Friday Five Favourite

Friday Five Favourite – Christmas Adverts 2025 – the runners up

12 12 2025

After last week’s top five, here are five more that were great but just didn’t quite make the cut!

Dog’s Trust

Marks & Spencers Food

ShelterBox

Smyths Toys

Morrisons

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Friday Five Favourite – Christmas Adverts 2025

5 12 2025

It’s been a strong year, probably enough to do my runners up post in a week too! But also, a shout out to this Uber Eats advert, I’m not including it because I don’t think technically it’s a Christmas advert (it came out in September), but still worth a mention a) cos it’s excellent and b) because of its links to Christmas.

Waitrose
There’s been one advert that when it came out I sent to a load of people because of how good it was – and they were my winner by a long way last year too!

Aldi
After a decade, the Kevin the Carrot adverts don’t feel tired at all! This year’s came in three parts…

Google Pixel

Barbour
It would be hard for Wallace and Gromit to do a bad advert…

Tesco
They have a selection of adverts on a theme this year, so below should be the full playlist if I’ve done it correctly – but even if I haven’t, the opening video is a quick montage of them all!

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Friday Five Favourite – Eurovision 2025

23 05 2025

Another year, another Eurovision.

We were treated to an excellent song, teaching us all the things that Switzerland has brought us:

So, to the competition – it was a strong front half of the evening then fizzled a bit, but with one strong one near the end!

Also, need to give a shout out to Ireland who didn’t make the final, but absolutely should have with their song about Laika the space dog!

Of course, I did my annual spreadsheet – please enjoy

And so, here are my top five this year (as highlighted in green above):

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Friday Five Favourite – Christmas Adverts 2024

6 12 2024

Waitrose
My winner this year by a LONG way, it was great – leaving us on a cliffhanger for a couple of weeks before releasing the second part!

The Entertainer
An excellent music choice for humorous effect

Boots
Classic anti-patriarchy teasing

M&S
Dawn French playing Dawn French

Aldi
They’ve been doing Kevin the Carrot ads for several years now, but this still has some excellent jokes in it, even after all this time

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Friday F-three Favourite – Eurovision 2024

17 05 2024

This is normally a five favourite, but this year the standouts for me were only really three acts, so that’s what you’re getting!

Interestingly, of my top three, my second place was the actual competition winner, and my first and third took the bottom two slots on the official leader board, so I’m not sure what that says about my taste…

And my beautiful spreadsheet for this year:

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Friday Five Favourite – Christmas Adverts 2023 – the runners up

8 12 2023

Last week I brought you my five favourite Christmas adverts from this year, here are five that didn’t quite make it!

Sainsburys
Mostly for the charcute-tree pun!

Asda
This was a precursor to their actual advert, but I think I enjoyed it more!

Lidl

Disney

Boots

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Friday Five Favourite – Christmas Adverts 2023

1 12 2023

Happy December! It feels like a strong year this year, here are my top 5!

Marks & Spencer
This has been deemed controversial by some for a couple of reasons, one political and one PC, neither of which I think were strong arguments, but there we go.
I loved it – it made me laugh a lot!
Sadly the version on the M&S YouTube channel has been cut a few times to remove the things that have upset people; it’s now a shadow of its former self. I’ve had to post the video from the daily fail’s channel instead, but it’s worth it for the full joyful experience.

Aldi
Each year I worry that Aldi will have run out of ideas for Kevin the Carrot, but absolutely not, this year is a full on retelling of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! It’s the little details that make it brilliant.

Tesco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQfDORyFxo

Coca-Cola

Amazon
This seemed like a great idea and I kinda wanted to give it a go!

Five runners up to follow next week!

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Friday Five Favourite – moments from the Ted Lasso finale

2 06 2023

The series 3 finale of Ted Lasso aired this week, possibly the final episode ever, possibly not, no one is confirming yet, but it definitely closed the three season arc. There’s speculation it could come back with a different title given what Ted writes in the last episode about it never having been about him….. we shall see – I’d only want them to continue if they could keep the quality up, it’s been superb and I’d be so sad if they let it fizzle out.

Anyway, the finale had some really special moments in it, here are my favourites, there could have been so many more, that’s partly why I’ve just limited it to this episode. It’s nice to have these clips to be able to watch bits back without sitting down for the full show – I’ve watched the song back a few times already!

Obviously *SPOILER-TASTIC ALERT*

#tedlassospoilers

say what you will about the ted lasso finale but this was the perfect full circle moment pic.twitter.com/dNBFIx5aXR
— elena (@sudeiking) May 31, 2023

https://twitter.com/anomalisted/status/1663810504954118145

The absolute smooth subtlety of the man at the airport saying “wicked!” (British slang) and Ted Lasso saying “Kinky Boots” back to him because he didn’t get it was top tier.
— Destiny Jackson (@DestinyDreadful) May 31, 2023

Lots of beautiful moments in the #TedLasso Finale, but this one-shot take was stunning. Every actor, foreground and background, hit their mark flawlessly. 👏 pic.twitter.com/2eQRe8SOK0
— Jack Proctor (@MrJackProctor) May 31, 2023

https://twitter.com/giselleb1234/status/1663792564057657344

As an aside:

me still waiting for the part where roy and keeley get back together #TedLassoFinale pic.twitter.com/XaFIYi1yHL
— ally hiester (@allymhiester) May 31, 2023

and a couple of other lovely things the internet has brought forth since it came out

A little treat for fans of #TedLasso

Bad TV Impressions: Ted Lasso Season 3#comedy #impressions #justabitoffun #TedLassoFinale #TedLassoSeason3 @TedLasso pic.twitter.com/f9Sb11UnBT
— Kieran Hodgson (@KieranCHodgson) June 2, 2023

Richmond 'Till We Die. pic.twitter.com/yZEqySnHy2
— Apple TV (@AppleTV) June 1, 2023

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Friday Five Favourite – Eurovision 2023

19 05 2023

I’ve been shattered all week since wrecking my body clock with this, but it was worth it!

It was so fun to have the UK host it on behalf of Ukraine, funny to see Graham Norton up the front, when those are normally the people he’s busy taking the mick out of from his commentary box!

The interval gave us The Liverpool Songbook – Liverpudlian hit songs sung by former Eurovision stars. It included a fantastic cover of Whole Again by Atomic Kitten, from Dadi Freyr (which he has since released as a single!), and a beautiful rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone, bringing all acts together at the end, enjoy: