Christmas Television 2011

Is the same music video that has a short clip of a presenter talking at the end before they are abruptly cut off?

This is the actual music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWgwTe01kMU

Must be some sort of variety show, music show or other as music videos were still a novelty in 1973 (Bohemian Rhapsody didn't appear until 1975).

It's not live either, it's mimed - although the drummer clearly hasn't learnt the art of miming as he's giving his drums one hell of a whack which comes through loud and clear above the audio of the recording.

Indeed, there are two slightly different versions from the same show and the drums are the only thing that's "live". I've been trying to work it out every year (because I'm that sad!) but decided it's from a Dutch TV show around the late 1980s. You'd have thought perhaps somebody would have least mocked-up a proper video by now given the song's popularity.

According to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRpaz84N6yo it's from "Dutch Countdown Studio".

Interesting to note that version doesn't have the live drums on it, so presumably that version was dubbed over afterwards?

Christmas showreel from the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/christmas/

presumably the Scottish edition of the Radio Times?

A rather amusing song about Christmas ads by the brilliant Adam Buxton - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtspNJIZUIs

When it due out?

Using the internet, I have discovered that it should be in shops today.

SyFy UK:



Nickelodeon UK:

I don't like how the awful Americanism "happy holidays" is slowly invading the UK.
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