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Daily Mail wheels out 'Christmas repeats' whinge ... in November

Only Fools and Horses
Only Fools and Horses – always handy for filling a festive TV schedule/news basket. Photograph: BBC

The countdown to Christmas can officially begin – yes folks, the Daily Mail's annual "outrage at repeats on Christmas TV" is here! Having been beaten to the punch by the Daily Express last year, the Mail has dusted off its festive small-screen whinge even earlier than normal this time round – it's still November, for Yuletide's sake. And – demonstrating an unusual degree of self-awareness – acknowledged that they have begun to repeat themselves. "At the risk of repeating ourselves ..." says today's Mail story. "In what readers will recognise as a familiar story ..." They're not kidding. Anyway, when's Dad's Army on?

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