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Christmas decorations

• David Kermode
• 6 Dec 06, 01:35 PM

It's Christmas - official.

This week our breakfast rivals stuck up their festive decorations, tree and all. Their studio now resembles some kind of grotto.

We don't generally watch our rivals that nervously, because we do generally aim to be different in the morning.

But, many of our viewers flick between the two shows - and they are currently demanding to know where our decorations are.

Problem. Our decorations are all planned (the design process takes a while), but they weren't due to go up until Monday 18th December. The thought of holding out another ten days is too much to bear. We've changed our minds - the decorations will go up this Monday instead.

This, I guess, represents a victory for the viewer. Some of our emailers and texters were polite - "would it be possible to have decorations please?", some were concerned - "why is there no tree? Is this political correctness?" and some forgot about the season of goodwill in their choice of words.

There are plenty of people who think Christmas starts far too early, of course. This morning we heard some top drawer humbug from one of the creators of 'Grumpy old men'.

So when is the correct day to put up your decorations please...?

David Kermode is editor of

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大象传媒 in the news, Wednesday

• Host
• 6 Dec 06, 10:55 AM

Manchester Evening News: "The 大象传媒 could get the money it needs to move to Salford, even if the corporation ends up with a low licence fee settlement." ()

Evening Standard: "The 大象传媒 will be left without a chairman until at least April, following Michael Grade's shock defection to ITV last week." ()

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