Have the Turks made anything as silly as “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year”?
Has Bollywood come up with anything to match the Heat Miser and Snow Miser musical numbers?
Has some enterprising neopagan posted anything on YouTube?
I used to think that the French were too refined and intellectual to do anything of this sort. However, after seeing some of Jean Rollin’s and Just Jaeckin’s films, I am no longer so naïve.
regardless of holiday season, or not…isn’t pretty much every single film every made in Bollywood cheesy?
I don’t understand a word of Hindi, and I know virtually nothing about Indian culture…but when I got stuck with a roommate watching Bollywood all the time, I never had any trouble understanding the plots.
That’s because there’s only ever one plot, used over and over again: Romeo and Juliet.
The only perennial Christmas themed entertainment I know of outside of the US is the British animation of The Snowman, from the book by Raymond Briggs.
In the UK, major TV drama and comedy series often make a ‘Christmas special’. This sometimes revolves around a Christmas theme, and is sometimes completely unrelated, but merely a ‘one-off’. These specials are screened on or around Christmas day, which is a major TV day. So, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey etc will bring out a Christmas special. It’s a big event here, and is preceded by numerous ads from the channels concerned promoting these shows in the lead up to Christmas.
Here, for example, is the BBC One Christmas promo.
These are not, however, cheesy Christmas musical events as the OP describes, though no doubt we’ve had them at various times in the past, and general entertainment shows will drag out the tinsel.
And The Great Escape. Not Christmas without The Great Escape.
Never Mind The Buzzcocks had theirs last night.
That looks dull.
Morecombe and Wise?
Ooh yes, although we don’t really do those big shiny floor entertainment shows any more, do we? Now it’s just all X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing (the origin of Dancing with the Stars and its other imitators).
Although I did catch myself watching the Royal Variety Performance the other day, shudder.
What about Bond, James Bond? :dubious:
Similar to the UK shows you mention, shows on the USA and Syfy cable channels in the US (both are owned by NBC) sometimes do this as well. Psych, Dead Zone, Eureka, I know for sure have done it, probably more. Generally it’s either between seasons for the shows, or even between halfs of seasons, but often not lined up to really fit in with the shows ongoing seasons which typically don’t leave any room in continuity for a Christmas to have fit between episodes ending one season (or half season) and starting the next.
These generally DON’T air on Christmas day though, which is NOT a major TV day here, other than maybe football. :rolleyes: So usually they run somewhere in the first two weeks of December.
There’s almost never football on Christmas Day. There’s often several NBA games however.