Christmas TV 2018

They normally have the aerial shots. However they've been extended a little longer than usual for this one presumably for the set changes, and the applause isn't usually there.

It does have aerial shots between scenes normally, but of central London. Presumably the ones for the live episode need to be long enough to cover the scene changes so they're using different ones

It's been very good so far. Lots of 4th wall breaking which is always a good thing. Love the idea that they're doing lots of things that you wouldn't normally attempt live, like egg juggling and Tom Lehrers Elements song

Hasn't that changed to the shots used tonight since they moved into a house from the flat?

C4 have announced Danny Dyer will be delivering the Alternative Christmas Message.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/danny-dyer-deliver-channel-4s-alternative-christmas-message

That’s the second gig he’s got off the back of that appearance on Good Evening Britain.

That was just weird, we just had "End of part one" on Watership down.

Now we just had Part two.

The WD miniseries was originally commissioned and structured as 4x50 episodes. This is how it's still planned to be when it's released outside the UK on Netflix, and is the state it was still in at the BFI premiere last month.

Merging it into 2 longer parts seemed to be quite a late decision by the BBC (it had at least been made by the time of the premiere, just not actioned), which has resulted in some crude editing together and out of place part slides.

(Assuming they've left the final end credits as they were at the BFI screening, it'll be a rare chance to see BBC, Netflix and ITV Studios logos all onscreen all at once by the way!)

Edit: As promised...

Somebody found a goldmine:

‘I found every Christmas Radio Times since the 70s in an attic'

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/i-found-every-copy-christmas-15572080

And TV Times up to 1990, it seems.

Still bums me out that there's no TV Times equivalent of Genome.

Considering the complete lack of originality in the Radio Times cover this year, (Raymond Briggs' The Snowman for the *third* time this past decade), and for the ridiculous price of £4.90, I decided to save the extra 90p and went with TV and Satellite Week, published by TI Media for over twenty-five years now. The format was acceptable. though I do miss the thorough TV and film reviews the Radio Times deliver so well in their Christmas issues. But... it was a choice between that and Total TV Guide, which this year's issue had a spectacular Quality Street-esque cover on a tin solider drumming;


Graphic design team at IMC, take a note! Plus. a lookback at some of the (gorgeous looking!) covers in the past five years;
2013

2014

2015
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IjXPPSumq7o/VmRi0S_trKI/AAAAAAAACfI/FJiASQrIqUQ/s1600/Total%2BTVguide%2B2015%2B001.jpg
2016

2017