Christmas TV - every year! Reviews

Apparently ,Human Beings share a third of their DNA with a lettuce, which is just as well if they had to sit though this years seasonal terrestrial TV. Apart from the brilliant seasonal episode of 'Extras' and great family fun with Dr Who it was slim pickings, the BBC winning the ratings numbers with the top three shows, the above and an angry ...

When i was younger I loved watching the telly around christmas and 1 film stuck in my head, it was on EVERY christmas eve for years The Wizard Of Oz, I loved this film (I can hear you all going SAD) but it was. t hasn't been on for years then suddenly this christmas it was on, but it was on TCM and for some who have just normal ariel or free view ...

CHRISTMAS TV – shall we start taking bets now as to what programmes we will be offered over the festive period? What about Disney cartoons for the kids? Ah well, I have to admit Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without these (the cartoons I mean, as well as the kids I suppose). In my own childhood the highlight of Christmas Day was to ...

I think the way in which Christmas is still associated with religion (Christianity) in the country is a joke when it really is all about consumer fetishism. Christmas hasn’t been about Jesus for years (as a society) and all the religious programs and Queen’s Speech etc. are a façade to hide the truth that Christmas is just about ...

I wonder if anyone can tell me what exactly I pay my television licence for? It certainly wasn't for so-called Christmas viewing. I think my licence paid for Christmas viewing about 5 years ago, and nothing has changed since. Still the same repeats, old films and other equally exciting programmes. Of course, there is one major advantage to ...

How long are we going to be ripped off by television companies? The programmes over Xmas and the new year period were abysmal. Which spoilt Xmas for a lot of people. It's time we spoke out and stopped putting up with the same old repeats year after year. Christmas should be the highlight of the TV companies schedule. Instead we get ...

Terrestrial TV used to be very exciting at Christmas. You used to look forward to the premieres of new movies eagerly and see which side (BBC or ITV) would have the biggest blockbuster. But since the advent of SKY TV, all of that has gradually changed. Quite a high percentage of people have Digital or Cable now so they get to see the good ...

I thought that christmas day had some very good stuff on. One of the things that impressed me is that we got our regular action-packed premiers on terrestrial t.v. On sky we some very interesting alternatives as well, like the Sci-fi channel's anti-christmas and Bravo's action weekend. The BBC is one channel that I enjoyed very much because of ...

Year in, year out we all do it, and it goes roughly like this: get stressed because you don't know what to get the 'they have it all' family, end up buying bath salts & a pair of socks, spend more on the wrapping & card than you did on the present. Gather round on Christmas day to indulge in cakes with tea, biscuits with tea, scones with tea, ...

I may be a bit late, posting this comment but I feel I need to. You see my parents pay their TV licence like many of you, never to watch TV. Well, they do watch TV but not terrestrial with the exception of the soaps. I have been really busy this Christmas period so I didn’t watch that much of TV, but what I did was boring and ...

On the subject of the Queen’s Speech, from an agnostic republican. Have you ever considered how bloody awful it must be to be HM the Queen? She couldn’t do what I am doing now (or maybe she does? Under a nom de plume). Her one chance to express herself annually is the Christmas Address. Even then she is pretty much forced to ...

It's been a long standing annoyance to me to hear people 1) Complain about sex / violence etc on TV 2) Poor scheduling of programmes (especially over Christmas) Yes, there is unnecessary sex and violence and admittedly there was not much worth watching on terrestrial TV (and not *that* much more on Sky) but there is this ...

Never before in the field of Christmas television has so much crap been watched by so few. Every year I avidly look forward to a bumper helping of elite programmes at Christmas. This year as I looked through the television guides I felt something was missing. Instead of the usual Christmas offerings, there was pathetic stream of poor ...

I think general Christmas TV has become gradually worse over the last few years. When I was a kid I would look forward the Xmas specials of Only Fools and Horses, Minder, Butterflies etc But more recently its been about blockbuster films (ID4 and Deep Impact) which many of us either saw at the cinema or rented from the video shop. ...

Pathetic is the best word to describe this years Christmas nights programmes on terrestrial television in my opinion. I was out for Christmas evening and thought I’d better set the video for all the great programmes I was going to miss. Ten minutes of searching through the listings for the five terrestrial channels and I not ...

I really don’t think that Xmas TV can ever reflect that of our childhoods (I’m a thirty something). When I was growing up, only the wealthy could afford video recorders; the resurgence of the cinema with the blockbuster was still a couple of years away and hardly anyone went, so when the good films were released most of us missed them ...

Sadly I can't comment on the offerings from Sky and Cable channels because I can't afford to subscribe to them. However, there was very little to interest someone with a reasonable level of intelligence. Soaps, soaps and more soaps...obscure films...profile-style programmes about people I'd never heard of...it was a ...

There was something missing from Christmas television this year and that something was Noel Edmonds! In Christmases of the past you could always rely on the BBC for a Christmas day show starring this bearded hero. Noel would have a show where he would give gifts to children with disabilities and maybe have a laugh and a joke. But this ...

I hadn't seen the Queen in action before, and it was only after a fight with my partner that I managed to secure the remote for long enough to see the whole thing. I would say that a bit of good-hearted brawling with your loved one is the only way to endure the Queen's Speech - otherwise, it was staggeringly inept and cheesy. I ...

Christmas TV is something of a tradition nowadays. A few weeks beforehand we're shown a menu of what will be on offer during ad breaks and in the TV guides. There's a big build up as each channel tries to gain more potential viewers. This year was pretty quiet in the end. I think out of all the stations BBC did best. They have ...