The Christmas TV Thread 2010

I don't!!

It would crash and burn on Christmas Day. BBC1's Christmas day schedule is always beating ITV1 because there are elements of familiarity. For instance since 2005 it has largely been Doctor Who, Strictly, EastEnders and big gun comedy specials. This works and achieves huge ratings. They wouldn't put limited interest drama about a chef on Christmas Day.

Boxing Day will be choc full of entertainment and big commissions and it is rumoured Upstairs Downstairs will be shown on Boxing Day. They seriously wouldn't be able to fit in too much drama without dropping Match of the Day! That isn't likely! So, Holiday Monday or New Year's Day is the best option for Toast.
 
As far as I'm aware (please feel free to correct me) when Little Britain Abroad was scheduled on Christmas Day 2006, it wasn't the massive hit they hoped for and only performed relatively well due to the ratings grabber The Vicar of Dibley. Even The Royle Family doesn't attract the ratings that Dibley got so putting up a relatively risque show that potentially has the ability to be a massive failure (are people really bothered about Walliams and Lucas these days?) would be a huge gamble. I am plumping that ITV will put their Benidorm special on after The Royle Family which would dent the following show on BBC1.
 
I don't for one minute think that Doctor Who will air at any time before 6pm. It is one of their three flagship shows for Christmas Day and has beaten Emmerdale each year. Therefore, to get viewers and keep them hooked onto BBC1 for the evening, Doctor Who is their big curtain raiser. 5pm is far too early and would have the possibility of viewers tuning over to another channel if the quality of shows that follow can't match it. There is a possibility of a movie but it won't be on until Doctor Who is finished.

For instance:

5pm Strictly Come Dancing
6pm Doctor Who
7.00 FILM: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
8.50 BBC News
9.00 EastEnders
10.00 Rock and Chips/The Royle Family
 
I agree with you on this, it does need to be mixed up and more risks taken on Christmas day..the BBC1 schedule on Christmas Day has had a simular patteren since Doctor Who came back in 2005...but I suppose the BBC1 schedule depenRAB on where ITV puts Corrie, Im sure they take it in turns each year who schedules the soaps Christmas Day first??

This year will be intresting as the Christmas Holiday is 4 days this year as Christmas Day and Boxing Day fall on the weekend..so there are two extra Bank Holidays on the Monday and Tuesday..hummm more Cash in the Attic and Homes Under the Hammer on daytime BBC1...bah!!
 
Dibley and BirRAB of a Feather - no thank you.

Bad enough 'in their day'.

One that might be worth doing - if they could gett he two stars to end a long running silence (or recast - but the originals would be better) would be "Whatever did Happen To The Likely LaRAB".
 
I would absolutely love to see something along the lines of The Fattest Man in Britain; funny, sad, gripping and touching all at once.

ITV should make more of these programmes rather than cancelling them. Their schedules are slowly becoming devoid of anything worth watching :mad:
 
I don't think Tonight's The Night and Not Going Out are popular enough to justify a Christmas Day slot on BBC1 even if it is just mid-afternoon and late night. Unless TTN gets turned into a sort of Noel's Christmas Presents to run at 1 o'clock before Top Of The Pops.

By rights Outnumbered should be the late comedy (it had good ratings and great reviews), but Hugh Dennis has said they don't go back into the studio for that until next February. Although they could spend a week in November filming a Christmas Special.

The first Rock And Chips had an official audience of 8.7m (including HD) which is very good in this day and age. Plus Only Fools was a mainstay of BBC1's Christmas day for a long, long time. They put the Only Fools spin-off Green Green Grass out on Christmas day because it was an Fools spin-off. It flopped because it wasn't very good. Rock And Chips had a much better reaction. I think it will get a Christmas day slot.
 
I would be shocked if Eastenders isn't at 8pm as normal on the 27th, and I would expect it to be at 7.30pm as normal on the 28th. The BBC only move Eastenders if they have sport, Comic Relief or Children in Need
 
Once again the commanders in cheif fighting 'The War On Boredom' will be chomping at the bit to unleash the usual array of extended soap operas , dire films, half decent films put on at 4am , reality show winners stories & the odd decent repeat of a sitcom to try & keep the nation sane as it has to endure a whole 24 hours without a shopping mall, or supermarket being open & to keep the hoardes happy as they help participate in 'Operation - Rescue The Balance Sheet' that the commanders in cheif at Tesco, Arcadia & M&S will be waging on comatise shoppers trying to pursuade them to buy things nobody wants.

Enduring Slade, Wham, Paul McCartney & Wizard for what seems like an eternity in the temples to consumerism, the joys of some sanity at home will be shortlived as the usual tales of adultery, death , accidents, disasters, births & marraiges will be beamed to millions zonked out on the settee. If these havent already put you into a coma, be rest assured that Philip Schofield, Adrain Chiles, Christine Bleakley , Paul O Grady , Graham Norton & all the other national bores on fat contracts are just around the corner to make you finaly lose the will to live.

Some joy is to be gained purusing the Radio Times if only for the joyous shouts of 'Not that bloody crap again, its never off' or that other festive fave ' Bloody typical , always on when its time for bed'. Christmas is a religous festival after all & the commanders in cheif fighting 'The War On Boredom' dutifully oblige by making people convert to christianity the moment the television is switched. The shouts of 'Jesus Christ' , 'Good God Above' ,& 'Sweet Mother Of Jesus' can be heard with a vocal heartyness that only 60minutes of Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Eastenders or Corronation Street could arouse.

At least BBC1 will be spared the annual shout-a-thon / explosion-a-thon that is David Tennent in DR Who , the loss of the paper thin plots & the overacting is the most wonderous gift that could ever be given at Christmas , in fact if i were Jesus in the crib , id gladly scarifice the myhr for this most priceless of artefacts.

Quiet what Irrelevant Tedious Viewing will be dredging up is anybodys guess, but you can be sure that chief tester for Cuprinol / World Shouting Champion Philip Schofield will be hosting it. Gleefully supported by the likes of Klass, & Bleakley. What more could naybody ask for than a tale from the winner of this years X Factor? I mean the tales of woe endured by the contestant & his family makes the 4 Yorkshireman sketch seem decidedley bland.

Christmas 2010, just like 2009, 08, 07, 06,05, 04, 03......

:)
 
Last time Christmas Day fell on a Saturday (2004) BBC1' s schedule was :

6:00am Breakfast

9:00 The Tale of Jack Frost

9:30 What's New Scooby-Doo?

9:50 Crackers for Christmas!

10:50 Film : Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

12:05pm Film : Santa Claus (1985)

1:50 News and Weather

2:00 Top of the Pops Christmas Special

3:00 The Queen

3:10 Dear Father Christmas

3:55 Film : 102 Dalmations (2000) Premi
 
I like this! Most of it seems possible! Apart from Tonights the night ... I think this is just a big made up rumour :D .. I don't think that it will have a Christmas Special (watch me be proved wrong now :D)
 
I saw that watched an episode of the X-files and at every break
and when the programme started they had "Christmas entertainment sponsored by..........etc"

They do know that it's only October don't they?
 
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