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Old 04-01-2017, 12:39
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I am someone who is normally very enthusiastic about Festive TV but there really is very little good I can say this year. The offering on the whole from our broadcasters was utterly uninspired.

Very few quality Christmas movies. No Die Hard, no Elf, no Bad Santa. Don't think Home Alone was even on. And then very few quality Christmas specials of anything. Downtown was a big miss this year and it's clear that Call the Midwife has had its day. Crap like Still Open All Hours getting prime time Christmas viewing is ridiculous. Could we not have had maybe a Christmas special of Upstart Crow?

Going on a Bear Hunt on Channel 4 was appalling.

Eastenders only really hit the mark on NYD and the new Sherlock was absolutely appalling. Jonathan Creek was passable.

Is this the best they can do?
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Old 04-01-2017, 12:50
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Totally agree on 99% of that, except for Sherlock.

Would have been better all 3 episodes over Christmas,
and the 3rd episode, possibly the finale, on the 1st Jan.

There was too much normality to the schedule.
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Old 04-01-2017, 18:48
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I am someone who is normally very enthusiastic about Festive TV but there really is very little good I can say this year. The offering on the whole from our broadcasters was utterly uninspired.

Very few quality Christmas movies. No Die Hard, no Elf, no Bad Santa. Don't think Home Alone was even on. And then very few quality Christmas specials of anything. Downtown was a big miss this year and it's clear that Call the Midwife has had its day.
Home Alone was on Channel 4 and Call the Midwife topped the consolidated ratings for Christmas day.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:36
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Is this the best they can do?
Confusing (heavily biased) opinion with fact again. Is that the best you can do?
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:46
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Shite, but no less than expected.

The days of a real push at Christmas from the broadcasters are well and truly over and can you really blame them? Demographics have changed so much that a lot of my friends on Facebook had status's about Netflix shows at Christmas or were doing things like playing boardgames with family.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:46
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I'm glad to be back to a normal schedule if the mediocrity of the past fortnight is the 'best' that broadcasters can do for so called 'holidays'.

The Christmas Radio Times thread makes me laugh as people look forward to the usual crap that is passed off every year as 'Festive TV'. As with everything to do with that time of year it's a hollow sham.
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Old Yesterday, 05:59
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Christmas TV sucked but that was what I expected so we found other ways to entertain ourselves over the festive period and watched very little broadcast TV. It's not going to change either, and will probably get worse over the coming years, so pointless complaining really.
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Old Yesterday, 17:03
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Confusing (heavily biased) opinion with fact again. Is that the best you can do?
What?
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Old Yesterday, 17:31
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I enjoyed it. There were dramas for me in Doctor Who, Sherlock and Jonathon Creek, entertainment with Strictly, Michael McIntyre, Revolting Rhymes and Bake Off, films with Home Alone, Captain America and The Chronicles of Narnia, plus comedy with Mrs Brown's Boys and Still open all hours

Plus the usual soaps with Emmerdale, Casualty, Holby City and Corrie.

All in all, a good variety of shows for me. For those who moan about the schedules, you don't have to watch TV you know. I don't watch 'live tv' much these days anyway. Now the schedules are pretty much back to normal, the schedules are boring.
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Old Yesterday, 18:36
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The BBC nature film Wild Tales from the Village with its slo-mo photography was brilliant. Otherwise..
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