Christmas TV

I was spun into a bit of tailspin last week when looking at the schedule in my Christmas TV Times, the religion of ringing the seasonal telly for the holidays producing the realization that there was no Only Fools and Horses repeats this year, and considering the pure volume of repeats there were listed in the magazine this was a big surprise. Brucie and the 1973 Christmas edition of the Generation Game made it on at 11: pm Boxing Day night but Del's was nowhere to be seen? In fact there were so many repeats in the schedule that there was a TV first this year, the BBC showing the terrestrial premier of 'Superman Returns' on Christmas Monday primetime then repeating it ...  Read the complete review

If there’s one thing guaranteed for people to moan about at Christmas it’s the TV schedule. I often think it’s just an apt reflection of our own seasonal pessimism that we manage to bemoan the apparent lack of choice, proliference of repeats and general apathy amongst television producers. This all means that we are resigned to playing with the kids’ latest Playstation games or join in with aunt Gerty as she falls asleep on the sofa after a turkey overload. Logically, this shouldn’t be so. What with Freeview, Sky, a multitude of cable channels and the Beeb and ITV engaging in their annual ratings warfare then you’d think we are spoiled for choice these days and the ...  Read the complete review

Who stole good Christmas TV? I'm sure it wasn't really as good as I remember it being when I was younger - my memory has filtered out all of the rubbish we must have got back then - but I can still recall enough to know that this year's offering has been terrible by comparison. BBC and ITV are locked in a game of chase the tail; it doesn't matter if something is good or bad anymore, just as long as it's cheap and somebody else has made some money out of it before. How else can you explain all those celebrity quiz shows, five heats of The World?s Strongest Man and New You've Been Framed? Take out The Office, which stood head and shoulders ...  Read the complete review

Christmas is the time of year for presents, lots of food, time of work, tv and oh yes the birthday of Jesus! This year my other half and I haven?t spent a lot of time at home during the festive period, but luckily the various family members we visited wanted to watch the major two things I was looking forward to watching this Christmas, Eastenders and the last ever episodes of the Office. Eastenders always promises exciting Christmas drama and this year was no exception. Weeks before hand people starting promising each other that they would have the best Christmas ever, this is never a good sign in Eastenders as it means that the person is going to find out ...  Read the complete review

Well we all know that as Christmas is nearing the good old BBC and HTV/ITV will in their wisdom put on the repeats again. But hey! I still love to watch the Wizard of Oz, how many of you guys can truthfully say you have never watched it more than once, and why? Because it is a classic. Unfortunately they don't make films like that anymore so we do tend to suffer some terrible repeats. But on the up side there has been a few good dramas been shown over the past few years too. Did anyone see Ebenezer Scrooge last year played by none other than the old Grant Mitchell himself, now I really enjoyed that it was yet another classic tale but with a totally ...  Read the complete review