The Christmas TV Thread

BBC should bring back "Before there were famous" fro mas day

Here are some christmas idents from Ireland:
TV3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sLDqTv23a8
3e: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gR_gqJGM_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVtp6EH5Bpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE1hUgxLBb0

Not sure if anybody saw 'The Funny Side of Christmas' on BBC 2 tonight, but there was an interesting segment featuring a few classic idents!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg6rh0E4_B4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pk6wt/The_Funny_Side_of..._Christmas/

Someone's not happy with the BBC this Christmas: Victoria Wood 'furious with BBC over Christmas Day snub'

It seems that some relatively last-minute changes to the BBC One Wales schedule for tomorrow have been made. The plan was to show "A Child's Christmases in Wales" at 6:10 tomorrow (before the BBC Four screening at 7:15) by dropping the Two Ronnies programme at lunchtime and starting all the afternoon films an hour earlier than network (they did a similar thing last Saturday on BBC Two with "Dances with Wolves").

According to the website, though, they're now going to drop Live at the Apollo and The Impressions Show from 10:30pm onwards instead. "A Child's Christmases in Wales" has been trailed extensively alongside "Ruth Jones's Christmas Cracker" (which moved the final "Paradox" to 10:35 last night) and I seem to remember them advertising the 6:10pm time... but there's a new trailer today with the new time on it.

Im not sure what to think this Victoria wood speical

Too much Cranford. Never seen that programme so didn't really get it.

Could also tell the song at the end was coming as soon as she mentioned the names Barry and Freeda at the beginning. The original was much better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZCIKjYDf1g

on the Documenty from Monday she said, she could not sing it as high for her, this it had to be changed

So far I've spotted TV pres on the following channels:

BBC One: Dr. Who ident
BBC Two: reuse of last year
BBC Four: reuse of snow window ident

ITV1: Christmas tree

Fiver: the same street scene as last year
Five USA: skyscrapers with plug as last year, but FIVE USA in place of five US

Sky 3: the pink tree with 3 on top reused from last year

So what's on
BBC Three
CBBC
CBeebies (so far I've only seen the Christmas Eve themed continuity announcement after tonight's In The Night Garden)
BBC News
BBC Parliament
ITV2
ITV3
ITV4
Channel 4
More 4
E4
Film 4
Five

Sky 1 and Sky 2 - I guess they are using the blue and green trees from last year (not looked yet)

G.O.L.D, Dave and all the other UKTV channels
The Discovery family of channels
Virgin 1, and the other Virgin channels (Living, Challenge etc)
The MTV / Nickelodeon / Paramount group of channels
The Chart Show TV family of channels

Just think, look at the plethora of channels are on Sky. How many (or how few) have actually bothered with Christmas pres? Please let me know so I can concentrate on channels with Christmas pres, and steer clear of the ones that haven't bothered.

I'd like a list of channels on 1) Freeview and 2) Sky that have Christmas pres.

CBBC:
A mixture of christmas themed 'Mash Up' idents, and the Christmas idents from 2007.

Five:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=five+christmas+ident+2009&search_type=&aq=f

Very odd sound glitches towards the end of BBC ONE's Midnight Mass - especially, I'd have thought, for a live broadcast as it sounded like a tape machine chewing the tape.

http://www.tvidworld.com/online/BBC1-2009-MASS.mp4