The bumper two-week Christmas
edition of Radio Times operates from today and in time-honoured tradition I
took my multi-coloured biros to it and highlighted the unmissables on my (subscription-free
only) channels – green for sport, red for films and purple for the rest – but there
was no danger of running out of ink as page after page was turned with mounting
disappointment, not so much at the lack of quality but with the plethora of
same-old, same-old that I’ve seen too many times to sit through again; what was
circled was all the sport, a few sit-coms (Miranda, Vicious, Still Open All
Hours), some drama (Sherlock, The Tractate Middoth, Death Comes to Pemberley,
and of course Downton), and a few films that either I can watch every time (It’s
a Wonderful Life, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and Love Actually) or that I have
previously avoided so as not to spoil the book, but having read this year can
now view for the first time (Never Let Me Go, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and believe
it or not, Gone With The Wind).
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