Christmas Schedules

Fanny Cradock will also feature on Red Button 1.

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Come on, guys. BBC would never show this. Try ITV Hub

Now who talking nonsensical. that woman was one of a kind







EVEN ppl in the USA know about her!

Seems once again Elf is missing from broadcast TV. It was of course a staple of C4 for many years until Sky won the rights, then almost as quickly seemingly lost them. Amazon Prime is the only place to see it this year.

A lot of people rave about Elf. I can personally take it or leave it, I feel it's a bit over-rated myself, however that's just my opinion, I know plenty of my friends love it.

Its absence from the schedules over the last couple of years is a little puzzling, though.

If you're that bothered, just buy the DVD for £3 off the bargain aisle.

Elf is back in the cinemas too - West Midlands area, get yourself down to either Light Cinema in Walsall or the Electric in Birmingham on Saturday morning and you can see it there. Other cinema showings are available.

Apparently Elf was on TalkTalk TV last year but its not the be all and end all of Christmas movies and Sky/Now have a semi-decent selection ootherwise but it comes down to what you like really. Films go on rotation though and it'll end up back at Sky at some point but its lack of broadcast presence isn't really "puzzling" - Channel 4 deciding one year not to air The Snowman would be far more puzzling.

It would be interesting to see the transmission history for The Snowman, seeing what days and what timeslots it's moved around over the years. Shame we don't have a TV Times Genome! It's kind of astonishing that it was made for Channel 4's first Christmas on air and - as far as I know - has been a regular fixture in their Christmas schedules since.

In America, some of the most famous Christmas specials have moved channels at least once. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer started on NBC but is now shown on CBS, and A Charlie Brown Christmas started on CBS and is now shown on ABC.

Wallace and Gromit's first short, A Grand Day Out, was shown first on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve 1990, but each subsequent short has premiered on the BBC, and Wallace and Gromit are probably now associated closely as a BBC franchise given their appearance in the schedules on bank holidays and around the Christmas season.

This is the only other special I know that always appears. There is a US version but its cut and crap.

Well, there's The Bear too- that was made in 1998 I think by the same people as The Snowman and Father Christmas, and I think has appeared on Channel 4 every Christmas since. It's certainly on this year.

It has indeed been repeated a lot since 1998 but hasn't been shown every Christmas.

Another Raymond Briggs production, Grandpa, hasn't been seen on Channel 4 for years.

The Snowman was omitted from Channel 4's Christmas schedule only once in their entire history- that was back in 1984.