John Lewis Christmas Ad

mickysf
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edited November 2017 in General Chat #1

It must be out very soon!

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  • milliehull
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    edited November 2017 #2

    The M&S Christmas advert is lovely.

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2017 #3

    Not heard anything about it yet but the Independent newspaper is speculating a release date of around 9/10th November but not sure on what that is based on or whether it's guesswork? 

    David

  • ValDa
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    edited November 2017 #4

    The staff of John Lewis revealed part of the secret yesterday according to the Sun newspaper and others.  It is supposed to be shown for the first time on Friday this week.The video was also (allegedly) posted to the John Lewis Facebook page but it may be This one

    And here's a part of the ASDA offering

  • JVB66
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    edited November 2017 #5

    The Waitrose Xmas ad is out on the 12 Nov so John Lewis may be the same

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2017 #7

    Yes!

    The point being I suppose is that JL, over years, have tended to set the trend with the quality of its Christmas advertisements so there is a curiosity as to whether they can come up with one that is better than the previous one. Also, as a result, other retailers have had to up their game so a sense of competition exists as they all spend more and more money. I am not suggesting that people will watch it over and over again but as I said there is a curiosity that exists. Half of the expectation seems to be centred around which music they will decide to cover and then we have the debate whether it's better or worse than the original. 

    David

  • brue
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    edited November 2017 #8

    No, I wouldn't miss a single advert if we didn't have any. I take a peek but then the repeats annoy me! wink

  • JayEss
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    edited November 2017 #9

    I'm sick of them murdering some of my favourite songs. 

    I solve the problem by not watching live tv 

  • EasyT
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    edited November 2017 #10

    I solve the problem by (rarely) watching TV 

  • Francis
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    edited November 2017 #11

    I always enjoy the John Lewis ads always very inventive

  • JVB66
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    edited November 2017 #12

    I know it is something to do with "monsterssurprised" may be out tomorrow  friday

  • taffyY
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    edited November 2017 #13

    I have just seen it and I can't say that I am impressed with this one.

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2017 #14

    You can watch it here

    David

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2017 #15

    Hope you are not an Elbow fanwink

    David

  • Metheven
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    edited November 2017 #16

    JL advert, poor in my opinion, could have done better.

  • tigerfish
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    edited November 2017 #17

    Pretty useless in my opinion too. Certainly would not make me want to shop there!  I do shop there anyway, as it is a very store, but this advert would not sway me either way!

    TF

  • mickysf
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    edited November 2017 #18

    Must admit I saw this one a few days ago, thought it was the JL one right up to the last moment. Must say I think it's the better.

    https://youtu.be/mcEy-wYFMec

  • Bakers2
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    edited November 2017 #19

    Oh that's lovely. I prefer that to the John Lewis one.

    My reaction to the JL advert in the first few seconds was that it could quite easily plant ideas about monsters under the bed and cause lots of problems for parents and children. By the time it reached the end I thought it was quite cute but not as good as earlier ones.

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited November 2017 #20

    JL and M&S both rather boring. Monsters and burglars? At least the Tesco ad, one of a series of 5 this year is a tad more cheerful and realistic.

  • redface
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    edited November 2017 #21

    Good grief!   Do people really watch adverts?

     I tape programmes and then replay certain parts at 'fast forward' to get rid of the irritating ads.

    Usually if I do have to suffer their imposition I make a mental note to NOT buy that particular product.

    After all if I doesn't speak for itself it must be completely worthless in the first place, and may therefore be safely ignored

  • taffyY
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    edited November 2017 #22

    There is such rubbish on the T.V. these days that some ads. are better than the programmes!   laughing

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2017 #23

    I rather like the Waitrose Christmas Ad, even Goldie might even appreciate the irony?

    David

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2017 #24

    Have just seen the Aldi one....now that seems to be the best so far.

    I like the "Very" one too.

  • ValDa
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    edited November 2017 #25

    I like the Waitrose one, too, being from up t'North!

  • Goldie146
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    edited November 2017 #26

    I've not seen it yet, but we don't watch much "live" television" so I will have to keep a look out if we record anything on ITV.

  • Justus2
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    edited November 2017 #27

    We rarely watch live TV. If you start watching programmes 15 mins late, you can wind through adverts and it still finishes at the same time... Oh and John Lewis ?? Not really that aware of them although I've heard the name. We don't have one locally, so the ad. wouldn't impact on us anyway. wink

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2017 #28

    Goldie

    Here is a link to it on YouTube, save you waiting to catch it on TV. 

    David

  • tombar
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    edited November 2017 #29

    Have watched the JL's advert.  No good.  Terrible.  But the Aldi one (the "carrot that was "pea'd") was very goodlaughing

  • jennyc
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    edited November 2017 #30

    The M&S advert, featuring a burglar who is innocently thwarted by Paddington has a climax in which, many people believe he says f*** you little bear. I’m sure that St Michael would never have approved such an utterance.

  • jennyc
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    edited November 2017 #31

    What a staggeringly negative comment. We can’t keep up with Blue Planet, BBC and foreign drama, Helen Czerski, Have I Got News For You, QI, the list goes on - more then filling our own time available for TV, which is typically less than two hours/ night. No one needs to watch ‘rubbish’ TV with today’s choices.

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