already, or will record and watch at a time to suit me. Far better to schedule you own viewing, I rarely watch anything live, I record everything I want to watch.
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This is precisely why I have been saving shows to watch over Christmas
Both channels have truly awful lineups as per usual |
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