Christmas TV Reviews

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. ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

In the good old days ('during the war...') Christmas television was special. The schedules were completely cleared and all the regular programmes were replaced by Christmassy specials. Not now though. For the last ten years or so, soap operas have slowly strangled the life out of prime time. In Australia they take their soaps off air for a ...  Read the complete review

Ho ho ho, I love Christmas Television. The festive season for me starts with getting the TV times with it's 2 weeks of listings and scouring through it to see which classics are going to appear on the television this year. I get out my highlighter pen and highlight my favourites. Sometimes it's old movies that I have never seen or ...  Read the complete review

Since it is fastly approaching the festive season, I decided to give my view on this subject just now. I will update it when the TV guides come out, and who knows I might eat my words and say the scheduel is good. I like christmas and always have. However growing up I always heard complaints from my parents and close family about the ...  Read the complete review

As days and months go by, And the Spring has now begun, I sense myself pining, For a month of joy and fun, It’s been too long already, It's only March 23, But how oh how I miss, Christmastime TV. Allow me to take your hand, And bring you on a ride, Into the life I live, Nearly every Yuletide, ...  Read the complete review

You know, Christmas tv was excellent this year(!!) I don't know anyone else but I was absolutely delighted with the prospect of watching a film where hundreds of people meet their death in icey water - for 3 hours!! *How* did this film merit 3 hours?!? The only film I wanted to watch was "The Dead Poets Society" but it ...  Read the complete review

The quality of television programs this Christmas has to be the worse ever. Each year there seems to be less and less quality films and shows, but yet we all seem to be paying more than ever to what the T.V (Sky subscriptions etc) There was just nothing but double episodes of every soap going, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale and ...  Read the complete review

Well of course I do, that is the xmas TV was total rubbish, I have not seen such a kick in the teeth for us TV viewers for a long time. The schedules are full of repeats, crap films and programmes made up of bit and pieces from other programmes. There has been only one thing worth watching, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and that ...  Read the complete review

Having scanned through the Christmas listings this week I was appalled at the pathetic offerings from the terestrial channels. Now Only Fools And Horses is not on there is absolutely *nothing* that catches my eye this year. All I can say is thank goodness we have digital. There's lots of Christmassy films (which we haven't seen 20 times) ...  Read the complete review

Yes, let's just shoot the TV! That would be one way at least to stop the flow of all the 'oldies but goodies' making their way onto our screens at Christmas!! Or would that be just a tad over the top? I don't know, maybe those old flicks aren't so bad. I mean Christmas is a time for remembering the past, ...  Read the complete review

As a republican, I am not going to sit here and pretend to have an adequate opinion on the Queen's Speech - I simply haven't seen it. It may be rivetting, Her Britannic Majesty might start pole dancing or juggling fire for all I know, but she's never been a feature of my Christmas TV viewing. What I do know about Christmas is ...  Read the complete review

One of the things I always remember fondly from childhood Christmas's is getting the Xmas edition of the Radio Times and finding out which Christmas specials and movies were being shown. These of course were in the days before Sky and DVD. Nowadays, Christmas TV is not one of the main things I look forward to about Christmas. Partly ...  Read the complete review

Are Violent TV Cartoons Harmful? “BUGS Bunny Blamed for School Fights,” headlined The Times. The newspaper reported how some teachers feel about the behavior of youngsters who, it is claimed, imitate violent scenes from TV cartoons. “Most cartoons are violent,” asserted one deputy head of a primary school, ...  Read the complete review

When I was a child I used to pore over the Christmas edition of the television schedule guides with a red felt tip pen, highlighting everything I wanted to tape. When we got a VCR, this just got worse, with two felt tip colours being used. One year, we had three TVs and three VCRs in the house - I had to buy my own tv guide as ...  Read the complete review

Christmas Day TV on the BBC is the same year after year, even down to the same films. The Queen is an national intitution and Noel's Christmas Presents get cheesier and cheesier each year although the people featured deserve some recognition. The Snowman has not changed and being a musician who play the music every year, it has ...  Read the complete review

I personally love Christmas TV. Every year I will spend at least an hour going through the christmas edition of the Radio Times outlining everything I need to record. So, I sit there with loads of blank tapes and then start recording everything. Thing is, I don’t get round to watching it until after Christmas, and then it doesn’t quite ...  Read the complete review