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Post by gunnersmom on Jul 2, 2014 5:55:33 GMT -5
It seems that Hallmark will be airing Christmas shows the entire week of 7/6 instead of the Waltons. That seems so weird to me. On the 14th, they resume their regular schedule. Since I've only been watching the Waltons again on tv less than a year, and never watched the Hallmark Channel, is this normal? Christmas stuff in July?
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Post by patriciaanne on Jul 2, 2014 5:57:56 GMT -5
I don't know but I already hate Hallmark for showing Christmas movies 24/7 for half of November and all of December. Gosh, I love Christmas, but they can really ruin it for you. I'm so grateful that I have a couple of hundred episodes on my DVR now so I can just switch them off.
thanks for the heads up!
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Post by gunnersmom on Jul 2, 2014 6:09:03 GMT -5
I should have all the Walton's DVR'd by November. Plenty of choices during a time of famine!
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Post by flyaway on Jul 2, 2014 6:34:50 GMT -5
I don't know but I already hate Hallmark for showing Christmas movies 24/7 for half of November and all of December. Gosh, I love Christmas, but they can really ruin it for you. I'm so grateful that I have a couple of hundred episodes on my DVR now so I can just switch them off.
thanks for the heads up! Ditto This
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Post by Sussie of Teckelhut Acres on Jul 2, 2014 10:06:03 GMT -5
My mom said years ago "They start shoving Christmas down your throat so early that by the time it actually gets here, you're so sick of it that you're glad to see it gone" Boy is she right!
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Post by patriciaanne on Jul 2, 2014 18:20:57 GMT -5
My mom said years ago "They start shoving Christmas down your throat so early that by the time it actually gets here, you're so sick of it that you're glad to see it gone" Boy is she right! I do my best to ignore it. I don't go to stores, so that helps. Having Hallmark playing the Christmas movies 24/7 is really awful, but now I have my DVRed episodes to get through that. There's also a local radio station that plays Christmas songs 24/7 for the entire month of December. So I listen to something else.
What I want to know is...what crack-smoking idiot thinks there's ANYone out there who wants this?
I would be happy to watch Christmas movies the week of Christmas. I would be happy to hear Christmas songs on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Really...
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Post by Sussie of Teckelhut Acres on Jul 2, 2014 18:45:17 GMT -5
My mom said years ago "They start shoving Christmas down your throat so early that by the time it actually gets here, you're so sick of it that you're glad to see it gone" Boy is she right! I do my best to ignore it. I don't go to stores, so that helps. Having Hallmark playing the Christmas movies 24/7 is really awful, but now I have my DVRed episodes to get through that. There's also a local radio station that plays Christmas songs 24/7 for the entire month of December. So I listen to something else.
What I want to know is...what crack-smoking idiot thinks there's ANYone out there who wants this?
I would be happy to watch Christmas movies the week of Christmas. I would be happy to hear Christmas songs on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Really...The same crack smoking idiot who invented commercialization.
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Post by patriciaanne on Jul 2, 2014 18:47:45 GMT -5
I do my best to ignore it. I don't go to stores, so that helps. Having Hallmark playing the Christmas movies 24/7 is really awful, but now I have my DVRed episodes to get through that. There's also a local radio station that plays Christmas songs 24/7 for the entire month of December. So I listen to something else.
What I want to know is...what crack-smoking idiot thinks there's ANYone out there who wants this?
I would be happy to watch Christmas movies the week of Christmas. I would be happy to hear Christmas songs on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Really... The same crack smoking idiot who invented commercialization. It doesn't make sense, though, if you want people to watch your tv channel or listen to your radio station, why you would deliberately make programming decisions that would drive them away. That doesn't make sense from a business perspective.
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Post by Sussie of Teckelhut Acres on Jul 2, 2014 19:06:56 GMT -5
I have worked customer service for the last three years. I do it from my home for a large company and I make good money at it. but with that comes a price. I have learned that there are a lot of stupid people out there running businesses. LOL
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Jul 3, 2014 2:11:47 GMT -5
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Post by gunnersmom on Jul 3, 2014 3:54:31 GMT -5
Maybe Christmas in July is a sort of place-saver for them. So many people go on vacation or whatever. Maybe they wanted to suspend regular reruns for the week, so showing non-stop Christmas programming just made good sense!
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Post by patriciaanne on Jul 3, 2014 19:17:11 GMT -5
Around here if you go into a store you'll see Christmas stuff out BEFORE Halloween.
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Post by JeriJet on Jul 4, 2014 8:28:41 GMT -5
Maybe Christmas in July is a sort of place-saver for them. So many people go on vacation or whatever. Maybe they wanted to suspend regular reruns for the week, so showing non-stop Christmas programming just made good sense!
The whole "Christmas in July" phenomenon has been around for quite a while -- decades? .... I'll see if I can find anything online, but I do remember such events in stores and on tv fairly early-on.... 1960's ?? Perhaps even 1950's....
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Post by e knight on Jul 4, 2014 10:11:11 GMT -5
Maybe Christmas in July is a sort of place-saver for them. So many people go on vacation or whatever. Maybe they wanted to suspend regular reruns for the week, so showing non-stop Christmas programming just made good sense!
The whole "Christmas in July" phenomenon has been around for quite a while -- decades? .... I'll see if I can find anything online, but I do remember such events in stores and on tv fairly early-on.... 1960's ?? Perhaps even 1950's....
Once a year for certain shows used to be okay for the stations, but in the cable TV era, they want to get more out of their investment. I've noted that you see a small boom in horror films broadcast at the end of May, which is half-a-year removed from Halloween.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2014 8:47:17 GMT -5
Christmas in July has been around for a long time, now, and is most likely the invention of someone in the marketing field.
Recently, I have come to the realization that time seems to go by faster each year almost exclusively because media and stores make holiday-specific entertainment and products available to us earlier and earlier each season. Now that July Fourth has passed, stores are already advertising their Back-to-School sales. There are clearance sales on summer clothing and the Fall lines are being previewed.
By September 1st, stores display their Halloween products. At that point there are two full months until Halloween arrives. I was in Costco the first week of October last year and the Halloween items were gone. Christmas was in full display.
Try buying a winter coat in the middle of January, when there are still 10-weeks of Winter left to endure. You can stock up on shorts for Spring and Summer, but gloves, a scarf, and a wool winter hat are already gone through clearance sales.
It's just ridiculous.
The Hallmark Channel does ruin Christmas for many people. A daily barrage of Christmas movies starting from the first week of November numbs me to Christmas when Christmas actually arrives. Add the fact that most of their Christmas movies are terrible and you can see how a person can be sick of Christmas by the time December comes.
The Hallmark Christmas movies mostly follow these two themes: The first theme is that someone is related to Santa Claus and is charged to help someone with his or her Christmas spirit. Or, Santa's relative is in training to replace the current Santa. The second theme has little to do with Christmas at all. It is a story about a man or woman who is in a relationship, or engaged, and a stranger comes into his or her life. That stranger turns out to be the real soul mate of the man or woman and they get married after the man or woman ditches the original partner, who turns out to be a jerk, anyway. The movie offers no real Christmas message. It's just a romantic drama that happens to be set at Christmas time.
There are some very good Hallmark Christmas movies, like, ironically November Christmas, which is about a family that moves up each holiday celebration because they are afraid that their daughter will succumb to her serious illness before Christmas arrives. This would be a good reason to rush the holidays, as opposed to the reasons of commercialization and commerce.
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