You’ve made it this far through. Hopefully Santa has been kind. But it looks like rain in good part of the country, so you may be thinking twice about that walk you were planning. Here are your viewing and listening choices through my ever-so-slightly myopic lens, courtesy of the Radio Times and some Post-Its.
Here are your TV choices:
(Click here for a larger version)
To be honest, even if it’s wet, you may as well still go out this morning…
And here are you radio ones:
Happy Christmas all!
You’ll no doubt be unwrapping presents, eating enormous quantities of food, having family arguments, and then perhaps sitting down and trying to decide what telly you should be watching.
As ever, I’ve made my own suggestions to help you. You might even want to listen to the radio.
Here’s the TV:
(Click here for a larger version)
And here’s the radio:
(Again, click here for a larger version)
I do always say that it’s a shame that radio has quite so many pre-recorded specials and “Best Ofs.” Still plenty to listen out for though.
You’re with friends and family. But what to watch or listen to?
You know how I love to help out anyone who isn’t sure what’s worth your time. So here is my regular helpful guide to what to watch over the period, presented via the medium of an annotated Radio Times.
(Click here to see a larger version)
And for the radio:
(Again, here’s a link to a larger version)
NB: I’ve been doing these since 2008.
One final festive dose of what to watch, and what not to watch (IMHO).
As ever, if you can’t read my scrawl, then try a bigger version.
Happy Christmas!
Here are some of your viewing – and listening – guides for today.
If you can’t read this on your screen, click here.
Here are your radio choices!
I know what you’re thinking.
It’s Christmas again, and I’ve no idea what to watch on television. I know that there’s loads on, but how do I sort the good stuff from the bad? Well fear not. I’m back for with a few holiday suggestions.
(In case you didn’t know, I’ve done this before.)
As long as you’re not reading on a mobile screen, I think that you should be able to read this directly on your computer. But bigger versions are available.
It’s been a while…
Now is there something special to watch on TV tonight? Perhaps at 7.50pm on BBC1? Let me be your guide.
As ever look at the full size version to see the detail.
The worst sitcom on British television somehow managed to achieve the unthinkable yesterday, becoming the most watched programme of Christmas Day. We can but hope that once PVR and on demand is added in, something else knocks it off the top. Anything!
If you’re the sort of person who watches Mrs Brown’s Boys, then at least one of two things is true:
1. You really need my guide to what’s on this Boxing Day evening, because you have no taste.
2. You and I probably aren’t going to get on. I really wouldn’t bother sticking around here.
Anyway, if you can’t maximise the image above easily on your device, then click here for a larger version of the image.
PS Don’t leave comments telling me I’m wrong about Mrs Brown’s Boys.
I’m not.
Here’s my sort-of-annual guide to what’s on TV and radio on Christmas Day – as seen through the pages of my annotated Radio Times (as very slightly featured in #6 on this Buzzfeed list).
Click on the pictures below to go fullscreen. Flickr has changed the way they do things recently, and that’ll take you through to the site direct. If that’s still not big enough to view on your device, then click here or here for high resolution images.
UPDATE: When I went through the Radio Times I was a bit dismissive of Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message noting there’d been no PR this year. That’s because they only announced on Christmas Eve that they’d fit Edward Snowdon doing it. That makes it easily the most interesting programme on Christmas Day! I might have been a bit unfair on the amount of live radio in the morning too. Still – the afternoon should make up for that.
(I must admit that I both like and dislike the new Flickr way of embedding photos. On the one hand, it’s easy for viewers to see fullsize versions of photos. On the other, you quickly get sucked into my regular Flickr stream, and not my carefully chosen images as featured on this page!)
Well it’s the 90th Anniversary of the Radio Times which you can’t fail to have noticed. And I’ve not done one of these for a while. But to be honest, this is just a standard takedown of a night of TV.
As ever, it’s best viewed large.