Radio Times 2015 - Christmas Edition - Must watch

I had to dig deep for this year’s Radio Times, which was bloody £4 for the two week Christmas and New Year edition. A sizeable mark-up but a must on our coffee table if we had one, a coffee table that is. Christmas without the Radio Times hanging around just wouldn’t feel right.

I must say I was disappointed in the Christmas Day offering with Emmerdale, Coronation Street, and EastEnders taking up most of the evening schedule and no big film with the best film of the day, Scrooged on Channel 5. On the movie front and if you subscribe to Sky Movies Premiere the big film is Ridley Scott’s biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, which doesn’t sound very Christmassy.

Top of the Pops gets its Christmas runout before the Queen about the only thing of any tradition left of Christmas of my childhood. Not that I would have heard much of the stuff on TOTP although to the rescue comes BBC 4 who later in the evening will be showing TOTP Christmas 1975 and 1979 now that’s better.

So what am I looking forward to over the holiday period,

Bear goes wild with Barack Obama 20 Dec – C4
We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story 22 Dec – BBC2
Doctor Who Christmas Day – BBC 1
Dickensian Boxing Day, 27 Dec and New Years Day – BBC 1
And then there were none Boxing Day, 27 Dec, 28 Dec – BBC 1
Backchat end of the Year Show Boxing Day – BBC 2
Charlie Brooker’s 2015 Wipe 30 Dec BBC 2
Catherine Tate’s Nan 30 Dec BBC 1
Sherlock New Year’s Day

All the above are must watch TV so hopefully they don’t clash with anything the wife must see or she will be watching on her laptop. There is lots to read in the Radio Times, interviews and reviews so it will keep me busy for a while.