What happened to Bank Holiday TV?

I for one think that BBC1 were appalling on Bank Holiday Monday. It started at Easter with virtually no recognition of the Easter holidat at all. Easter Monday had normal daytime programmes in the morning and Princess Diaries in the afternoon (after Diagnosis Murder and Cash in the Attic). The trend followed with May Day holiday and the last spring holiday was even worse. I want to know why the BBC in particular seem it necessary to regard the holidays as normal days now. Some people are home who like watching TV and chilling out. I only hope that they revert to half decent Bank Holiday scheduling next year. I mean, virtually all the daytime shows were repeats so a film would have been more appropriate.
I pray that the Christmas schedules will be better. At this rate this is what Christmas Eve (a Sunday) will look like:

9.00 Sunday AM
10.00 Heaven and Earth
11.00 Countryfile
12.00 The Politics Show
1.00 Cash In The Attic
1.45 Murder She Wrote
2.30 EastEnders
4.25 Keeping Up Appearances (Rpt)
4.55 As Time Goes By (Rpt)
5.25 Songs Of Praise
6.15 Last Of The Summer Wine (Rpt)
6.45 Antiques Roadshow
7.35 BBC News, Weather
8.00 Some Poxy Dull drama that no one watches
9.00 Another dark, dreary, gory cop drama that everyone is bored with
10.00 BBC News, Weather
10.15 Panorama
10.55 Men Behaving Badly (Rpt)
11.25 Midnight Mass
12.35 BBC News 24

And Christmas Day itself will be even worse!

9.00 Homes Under The Hammer
10.00 City Hospital
10.45 Car Booty
11.15 Bargain Hunt
12.00 The Lorne Spicer Christmas Special
12.35 Cash In The Attic with Lorne Spicer
1.20 BBC News: Read by Lorne Spicer
1.30 Lorne Spicer Presents Christmas Top Of The Pops
2.30 To Buy Or Not To Buy Christmas Special With Lorne Spicer
3.00 The Queen (This year read by Lorne Spicer)
3.10 Dignosis Murder
4.00 Murder She Wrote
4.45 Flog It (Transferred from BBC2 along with every other BBC2 show)
5.45 BBC News
6.00 The ONE Show Christmas Special
6.35 Trauma
7.05 Seaside Recue (Rpt)
7.35 DIY SOS (Rpt)
8.00 EastEnders
8.30 Airport (Rpt)
9.00 The concluding part to yesterdays dark and dingy cop drama
10.00 BBC News, Weather
10.35 Comedy Connections (Rpt)
11.05 One Foot In The Grave (Rpt)
11.35 FILM: Something obscure and crap that no ones ever heard of
1.15 BBC News 24

So what do you reckon to my new improved because that's what everyone wants Christmas schedules?

I'm not sure I follow the logic here.

Bank holidays are there for the people who work - not the people who stay at home anyway.

I don't mind seeing a bit of "normal" daytime telly if and when I get some time away from work. Who says I want to watch movies and specialist programmes all day - especially as they have all been shown before.

Quite frankly, *seeing* the tv during working hours is enough of a novelty.

It isn't just bank holidays now though is it - Cash in the Attic and Bargain Hunt have creeped into the Sunday lunchtime schedule.

At the moment there are about two hours of "filler" programmes on a Sunday afternoon which easily could be replaced by a film!

I work and as I have two days off during the week as I work weekends, it is nice to have an extra day off now and again and when it is a bank holiday I don't like watching the fift seventh repeat of Cash In The Attic etc. You say movies and specialist programmes will have been shown before.....but so has the repeats of the repeats that were on yesterday. At least movies are something everyone can enjoy and surprisingly, there's always someone who hasn't seen it. Specialist programmes are the same. If they are specialist then they probably wouldn't have been sghown since their first TX date so seeing them again is OK. I don't want Bank holidays to be just another normal day. It's this wretched shopping must have now culture we live in that is destroying the nice things in life. Gavin if you don't want to watch TV on Bank Holidays that's fine, but a lot of people do. Surely the occasional change of schedule to make way for what used to be a public holiday, a special day, is not too much to ask.

With the huge archive of programmes and movies the BBC has, they can't be bothered to show anything other than bloody Cash In The Attic, Bargain Hunt, Car Booty and these House buying shows which are aimed at people who can afford 200,000 pounds in the first place.

Bank Holidays are special days and should be observed as such. Shops should close, people should spend time at home with the family (or going out for the day). Having a family movie throughout the day is a good thing, not a bad!