Christmas TV Thread 2015

Loughc

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

8 Out Of 10 Cats end of the year special was on tonight so that will be on demand.

I just checked my scheduled recordings for the next few days and it's slim pickings!

I did the same with my recordings. Very slim pickings.

I do like 8 out of 10 cats tho so thank you

Toto Wolfcastle

Loughc wrote: »

I did the same with my recordings. Very slim pickings.

I do like 8 out of 10 cats tho so thank you

Did you watch the Christmas special? It was on Christmas Eve. Carrot in a box was brilliant.

Loughc

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

Did you watch the Christmas special? It was on Christmas Eve. Carrot in a box was brilliant.

I seen it. Yea it was brilliant

bob50

Did Anybody think this years christmas tv the worst ever I know its been declining over the past number of years

But this Christmas has been atrocius and it must have been hard for anyone who only have irish / english stations to watch

I heard the ads before xmas with " Christmas starts with the RTE guide"

I dont think so

Cork Lass

I totally agree. Every time I switched on to watch something I couldn't find anything decent. Definitely the worst year ever.

Loughc

I think the problem is with all the on demand and streaming options available traditional tv is suffering to the point it really seemed like this year they weren't even trying.

greendom

Did anyone watch Dr Branestawm? It was very good!

Patty O Furniture

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

Did you watch the Christmas special? It was on Christmas Eve. Carrot in a box was brilliant.

That was hilarious, but was watching The Big Quiz & had only watched the first hour, as it was descending into anarchy, more than usual!

bob50 wrote: »

Did Anybody think this years christmas tv the worst ever I know its been declining over the past number of years

But this Christmas has been atrocius and it must have been hard for anyone who only have irish / english stations to watch

I heard the ads before xmas with " Christmas starts with the RTE guide"

I dont think so

It's full of repeats & as someone has said they've stopped caring, as with OnDemand, as they have the annual Indy+Back to the Future screening

My sister in law's mum had noticed the vast difference btwn the 'RTE guide' & one you get free in the paper, 'overpriced+full of knitting patterns+ads' she put it

I see that RTE have The Quiet Man for New Year's Day, so i see it's not just for Christmas as well as St Patrick's Day:p

fryup

Senior TV executive scratches his head "what will we show this xmas?"

I know!! Indiana Jones, Superman, James Bond, Back to the Future, Willy Wonka, ET

Junior executive "but thats the same as last year"

Senior executive "ah they'll never notice"

Loughc

In their defence 12 months is a long time :P

KingBrian2

Did anyone else just spend this Christmas period watching Star Wars? I did. The best ones and I still have not watched the new one yet.:eek: Wanted to get some backstory rehash before going to the next one. Anyone else watch the trilogy this year or were you simple off to the cinema to see the new one. Now no spoilers:mad: I have not seen this new one.

BuilderPlumber

Irish Christmas TV was atrocious this year and seems to be the same every year. The best of it was the expected over-reliance on Mrs Brown's Boys in new and old forms. The new years eve show on RTE1 was very poor. Ruby Walsh was obviously unavailable so his sister is on, and then there's some poor singer songwriter. As for the Fatboy Slim part lasting 30 seconds, I couldn't figure it out and why they even bothered.

If this wasn't bad enough, all the usual overdoses of bad Irish country music and the return of The Voice of Ireland come along to make matters even worse. Affore mentioned Ruby Walsh appears in a quiz and Tommy Tiernan had his own show (didn't see it) most likely interviewing the same old people.

Rebellion is on tonight and over a Christmas where TV was as bad as the weather, will this be a redemption or will it be another poor effort? We will find out. With how poor TV is gone, no wonder I find myself watching more and more DVDs.

Loughc

So what did everyone end up watching over the Christmas, binge on anything good? I mainly watched DVR'd shows, Netflix and DVDs.

I binged on Netflix's "Making a Murderer" got through all 10 episodes in about 2 days.

Great show.

Toto Wolfcastle

I read a bit about Making a Murderer and I can't bring myself to watch it. Real life things like that tend to upset me an awful lot.

I can't even think of anything in particular that we watched over Christmas. TV was really dreadful this year. We played a lot of games instead! I did watch a lot of Christmas food programmes on Good Food.

Glitzgirl

I thought tv was so bad this year. The only saving grace here for me was that there was a lot of special spins offs from family films ( kung fu panda christmas special , Madagascar penguins christmas special etc ). But even at that they were only half an hour long so I recorded them for the kids to watch later on.

We're big dvd people in this house so thankfully we never have nothing to watch but for a family at home maybe finishing up dinner and playing board games or chilling in front of the fire there was a very poor selection.

I'm happy to say another year gone another year I've managed to get away with not seeing star wars ( which is no easy task in this house ! They are all star wars nuts !)

Posy

Loughc wrote: »

I binged on Netflix's "Making a Murderer" got through all 10 episodes in about 2 days.

I can't wait to watch that- I have heard great things!!

The final episode of Downton Abbey was the TV highlight for me. It was so cheesy and schmaltzy and Christmassy, it was perfect!