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  • It's Christmas already!

    From Ar@Ar@127.0.0.1 to uk.media.tv.misc on Fri Sep 8 14:07:04 2023
    From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc

    On Freeview and Freesat, Great Romance channel has become Great
    Christmas, and they are pumping out Christmas films since Tuesday 5th September - FOUR MONTHS away.
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  • From JNugent@jennings&co@mail.com to uk.media.tv.misc on Thu Sep 21 16:19:48 2023
    From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc

    On 08/09/2023 08:07, Ar wrote:

    On Freeview and Freesat, Great Romance channel has become Great
    Christmas, and they are pumping out Christmas films since Tuesday 5th September - FOUR MONTHS away.

    How many have you watched so far?

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  • From Ar@Ar@127.0.0.1 to uk.media.tv.misc on Thu Sep 21 22:53:45 2023
    From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc

    On 21/09/2023 22:19, JNugent wrote:
    On Freeview and Freesat, Great Romance channel has become Great
    Christmas, and they are pumping out Christmas films since Tuesday 5th
    September - FOUR MONTHS away.

    How many have you watched so far?

    Two.
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  • From JNugent@jennings&co@mail.com to uk.media.tv.misc on Thu Sep 21 17:05:36 2023
    From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc

    On 21/09/2023 16:53, Ar wrote:

    On 21/09/2023 22:19, JNugent wrote:

    On Freeview and Freesat, Great Romance channel has become Great
    Christmas, and they are pumping out Christmas films since Tuesday 5th
    September - FOUR MONTHS away.

    How many have you watched so far?

    Two.

    Wow.
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  • From J. P. Gilliver@G6JPG@255soft.uk to uk.media.tv.misc on Wed Jan 24 15:11:16 2024
    From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc

    In message <kn3t1fFg4b3U1@mid.individual.net> at Thu, 21 Sep 2023
    17:05:36, JNugent <jennings&co@mail.com> writes
    On 21/09/2023 16:53, Ar wrote:

    On 21/09/2023 22:19, JNugent wrote:

    On Freeview and Freesat, Great Romance channel has become Great
    Christmas, and they are pumping out Christmas films since Tuesday 5th
    September - FOUR MONTHS away.

    How many have you watched so far?

    Two.

    Wow.

    If depressed by something in your life, in dull weather back in
    September, a couple of those _could_ cheer you up; undemanding (very!),
    and on the whole a happy ending (usually still a romance) - really,
    mostly the same story with slight variations. Ar probably didn't watch
    his/her two one after the other.

    (It reverted to something other than Great Christmas earlier this month
    - I didn't notice when, probably around twelfth night.)
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Veni Vidi Vacuum [I came, I saw, It sucked] - mik@saslimited.demon.co.uk, 1998 --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Ar@Ar@127.0.0.1 to uk.media.tv.misc on Fri Jan 26 19:45:53 2024
    From Newsgroup: uk.media.tv.misc

    On 24/01/2024 15:11, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    Two.

    Wow.

    If depressed by something in your life, in dull weather back in
    September, a couple of those _could_ cheer you up; undemanding (very!),
    and on the whole a happy ending (usually still a romance) - really,
    mostly the same story with slight variations. Ar probably didn't watch his/her two one after the other.

    (It reverted to something other than Great Christmas earlier this month
    - I didn't notice when, probably around twelfth night.)

    The problem with Great Romance / Great Christmas, is that it is a happy ending. It's fine but everyone looks all pretty and styled like crazy,
    even silly plots like farmers that don't seem to ever be covered in dirt.

    Second problem is these films are repeated and repeated.

    Channel 5 show "Christmas" films every day in December the past few
    years, a fraction of which have been on Great Christmas, but at least
    you could see it in HD on 5.

    I admit some of the films you could get a cheer up from, so long as the
    plot isn't too contrived.
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