BBC Christmas Specials

[12stones]

These special programmes are always upbeat and often unabashedly sentimental, even maudlin, to us. The themes are goodwill, togetherness, and the putting aside of grievances.

I'd say that our American holiday programming is similar in this way. Our society may be more materialistic, though from my time in the UK I'd say there's plenty of materialism that takes place across the pond as well. I do agree wholeheartedly, however, that UK TV is better than American TV. I could live completely on a diet of the Graham Norton Show and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

[OC Richard]

Yes time off over Christmas is all over the place here in the USA.

Where I work it's one of the busiest times of the year. We are open full hours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, every day of the year in fact.

My wife, on the other hand, gets the period from Christmas Day to New Years Day off. One year, as a Christmas bonus, everyone got two weeks off and were paid double for those weeks!