[tellyblues]

Very different culture. Maybe we should count ourselves lucky that BBC, ITV etc actually do try and bother to be festive.

Normal programming has popped up at times. Who can forget Changing Rooms on Xmas Day in 1998? If the BBC tried similar today they would get absolutely slaughtered - and rightly so.

The now customary online guessing game of what will be shown perhaps takes the shine away from what is shown but people are mostly always right because it has been that way more or less for 10+ years now. There's the usual talk of "rose tinted specs" and how Morecambe and Wise and The Two Ronnies ran for years and years but what isn't mentioned is that the other shows around them weren't always the same.