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The Christmas/New Year 2020 TV Forum Selection Box Thread

  • 18-12-2020 11:25pm
    #1
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello

    It's time for the annual Christmas Thread

    It's just a bit of fun, bit of chat - it's really a replacement bus service for while the Late Late Show thread is off air


    What have you seen in the schedules?
    Is Willy Wonka On?
    Why are the selection boxes smaller this year?
    Why is the All Ireland Final on at Christmas?


    I know none of the answers but the door is open


    PS Also worth keeping an eye on the 'Recommended Movies On TV' Thread which is here https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054919249


    christmas-puppy-kitten-wallpaper-1510171429610.jpg





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  • #2
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,882 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl2i8sQpM_s


  • #3
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,179 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    You can almost write some of the jokes that will be in the Mrs Browns Boys special

    'Winne will say something stupid about masks' etc


  • #4
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,721 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Nice one, Skid.

    I flippin love that Gaybo making the cake clip.


  • #5
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,721 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    As for schedules someone (I'm sorry, I can't remember who!) said in the Late Late thread a few weeks ago that Die Hard was only on Sky this year.

    I can confirm from using my eyes and this RTE guide that that appears to be true.

    Boooooooooooo!


  • #6
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,093 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Seems Elf is only on sky one Sunday at 7pm


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  • #7
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,721 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    When's the Blues Brothers on?

    Or, more honestly, what day is the Blues Brothers on at around midnight, so me and my cans of Guinness can do our annual thing?


  • #8
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    When's the Blues Brothers on?

    Or, more honestly, what day is the Blues Brothers on at around midnight, so me and my cans of Guinness can do our annual thing?

    Erm, no easy way to say this ... it appears the Blues Brothers has gone to the same place as Die Hard

    Sky feckers have hoovered everything up

    Might be worth looking at the NowTV movie offers (although it's not the same)


  • #9
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,882 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Haven't seen RTE's schedule, presuming it's wall to wall Back to the Future and Harry Potter again.


  • #10
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,093 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Blues Brother is often on ITV4


  • #11
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,721 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Skid X wrote: »
    Erm, no easy way to say this ... it appears the Blues Brothers has gone to the same place as Die Hard

    Sky feckers have hoovered everything up

    Might be worth looking at the NowTV movie offers (although it's not the same)

    Aw, flip sake.

    You're dead right, that just ain't the same.

    Fine. Christmas is cancelled. Cancelled.
    Don't care.


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  • #12
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    As for schedules someone (I'm sorry, I can't remember who!) said in the Late Late thread a few weeks ago that Die Hard was only on Sky this year.

    I can confirm from using my eyes and this RTE guide that that appears to be true.

    Boooooooooooo!
    How well do you know Die Hard?
    Celebrity Mastermind - BBC One - Wednesday 30th December 2020 6.30pm

    Famous faces Scarlett Moffatt, Matt Everitt, Lucrezia Millarini and Stephen K Amos are put to the test by John Humphrys in a special champion of champions edition of the quiz, answering questions on the specialist subjects of The Sitcom Bottom, Glastonbury Festival, Die Hard and Fela Kuti.

    Die Hard 2 is on ITV4 on Wednesday 6th January.


  • #13
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    When's the Blues Brothers on?

    Or, more honestly, what day is the Blues Brothers on at around midnight, so me and my cans of Guinness can do our annual thing?


    Just found this deleted scene on yootoobs, which explains where Elwood gets the glue from...


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSpmzz_a7m8



    It’s a bit disorientating seeing Elwood without his sunglasses, probably why it was left on the cutting room floor.

    :cool:


  • #14
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    *looks around thread*

    I like what you’ve done with the place, Skid! :D

    And a scented Christmas candle too..nice touch :)

    Tonight on BBC One at 9.20pm - Idris Elba chats to some long-forgotten 60’s musician about his new audio platter.


  • #15
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,249 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    The Greatest Showman is on RTE
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #16
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    *looks around thread*

    I like what you’ve done with the place, Skid! :D

    And a scented Christmas candle too..nice touch :)

    Tonight on BBC One at 9.20pm - Idris Elba chats to some long-forgotten 60’s musician about his new audio platter.


    Cheers Welshie lad

    I see the same fella has a gig on Christmas Night on BBC1, I don't remember seeing this before. I might tape it.



    Christmas Day
    BBC1 11.45pm
    Paul McCartney At The Cavern Club
    The former Beatle's barnstorming 2018 performance at Liverpool's Cavern Club, where his career with the band started out. Around 250 people crammed into the sweaty venue to hear the 28-song set featuring classics he performed when the Beatles started out in the early 1960s, plus songs from his then-new solo album, Egypt Station


  • #17
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    MOPTOPSCHE!!


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  • #18
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    From the parts that I’ve heard, ‘McCartney III’ sounds pretty decent.


  • #19
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Guitar music is on the way out, Mr. Elba.


  • #20
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    I keep expecting Idris to start raving about Sky's amazing offers and movie selection


  • #21
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,892 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Not much chemistry between macca and idris


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  • #22
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Not much chemistry between macca and idris

    I think Paul’s been doing this interview technique for so long now, it deosn’t matter to him who is the interviewer.


  • #23
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,882 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Sitting down to watch highlights of the All-Ireland Football Final on a Saturday night 6 days before Christmas is utterly surreal.


  • #24
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    This interview should really be on BBC4

    He should have put a donk in it




  • #25
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    “You and your Dad, were you close?”


    Did Idris get his questions from Ryan Tubridy?


  • #26
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,179 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Sitting down to watch highlights of the All-Ireland Football Final on a Saturday night 6 days before Christmas is utterly surreal.

    yeah it's quite something esp for fans of Limerick (jammy gits :mad::D) and Dublin. If somebody suggested last January we be watching the All Ireland finals live days before Christmas day you'd be brought away by people in white coats

    Even though we lost in the hurling final, i'm still very happy how it panned out and will always remember the Christmas All Irelands as long as i live


  • #27
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Idris: “So Paul, how do you feel about shafting Pete Best on the cusp of success?”


  • #28
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Sitting down to watch highlights of the All-Ireland Football Final on a Saturday night 6 days before Christmas is utterly surreal.


    Why was it on a Saturday at 5pm this year?

    I suspect some people would have missed it

    It seemed to pass by without much hype at all


  • #29
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omt9NwR2njs


  • #30
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,882 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Skid X wrote: »
    Why was it on a Saturday at 5pm this year?

    I suspect some people would have missed it

    It seemed to pass by without much hype at all

    No idea, I know the Women's Football Final always follows the men's, possibly that had something to do with it.


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  • #31
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,496 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    All Aboard!The Sleigh Ride is on BBC 4 at 23:55 Christmas Eve.

    What a brilliant way to start Christmas day.


  • #32
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ‘The Death Of Stalin’ on BBC Two tonight at 9.30pm!

    One of Armando Iannucci’s best films :)


  • #33
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,093 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    ‘The Death Of Stalin’ on BBC Two tonight at 9.30pm!

    One of Armando Iannucci’s best films :)

    I don't get the love for "The Death Of Stalin", I struggled to watch it through


  • #34
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    I don't get the love for "The Death Of Stalin", I struggled to watch it through


    BestVerifiableDoctorfish-max-1mb.gif


  • #35
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    BBC Sports Personality Of The Year starting on BBC1 now,

    it would be funny if Tyson Fury won seeing as he demanded they take his name of the shortlist


  • #36
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,093 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Skid X wrote: »
    BBC Sports Personality Of The Year starting on BBC1 now,

    it would be funny if Tyson Fury won seeing as he demanded they take his name of the shortlist

    Lewis Hamilton has to win that


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  • #37
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,721 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Fr Ted Christmas Special on Channel 4 right now!


  • #38
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88,249 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Seems Elf is only on sky one Sunday at 7pm

    I got to watch again, Ferrell at his best
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #39
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Documentary about Grafton Street Busker-types on RTE One tonight at 10.10pm.


    Bono, pay your taxes! Bono, donate some of your fortune! Shane is too unwell to be on TV rabble rabble rabble, etc. :D


  • #40
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,882 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Pat Shortt currently on the Today Show on RTE One.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MlHxAzLXA


  • #41
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Seems Elf is only on sky one Sunday at 7pm

    I remember when it used to be on RTE and Channel 4. Fuck Sky anyway, the c*tton h*aded n*nny-m*ggin' bastards.


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  • #42
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,093 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    If anyone felt their spidey senses tingling its probably because Spiderman Homecoming is on BBC at 7:55pm


  • #43
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    If I pass any busker performing a Bob Dylan song, I must hurt them.



    I don’t want to, I feel like I owe it to them.


  • #44
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,892 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    The “paddy raff” Christmas show on bbc2 at moment

    Kind of a comedy sketch show. Never heard of him, it’s not bad though.


  • #45
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ‘Heyday’ - class :)


  • #46
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    I am looking forward to 'Laochra Thar Lear' on TG4 on Wednesday at 9.15pm, it's about Ireland's early Olympic heroes







    Also, someone needs to make a movie about Peter O'Toole's flag antics at the 1906 Athens Intercalated Olympics


    https://olympics.ie/laochra-thar-lear-tg4-olympic-feature/

    One of the stars of Ireland’s Olympic story is Wicklow man Peter O’Connor, who won acclaim not only for being the best long jumper of his age, but for making the first ever political protest at an Olympic Games. O’Connor climbed the flagpole at his Athens award ceremony in 1906, removed the British flag and unfurled the Irish flag, to the amazement of spectators and dignitaries.


  • #47
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,052 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    ‘Heyday’ - class :)


    They played the 'ethnically cleansed' version of Fairytale Of New York, a croyme against the people of Oireland :pac:


  • #48
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ‘Paddington 2’ on BBC One at 4.15pm - Hugh Grant’s best performance!

    ‘Gremlins’ on Sky One at 9.45pm - Gizmo’s best performance!


  • #49
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,732 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    The 2 Johnnies Christmas Spectacular on RTE Two tonight at 10.15pm.

    I assume they’re like The Two Ronnies, only more x-rated.


  • #50
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,179 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Pretty disappointing schedule on Sky Arts and BBC4 this year. Used to be always good for concerts and music documentaries

    The Dubliners thing on TG4 tomorrow night should be decent

    Say new years eve will be a blu ray concert and a few cans


  • #51
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,093 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Watching The Last Jedi, the Star Wars sequel trilogy is just awful even worse than the prequels. Laura Dern as an admiral is just unconvincing, should got someone like Sigourney Weaver be fair more convincing


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