30-11-2022, 09:34 AM
(29-11-2022, 11:41 PM)eyeTV Wrote:(29-11-2022, 10:18 PM)tellyblues Wrote: I never understand how a film can be classed as "phoning it in", especially if it's a recent release.
ITV Christmas Day 1993 is often highlighted as lazy because it was three films back to back but they were all premieres.
ITV would never have put a recent film in the slot that the daytime shows now fill on Christmas Day. It was a dead, uncompetitive slot.
It was usually used for something like Santa Claus The Movie (from 1985) or a repeat of Countrywise Christmas.
They had Despicable Me 2 in 2016 which by that point was only 3 years old but it's not common.
A repeat of Countrywise I would say is lazy but Santa Claus, no, if taking into consideration that a film has to be appropriate for children and given the selection they have available.