Never have two weeks off looked so terrifying. Matt Wells reports today that the BBC is "relying upon the British love of karaoke to push ahead of ITV in the Christmas TV ratings this year". The beeb, presumably assuming we'll all be too addled to care, and correctly calculating that ITV will be even worse, intends to feed us a diet of EastEnders cast members singing in a variety show from Albert Square, which will also feature Liberty X and Lulu. Meanwhile, "traditional family movies such as A Sound of Music and the Wizard of Oz have been dressed up with singalong lyrics to run along the bottom of the screen."
There's only one thing for it: we're going to have to ask Santa for broadband multi-player kits for our PlayStations and XBoxes, and lock ourselves away for the duration. And the result will be, in the New Year, UK versions of the US's recent, slightly baffled, "where have all the young 'uns gone" pieces in the media pages. In the words of Why Don't You, maybe we're all going to "switch off our TVs and go and do something more interesting instead".
