Nostalgia can make us look at the TV of the past with a rose-tinted lens that doesn’t always match reality. Here’s what we were watching in 2005
The Doctor (David Tennant), Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and a member of alien race the Sycorax in a scene from the 2005 ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special. Photo: BBC
When people of a certain age say Christmas television used to be better years ago, they’re usually talking about the supposed glory days of the 1970s – which, on closer inspection, weren’t actually that glorious at all.
But what was it like 20 years ago, the last flourish of terrestrial TV before Neflix, as we know it today, changed everything? Here’s what the main channels were serving up with the turkey on Christmas Day, 2005.