Christmas TV. Even Worse Than Usual ?

[Gathursty]

Did anyone else watch Peter Pan Goes Wrong tonight? I was howling! This is what Xmas TV is supposed to be like.

Peter Pan Goes Wrong should have been on Christmas Day at 9pm. The TV I witnessed* at home consisted of numerous repeats of Only Fools, Heartbeat, soaps and those 24 hours in A&E and paediatric ward shows that other memebers of my family think are worth watching over Christmas. (Send them to Wigan RAEI Infirmary next Christmas then)

*No monopoly on the remote control nor tv in my room hence had to witness rather than choose to watch.

I thought that Peter Pan was hilarious but when Jeremy Vine appeared in a cameo, I was unimpressed. He is a bore on both BBC R2 and on BBC2. Give me LBC every day of the week!

In fact, I've been mainly listening to the radio on my laptop - LBC. I normally listen to Ian Collins, Dame Katie Hopkins, Sir Lord Farage OBE and Darren Adam.

 

[miami]

Sounds like you didn't have any of the main channels on then. You can hardly complain about bad TV if you only watch some dross on channel 93.

Peter Pan goes wrong was shown on New Year's Eve, there's only so many programs you can cram into Christmas Day - you'd have to have postponed call the midwife, one of the most watch shows of the week.

We've compared bbc1 Xmas day schedules from this year, 20 years ago and 40 years ago and concluded that this year is by far the best. Can anyone give a year that they feel was better?

 

[yorksrob]

Sounds like you didn't have any of the main channels on then. You can hardly complain about bad TV if you only watch some dross on channel 93.

Peter Pan goes wrong was shown on New Year's Eve, there's only so many programs you can cram into Christmas Day - you'd have to have postponed call the midwife, one of the most watch shows of the week.

We've compared bbc1 Xmas day schedules from this year, 20 years ago and 40 years ago and concluded that this year is by far the best. Can anyone give a year that they feel was better?

Au contraire, the 1996 Christmas line up looks far preferable to this years. At least we had some decent comedy, and the music on Top of the Pops would have been better as well.

 

[IanD]

We've compared bbc1 Xmas day schedules from this year, 20 years ago and 40 years ago and concluded that this year is by far the best.

Who has?

 

[Busaholic]

We've compared bbc1 Xmas day schedules from this year, 20 years ago and 40 years ago and concluded that this year is by far the best. Can anyone give a year that they feel was better?

It's never been the same since they got rid of the dinner-jacketed announcers, whichever year that was (1939, perhaps, when they had better things to think about).