Christmas Schedules

Christmas RT is already out in London. £4.50 this year, which is surprising, when they could have so easily charged £5 which is the equivalent of two issues.

They haven't been doing this forever. They used to sometimes do fifteen day issues in the past - in 1982 they ran Friday 24th December to Friday 7th January - but those were the days when there was a single magazine publishing the BBC's schedules and they could go directly from the Controller's desk to the magazines. These days, as well as umpteen magazines publishing them, there are also EPGs and the like, so there has to be a far more regimented system for distributing the schedules, and all the workflows are set up for the specific release of schedules on a week-by-week basis, with every channel at the same time. So it's no longer possible to add extra days at the beginning and the end.

So, in fact it's the exact opposite of doing what they used to do, and "thinking outside the box" which has seen myraid new guides available, that has caused this situation.

Notice both The Snowman and The Snowman and the Snowdog are airing today from 5.10pm.

The Raymond Briggs introduction was used in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNorhznOuCQ

I watched a recording of that very junction followed by The Snowman so many times the tape was completely knackered.

That makes huge sense as I was a bit baffled when I first saw the Bowie intro, as I didn't remember it at all from my first viewing - 1994-95 fits with my earliest memory of watching.

Looks like Xmas Carol goes wrong will get a Saturday BBC one slot. The biggest gem is on STV with NEW episode of "Thingummyjig"

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong is indeed scheduled for a Saturday showing, the 30th to be exact. Why they didn't think of scheduling this on the 24th is a little baffling, it would have made for perfect Christmas Eve viewing.

Indeed, especially as there is a wasteland between 10.30pm and 11.45pm comprising repeats of repeats.

Its seem Fanny is on the iplayer with her classic xmas series. There no one like that woman anymore. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p05jv04g?suggid=p05jv04g

Well, Peter Pan That Goes Wrong aired on the Saturday after Christmas (although last year that was New Years Eve), in pretty much the same slot as CCGW does this year, so one assumes BBC One scheduling thinks that's a pretty good slot to show the follow up.

Ultimate car crash cookery. Some of the dishes she brutally served up in that show were dated in 1975 let alone 2017.
And still have a slight suspicion she'd had a glass or two of the cooking sherry before recording...

It's been repeated a few times over the years on the likes of BBC Four and UK Food. As you say it's a curio nowadays, not something you'd take serious tips from.