Christmas TV

[amethyst]

Re: Xmas tv

I remember the excitement of getting the christmas editions of the Radio and Itv times,and making a note of everything I was going to watch,and then when we had a video recorder of everything I was going to record.Unfortunately nowadays most of whats shown we've already seen or in the case of all this celebrity rubbish don't want to watch.

True we are not interested in reality shows

[Hooper68]

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I remember the excitement of getting the christmas editions of the Radio and Itv times,and making a note of everything I was going to watch,and then when we had a video recorder of everything I was going to record.Unfortunately nowadays most of whats shown we've already seen or in the case of all this celebrity rubbish don't want to watch.

[amethyst]

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The same musicals will be on

[xmark1234]

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Yep but bet they will be on over xmas holls if i see them in tv mag ill let u know lol

The days when " The Great Escape/Ben Hur/Scrooge etc " were a special treat at Xmas are sadly long gone....it's called getting old lol.

[Cooldeepblue]

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The days when " The Great Escape/Ben Hur/Scrooge etc " were a special treat at Xmas are sadly long gone....it's called getting old lol.

[amethyst]

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Looks like we will be watching all the oldies for xmas

[xmark1234]

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Yea xmas tv rubbish now i remember gettin the radio times and the itv one to see wha can watch now its all in one mag i still get but by time ive got to new year im fed up no where near as good as it use to be

id agree with u there xmas telly has been awful for a long time.
theres so little good stuff compared to when i was a kid the last 10 yrs have been awful.

why dont they show new stuff.

or do a poll to see what people would like to see.

[amethyst]

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Happy Days is on anyway now....every day on UK Gold I think

We only get freeview no gold with our package

[Cooldeepblue]

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Happy Days is on anyway now....every day on UK Gold I think

[Richard1978]

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I normally like the Xmas specials.

These days there isn't a big film of the day, but I managed to see enough old favourites over the last Xmas period.

I've got It's a Wonderful Life on DVD but still went out of my way to see it on TV. I can never remember it being shown much when I was young.

[amethyst]

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Well my point is....there is no "New Stuff" anymore. We can watch it all on the net way b4 it comes on TV. For example....If you know where to look you can see Expendables 3 and it's not even out at the cinema yet.

Exactly hence why I will only be watching old stuff like any other day

I would like to see some Happy Days with the fonz

[Cooldeepblue]

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Well my point is....there is no "New Stuff" anymore. We can watch it all on the net way b4 it comes on TV. For example....If you know where to look you can see Expendables 3 and it's not even out at the cinema yet.

[darren]

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id agree with u there xmas telly has been awful for a long time.
theres so little good stuff compared to when i was a kid the last 10 yrs have been awful.

why dont they show new stuff.

or do a poll to see what people would like to see.

What would you like to see this xmas on the box

Laurel and Hardy
Norman Wisdom films
Old grey whistle test xmas special from 1987
More black and white films
70s drama

[Cooldeepblue]

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The best thing about Xmas TV for me ( in my early teens ) was getting the double issue of TV/Radio Times and me and my younger sister going thru them with a highlighter and marking all the progs we wanted to watch. Sadly nowadays with so many channels and the internet there is no " Big Christmas Film ". We can with a little internet knowledge watch anything we like. That having said I always look forward to " It's a Wonderful Life " each Xmas.

[peterjim]

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Good call Amethyst.

Right, I’d like to see:

A re-run of the first couple of series of The Phil Silvers Show.
Harvey (with James Stewart)
A classic version of A Christmas Carol that I haven’t seen (doesn’t exist).
A solid 60/70s WW2 film: maybe The Mckenzie Break, something like that
Being There (with PS)



And I’d like these to be on the main terrestrial channels and for me to discover them by perusing the Radio Times (for the BBC stuff) and TV Times (for the ITV/C4 stuff).