Kev F's Confident Predictions for 2025
Strictly won by Rosie Jones - WRONG
Cancelled: next big inappropriate-behaviour star to get cancelled is female, from ITV daytime - WRONG. We had Gregg Wallace, a couple of Strictly dancers and no one else big springs to mind.
Musk dropped by Trump before the summer, is the easy prediction. The bolder prediction would be WHEN Musk gets dumped. I say April 28th. - VERY CLOSE. It was May 29th
Neil Gaiman makes triumphant return and nothing more is said on the matter. - WRONG. He sued someone for breaking their NDA (stay classy Neil) then kept quiet
No Doctor Who Christmas episode, and show's future in limbo into 2026 - SADLY CORRECT
Youtube Drama - Someone makes a well written drama that, despite its low production values, becomes bigger than anything on the streamers or broadcast TV. - NOT SURE. I’m told Ai microdramas are a new sensation in China. And Italian Brainrot, does that count?
BBC goes subscription. The Corporation moves to an NPR model - NOT YET. But they have just been sued for $10billion by Trump, so next year’s funding model could be penny for the guy.
Bad Enoch saves the Tories. Despite Reform winning a byelection, Kemi Badenoch succeeds in uniting her party and by the end of the year she's more popular than Keir Starmer or Nigel Farage. - NOPE Reform did well in local council elections, Tories did worst, Labour middling.
Syria: Freedom Fighter who's not a terrorist turns out was a terrorist all along. Newspapers stop bigging him up. - FAR FROM IT. In November he was guest of honour at the Whitehouse.
Ukraine: war ends, nobody's happy with the solution. NOT YET
Israel manages a ceasefire in more than half the countries it's firing at. PARTLY, SORT OF, BUT NOT MUCH
Electric cars work out a way of actually being feasible. NOT REALLY. Tesla sales plummeted when Musk went full Nazi, which didn’t help.
New TV: PG Wodehouse Universe,
Young James Bond;
first successful British studio audience sitcom in years is made for Youtube and is big hit;
Netflix buys one of US TV's biggest broadcasters
- I GOT ONE RIGHT!
Netflix bought (or have started to buy) Warner Brothers Discovery. And young James Bond is not out of the question after Amazon bought MGM in early 2025
Weather: White Christmas, hot dry summer, no major flooding. ONE OUT OF THREE
Grand National won by horse named after a meme (eg Deez Nuts, or My Name Is Jeff). NOPE. Unless Nick Rockett is a meme I’ve not encountered.
So that was last year’s failure rate. Here are this years predictions
Kev F's Confident Predictions for 2026
New category, contestants in Celebrity Traitors:
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Richard Osman
Rosie Jones (Traitor)
Tess Daly
Jimmy Carr
Sarah Lancashire
Chris Packham
Professor Hannah Fry
Graham Norton
Miranda Hart
Chris Hoy
John Richardson
Gabby Logan
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Eddie Kadi
Tamsin Grieg
Tim Vine
Gbemisola Ikumelo
Bob Mortimer
Lucy Worsley
UK Politics:
- Labour leader will still be Starmer
- Badenoch will be replaced, probs by Jenrick
- Reform will lose more MPs and councillors than they gain
- Greens will win lots of polls but no seats of value
- Your Party will collapse and disband
US Politics:
- Trump will still be in power
- War with Venezuela becomes real and deadly. Other South American countries join in
- Midterms will be disrupted by military action and won’t happen as they should
- Trump will drop libel case against BBC
- Epstein Files will amount to nothing and be forgotten
Media:
- New comic shop chain launches, centred around The Dogman Shelf and young readers
- No new Doctor Who apart from one off Christmas special, starring Billie Piper as The Doctor
- New Doctor Who showrunner named. It will be Charlie Brooker.
- iPlayer amalgamates with ITVX , Britbox and Channel 4 to create new popular streamer
- First Ai feature film to get big ratings and critical success. It’s by Disney.
Ai (LLM slop art) will also appear on packaging in supermarkets by big company, eg Kellogs, and TV advert. In fact my big prediction is that we, the artists, lose our battle against Ai slop big time, and it is embraced widely and ubiquitously. "Real art" becomes an elitist quality-based thing that "normals" don't understand the point of.
New Strictly presenters: Zoe Ball and La Voix
Cancelled: One of those big Youtubers that the kids are all over. But then they go MAGA.
Revived or remade TV shows: The Prisoner, 1984, Tales Of The Unexpected, The Good Life, Doctor In The House, Mary Mungo & Midge, Seaside Special
oh dear I seem to have run out of ideas. Any suggestions?
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