Christmas TV - what are you looking forward to (if anything)

Call the Midwife. All Creatures Great and Small.

Calendargirl.
For me the days /times, when Christmas / Boxing Day and New Year TV was in my view * priceless* and well worth watching, have long gone. Gone, sadly, along with the talent that made this possible.

Apart from, as other grans have posted, All Creatures- and Call the Midwife, couldn't find anything much. We don't have Sky. It made me long for childhood Christmases past when we had no television and our large family spent the days playing games and eating Christmas treats and the evenings talking and dozing in front of the fire.

Bob mortimer in fishing at Xmas programme on boxing day 9pm. Christmas Carol but only Allister Simm.

The larkins. Call the midwife. Gavin and Stacey. Although the one I’m really looking forward to is Jools Holland hootenanny on New Year’s Eve.

Agree with Call the Midwife and All Creatures Great and Small. Also Vienna Blood, the books are good too.

I’m looking forward to watching Ghosts Christmas special which is on Thursday 23rd BBC one at 830.
I have loved all the previous three series and recommend them to anyone who wants to watch something light and cheerful

Call the Midwife, Death in Paradise, Pavarotti, La Boheme and some of my favourite DVDs.

Anything that's not been shown every Christmas since time began.

I plan on hibernating....

Calendargirl

When I get my TV guide in the Telegraph tomorrow, I shall look through it and say to DH “Well, there’s nothing much I want to watch”.

Not like years ago, 50 or more, when ‘new’ films, only 3 or 4 years old!, were shown at Christmas on tv for the first time.

How exciting it seemed, and something to really look forward to.

Nowadays……

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All the 'new' films you're on about can probably be sen on Prime/Netflix/Disney etc . We stopped going out socialising so much years ago and bought a mahoosive TV and have the streaming services for a fraction of the price of frequent trips to cinema at £30+ a pop. AND we can watch in our'snugglies' AND we can watch having a drink and snax galore.....AND we can pause when we need to take a comfort break, I could was lyrical about the benefits! We still love the cinema experience for first showings of big action movies but everything else gets the home lounge experience ?

Call the Midwife is the best Christmas tv show

Something new and not the same old repeats ?

It's a Wonderful Life. Every year I love to watch it!

What’s that old Christmas film about an Angel called? I’d love to see that again.

White Christmas for me every time. Loved it for 60 years. Had the video and now the dvd, but will also record it from the tv!

For lovers of musicals, Boxing Day on BBC2 is looking pretty good.
Singing in the Rain followed by Some Like It Hot presumably followed by Anything Goes. That will suit me well.

I have no idea what's on over Christmas, though I doubt we'll have time to watch much if our AC and GC are able to visit. They have different tastes in entertainment to us, and our GC will either want to run DVDs or play board games with
us.

I've noticed Call the Midwife; Death in Paradise and All Creatures Great and Small mentioned here so we'll either record those or watch them on iPlayer after Christmas.

We generally prefer seasonal feel-good entertainment - Christmassy films, a good ghost story, old Disney cartoons, carol services etc - no quizzes, no news, no charity appeals, nothing depressing. We'll step back into the real world on the 27th.

I shall watch the usual special Christmas shows of All Creatures Great and Small, also Ghosts, Worzel Gummidge, The Ghost Story for Christmas and maybe some favourite films.

chelseababy

For me it's Anything Goes, a recording of the West End show with Robert Lindsay and Felicity Kendal. BBC2, Boxing Day.

Yes, I want to see this too, hope it's on Iplayer, because I will forget about it on Boxing Day! I missed it when it came to a cinema near me recently.

Bad Santa and Benny Hill

Floradora9

How I agree Ro we used to have to order the Christmas TV times and Radio Times and found lots to watch . There is nothing I am looking forward to seeing this year at all and I so wish there was as Christmas looks like it will be cancelled for us .

Yes, we used to enjoy happily ‘ticking’ anything we fancied watching in the radio times or tv times.
At the moment can’t think of anything I want to watch at all.
Just hoping our Christmas plans with family can still take place and I get a few books that I want to read.Am usually happier reading anyway.

Quite a lot of lovely programs, and I'm so pleased I bought a Humax recorder tv box

Loads, most of which we’ll record to watch when it suits. On terrestrial A Very British Scandal, Call the Midwife, All Creatures, The Girl Before, Around the World in 80 Days, Judy, Christmas at Liberty, Corrie, Christmas University Challenge. Don’t Look Up on Netflix. And a few films, old and new, including Last Christmas and Die Hard (which I’ve never seen).

Can't believe no-one has mentioned "The Great Escape". Usually compulsory at Christmas!!