Since the
advent of Cable and Satellite the quality of the entertainment seems to diminish
as each Christmas passes.
It used to
be bad enough in the old days when there were only three channels to fill.
Now we allegedly
have more choice than we have ever had, although I think the reality is that we
merely have more channels.
The
terrestrial channels can’t compete and to be honest don’t even try any more to
offer anything that we might consider to be of acceptable quality.
Year after
year all five channels are packed with a mixture of repeats and things which
should never be seen again.
Take this
Christmas just gone, I can’t think of one single stand out program that appeared
on the terrestrial channels.
To be truthful
it doesn’t have to be the latest Christmas schedule as every one is the same.
The Great
Escape, Tom Browns schooldays, Mr Chips and the obligatory Sound of Music.
However there
are sometimes a selection of new dramas though quite honestly they do flatter
to deceive.
I remember
one holiday season several years ago one of the offerings was something called
Uncle Adolph.
God alone
knows what they were thinking.
Ken Stott
had the lead role, although he was more reminiscent of Groucho Marx than the
Fuhrer and at one point good old incestuous Uncle Adolph was sat knocking out a
tune on the piano to impress his pretty young niece and I genuinely thought he
was going to burst into a chorus of “Springtime for Hitler”.
To be quite
honest the play couldn’t have been anymore ludicrous if he had.
I do still get
my bumper Christmas edition of the Radio Times every year and open it with real
hope that this year will be better than the one before, but alas.
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