Quote: Tim Walker @ December 19 2011, 4:44 PM GMT

Quick recommendation for tonight's viewing. On BBC Four at 10pm is a re-showing of the Beeb's 1986 TV adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's comic play Season's Greetings...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018l5c0

Remember watching this when it first went out and it's a play that's also a staple of am-dram companies at this time of year. Genuinely funny and a great cast in this. Well worth a watch/record.

(Hope the Beeb will also show their adaptation of Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular some time, which is even better.)

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Sounds a bit too close to what will actually happen in my house to be entertaining !

Nevermind The Buzzcocks. Was Phil Jupitus every funny?

Quote: Tim Walker @ December 19 2011, 4:44 PM GMT

Genuinely funny and a great cast in this.

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Just turned flick over to see who's in it and noticed one of the first two gays in Eastenders. I think he got AIDS.

Quote: Nil Putters @ December 19 2011, 10:15 PM GMT

Nevermind The Buzzcocks. Was Phil Jupitus every funny?

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No. But he's always available.

The Funny Side of Christmas on BBC 2, which I can only imagine Clive Anderson agreed to front due to some highly-complicated tax avoidance scheme.

He's done a few of these, they don't get any better...

Thank God for D-list celebrities! Without their informative 'talking head' commentaries, it would be near-impossible for me to imagine what Christmas was like 20 years ago.

Quote: Tim Walker @ December 19 2011, 10:54 PM GMT

Thank God for D-list celebrities! Without their informative 'talking head' commentaries, it would be near-impossible for me to imagine what Christmas was like 20 years ago.

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Thats because you ingested enough weapons grade heorine you can't remember 20 minutes ago let alone 20 years ago

Oh Christ... Tony Blackburn. A man who's dead-eyed, joyless, lethargic face still seemingly manages to screams out the words "Please, please let me go back to the Seventies!"

EDIT: Blackburn's just imparted the interesting observation that the Morecambe & Wise Christmas TV specials were popular and very highly-anticipated.

I guess you still haven't forgiven him for attacking Ricky Gervais.

A Perfect Spy. Only meant to watch one episode of this John Le Carre adaptation but it wasn't really possible. Totally gripping character study as anything I've ever seen in a TV drama.
Treat yourself for Christmas-marvellous stuff.

"The Library" episode of Seinfeld. Philip Baker Hall's library cop is a work of genius.

The Comedy Annual 2011 hosted by Philip Schoffield. Alistair McGowan is on now doing impressions. And they say ITV can't do comedy.

Load of crap on tonight. I guess I'll have to watch some football online.

Quote: Nil Putters @ December 21 2011, 7:24 PM GMT

to watch some football online.

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It's just not the same though.