[Reith85]

Bet the BBC are hoping to get the royal carol service back from ITV this year - lick lick, slop slop, cringe fawn from the BBC it seems

Well, even if it doesn't, the royal Christmas carols is a BBC Studios production for ITV anyway, so it's not as if the BBC is losing out in any significant way.

And they're hardly going to have any dissenting republican acts in a Coronation Concert this evening.