A curious thing was posted on the official BBC One twitter account at the beginning of the month: a TV schedule. This may not immediately seem strange, given that it’s a TV channel; but given our TV-watching habits are now so disparate and off schedule, so on-demand, to see a channel excitedly claim, “This is what we’re putting on, and this is when we’re doing it!” felt quite antiquated.
And yet, it being Christmas, it made sense. We still get excited about Christmas TV. And what actually defines that TV? Inarguably, the answer is animation.
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