Christmas TV, Films etc: Old and New🎄 📺

I don't know whether The Holiday will be on, but if so I shall record it to watch at my leisure.

Morning Fanny,
I am going to buy the new Downton Abbey film tomorrow, 22nd, as its on offer on Sky for £3.99.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of my all time favourite films.

I could never watch anything every year! I would quite like to see National Lampoon's Christmas as I like Chevy Chase and haven't seen it in many years. I've no idea if it's on because my Radio Times hasn't arrived in the post. I expect I'll miss lots of things if it doesn't arrive in time.

I'm looking forward to the Christmas specials of Doc Martin and others (if I find them).

The only thing I watch every year (sometimes twice!) is Muppet Christmas Carol

I watched A Miracle on 34th Street, It's A Wonderful Life and Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special straight after one another on Sunday. I now await Home Alone on Christmas Eve and one of my old favs is on on New Year's Eve, Zulu.

Zulu is one of my favourites too, Great Escape, Die Hard, The Snowman and any Harry Potter film. Ooh!! I forgot the Downton Abbey films.

I always watch It's A Wonderful Life, The Bishop's Wife, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Die Hard, The Great Escape and Zulu. I can tick most of them off this year already

Love Actually and the newest Downton Abbey for me.

We watch every version of Christmas carol we can catch. Other than that I pop in and out out of everything else seen them all so often. I am more looking forward to a Ghost Story, a classical concert and a rock concert- ballet if traditional.

Muppets Christmas Carol, The Holiday, Scrooged, Scrooge, 2 versions of Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, Die Hard and Serendipity will all make an appearance at some point over the next two weeks.

We've already watched Black Christmas (1974 horror film) which after all these years still gives me the heeby jeebies.

You know what is just never on TV and featured a snowy Christmas scene in New York and that was Love Story. Why is it never on TV; has it been banned or something?

Years ago a film called The Last Winter was often on at Christmas. A very bittersweet Canadian film. I’d love to see it again. I may have it on video somewhere. And I meant to buy the DVD’s of The Children if Green Knowe and The Box of Delights but didn’t get round to it. I’d love to see them again.

Oh The Box of Delights!

You can buy it on Amazon prime Chestnut £2.49.

Thanks but I don't have Amazon Prime (on principle). I manage to work out my deliveries so they are always free, without paying for Prime. 😉

I agree Chestnut, Love Story is never on tv, I'd like a trip down memory land and watch some of those 1970 films again.

A scary film I've watched a couple of times from that era is Black Christmas it made me jump out of my skin when I first went to see it.

I do like the Home Alones 1 and 2. The Holiday, in particular the first part of it, the snowy Hollywood version of picture perfect England in the quaint cottage. In fact I love any of those highly idealised versions of England in the winter, the beginning of Hook when grown up Peter Pan played by Robin Williams goes back to London with his children to stay with Grandma Wendy, Bridget Jones, Paddingtons etc., such mind numbing, schmaltzy, comfort can be nice in the depths of winter. Although I always thought Love Actually surpassed all levels of ridiculousness as far as over the top whimsy is concerned, it's got to be up there as one of the most cringe making films ever

The new animated version of scrooge(a Christmas carol) on Netflix, watched it with the grandchildren yesterday. We all thought it was very good, and although it’s animated it’s not just a kids film.

TerriBall, I'm with you when it comes to Love Actually. Worst film ever!

I saw the second half of The Holiday on tv one night and couldn’t stop watching it even though it’s not the sort of film I usually watch. Saw I then borrowed a dvd so I could watch all of it. I love it. Although I often wonder who’s looking after the dog most of the time.

Chestnut

I could never watch anything every year! I would quite like to see National Lampoon's Christmas as I like Chevy Chase and haven't seen it in many years. I've no idea if it's on because my Radio Times hasn't arrived in the post. I expect I'll miss lots of things if it doesn't arrive in time.

I'm looking forward to the Christmas specials of Doc Martin and others (if I find them).

Nat Lampoon’s Christmas is on now🤣on Sky, am laughing at it.
Doc Martin, yay I love that.
Detectorists is on Boxing Day.
Watched A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong last night, what a laff.

I've been having some trouble trying to actively avoid any Christmas-related viewing, along with searching for 'ordinary' radio!

We have 3 series of The Detectorists to catch up on but in reality we often end up listening to radio shows instead.

Blondiescot

*TerriBall*, I'm with you when it comes to Love Actually. Worst film ever!

I wouldn’t go as far as ‘worst film ever’, but I don’t like it either.
I’m not a fan of Richard Curtis (Four Weddings is okay as it has a few redeeming features, especially John Hannah and Charlotte Coleman).
As an aside - Love Actually was the last film that I saw in the cinema!

In Germany every New Year’s Eve the main tv channels put on Dinner for One with Freddie Frinton, it’s often on more than once during the day and is watched by millions. Oh how they laugh, they love it. We didn’t know it till we were visiting over Christmas and ( forced to) watch it. They could not believe we had never seen it. I struggled to even smile while they were all in stitches.
I wonder if it’s just Germany or if other European countries are similarly fanatic about it.
Has anyone else seen Dinner for One?