juvenal Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Looks like a right load of old rubbish. Nothing I haven't seen or would want to. Just been down the library for books... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepLurker Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Ah, come on - I'm sure that the Doctor Who "Christmas Special" will be absolutely unforgettable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Christmas tv used to be an event. With only 3 or four channels everyone would study the tv guide intensely. There would normally be a big fight in my family over what is watched on Christmas day as there was no video recorder. Everyone would sit down to watch the big Xmas day movie. Now basically no one gives a stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I used to like Jimmy Saville introducing Gary Glitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Christmas tv used to be an event. With only 3 or four channels everyone would study the tv guide intensely. There would normally be a big fight in my family over what is watched on Christmas day as there was no video recorder. Everyone would sit down to watch the big Xmas day movie. Now basically no one gives a stuff. We were a poor family, so we did not have a video recorder either.My Dad made us take copious notes and make sketches of the programmes he was too drunk to watch live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Top Gear special on 27-28th should be a laugh. Good to watch after a few drinks and too much food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I'll be upset (sort of) if Clara dies. Then I'll go and look at the pictures of her in the Who thread and I'll need the Kleenex again. Can you post a link to the exact pages of the thread - just for my reference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 We were a poor family, so we did not have a video recorder either. My Dad made us take copious notes and make sketches of the programmes he was too drunk to watch live. Not so easy with football matches... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StainlessSteelCat Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Got a free 30 day trial of Sky movies on the Now TV box timed for the Xmas season and the rellies arriving. I daresay it'll be near wall to wall Disney movies, and if my missus has her way there'll be an eclectic selection of movies featuring either extreme violence being perpetrated on Nazis or made for TV sappy Christmas crap featuring people you've never seen before. I'll probably hide and watch Doctor Who on iPlayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 We were a poor family, so we did not have a video recorder either. My Dad made us take copious notes and make sketches of the programmes he was too drunk to watch live. You get scarily close to reality sometimes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 If you haven't seen the Star Wars Holiday Special, then you can't get any worse than this. Includes the real Star Wars Cast This is only the highlights - look out for Leia singing at the end. David Hofstede, author of What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History, ranked the holiday special at number one, calling it "the worst two hours of television ever." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pl1 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Christmas tv used to be an event. With only 3 or four channels everyone would study the tv guide intensely. There would normally be a big fight in my family over what is watched on Christmas day as there was no video recorder. Everyone would sit down to watch the big Xmas day movie. Now basically no one gives a stuff. Was just about to post similar or words to your effect as I did on a similar thread to this on here a couple of years ago. This thread should return to 1986 where it belongs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepLurker Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Ah, come on - I'm sure that the Doctor Who "Christmas Special" will be absolutely unforgettable. Just seen it on iPlayer, and, well, it's actually a very good episode. Just goes to show... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveinHope Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 This is the only TV I watched over XMAS and it was Marvellous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 We have borrowed some DVDs off a friend and have watched most of the first series of Phoenix Nights. And watched some Christmas telly. I have noticed there has been millions of 'top christmas hits' programs. Cheap telly me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 TV shows that are repeated during the Xmas period are annoying. For example, James May's Toy Stories was on last night and is repeated on Saturday and Alan Carr was on C4 last night (for two hours!) and is repeated tonight (admittedly at 11pm). This year's TV effort has been very poor. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2859956/Here-Christmas-TV-repeats-Two-thirds-programmes-major-channels-festive-period-runs.html 63 per cent of programmes on major channels will be repeats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 There are things worth watchIng but you have to search long and hard to find them Today 5USA has the Caine Mutiny on at 2.35 which is well worth catching even if donkeys years hold. Brilliant film and Humphrey Bogarts best performance as the paranoid Captain Queeg http://www.locatetv.com/uk/listings/five-usa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Watching cool runnings now - probably been repeated already 325 times. Still good though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Allegro Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Family viewing in our house this year was 'The Lady Vanishes' (1938). Last year it was the 1973 Tommy Cooper Xmas special. The problem with modern telly is the way the BBC (and other channels) has to shoehorn modern political correctness into everything. Eg, I watched ten minutes of Professor Branestawm and in that time they had: a black policeman in 1930s England, a black council official and a feminist schoolgirl ranting about sexual inequality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battenberg Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 TV shows that are repeated during the Xmas period are annoying. For example, James May's Toy Stories was on last night and is repeated on Saturday and Alan Carr was on C4 last night (for two hours!) and is repeated tonight (admittedly at 11pm). This year's TV effort has been very poor. I think worse than that is when they repeat last years Christmas specials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashmonitor Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Ah, come on - I'm sure that the Doctor Who "Christmas Special" will be absolutely unforgettable. On repeats, I would actually be very pleased if they showed some of the old Doctor Whos from the sixties and seventies..But then I would guess that would kill the BBCs cash cow, their DVDs. After all its not about what the viewers want but raising sufficient money to pay their staff. Panic Saturday 1970s style......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I did manage to see a historic Performace by Gary Glitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 It's funny how we still really want there to be good stuff on telly, despite all the varied alternative media sources. I think it's not just the "shared experience" they always go on about, but the paradox of choice. I actually prefer watching a movie broadcast on TV, even when I have a copy of it myself already, and even when it's something obscure that i'm not going to discuss with other film viewers. Saw a bit of Madagascar and Ice Age 4 here. Too crap too sit through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The XYY Man Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Problem: The worst Christmas telly ever. Solution: House of Fools Christmas Special - Yesterday. BBC2. 10pm. http://youtu.be/woL4FUy-gFE XYY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Anyone else watch Mapp and Lucia? Only read the books recently. V well done I thought - Anna Chancellor in particular v good at that delicious saccharine bitchery - and Rye looks beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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