It's called
Christmas,
NOT Xmas, which makes the whole thing sound like the celebration of
an unpleasant itchy skin disorder! It's the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, not Jesus X!
Birth of Jesus Christ my arse. It's all about the food and presents.
All about food and presents my hairy arse. It's all about big companies making as much money as they can over a few months.
It's called
Christmas,
NOT Xmas, which makes the whole thing sound like the celebration of
an unpleasant itchy skin disorder! It's the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, not Jesus X!
Birth of Jesus Christ my arse. It's all about the food and presents.
All about food and presents my hairy arse. It's all about big companies making as much money as they can over a few months.
...er, from people buying presents and food from those 'big companies'
What do people expect / want to see? From BBC1 I imagine we'll see something like this.
6:00am Breakfast with Bill Turnbull & Sian Williams
9:00am "Childrens" Film
11:00am Christmas Day Worship
12:00pm News with Bill Turnbull
12:20pm "Family" Film - e.g. Mary Poppins, Sound of Music...
2:00pm Noel's Christmas Presents (making a welcome return!)
3:00pm The Queen
3:10pm Top of The Pops Christmas Special
3:50pm Blue Peter Christmas Special
4:20pm Film Premiere - e.g. Monsters Inc, Toy Story 2
5:50pm News with Huw Edwards
6:10pm Regional News
6:15pm The Weakest Link Christmas Special
7:00pm Eastenders
7:30pm Only Fools & Horses Christmas Special (it just has to be, doesn't it?)
8:30pm Eastenders
9:00pm Alistair McGowan's Christmas Impressions
9:30pm News with Huw Edwards
9:45pm My Family Christmas Special
10:15pm French & Saunders Christmas Special
11:00pm Late "Family" movie
1:00am Late film - horror or something
3:00am BBC News 24.
I think it works - all the usual bits, plus Noel Edmonds back again to put the magic back into Christmas Day telly.
Well, you know, nearly all of this can be confirmed in just under 3 weeks time... the provisional Xmas TV guides will be in the newspapers probably around the 28th of this month!
Those Christmas Guides you get free with the papers are useless. All they say is:
6:00 GMTV
9:25 Film : To be confirmed
11:00 To be confirmed
12:15 News
12:45 To be confirmed
1:45 To be Confirmed
3:00 The Queen
3:10 Film: To be confirmed
What do people expect / want to see? From BBC1 I imagine we'll see something like this.
6:00am Breakfast with Bill Turnbull & Sian Williams
9:00am "Childrens" Film
11:00am Christmas Day Worship
12:00pm News with Bill Turnbull
12:20pm "Family" Film - e.g. Mary Poppins, Sound of Music...
2:00pm Noel's Christmas Presents (making a welcome return!)
3:00pm The Queen
3:10pm Top of The Pops Christmas Special
3:50pm Blue Peter Christmas Special
4:20pm Film Premiere - e.g. Monsters Inc, Toy Story 2
5:50pm News with Huw Edwards
6:10pm Regional News
6:15pm The Weakest Link Christmas Special
7:00pm Eastenders
7:30pm Only Fools & Horses Christmas Special (it just has to be, doesn't it?)
8:30pm Eastenders
9:00pm Alistair McGowan's Christmas Impressions
9:30pm News with Huw Edwards
9:45pm My Family Christmas Special
10:15pm French & Saunders Christmas Special
11:00pm Late "Family" movie
1:00am Late film - horror or something
3:00am BBC News 24.
I think it works - all the usual bits, plus Noel Edmonds back again to put the magic back into Christmas Day telly.
On Breakfast on Xmas Day it is just one presenter. Last year Bill did Xmas Day and Sian did New Years day.
Bill is a very Christmasy person -
"Good morning, and a very warm welcome to Breakfast from BBC News, Im Bill Turnbull and... it's Christmas Day"
Usually BBC2 doesn't show any Learning Zone programmes over the Christmas fortnight. I really hope they don't show it this Christmas as I think it would be very poor scheduling if they do. BBC2 shown during the Christmas 2001 fortnight a nightly season of classic film noir thrillers and old B horror movies. I hope they do something like this again this Christmas. The Learning Zone is on far too much as well. On Sunday's it starts at 2am. I think it should start at 2am every night instead of 12.30pm. That way BBC2 could offer more quality by showing a late night movie everynight offering much more choice for the viewers.
I think what itv should have done (as it's most probably too late to do it now) is to do a production of the Larry Trotter book, never read it, I just saw it in the bookshop.
I wonder if a panto has been lined up for itv1 this year. The ones in the past have been great, and if I'm not mistaken they repeated them all on itv2 last year leading up to christmas.
Did Bill really wear the hat?!!! Yes, it looks absolutely perfect for Christmas, although to have both Bill AND Sian wearing silly hats would be better. I suppose it's probably too expensive to get them both in.
