Christmas nearly over, so I'm allowed to get grumpy again. I'm grumpy about cartoons. When I was little, cartoons were short, pointed little treats in the BBC schedule; gems like Tom and Jerry leavened the Xmas dough, and there was the occasional Disney big feature. Now, over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, we're bombarded with animated pixels going on for hours. Two types of Toy Story, a Shrek, Cars 2, Finding Nemo, endless Gruffalos, Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, The Princess and The Frog. BBC1 and BBC2 would go to black, apparently, without these purchased programmes.
There have been plenty of opportunities for nostalgia - but old Top of the Pops and Morecambe and Wise are not the only part of my festive nostalgia. Have I really been through a tv Christmas without one Marx Brothers film, one Astaire and Rogers, and no sign of a "Road to.." anywhere ?
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