Info request

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Hello, kind flisties. I'd be very grateful if any of you could suggest a TV program shown in the US, without which Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas. I expect there are several (there are this side of the Pond) so all suggestions welcome. Thanks.

Yes, it is for fic writing purposes, but I'm sure you guessed that.

Comments

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All the regular shows go into re-runs at Christmas and repeating these old cartoons and movies are affordable filler (plus there's huge nostalgia involved.)

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Yes, it's the same here, though there are always a few new things. A lot of the popular comedy shows have Christmas specials.

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The ones that both work and drive you CRAZY are the marathons. Some of the cable nets will play one movie for the entire 24 hours (This usually done with "A Christmas Story" but I've also seen it done with "Christmas Vacation"). It's maddening because the same movie is playing in loop for 24 hours, so every time you scroll passed the station. But it also works in that you tend to see the movie in bits and pieces, never really sitting through the whole thing, never needing to actually pay much attention, but always capable of picking up where you left off. (It helps that it's movies like those two because both are more or less a series of comedic incidents rather than something that it tightly plotted.)

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Blimey! I don't think any of the channels over here do that, though some of them repeat stuff on and off during the day.

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It's the curse of having 300 channels of nothing