Christmas TV 2022 - 2024

TRS30 · 13-01-2023 8:45am

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I'm not surprised, the hype around it these days. It's nearly that you have to watch it for fear of missing out on something!

DvB · 13-01-2023 9:33am

Was watching the Christmas special of Great British Bake off the other night & was disappointed to note there were no Christmas adverts in the ad breaks. Given the episode was aired in the middle of Christmas itself that's a bit depressing & just reinforces the shift in the season that has occurred in my lifetime. It seems all guns are blazing from early to Mid November but adverts are already tailing off in the last few days in the run up (assume companies feel that the peak selling time is done at that point & its diminishing returns with increased advertising costs) with very few showing over the actual 12 days itself.

Listen, I appreciate the world moves on but the traditionalist in me rues the changes that commercialism has brought in the last few years. Its such a shame that the majority just accept (& in many cases embrace) that this is the way Christmas is nowadays & cant wait to see it in the rear view mirror and move on to the new year delighted its done & dusted. Rose tinted glasses & all that but I'd love it if more people would simply stop & enjoy the season until it finishes, you dont have to go all out full on Christmas for 12 days but appreciate the time of year & the intent of the season. So many are unaware of the 12 days and bin all signs of it before new years now & I find that a little sad. Anyway, its my little gripe that I need to accept is never going to change. I just dread the day we go & start opening stuff up as normal on Christmas day itself, which as mad as it may sound now I suspect isnt that far away in reality.

TRS30 · 13-01-2023 11:09am

Could have written that nearly word for word @DvB . It seems like "Christmas" is start of November till the 25th Dec and then it's done. I think we can get caught up in the build up and then be burnt out by the time is actually arrives. I want to try and make the build up more enjoyable next year and not seem like I'm running around like a headless chicken, rushed off my feet all the time and am wreaked by the time Christmas actually arrives. We only have a few years left while the kids are believers and want to enjoy them and not look about on a blur of running around always doing 'stuff'!

The day that all shops, pubs, entertainment etc opens on Christmas Day as normal will be a sad sad day and one that I will not look forward to.

DvB · 13-01-2023 11:18am

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I actually believe that we don't even get as far as Christmas itself anymore, I noticed this year that many of the adverts had returned to normal for Christmas week itself, Christmas stock in shops was being replaced (probably sold off in the vast majority of cases to be fair) and sales that normally start after Christmas were starting a week before!! Even the airports we travelled through had very little signs of Christmas on display.

The shift up until recently was happening quite slowly, but it seems to have quickened up a pace in the last 2-3 years, not sure why that has happened TBH, but I wish the race to diminish & creep the season would relax a tad or we'll start the build up in June & be done by Halloween at this rate😀

odyssey06 · 13-01-2023 11:24am

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Halloween is a bulwark... it's the only thing holding Christmas back from October.

DvB · 13-01-2023 11:28am

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My comment re: Halloween was in jest (hence the smiley) but its a fair point, Halloween is probably the one thing stopping Christmas creep moving even further back into the year. Thankfully Halloween seems to be enjoying a renaissance and is more popular now than at any time I can remember in my lifetime so isn't going anywhere soon.

Its the nightmare before that saves Christmas!!

Loughc · 13-01-2023 9:02pm

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Fantastic post and I could have written it word for word myself.

I see so many people getting their tree down before New Years as they want to start new years fresh, and I'm like if you didn't put the tree up Nov 1st you might make it last the full Christmas season.

Also the amount of people online who haven't heard of the 12 days of Christmas or leaving the tree up til the 6th of Jan and why is frightening. There will ALWAYS be a core group who will celebrate Christmas the way it was intended to no matter how much changes over the years in shops.

Commercialism has ramped up and moves on quickly to the next thing as they have never had so much facetime as they do now with their consumers in the smart phone. Businesses see people as having short attention spans that's why they constantly hit them with the next thing....

For me I really enjoy the days from the 26th Dec - Jan 6th, it's time to relax and reflect on the season, year, etc. And that will never change for me and that's the tradition i'll be setting for my kids.

TRS30 · 14-01-2023 9:50pm

Totally agree @Loughc my kids might not turn into Christmas fans like me however I try to get them to understand what Christmas is all about (religious and just the spirit of Christmas) and is not about getting presents.

dubstepper · 16-01-2023 11:43pm

Christmas is being pulled more and more into November to the detriment of post new years.

People become tired of it and when faced with work move on. When I was younger we would not put our tree up to the 8th. Now people putting it up for the toy show and earlier.

Loughc · 17-01-2023 12:13am

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Putting it up for the toy show or earlier is fine as long as you leave it up for the full season.

DvB · 17-01-2023 8:51am

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We would traditionally have put ours up about 2 weeks before christmas (or the closest weekend to that kind of timeframe) but brought that forward to the day of the toy show once the kids were old enough and asked that we do it for that date. But we always took it down before going back to work. So had plenty of time to enjoy having the decorations up. But even though 90% of the decorations were down we still celebrated the full season up until 6th Jan where we would normally mark the day by having a nice dinner & made a tradition of removing the wreath from the front door & the jingle bells from their perch in the living room, that signalled for us the end of the season.

A few years ago taking the tree's down before the 6th would raise some eyebrows if we mentioned it, nowadays though we see people taking them down before new years, when did that become a thing!? Seems more & more are doing it nowadays, even our neighbour told us that she had seen enough of her decorations by Stephens day & took them down on the 27th!! She puts hers up on the first weekend in November and is the perfect example of modern day Christmas fatigue, had she left it another 2 or 3 weeks to put them up she's have been fine I suspect, but it seems to be coming more & more common for many to take their decorations down early. The flip side is that there also appears to be more leaving them up until the 6th as I've noticed each year theres a solid amount of houses out our way that leave everything lit up until the 6th. So like most things in life people seem to be becoming more polarised, either take them down ASAP or leave them up until Jan 6th. I suspect we'll stick to our day before we go back to work for taking the majority down but as the kids get older can see the day we put them up potentially shifting into December.

lumphammer2 · 17-01-2023 9:24am

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Agree ... I don't know but Christmas has become a lot less magical the last few years ... technically speaking the season lasts from 1st December to the 1st Sunday in February ... traditionally it was 8th December to 6th January ... but now it is 1st November to 25th December ...

I could take it or leave it this year .... it just seemed to be too much buildup and fell flat ... it has been going that way for years ... certain things did not help ... that lengthy level 5 lockdown 2 years back before and after Christmas did not do it any favours that time ... this year that stupid infantile unneeded war in Ukraine and the constant media coverage of it did not help ... some hardliners in Russia need to be visited by 3 ghosts ASAP!! The crass commerciality starting from October ... Halloween disguises it somewhat ... and going into full throttle in November makes one jaded by December ... because the pre-2020 Christmases did not feel much better ... the magic of Christmases up until 2013/2014 somehow has gone ... or so it seems?

But getting back on topic ... the TV does not help either ... nothing special being done ... as said that affore mentioned infantile war gets too much coverage and you'd think they'd have the decency to cease fire and end the effing thing for Christmas? ... really children would run things in Russia better than these supposed experienced clowns ... terrorism killing civilians is not what anyone wants to see at Christmas or any time ... it needs to stop now and the criminals who started it jailed for life ...

Other than that it is Mrs Brown too much ... 10 years back it was new and maybe funny ... now it is jaded ... and frankly there is nothing else better on ... and then it is all this advertising Dancing With the Stars and Operation Transformation .. and worst of all First Dates Ireland ... the magic is certainly killed when this is all is on.

Beechwoodspark · 17-01-2023 9:41am

Wouldn’t be a huge fan of missus brown but watched it on Christmas night this year.

It was somewhat better than other years - rude, lewd, and borderline offensive though !!

The classic missus brown mix that goes down so well with the audience.

I wonder did brendan and co up their game this year after a fair bit of criticism that they had gone stale and repetitive.

TRS30 · 17-01-2023 10:53am

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Was on here as well (my folks love it and they were here Christmas Day), to me they are all the same the last few years however obviously still have some appeal. Not really my thing at all.

Loughc · 20-02-2023 11:54pm

Just seen on social media a clip of tonight’s eastenders episode and it flash forward to Christmas 2023….

Loughc · 21-02-2023 12:25am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120267891#Comment_120267891

https://youtu.be/klg00C7UJR0

The clip in question.

Posy · 21-02-2023 1:19am

Another merry Christmas ahead in Walford. 😂

DvB · 21-02-2023 9:26am

Saw an advert on TV last night for one of those Christmas clubs ( i was building flat pack furniture at the time) and i nearly got whiplash in my haste to see if I was hearing things when it said 'Get ready for Christmas 2023'

Loughc · 21-02-2023 9:27am

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Another death. The property prices must be next to nothing in walford. Must have the highest crime and murder rates in the world. 😂

TRS30 · 21-02-2023 10:27am

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I'm always saying this to the OH, all those soaps seem to be full of murders, affairs and depressing story lines from what I can see.

pigtail33 · 21-02-2023 11:54am

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I saw that too! I think it was on Virgin Media, although maybe other stations are showing it as well.

DvB · 21-02-2023 12:14pm

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yeah think it was VM, glad I wasn't the only one or else people would think you were mad!

Posy · 21-02-2023 5:38pm

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I suppose if it was all happily married couples watching their favourite boxed sets, neighbours swapping air fryer recipes and weekly book clubs in the local pub, they might not get the same viewing figures. 😁

tscul32 · 21-02-2023 11:43pm

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Agreed, real life is terribly boring🥱🥱

TRS30 · 22-02-2023 9:31am

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True, I'd still take it over living in Watford 😁

Loughc · 31-07-2023 12:25pm

It has been confirmed that this years Christmas tv guides double issues will run 23 Dec 2023 to 5 Jan 2024

Smell the glove · 31-07-2023 6:34pm

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For a sec I thought you said the RTE Guide. I was thinking that's very late.

Loughc · 21-09-2023 9:25pm

The Santa Clauses season 2 back November 8th. Nice inoffensive way to start the Christmas season.

DvB · 22-09-2023 7:28am

Never got around to watching the first season, is it any good?

Andrew93 · 22-09-2023 8:55am

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Waiting on a reply to this too. Have it on my favourites from last year never got around to watching it. Might start this weekend now.

Loughc · 22-09-2023 9:00am

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Better than the awful Santa Clause 3 that's for sure.

It's decent, not great but not bad either, completely inoffensive and a nice throwback to the original Santa Clause movie so the nostalgia is high. It was a nice thing to watch in November to get the Christmas Juices flowing.

leahyl · 22-09-2023 9:16am

I never even knew that series existed!

Loughc · 22-09-2023 9:19am

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Disney need to start paying me a commission.

It's grand I think fans for the film series will enjoy it, it's defo a bit daft in places but so am I haha

DvB · 22-09-2023 9:27am

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Cheers!

I thought the original was decent but the sequels were pretty poor, both of them.

Might earmark it for a watch in the run up with the kids, assuming they show any interest that is😮

DvB · 26-09-2023 8:13am

Need to buy Some cake/treats for later....

Murphy2020 · 27-09-2023 2:32pm

Anyone know when the music channels start Xmas songs??

Loughc · 02-10-2023 10:24am

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Should be in the next couple of weeks, not sure how many of those channels are left tho, most have gone out of business by now.

Smell the glove · 02-10-2023 2:16pm

The one that starts really early is gone altogether. I think there's one or two then that start November 1st.

webpal · 02-10-2023 2:26pm

I think this was all brexit related, assuming you have sky box, just take out the viewing card and reboot. There’s loads more music channels there but I don’t see any Christmas ones yet. If you have a free view box you should be able to see them also.

odyssey06 · 02-10-2023 2:35pm

Confirmed programmes so far for 2023 from the Weebly UK Christmas TV site.

Mostly specials for existing shows. Tabby McTat is a new animation, and Murder is Easy is a new period adaptation of the Agatha Christie story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/murder-is-easy-casting

BBC One

Beyond Paradise Christmas Special
Blankety Blank Christmas Special
Call the Midwife Christmas Special
Death in Paradise Christmas Special
Doctor Who
EastEnders
Murder is Easy (Agatha Christie)
Mrs Brown's Boys
Not Going Out
Songs of Praise (Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve)
Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special
The Weakest Link Christmas Special
Tabby McTat (animation)
The Repair Shop at Christmas
Would I Lie to You? at Christmas

BBC Two

Live at the Apollo Christmas Special
Mortimer and Whitehouse : Gone Fishing Christmas Special
QI Christmas Special
Richard Osman's Festive House of Games

BBC Three

Bad Education Christmas Special

BBC Four

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures : The Truth About AI

ITV

Emmerdale
In for a Christmas Penny
Inside M&S at Christmas
Jingle Bell Ball
The 1% Club Christmas Special
The Full Monty Christmas Special

CBBC

Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures

Channel 4

Jamie Oliver Cooks the Mediterranean Christmas Special
Joe Lycett's Late Night Lycett Christmas Special
Mog's Christmas
Secrets of the Supermarket
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan Christmas Special
The Piano Christmas Special

Channel 5

All Creatures Great and Small Christmas Special
Christmas on the Farm
The Madame Blanc Mysteries Christmas Special
The 1970's Supermarket Christmas Special

Drama

Sister Boniface Mysteries Christmas Special

As per Weebly site rules, attribution link included below. The site also includes an archive of previous decades of Christmas TV listings.

https://ukchristmastv.weebly.com/confirmed2023.html

L1011 · 11-10-2023 8:34pm

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Sky Ireland makes it look like most are gone. They haven't, they just don't have EU broadcast licences. Still available on Freesat. edit: that has already been pointed out

Autumn and darker nights means Food Network is now on as the background noise here rather than something like HGTV. Usually start of November they bring in one hour a day of Christmas content I think?

Loughc · 12-10-2023 10:37pm

I’m sold! 😂

Loughc · 26-10-2023 12:07pm

Heads up.

6am on November 1st, The channel The Box seems to be going into Boxmas mode. 24 hour Christmas music begins.

pigtail33 · 26-10-2023 2:41pm

And The Food Network will be showing mainly Christmas cooking/baking shows from Nov 1st too. I'm really hoping they have new, UK based ones, this year. Although I know I'll still watch all the repeats anyway. It's my favourite background TV at this time of year.

Loughc · 30-10-2023 2:40pm

I wanted to watch something Christmassy last night so I rewatched the US Office Season 2 and Season 3 christmas episodes.

such comfort viewing.

Loughc · 30-10-2023 6:41pm

Next Monday (6th November)

MTV 90s changes to MTV Christmas

Trace Vault changes to Trace Christmas

🎄🎄🎄

DvB · 30-10-2023 7:20pm

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We've decided when we get back from our few days away it'll be time to start the Christmas movies and TV... given our GAA club Christmas party is nov17th this year need to get into the zone reasonably quickly.

L1011 · 30-10-2023 9:29pm

When we were told our work party is on the 15th, I assumed November. As I used to work in places that did it cheap and early, so a weeknight didn't seem that odd.

It's the 15th of December. Bit more normal. Apparently the 22nd was nixed cause so many would have finished already!

Posy · 30-10-2023 11:58pm

Mine is the 15th too. Maybe we work together. 😄

SCOOP 64 · 31-10-2023 4:25pm

Go karting last year for us , hope it isn't this year I was told to get of the track and had to sit rest of session out, my boss was also told same thing after me that made me feel better.

Christmas TV 2022 - 2024

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