Christmas Ain’t Coming Any More
You really don’t need me to tell you what to be watching on Christmas Day, do you? Doctor Who, Gavin and Stacey and find yourself a good DVD or two. Job done.
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, I’d just like to take the opportunity to wish each and every one of you, all the very best for the season. Your support is much appreciated.
It’s Christmas Time, There’s No Need To Be Afraid.
You can tell Christmas has finally arrived when Carols from King’s College gets rolled out (BBC2 at 6:15pm if you fancy). No matter what your family’s traditions are on the 24th Decmeber, I am pretty sure that television will play a part in it somewhere if only to take the weight off your feet for half an hour. BBC1 will entertain you with a non-stop selection of light(weight?) entertainment throughout the evening. From 8pm there’s an hour-long installment of My Family, which I gave up watching after Kris Marshall left to join BT and I continue to work on the assumption that it’s not worth going back to. After that
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Here’s Looking At You
Well, Pick of the Day, according to the RT at least, for the “so-close-you-can-smell-Christmas” 23rd of December is the somewhat unfestive Spooks series 8 finale. I am still a few episodes behind in this run but I will be doing what I can in the work-free days that approach to rectify that. So far, the budget cuts have not really dampened by enjoyment of the show although the Section D offices do look rather pokier than usual. Over on C4 at 10pm, there is the finale (in case you missed it first time round on digital or even on DVD) of True Blood. Again, it’s another show that I can’t quite get in to but probably need to sit down
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Here’s to BBC2
It’s nearly Christmas for crying out loud and where exactly is the festive fun? Not on the TV that’s for sure. There has been such a paucity of decent telly so far since this little experiment started that I half expected Radio Times’ selections to include a documentary about Scrabble… Oh, Hang on, there is one! I kid you not, it’s part of Alan Yentob’s Imagine… series and is almost worth tuning in for just to see how they make it run for 65 minutes. If that’s not your cup of cocoa then Five are offering yet another CSI marathon, while over on Auntie we reach the conclusion of
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Miranda = Genius
Okay, so this weekend was a bit of write-off on the televisual front but I have to say that the programmes on offer were a pretty miserable selection. Sunday evening viewing pitched the bebonnetted ladies of Cranford against The Fattest Man In Britain, which, far from being a channel five documentary that might have been assumed from the title, was in fact a comedy drama starring the legend who is Timothy Spall as the eponymous chubster. To be truthful, I was more tempted by the Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas special on BBC2. In the end I, like Richard Pryor in Brewster’s Millions, voted for “none of the above”, instead opting to record James May Toy Stories in his Lego house (he was obviously
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Well, this not such a great start to the ambitious 14-day TV project, I am up in Hackney with the family and have left the telly listings behind. The only thing I remember about tomorrow’s listings is James May’s Toy Stories where we finally get to see the Lego house. It’s been a brilliant series already but this is the one I’ve been waiting for most. Anyone care to tell me in the comments what else I’ll be missing?
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