BBC have 'pulled out the stops' for Christmas TV

[Ifailed]

...and the best they came come up with is Mrs fucking Brown! A Les Dawson drag act from the 70s - it wasn't funny then and it still isn't now.
Surely they could have done better?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55042114

[user1471565182]

I never understand the mythologising about Morcambe and Wise, its proper dated crap.

[Doyoumind]

There's a lot I don't choose to watch on the BBC but this is the only programme I would rather turn off and clean a shit splattered toilet than watch.

[VinylDetective]

@SoupDragon

It was ranked as the 7th most watched TV show last Christmas.

So not the "most highly rated of the 21st century" as another poster claimed.

Read the fucking link!

[AcornAutumn]

@Tigresswoods

I think some of you will be disappointed. There's no "Siblet Xmas special". I'm sure I read it's little shorts of Geraldine on zoom.

Think about it, half the cast is no longer with us.

I was just thinking that!

[madcatladyforever]

I loathe Mrs Brown, it isn't funny AT ALL.

[AcornAutumn]

I’ve never seen Mrs Brown.

[Doyoumind]

It's trending on twitter and the consensus is that it's shite. Some funny comments though.

[LostAcre]

@SoupDragon

It was ranked as the 7th most watched TV show last Christmas.

So not the "most highly rated of the 21st century" as another poster claimed.

Best British sitcom of the 21st century and most watched TV shows on Christmas Day 2019 are two separate things

[WaterAndTheWild]

There's some great stuff here!

Worzel Gummidge, Ghosts, Two Doors Down, something with Alison Steadman, Motherland, King Gary, the Red Shoes.. I'm quite excited..

[user1471565182]

Its not a british sitcom anyway. No way are we claiming that.

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

I’d really like another Detectorists Christmas Special.

[Rockbird]

Love Call the Midwife and Motherland so I'm happy but there seems to be a decent selection there considering the circumstances.

[DaisyDreaming]

I’m the biggest Vicar of Dibley fan and was excited to hear there’s a new one until I stopped to think. I just can’t imagine it without Alice and Owen and for such sad reasons. You can accept the elderly original cast have passed away but those two were so young and such an integral part of the show. Even if they pull of a funny show it will be sad

[RightOnTheEdge]

haircutsRus the Vicar of Dibley episodes are only 10 minutes long. I think it's mostly Geraldine doing Zoom and a bit of Hugo.

[nosswith]

@Doyoumind Exactly. There are things not to individual tastes (I don't watch Strictly for example, don't listen/watch opera) and then there is something that is rubbish.

The other aspect is that rubbish on ITV I don't pay for or contribute to, whereas I pay a licence fee.

[AcornAutumn]

@RightOnTheEdge

haircutsRus the Vicar of Dibley episodes are only 10 minutes long. I think it's mostly Geraldine doing Zoom and a bit of Hugo.

Oh right
Hopefully they’ll have her hubby too.

[Alexafrost]

"The BBC is facing the challenge of those who want to abolish or decriminalise payment of the licence fee. Some simply as their choice of viewing is not the BBC, others because they think it is left/pinko BBC and not bowing down 100% to the Tories.

You would think that the BBC in order to defend its value and uniqueness would not score such as own goal as Mrs Brown's Boys. The best argument for licence fee abolition there is."

The BBC is liberal in bias, slightly centre left as are most of the people that work there. It's dominated by middle class liberal graduates largely from the south.

Mrs Brown's Boys is popular. It would only be seen as an argument for abolishing the licence fee by those that abhor popular taste which isn't their own.

[user1471565182]

and guess what, Alexa- other boring sods from the other side tell me the BBC has a conservative, centre right bias.

[user1471565182]

And where the hell has this americanised stupidty come from that Slightly Liberal=Left wing?

[nosswith]

Is foul language and transphobic so-called comedy really appropriate for Christmas Day?

[Alexafrost]

"Is foul language and transphobic so-called comedy really appropriate for Christmas Day?"

Sounds good to me. I've never watched the show but is it actually transphobic or is it just a man playing a woman?

[VinylDetective]

@Alexafrost

"Is foul language and transphobic so-called comedy really appropriate for Christmas Day?"

Sounds good to me. I've never watched the show but is it actually transphobic or is it just a man playing a woman?

It’s not transphobic any more than drag artists or pantomime dames are.

[Alexafrost]

"and guess what, Alexa- other boring sods from the other side tell me the BBC has a conservative, centre right bias."

You sound like a very boring sod yourself.

Yes, I'm sure they do. The more left or right you are the more you see right or left bias. However, having worked at the BBC and known lots and lots of other people who do/did I'm in a fairly good place to know what sort of people work there. It is dominated by one particular class and general outlook as is much of the media and arts establishment in this country.

"And where the hell has this americanised stupidty come from that Slightly Liberal=Left wing?"

That wasn't what I said. I stated that they were liberal and slightly left of centre. I never suggested liberalism was synonymous with leftism.

[the80sweregreat]

I don't like Mrs Brown or Call the midwife but many do. Most years are pretty dire anyway ; same old thing.
ITV make even less effort I've found.
Have to find the trivial pursuit board game!

[BashfulClam]

Will 2 Doors Down maybe do a New Year episode. The pilot was new year episode with Daniella Nardini.