The blundering beeb

[Andy Broadley]

I'm really ticked off with the BBC. It's obvious that whoever is responsible (and I use that word loosly) for programme sheduling does not have kids. They have decided, in their infinate wisdom, to show National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (my all time favourite Christmas movie) at 10pm on Christmas Eve.

Given that most of the generation of people who are into Nat Lampoon are those who are now most likely to have young families, this is a monumentally bad piece of scheduling. What on earth do they think parents are doing at 10pm on Christamas Eve? Sitting watching TV with a quiet drink? We should be so lucky!!
I'll tell you what we are doing at that time on Christmas Eve. We've just spent the last 2 hours trying to get the kids to sleep and we now have everything to get ready for the following day. As Homer Simpson say's "There's only one fat guy round here who brings presents and his name aint Santa" (being 16 stone I can relate to that).

The busiest 2 hours of the Christmas period and some dummkopf decides that that's the best time to show this movie. These people do not live in the real world!!!

"Doh!!" to quote Homer again.

 

[lucypevensie]

Well, how rude of them

 

[Andy Broadley]

It's got nothing to do with rudeness, it's downright sheer incompitence. And then they have the nerve to ask for an increase in the TV Licence fee!!!

 

[Zoomer]

I bought the movie so I could watch it whenever I want . They start Rudolph (and most Christmas shows) at 8 pm and that's the kids bedtime. I ended up buying quite a few Christmas movies because of the time they choose to air them.

 

[lucypevensie]

It's got nothing to do with rudeness, it's downright sheer incompitence. And then they have the nerve to ask for an increase in the TV Licence fee!!!

Most networks are more interested in showing us their stupid "Who wants to marry my elderly dog?" program than in showing us something intelligent - like a good Christmas movie. Cable does a better job, but if you don't have cable.... Plus, yes, they usually are on later at night than I'd prefer.

I get your point

 

[Andy Broadley]

We'll probably video the film and watch it when we get the chance. It was more the way that the programmers seemed to have no concept of the realities of family life that ticked me off. Calmed down now. Thanks for letting me rant a bit yesterday.