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00:12welcome to the screen babble christmas special yay we are super excited to be here in the run
00:20up to arguably the best tv time of the year i'm sure there's some stats out there about how much
00:24more telly we watch over the festive period but we don't have them but i'm pretty sure that exists
00:29uh there's some fantastic stuff lined up for christmas 2023 both on streaming and tv and
00:36hopefully we're going to enlighten you all on this episode um stephen ross and benjamin jackson are
00:42here as you can see looking very festive thank you for making the efforts effort efforts we try we try
00:49don't we stephen we do they're here to keep you right on the road to tv enlightenment remember
00:55you can also catch us on shots freeview channel 276 where you'll find lots of other great content
01:01okay without further ado stephen you're going to start us off this year with films this year this
01:07year this yeah that's good isn't it this year because we do this every year it's it's felt
01:11like a year hasn't it since the start of the podcast
01:17over to you right what a what a stellar intro yeah i am going to kick us off with a
01:24selection
01:25of christmas films coming out this month uh ahead of the big day so the first one that i want
01:33to
01:33spotlight is the heist before christmas which is coming to sky max at a date to be confirmed but i
01:40have uh i did get a preview of it so i i can recommend it's uh a weirdly big cast
01:49for a film
01:50that is only going to come out on sky and i don't think a lot of people are going to
01:54see
01:55it's got timothy spall as santa and james nesbitt as a bank robber who's dressed as santa and essentially
02:04the plot surrounds a young boy from a very poor um single parent household who finds he witnesses
02:14uh james nesbitt rob a bank whilst dressed as santa and then escape into the woods where he then finds
02:22timothy spall as actual santa and confuses the two hopes to help santa in order to gain a cut of
02:33the
02:33loot that he's robbed from the bank because he wants to buy his younger brother a bike because
02:37his mum's very poor and they're not going to have a great christmas so it's that typical you know
02:46basic confusion that is the crux of the film the mix-up between the two santas
02:52it's weirdly less funny like it's not that's not criticism it's just not designed as a comedy
02:59it's you kind of expect a film like this and set at christmas to be
03:04very funny or at least like you know like the nativity films with all these like cheesy laughs but
03:10it's actually just very like social realist gritty mum's very poor he's buying a dog bone to cook dinner
03:19with um really hard up christmas is going to be grim this year james nesbitt's just playing santa as
03:27the bank robber sorry the bank robber dressed as santa is just you know a typical bank robber
03:34um timothy spall santa has his own issues going on and it it's more of a drama than a than
03:40a comedy
03:41which is a bit strange and it's quite heavy in places because of just the grueling um poverty of
03:48of the the main family involved um and you have the woman trying to hold down a couple of
03:54trying to hold down a job at a supermarket with her boss who is a real piece of work but
04:01because it is a christmas film it does all sort of come good at the end um it's something a
04:06bit
04:06different i think it probably would have benefited more from being a comedy a straight comedy rather
04:12than a cost of living drama i don't know how many people want to watch that this year you know
04:16be
04:16reminded of the the reality of it but it's out there and it is something a little bit different
04:22and then another christmas film an alternative christmas film very much is it's a wonderful knife
04:30which is as it sounds inspired by it's a wonderful life which is one of my favorite christmas films
04:37of all time it's a purest favorite christmas film it's the general loads of people loads of people
04:44yeah yeah yeah it's um yeah for the connoisseur um but this is about a person who saves a small
04:52town
04:52from a psychotic killer but then realizes after the fact that her life isn't all that wonderful
04:58and she wishes she'd never been born and then find herself in a parallel universe where without her
05:04things could be much much worse because of the psychotic killer etc so it's inspired by the jimmy
05:09stewart film obviously i've not seen this one i can't imagine it's as good as the jimmy stewart film
05:15but for people who were modern classic i don't know i do not know i don't know if i agree
05:21with that
05:21even horror fans i suspect benji might fall into this camp who just they can't miss a festive season
05:29without injecting a bit of horror into it might want to catch this i imagine it'd be quite funny as
05:34well
05:35no i mean like the mean one that already it sounds like i've got a double bill with
05:40it's a wonderful knife followed by the mean one which was that grinch based horror movie wasn't it
05:46yeah but you know what it's a wonderful knife followed by it's a wonderful life or vice versa
05:51it might be a good double bill as well anyway it's a wonderful knife like the christmas barbenheimer
05:57it's a wonderful knife is on shudder which you might not have heard of i hadn't until recently
06:02it's a horror streaming service which is 4.99 a month so they're currently offering a seven-day
06:09free trial as well but if you're not too sure about it's a wonderful knife they've got a lot of
06:14dross on
06:14there but as well some big films like suspiria the wicker man the original not nick cage wrong turn etc
06:21they've got a fair amount of film so if you are a big horror fan and this is maybe an
06:25opportunity
06:26to get a free trial for shudder it might be the perfect excuse
06:31um and then finally again back to more classical christmas vibes we have wonka the charlie and the
06:40chocolate factory or equal which yeah which comes to cinemas on december the 8th so this is obviously
06:50based on the character from roald ars charlie and the chocolate factory and it tells the wonderful
06:56story of how the world's greatest magical inventor um um bugger me how the world confectionary king
07:09confectionary king is great i'm going to go from wherever um so wonka obviously based on the roald
07:17dahl book charlie and the chocolate factory it tells the story how of the how the world's greatest
07:22uh chocolate king confectionary king um came to came to be and how he got his oompa loompa slave army
07:33to run the chocolate factory for him and it's coming to cinemas on the 8th of december and of course
07:40it stars timothy chamolet better known for being kylie jenner's boyfriend as uh the titular wonka
07:49i can't imagine he'll live up to the gene wilder uh interpretation but i do quite like timothy
08:00he he's been great in some of his his roles you'll know him from um june of course and
08:10call me by your name and uh don't look up and don't look up yeah he's been he's been an
08:17awful
08:18lot and he's going to be in a lot more going forward i think he's uh very much uh one
08:23to watch
08:23isn't he um and this could be one of these yeah this this will be a big role for him
08:29because i presume
08:30is what you're about to say yeah so i i did i heard a little bit about on the radio
08:35this morning
08:35and early reviews are positive as far as i can tell and apparently hugh grant's turn as the oompa
08:44loompa even though there was some criticism about the casting is apparently a scene stealer so there
08:49you go all yeah to me oh oompa loompas aren't an actual people so i didn't really get why people
08:57were upset that he that someone who wasn't an oompa loompa was playing him the the implication that
09:04only dwarves should play oompa loompas seems very very weird towards dwarves um to well
09:12i'll be looking forward to seeing what hugh grant does with it anyway i'm sure everybody else will
09:18too so that's brilliant three films for you to get your teeth into in the ramp to christmas there
09:23people okay i'm gonna do some children's tv just now so if you're not into children's tv you might
09:31want to skip forward but actually at this time of year children's tv is awesome it's you know the
09:36big things that come out i would agree this is the one for children's tv very watchable for for
09:43grown-ups so the first one is um the perennial children's animation by the bbc which is this year
09:50it's well every year they do a julia donaldson uh adaptation for christmas and this year it's going
09:56to be tabby mack tat so it's the 11th year of this um where they take on a julia donaldson
10:02book
10:02and illustrator alex and axel oh god scheffler i'll say that again this year's animated special the 11th
10:10of donaldson's and illustrator axel chef oh my god this is getting my own back now
10:23scheffler it's scheffler this year's animated special is the 11th of the donaldson and illustrator
10:30axel scheffler's to be adapted it's based on the 2016 book tabby mack tat and its story is set on
10:37the streets of london about the friendship between a musical cat and a busker called fred i was reading
10:41it to my kids last night i know it very well uh so yeah as i say jodie whittaker is
10:46starring as is rob
10:47ryden who we all know from many things including gavin and stacy uh sope dearest sue from gangs of
10:53london um carrie ed lloyd from peep show and joanna scanlon from the thick of it and and many more
11:00familiar voices the official synopsis says fred a busker and his cat tabby mactacton who enjoyed
11:06contented life singing the streets of london to the lighted audience until one day when chasing a thief
11:11fred falls and breaks his leg and it's whisked away in an ambulance what will become of the busker's cat
11:15left alone on the city streets so yeah that as bbc likes to do at this time of year they
11:21don't tell
11:22you exactly when it's going to be on but it'll be on in sort of the week in the run
11:24-up to christmas
11:25that's usually what happens as is the case with their annual panto so um this year they are doing
11:33robin hood it's already been filmed they did that in october and the um adaptation is of the story which
11:41was written by andrew pollard while banks and wag have provided the music i'm sure everybody will
11:46be very excited to hear so okay that's us from part one we'll be back in part two with so
11:51much
11:52more christmas content it's going to be amazing
12:04okay welcome back to the christmas special everybody and the last thing to mention is
12:07netflix has chicken run dawn of the nugget coming out on december 15th
12:13um and that is uh having pulled off a death-defying escape from tweedy's farm ginger has finally found her
12:18dream a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock far from the dangers of the human world
12:22when she and rocky hatch a little girl called molly ginger's happy ending seems complete but
12:27back on the mainland the whole of chicken kind faces a new and terrible threat for ginger and her team
12:32even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk this time they're breaking in
12:37they had me at nugget they had me at nugget that's dawn of the nugget december 15th netflix and if
12:45you
12:45want to go there with um kids and toys and that again uh i want to mention the lately toy
12:50show
12:50which i mentioned in the main pod last week and you get that on the rte player app right benji
12:55you're
12:55going to talk to us about the christmas specials love this chat you know do you know what would be
13:00fantastic right now if if craig could like embed some very nice christmas seasonal music as i inform
13:07our listeners and i mean that'll do i mean any more you have to sing of that and we'll have
13:14to pay
13:14royalties towards it but yes yeah ladies and gentlemen boys and girls is it truly a christmas
13:20television season without the return of the christmas special no midwife absolutely not uh and as
13:30listeners of the podcast and viewers on shots might know this boy here he likes a bit of horror and
13:36he likes
13:37a bit of kaiju action but he also has a soft spot for call the midwife i absolutely love that
13:43show
13:44it's become a tradition um i think i only watch it as i've i've probably seen three or four called
13:50midwife christmas specials because my mother would watch it and oh yeah they're you're on the couch at
13:55christmas at home and there's even no choice but they're good like they're worth the watch you know it's
14:00it's mom's favorite isn't it it's kind of it's either going to be the king's speech or call the
14:07midwife that's that's you sit down have a watch with your family definitely the latter in our house
14:12but i mean the preview for this year's christmas special uh involves a delivery taking place during
14:20a snowstorm which i don't know if the snow bomb's going to arrive or not but it kind of
14:26are imitating life that will come out on christmas eve which will then be followed in the new year
14:33by season 13 if i remember correctly of called the midwife uh if that's not your kind of thing
14:41whatsoever though could i also suggest something that i watched last night which was the a very
14:47brassic christmas special oh my god i'm so excited for this i'm just i'm just in the i'm on episode
14:55three or four of the new series and i'm desperately trying to get it done before the christmas special
15:02and i we haven't talked about it actually on the podcast recently but i love brassic i absolutely
15:08i just think it's it's i when people ask me about it i kind of compare it to like
15:15the canadian tv series trailer park boys which is kind of like a bunch of reprobates that are trying to
15:21make a living earn a crust and stuff like that and i'm not going to spoiler it for anyone especially
15:27kelly but he makes a crust in the end but the christmas special uh is basically the idea of
15:35vinnie played by the incredible joe gilgan once again who also created the show um not only is he
15:42having to put together a christmas nativity because some people destroyed the nativity set
15:51at his son's school but he also has to combine that with also looking after or overseeing uh the
16:00auntie of dominic west's character who happens to be an acapole co-chasing skirt
16:07that that that that that cast member happens to be amelda staunton who is absolutely brilliant
16:15in her role as a cantankerous kind of you know older person that had a bit of a bit of
16:23a family
16:24turmoil going on and that unfortunately leads into another guest role just basically being a real
16:31scrooge uh one craig davies who uh oh greg davies one yeah and that leads into uh her discovering that
16:42the villain i would guess of the piece played by greg davies who sky love at the minute because
16:48he's presenting never mind the buzzcocks which also has a christmas special um playing if i remember
16:54the name correctly dick dolphin who is a celebrated actor in the area who opens a winter wonderland
17:01so of course vinnie be vinnie in the gang being vinnie in the gang uh if they can't go through
17:08things in a less than nefarious process to get the items then they'll go by any means necessary to be
17:16honest like i mean the nativity plus uh bad guy opens winter wonderland like literally they're the
17:22laziest christmas tropes of all time 100 percent but thoracic is like you just know their take on it
17:30is going to be so off the wall yeah i mean you i mean yeah admittedly on paper it's formulaic
17:37it's
17:38like oh no how are we going to save the nativity and you know at this person's lonely for christmas
17:43will they reconcile with their family but you don't go in the brassic to to see post-modern kind
17:50of work do you you go in the brassic because the dialogue is incredible even the little when someone
17:57chimes in in the background so that is coming to it's the ad-libbing in the back it's the kind
18:02of
18:03murmuring and the i don't know how they do it i don't know how they write it but it's so
18:07well done
18:07like it's just obviously they write a good bit of it but there's something else going on there that
18:12i don't know if they film it lots of times or only once or whatever they just let me want
18:16this if
18:17it's kind of improv at times as well i think i think it is a little bit yeah it's very
18:22natural
18:23it's got the same little um dialogue nuances that you get from this is england which was another
18:29series and film that joe gilgan was involved and so maybe his writing was informed by was it
18:35shane meadows that did that series but yeah but that's coming to sky showcase i can't keep up with
18:44the name changes anymore the channels december 21st and it will be available on demand and i know
18:49that you are looking forward to this one in particular steven doctor who the annual christmas
18:54special i think we're on the 11th christmas special now steven is that correct sounds about right
19:02we'll make it up as we go along i'll say it's the 11th um it's going to be the debut
19:06of the brand
19:08new doctor who i would imagine normally they transform over the christmas period anyway from
19:15like capaldi to whitaker and uh smith to ten and uh bits and pieces like that uh so we not
19:23only get
19:23introduced to the new doctor we also get introduced to the new companion it's the 60th anniversary of
19:30doctor who anyway uh if you're regular readers on national world you know that steven is all over that
19:37stuff as well and much like called a midwife is it really christmas on the bbc without that doctor
19:44who special i agree you gotta have it so you know christmas eve you're back to backs ladies and
19:51gentlemen call the midwife doctor who christmas special but if you want a little bit of levity
19:56in between that or just before that a very brassic christmas is where you need to be but i imagine
20:02brassic as usual is definitely post watersheds so um yeah watch out for that although you know
20:09like a bear does his business in the woods of course you know it's definitely definitely post
20:14water well if that's christmas eve then christmas day is over to me for the soaps ladies and gentlemen
20:20so i'm going to do this quite quickly because i know not everybody's into the soaps but coming up on
20:24caro the big focus is going to be around peter barlow's exit from the soap which i'm sure is no
20:31secret by
20:31now he's been around for quite a long time um so that's going to be quite point poignant and i
20:36think
20:36there's a sort of a uh episode long just two-hander with him and carla and sort of revisiting all
20:43their
20:43key moments so that might be good in the sense that there's probably going to be lots of flashbacks
20:47so it'll be nice little nostalgia buzz episode but i thought maybe that's a bit sedate for a christmas
20:51special but anyway there you go not a christmas special but you know the way like christmas special
20:56storylines at christmas and the other thing in two things worth mentioning in caro as well are
21:03ongoing deterioration of paul who is mnd bernie's got herself into trouble his mother probably going
21:09to end up in prison for christmas probably paul's last christmas very sad um all of that going on
21:14and then the return of and this is a spoiler the return of lucy fallon also known as bethany platt
21:23she's coming back after being away for five years and she had a little tryst with daniel barlow
21:30um in the past and this is potentially going to be revisited which is interesting because obviously
21:37daisy's been having a bit of an affair with ryan so there's all that going on in terms of romantic
21:42drama eastenders is probably the soap that has done the biggest job in terms of trailing its um
21:51christmas storylines they put out their first trailer for christmas in february this year
21:56people i mean come on like they're making an absolute job of this so that trailer showed us
22:02the six female characters that are going to be involved in the storyline sharon kathy stacy linda
22:07and suki and they were standing over a mysterious dead body at the queen vic uh stacy's blood in her
22:14hands
22:14studies holding a smash bottle ladies are looking on as shocked bride sharon bends down to hold the
22:19man's wrist and confirms he's dead so basically eastenders is going to be we don't know who the
22:25man is so this is and they're all they've all had different run-ins it's probably larry lamb
22:31exactly yeah i'd like sharon seems to have a bit of a habitual problem killing people over christmas
22:38specials right let's just hope they don't do it with the queen vic bust again um and finally emmerdale
22:45is um i i don't really watch emmerdale much anymore i used to love it but anyway apparently this is
22:51a
22:51serious love triangle going on at the moment between charity mackenzie and chloe that's going to come to
22:56crescendo when chloe's dodgy dealing dead gangster dad turns up and i think somebody's going to end up
23:02dead basically but what happens what is happening with emmerdale is there is a huge storyline coming
23:08in the new year there's going to be a big disaster in the village and there's going to be two
23:12of the
23:12families are going to be really devastated as a result so there you go that's a preview to 2024
23:17but that's a whole other episode people so thank you for listening to scream babble that was amazing
23:22like all the christmas content i mean we're only touching the surface there but obviously there's
23:26going to be loads coming up so stay tuned for weekend watch where we'll be letting you know any
23:31other new little bits and pieces that are coming on over the next few weeks we'll be letting you know
23:34the details of when and where things are going to be um previewing or where we'll let you know the
23:40details of when and where everything is going to be showing and we'll be getting excited for more
23:45christmas tv ourselves so thanks for tuning in and see you all next time bye merry christmas everybody
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