Over half of this year's Christmas TV is REPEATS, shock new study finds...

The tree is up, the cards line the sideboard and and Christmas presents are all wrapped. Now all you need is some great Christmas TV...even if it is lots of repeats!

Today's Daily Mirror front page.
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That's because a new study, the details of which are in today's Daily Mirror, says 63% of programming on the main UK Channels will be repeats. 

47% of the flagship channel BBC One channel's shows will, over the festive season, be repeats, whilst on BBC Two, 74% of shows will come from the archives.

Over on ITV, the percentage of shows which have aired before is 54%, whilst Channel 4 will air 72% repeats this Christmas.

A BBC One spokesperson that, when looking at prime time shows, 90% is new programming over the festive season.