{"id":1434,"date":"2011-12-05T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2011-12-05T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:42:03","slug":"your-christmas-satellite-tv-and-dvd-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Your Christmas Satellite TV  and DVD highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>I\u2019m a Banker, Get Me Out of Here! <\/strong>Fred Goodwin and assorted bankers \u00a0in competition with angry punters trying\u00a0 to get their money out following the Euro collapse. The winner is the one who defeats \u00a0the angry mob <em>and<\/em> gets his (or taxpayers\u2019) money. Dumb TV\u00a0 Channel, Christmas Eve.<\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1435\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/12\/Odd-couple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1435\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=1435\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/12\/Odd-couple.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"296,259\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Richard Gaunt&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1323092706&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Odd couple\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Will she be left holding the baby?&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/12\/Odd-couple.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1435\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/12\/Odd-couple-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will she be left holding the baby?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>The Odd Couple. <\/strong>Jo Brand plays German Chancellor Angela Merkel in this screwball comedy about monetary and fiscal union, with Richard Wilson as President Sarkozy, and Barbara Windsor as saucy Carla, the \u201cother woman\u201d. GPI TV Christmas Day.<\/div>\n<div><strong>It\u2019s Not a Wonderful Life. <\/strong>Classic weepie about an angel missing an appointment to rescue a banker from suicide after financial meltdown. Overpriced DVD from Waitsbury\u2019s, \u00a0Tescorrisons etc. Buy it before Christmas to guarantee it will shortly be free with the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>, or broadcast on TV.<\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_tx_OOq5fu-8\/TNl3J0J-nYI\/AAAAAAAANTo\/L9AWI7p7TpM\/s400\/POST.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Say &quot;cheese&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>Beauty and the Geek Masterchef Christmas special.<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Ex LibDem MP Lembit Opik cooks Christmas dinner at an exclusive girls finishing school in Eastern Europe and discovers exciting things to do with cheese. Eurofood Channel, Boxing Day.<\/div>\n<div><strong>The Ultimate Morecambe and Wise Christmas show<\/strong>. Edited highlights from the legendary 1977 show, with a commentary by Michael Grade, Dennis Norden and Barry Cryer. All channels, endlessly.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Downturn Abbey.<\/strong> Series 3 fast forwards to the 2010\u2019s where the abbey is now a seedy theme park and Matthew (now the Earl) fights off attempts by elfin safety police to force him to clear up lethal pine needles in the grounds. \u00a0Lady Mary runs naked through the library in protest. Channel 44, repeated ad nauseam. Also on DVD.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a Banker, Get Me Out of Here! Fred Goodwin and assorted bankers \u00a0in competition with angry punters trying\u00a0 to get their money out following the Euro collapse. The winner is the one who defeats \u00a0the angry mob and gets his (or taxpayers\u2019) money. Dumb TV\u00a0 Channel, Christmas Eve. The Odd Couple. Jo Brand plays &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=1434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your Christmas Satellite TV  and DVD highlights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[794],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-n8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}