Who won the Christmas TV battle yesterday?

PullMyFinger!

I was surprised by some of the schedule choices made by certain channels (Paramount had a "2 And A Half Men marathon - wtf?!) and overall there wasnt enough classic comedy - a bit of Father Ted or Only Fools wouldnt have went amiss after midnight.

RTE seemed to pull a bit of a coup with Pirates Of The Caribeen, it wasnt due on Network TV for another year - shame I got distracted with beer and food halfway through!

BBC 1 had the best afternoon I thought with Top Of The Pops, into Shrek for the kids, into Toy Story 2 (I think)

Its the one day of the year built for lazy TV watching, what did you think of the lineups?

mike65

Once this topic would have really interested me but as I get older the less I care! Overall the Beeb had the stronger line up - you can't go far wrong with Toy Story 2, Eastenders, Two Ronnies from a ratings point of view.

Mike.

kc66

Im sure Killinascully pulled in a lot of viewers. What a load of crap that was last night. Wasn't one bit funny.

johnnyrotten

Eastenders?

Stark

Doctor Who: The Christmas invasion was on last night. That was good.

Atrocity

All in all a crap day for television

Mossy Monk

Stark wrote:

Doctor Who: The Christmas invasion was on last night. That was good.

i would have liked to have seen that but the only thing i watched on television yesterday was some programme showing how they built wooden cranes in medieval times. very exciting i know but this house is taken over by soap operas every year so i avoid it like the plague

ixoy

Stark wrote:

Doctor Who: The Christmas invasion was on last night. That was good.

It was. And did anyone else try "Attack of the Graske"? It was the best Digital interactive piece I've ever seen.

mike65

The top ten yesterday

TOP 10 CHRISTMAS TV
EastEnders BBC One (11m - 10.1m)
Doctor Who BBC One (9.8m - 9.4m)
Coronation Street ITV1 (9.8m - 9.4m)
The Two Ronnies BBC One (9.4m - 7.9m)
Shrek BBC One (7.6m - 6.7m)
Emmerdale ITV1 (6.9m - 6.6m)
Toy Story 2 BBC One (6.9m - 6.5m)
Who Wants to be a Millionaire ITV1 (6.6m - 6.3m)
BBC News 1845 bulletin BBC One (6.2m)
The Queen's Christmas Message BBC One (6.2m)

As usual BBC wins

Mike.

J.R.HARTLEY

whats a real pity there is the two ronnies,it was the worst i've ever seen from them, how sad that it was ronnie barkers final appearance.
but in comedy stakes you can always depend on the paddys (kinda) The unique dave allen which continues tonight on bbc2 was excellent.

mike65

I did'nt bother with Two Ronnies, I knew it would be grim. Dave Allen on the other hand does'nt get seen enough, like Spike Milligans Q series.

Mike.

Cork

Atrocity wrote:

All in all a crap day for television

Killinascully was 100% crap.

Chicago was a master stroke as musicals are crap and are hated by generations.

I think TG4 was better than the rest.

meldrew

Dave Allen was the best thing on telly last night and that was seven years old !

limerick_man

On RTE 2 there was a stand up comedy thing! That was good

Telefís

mike65 wrote:

The top ten yesterday

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As usual BBC wins

The British Top Ten

In Ireland, as usual RTÉ wins.

By a long shot.

mickymg2003

limerick_man wrote:

On RTE 2 there was a stand up comedy thing! That was good

Ye it was called "stop your killing me" and it was brilliant imo!!!Dara o' brien was good and des bishop aswell mybe it wasn that good because i was drunk and it seemed funny.

LordSutch

Channel hopped for most of the day (on my New LCD TV) building-up to the Christmas Invasion (Doctor Who) BBC1, shame it clashed with Pirates of the Carribbean (RTE2) but I suppose that Movie can be rented-out on DVD any old day .....................

See also the other forum: (RTE's Ringing in New Year Programme)!