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Like a decades-old Woolies tinsel tree, out comes the festive archive material for another year. Here's an old favourite from 1972, when ITV's Christmas schedule was scrapped for being "too entertaining".pic.twitter.com/cZIg7uI4tY
[Spoiler: They didn't bung Macbeth on opposite Morecambe and Wise in the end. Viewers with an aversion to Glenda Jackson and Andre Previn could thrill to either Kirk Douglas frontier saga The Way West, or Albert Finney chicken chomper Tom Jones, depending on their location.]
[In other you'd-think-ITV-would-have-got-all-their-ducks-in-a-row-by-now news, The Queen was followed by That Riviera Touch in England *only*. STV gave us Doris Day's mighty Caprice, while Ulster went for Second Chance, the pilot for a sort of US Lame Ducks which was never made.]
It’s the true spirit of Brexit.
We can take back control of the TV schedules.
Nothing says Christmas like Verdi's Macbeth.
I miss the IBA.
No such risk nowadays…
Macbeth such a jolly romp, with happy ending. They all lived happ.......ah, no
Would there be any chance you could give me the full reference for this, please? I'm writing a book on the history of the opera/elitism idea and this is relevant. It's a gem!
I wish the IBA would do something with the current schedule
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