How can you tell its a Bank Holiday weekend in the UK?

Hiya Wizzy, Here I am posting for the second time as it swallowed it all up the first time around. Ben Hur was on last week and so was The Sound of Music. Ben Hur was shown of Fathers Day which was the Saint José Day 19th of March sorry that was the week before last. Anyway we have not had Jesus of Nazareth on yet I suppose that might be on Sunday in accordance with the Day and all that. We have seen Gladiators which is a Film I love to watch and Al Pacino playing the Devil in that Film I can never remember the name of but anyway he plays it well. The Holy Processions through the Streets of Malaga and Seville have also been shown only on the News here. Maybe some parts of Spain have had it on but we have not. The never ending Football and Tennis is on plus the never ending adverts to go with it. So we zap in between adverts and watch two films at the same time sometimes. I don´t really watch them properly because I know they will be on another time and I can either record them or something like that. We love watching Ben Hur here as Charlton Heston filmed "El Cid" in Spain as well part of the reason but also because of the Gladiator scenes and the chariot races they all love that too. "Man In the Iron Mask" was on but they never tell you what time it´s on so by the time I got in it was already halfway over I sat and watched the rest and shed a few tears at the end. We have not seen Spartaco yet which I like seeing till it gets to the end and then I don´t ever want to see my beloved Tony Curtis end up like that or Kirk Douglass either. I like watching the Processions in Sevilla and Malaga but this year I´m afraid they have been pretty mean and I suppose it´s all on paid for Television it´s really lovely to watch same as the Fiestas in Valencia.

I have heard that England is notorious for having like maybe 4 channells and it has been this way for a time. I have seen parodies of this on shows like "The Young Ones." I feel like England has a huge amount of theatre,cluture,etc. It is said that London is the next Hollywood. Is it really still slim pickings? I can go to http://www.ninjavideo.net and watch recent movies or a lot of cable shows from BBC or America. And it's free.

We usually have one of the National Lampoons movies on.. there are several...and they usually have them all on.Other then that it is pretty much all over the place with the shows.

Yes its the same story in our local channels. Ben Hur and other classics are usually shown around this period. I have never seen Ben Hur... cos I was always afraid of the violence shown in this film. I watched some scenes but I never managed to watch the whole film.

It's funny because when I saw that "The Sound of Music" was on I laughed and even groaned, but would you believe it I ended up flicking channels, catching it and ending up watching it whilst I work, sad I know and it's still on right now whilst I type this. Well if you include Christmas Holidays then you can bet on "It's a Wonderful Life", "Miracle on 34th Street" and more recently the annual showing of "Love Actually". Easter always brings out the annual showing of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and for some strange reason "The Love Bug" gets shown most Easters. On a sort of reverse note those annual favourites like "Star Wars", "Superman" and even disaster movies such as "The Towering Inferno" and "The Poseidon Adventure" don't seem to be getting their regular airings anymore.