Ghost of Christmas Past does overtime as broadcasters make viewers nostalgic for a time when nostalgia was a little less creaky
I love Christmas television, the linear kind, and I don’t know if that’s because it’s not prone to fast evolution — fast anything — or despite that.Two, St Stephen’s Day, at the more sensible hour of 12.45pm) and just generally rounding up the usual suspects.
The delight and relief of Christmas University Challenge is that the questions are so much easier than they are on the non-festive editions. No tumbleweed here. No feeling of utter stupidity. If you don’t know the answers you can guess, the confidence boost of alcohol kicking in before its memory-dulling effects can take hold.
This can, however, prompt constant self-doubt. By the time I get to Christmas Eve, I can barely assert my own name with 100 per cent conviction. Seeing these luminaries struggle to recall the Christmas number one from 1996, I realise some of the important stuff is still in there. Both this year’s Christmas Day tentpole Gavin and Stacey — definitely the last one, they say — and the less hyped Outnumbered were first on air in 2007, which makes Mrs Brown’s Boys a relatively fresh face on the block and The Young Offenders positively pubescent.
Like a budget-light commissioning executive, I’m going to do some rehashing now. In 2016, charting the collapse of festive TV ratings, I wrote that splintered audiences might not be coming together for Christmas with quite the same groggy enthusiasm any more. The linear landscape had already turned frosty.
It’s old news now, too, that the streamers are going all in. Netflix, riding high through December thanks to fabulously Christmassy spy entertainment Black Doves, has chosen December 26th as the launch date for the second run of its biggest ever global series, Squid Game — because nothing says dystopian survival thriller, after all, quite like Christmas.
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