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Looks like you did the same as me this weekend DG and checked out what is on on Xmas day. Not a great deal. Shrek 3 in the afternoon, a repeat of the Gruffalo from last year, a new Doctor Who and the new Little Britain (which looks like it satirises a reality show that started 14 years ago. That's some white-hot satire for the recession).

If you think that's bad, look at the other BBCs, C4 or, shudder, ITV.

will | 20.12.10 - 8:50 a.m. | #

The afternoon circus on Christmas Day TV was a regular fixture until animal rights campaigners made Circus with animals unpopular. You could also attend a circus with Bertrand Mills circus and fun fair every year at Olympia during the Christmas Season.

John | 20.12.10 - 8:55 a.m. | #

Is it only me that thinks "so what"?

David | 20.12.10 - 1:34 p.m. | #

...checked out what is on on Xmas day. Not a great deal. Shrek 3 in the afternoon, a repeat of the Gruffalo from last year, a new Doctor Who and the new Little Britain...

Thanks Will, you have really let the cat out of the bag there - your comment may well prove to be a spoiler for DG's Christmas Day post.

Dave - yes.

Martin | 20.12.10 - 3:16 p.m. | #

Tell me you don't still have all your Radio Times Christmas editions from the past 40 years...

disgruntled | Homepage | 20.12.10 - 4:19 p.m. | #

One thing that stands out to me is how, since the 1980s, programming has started rougnly 2 hours earlier and ended roughly an hour later each decade!
And that there are too many Eastender Specials these days!

CornishCockney | 20.12.10 - 6:19 p.m. | #

"Tell me you don't still have all your Radio Times Christmas editions from the past 40 years..."

I suspect he does.

Erm... so do I. Mine only go back to 1980 though.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 20.12.10 - 6:46 p.m. | #

Did the Queen in 1970 really speak for 25 minutes?

dg writes: She spoke, then "introduced a special film", apparently.

Andrew | 20.12.10 - 7:56 p.m. | #

Was ET really a première in 1990, it had been out for years?

Mark | Homepage | 20.12.10 - 8:35 p.m. | #

I'm inclined to think OH has Radio Times (not just Christmas ones) going back to early 1980s - and a pile of them is surprisingly heavy!

But just goes to show - if you miss TV on Christmas Day because you're out doing the expected, then you really have never missed much. And then, of course, these days not only will it get repeated ad infinitum but there's i-Player as well.

allotmentqueen | 20.12.10 - 11:35 p.m. | #

Clodagh Rodgers, gosh!

Uroskin | Homepage | 21.12.10 - 3:41 a.m. | #

At least it dispels the myth that TV is getting worse. I don't know how I survived Christmasses 1970, 80, or 90!

Larry Grayson! Mike Yarwood! The Good Old Days. OMG!

Logistical | Homepage | 21.12.10 - 12:56 p.m. | #

Jeez, did I once have to watch that stuff with my parents?

If it wasn't for the world's tallest Xmas tree made out of plastic bottles in one of the many malls here, I'd think it was much better to be in Jakarta and be able miss all that jollity and ho-ho-humdrum stuff.

Having got that out of my system, I do wish you, DG, and your many readers, all the seasonal tidings you wish for yourself/ves.

Jakartass | Homepage | 22.12.10 - 4:05 p.m. | #

Well thanks to the Snowmaggeddon delaying our emigration plans, and Virgin Media (not unreasonably) wanting their set-top box back, we're now stuck for two weeks with a shonky internal analogue aerial that only picks up ITV!

Oh well, at least American TV will seem better by comparison...

Roy | 23.12.10 - 11:20 a.m. | #











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