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Oh look, another "Christmas TV is crap" thread that I bet the OP has been itching to post all year.
It's the same every year - people convince themselves that Christmas TV will be rubbish, so absolutely nothing will please them. It's no different to people posting the same 'crap' day in and day out in the ratings thread, including myself. Unless you want the forum to only allow discussions on your beliefs? |
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Well there are going to be people who think Christmas TV is 'crap' and this is a forum, for people to talk about it if they want?
It's no different to people posting the same 'crap' day in and day out in the ratings thread, including myself. Unless you want the forum to only allow discussions on your beliefs? |
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Oh look, another "Christmas TV is crap" thread that I bet the OP has been itching to post all year.
It's the same every year - people convince themselves that Christmas TV will be rubbish, so absolutely nothing will please them. |
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You're wrong, actually. Last year was good and I had no idea that this year would be so terrible.
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I disagree with this post. @ Mark didn't say you want the forum to only allow discussions on your beliefs, you think that. Where you say this is a forum, for people to talk about it if they want?, true, Mark never said anything to the contrary. But if someone posts TV is crap, then this is a forum, for people to talk about it and those who " disagree" are " allowed" to disagree without abuse.
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I do think we need more comedies - Goodnight Sweetheart should have been recomissioned instead of some uppity one on BBC2 and people like a laugh at Christmas. I think all these period nonsense is just dreary (bar CTM) and we're obsessed with the past. If you want the posh stuff, shove it on BBC2 or 4.
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Abuse? So what is your post against what I said then? Oh, wait, double standards!
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Today we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, catch up/on demandTV, Sky/Virgin TV, DVDs, Boxsets, online entertainment etc etc.
We are spoilt for choice really and yet some people still complain about there being nothing festive to watch. |
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Today we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, catch up/on demandTV, Sky/Virgin TV, DVDs, Boxsets, online entertainment etc etc.
We are spoilt for choice really and yet some people still complain about there being nothing festive to watch. |
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Watching Christmas specials from shows on Netflix is exactly what we did on Christmas Day evening.
But I agree, the way we're watching TV is changing, we're not stuck to the broadcaster time schedules any more. |
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The thing about Christmas TV is that it's becoming less & less important.
30+ years ago there was not much else to do on the 25th/26th but to spend the day at home with the family watching the one big TV in the house. The shows that were produced were aimed at family viewing. Things like the Morcambe & Wise show were perfect to keep parents, grandparents & children all amused while the new board games & toys were played, the new Lego kits built or dolls houses built. Now the toys are interactive and quite often solo activities. The latest game is played on the kids TVs in the bedrooms or the newest device is handheld and used with headphones. Those that are watching TV are just as likely to watching the back-catalog of stuff they've recorded in the run-up to Christmas that they didn't have time to watch, are on the linear subscription stations watching the latest blockbuster movies or using Amazon/Netflix to play the films that they want to watch rather than 2-3 year old ones that make it to Freeview/Freesat. The commercial broadcasters still have to justify what they show and know that soaps draw in the audiences as to the tired old tried & tested films that they buy for peanuts and flogs adverts in. making and broadcasting shows that the whole family want to watch is very difficult now and probably not economic to do for Christmas day when everyone's schedules are far less predictable that every other day of the year. |
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What were the broadcasters thinking!?!?!
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I do think we need more comedies - Goodnight Sweetheart should have been recomissioned instead of some uppity one on BBC2 and people like a laugh at Christmas. I think all these period nonsense is just dreary (bar CTM) and we're obsessed with the past. If you want the posh stuff, shove it on BBC2 or 4.
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My schedule from a rival thread -
Ok, say you move Dr Who to Boxing Day. On Xmas Day - Post cartoon film a Charlie Higson adaptation of Norman Hunter's Incrediblania stories. A male and female fronted variety show where the hosts get involved with the acts - she becomes a magician's assistant, he sings a duet etc. A lighthearted period crime drama by someone like Anthony Horowiitz. A 75/90 minute one off comedy by a household name writer. A sketch show after the news. |
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Not from where I'm sitting
![]() I don't like strictly and Bake off, bit I can see why they put them on. I do enjoy Dr. Who, but not keen on Capaldi. This is another big ratings show that you expect to be on, but the rest of the festive offerings were not good. Also, as a note for the planners, NOT EVERYONE LIKES HARRY POTTER. |
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My schedule from a rival thread -
Ok, say you move Dr Who to Boxing Day. On Xmas Day - Post cartoon film a Charlie Higson adaptation of Norman Hunter's Incrediblania stories. A male and female fronted variety show where the hosts get involved with the acts - she becomes a magician's assistant, he sings a duet etc. A lighthearted period crime drama by someone like Anthony Horowiitz. A 75/90 minute one off comedy by a household name writer. A sketch show after the news. |
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And my, truncated, response from "a rival thread": why?
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Well I'm mainly aiming it at the people who didn't like what WAS on.
Why is it so difficult to understand that the BBC One schedule after the main family film consists of specials of already popular programmes? You'll never please everyone. It's impossible. So you aim to please as many as possible, which is what the BBC does. |
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All this for just £5.60 across two weeks.
I still have about twenty shows and films recorded on my TiVo to watch.
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Well I'm mainly aiming it at the people who didn't like what WAS on.
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Can somebody APART from Mark comment on my schedule?
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Can somebody APART from Mark comment on my schedule?
What Mark said! |
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Maybe nobody else has anything to add over and above, or even contrary to, what I've said.
Norman Hunter - they did two Professor Branestawms. Variety -Michael McIntyre was on Christmas Eve. Light crime - there was a version of "The Ruby In The Smoke". New comedy - Russell Howard did a play on BBC 2 last year. |
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And I've merely promoted similar concepts to what has been on in recent years to BBC One Christmas Day itself.
Norman Hunter - they did two Professor Branestawms. Variety -Michael McIntyre was on Christmas Eve. Light crime - there was a version of "The Ruby In The Smoke". New comedy - Russell Howard did a play on BBC 2 last year. Russell Howard's piece was repeated this year (which reminds me I still haven't watched it!), Michael McIntyre was on Christmas Eve this year again this year. The two Branestawm films were shown on Christmas Eve. I thought this was about Christmas Day? |
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Instead of listing all the shows that you don't like (that other people clearly do and tend to achieve good ratings) maybe it would be more constructive to list what you would like to see?
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