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Christmas tv

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madcatladyforever · 29/12/2020 13:24

This may have been done to death already but what the hell.
I had a very rare few days off over xmas and tv was the worst EVER.
I know covid is a thing but for God's sake surely there must be something in the archives that was better than this load of old pants.
Nanny McPhee a thousand times, Victoria Wood, for God's sake she's been dead for years and should have gone with the 1980's, Morecombe and Wise? Even when I was 10 I didn't find them funny and have no idea whatsoever what is funny about them.
Absolute rubbish, I can find a million old films on youtube that are 100 times more entertaining than Christmas television (and did - it was a case of having to). This was quite possibly the broadcasters laziest and worst Christmas tv on record.

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NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 29/12/2020 13:40

I totally hear you OP. I have been contemplating quite what we've been paying our licence fee for over the past nine months or so. I have watched Black Narcissus, Ghosts, Motherland and that's been about it on 'live' TV. I think that this is possibly the year that even

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 29/12/2020 13:54

the older generations have turned to streaming services.

WhatsTheEffingPoint · 29/12/2020 19:33

Yup i agree.
Where are the family films starting at 7/8pm? its no good having Spiderman on at 12.30am, or repeating the same film the next day just on a different channel.
I appreciate that right to new films etc cost but bloody he'll I don't want to watch the same old classics every year.
It's certainly time for a shake up across all TV channels.

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