Christmas TV

Most modern TVs have 'off' buttons.

We played Scrabble, and cards, and chatted, and went for a long walk on Christmas Day afternoon, and generally had a great time - it never occurred to us to find out what was on the gogglebox! 

Totally agree with you Hughnique.  The only programme I watched over Christmas was The Queen's Garden.  Very interesting documentary about all the wildlife and plants in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, going through the seasons.  Part 2 is next Wednesday afternoon.

The French TV channels were as bad as the UK TV.

In general I'd agree with the OP's sentiments, and not confined merely to the Christmas period. However, there have been three excellent programmes which we've watched, namely Kiss Me, Kate at the Proms, which was a superb presentation of Cole Porter's classic musical play, accompanied by the John Wilson Orchestra; War Horse at the Proms, which was unbelievably poignant, and That Day We Sang with Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, a recreation of a classic recording as dramatised by Victoria Wood.

What a wonderful idylic life you lead Foxie, me, well just a couch potato, nothing better than a large whisky mac and a plate of sausage rolls whilst watching Mrs Brown, albeit that is getting a bit repetitive. You can have a bit too much of feck off, and, as usual, they are running out of ideas. It seems that the main broadcasters have somewhat thrown in the towel as everything is now available on line, streamed, call it what you want, so what's the point in them lashing out loads of money on the latest blockbuster, when most people have already seen it.

Glad you enjoyed your bit of highbrow Brian, whatever floats your boat, my classical appreciation is limited to Tomita, stick one of his CD's in the cinema system and hold on to the settee, great stuff. At least we can look forward to Britians got talent and The Voice, next month.

Well, you can look forward to it if you like, but it rather undermines your previous criticism.

Sadly, some people are on there own at christmas, it is the only entertainment they have, time all channels got there act together.

Just finished watching Betjemanland, an excellent critique of the late Poet Laureate.

Why watch TV during Christmas ? My son taught me to play chess which I really enjoyed, and we talked to one another during his stay. We visited friends, had a super time- no TV there, and we had friends we invited in for drink sand nibbles -  again no TV. We are all aware the the TV programmes are a load of repeats on most channels, but there are loads of things to do without TV at Christmas. Try it next time.

I can already play chess, have plenty to say, haven't got any friends  and defo don't want to nibble on sand. All in all a right sado,but as Elvis said for some it is, for one reason or another their only form of entertainment, and this has been a really grotty year for Xmas TV joy. Yes we are all aware that TV's can be turned off, but I don't foresee living life like someone in 1800 American prairie land, roll on next year, you can come round we can have a chess tournament, I'll even let you have charge of the remote control.