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P.S. The second post on that TV Forum thread linked too begs the question whatever happened to the holiday shows? For decades a staple of Winter TV, then for the last couple decades pretty much non-existent.

Are they something that’s become a victim to the internet? There are so many more ways now to find out about foreign destinations, whereas in the past, Wish You Were Here? and the Holiday programme were just about the only ways to research holidays – that and physically going into a travel agents’ shop.

People generally seem to be more well travelled these days as well due to package holidays and budget flights, so we probably don’t need Judith Chalmers telling us what a beach holiday in Majorca is like anymore.

I guess the only travel shows we now have are the slightly quirky Travel Man type celebrity travelogues. But then, people do love their holidays, so perhaps there is a gap for a reworked broader holiday programme again to tap into this.