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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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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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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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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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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.)
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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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