The Christmas TV Thread 2012

Yes, during tonights X Factor - complete with #holidaysarecoming twitter hashtag. I expect it will trend.

Just seen what I assume was the Toys R Us Christmas advert....

Bring back this one, I say!:

Yeah the Toys R Us Kids ad has been since mid October.

Not to mention last year as well.

I guess it's Christmas for many now it has aired.

Also the Iceland ad is top notch with Gene Wilders Pure Imagination.

does anyone know when morrisons christmas advert will be making an appearnace?

It's being posted on their Facebook page on Sunday, according to a post they made earlier in the week.

At one time only M&S and one or two others did those epic adverts at Christmas

Now every other retailer seems to want to out epic each other with those long adverts.

They're all pretty lousy this year. They seem to be focussing on the theme of hassled mums.

The only thing that makes it any good is the song though. The visuals are just forgettable cliches, I assume. I honestly can't remember. I have only seen it once and I can't remember what was shown on screen at all bar the "Pure Imagination" text at the end. I don't think it is Gene Wilder either.

Hasn't another advert recently used Pure Imagination as a soundtrack?

Also, I dislike INTENTLY the way it's been cut mercilessly to fit the advert - why can't they shoot the ad to fit the music?

EDIT: To answer David's question - it IS Gene Wilder's version of Pure Imagination lifted from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.

EDIT 2 : The other advert was Sky Movie's "ad-free" movies ad: