UKTV Christmas Specials

Things were never the same since the demise of M&W, the Two Ronnies and all the other old shows that spelled Christmas.
I may have better luck on the " Talking Pictures " channel for a decent set of programmes. I'm not into modern comedy.

Thanks for your suggestions, Obviously some require familiarity with the characters as with TV series. I get the impression there are no M&Ws, Steptoes, Only Fools.. etc look-alikes around because all the good Old-Uns learned their trade treading the boards at live provincial theatres.
It annoys me no end when so-called TV comedians get their laughs whilst reading their scripts straight off a tele-prompter.
Btw; We had the classic B&W movie "School for Scoundrels" on TV yesterday; still a scream, all about "Oneupmanship" with Alistair Sims and all the usual suspects. Marvellous!
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There is going to be a Gavin and Stacey Xmas Special and also Strictly of course. My daughter and I once spent a wonderful Xmas Day watching back to back episodes of Criminal Minds.

The Detectorists' Christmas special
Witzend Thanks for that! Never heard of it down here, but it looks very promising based on a few clips, courtesy of Dr.G Unfortunately, some clips are on iPlayer and only available in the UK. How discriminatory is that?

grab a tv guide mag as soon as they're out grin^
Nannan2; If only! Please grab one for me, copy/paste on to any thread and hope we are not infringing any "guidelines".

I watch very little TV at Christmas (or the rest of the year) - instead I bring out my favourite Christmas DVDs and watch those (again!)

'The Detectorists' Christmas special was the last I watched, a couple of years ago. The series was brilliant and the special was certainly not crude.

I think there still christmas specials,depends what you watch i guess,all the soaps still seem to do one,and the much loved Downton abbey always did one,and call the midwife do every year- maybe some of the 'light entertainment' programmes do- im not sure if the 'comics' do as such,like morecombe& wise did,but theres usually celeb specials of things like catchphrase,mr&mrs etc,and sit-coms still do them i think (still open all hours,etc) best thing is to grab a tv guide mag as soon as they're out Rufus.