My Predictions for 2025 (and how badly I did last time)

 Every year I try, every year I get it wildly wrong. Actually last year it turns out the predictions I'd made in at the start of 2023 had proved right a record number of times, cos I guess the bleeding obvious. So to 2025, what do I predict..?

Kev F's Confident Predictions for 2025

Strictly won by Rosie Jones

Cancelled: next big inappropriate-behaviour star to get cancelled is female, from ITV daytime

Musk dropped by Trump before the summer, is the easy prediction. Everyone’s got this in their list for the year. So the bolder prediction would be WHEN Musk gets dumped. I say April 28th. 

Neil Gaiman makes triumphant return and nothing more is said on the matter.

No Doctor Who Christmas episode, and show's future in limbo into 2026

Youtube Drama - Someone makes a well written drama that, despite its low production values, becomes bigger than anything on the streamers or broadcast TV. Like self publishers have done with books, someone does with proper storytelling but on Youtube. This leads to an acceptance of lower production values across the board and helps rescue public service TV in the UK.

BBC goes subscription. The Corporation moves to an NPR model. Because people realise how much they're already spending on streaming services, and because the BBC already makes so much from other sources, with a bit of Government support the transition works and saves national TV and radio for a generation. 

 

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.

Syria: Freedom Fighter who's not a terrorist turns out was a terrorist all along. Newspapers stop bigging him up. 

Ukraine: war ends, nobody's happy with the solution. 

Israel manages a ceasefire in more than half the countries it's firing at.

Electric cars work out a way of actually being feasible. Whether it's replaceable batteries, solar power, fuel cells or something surprising, the industry finds a better way of doing it than the current mish mash.

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 (NBC, ABC, CBS).

Weather: White Christmas, hot dry summer, no major flooding.

Grand National won by horse named after a meme (eg Deez Nuts, or My Name Is Jeff)

I'd love to be more imaginative, but let's face it, whatever I guess, something else happens. Here's to another unpredictable one.

Now let's see how well I did twelve months ago.

Kev F's Confident Predictions for 2024

1 - A General Election, and it'll be won by Labour. 

CORRECT - You didn't need to be Nostradamus

2 - New Tory Leader by Christmas and it'll be Penny Mordaunt

HALF RIGHT - It's Kemi the Bad Enoch

3 - US Presidential Election won by Trump for Republicans (NB: I'll be glad to be wrong)

CORRECT - Sadly

4 - House prices up slightly (2%)

CORRECT - Up 1.9% in fact

5 - Petrol prices remain very similar (currently £1.35 to £1.45)

CORRECT - At a three year low, according to the Guardian, but still £1.35 according to the tank full I bought today

6 - Eurovision won by Australia

WOEFULLY WRONG - Australia didn't even make the final, Switzerland won.

7 - Disney drops or downgrades one of its properties, Marvel or Star Wars

NOPE - Not that I saw.

8 - Comics that get made into TV or movies: Robot Archie, Lucky Luke, the old gasmask Sandman, Challengers Of The Unknown, Metal Men.

WIPEOUT - Apparently a Metal Men movie had been mooted in 2021, but it's been forgotten

9 - TV revivals: I Claudius, a show by the children or grandchildren of Monty Pythons, Call My Bluff, Jeux Sans Frontieres, Not The Nine O'Clock News

CLOSE - Call My Bluff has been repeated on BBC 4, we've been enjoying them.

10 - Biopic subjects: Ned Sherrin, Paul Daniels, Noel Coward, Marti Caine, Victoria Wood

NOPE - TV biopics have been thin on the ground this year, can't think of one

11 - Tribute bands get their own TV talent show 

NOT QUITE - This had already been done, by the BBC in 2017, and I didn't notice. Another version also runs on Dutch TV since 2022.

12 - Surprise technology hit: Walking talking AI toy kids have conversations with

NOPE - Though we watched a nice film this Christmas calls Ron Goes Wrong, on this very subject.

13 - There'll be a White Christmas

THERE WON'T

14 - Hot summer or wet summer? I say... hot.

SUMMER SAID WET

15 - Things that I predict cos I don't want them to happen:

- Widespread flooding - SADLY YES, in parts of Europe

- War in Ukraine continues right through year - SADLY YES

- War in Israel and Gaza continues right through year - SADLY YES

- Lots of celebrity deaths, inc acts who were on Top Of The Pops 83/84 and Live Aid  - NO. The nearest death to Live Aid was Liam Payne, whose voice was used on the 40th anniversary Band Aid release. Which itself died a death.

So you see, I knew nothing then and I know nothing now. Here's to 2025, whatever it holds.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard  The Third Paperback • signed	Findlay  Macbeth Paperback • signed	Prince of  Denmark Street Paperback • signed	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team Paperback • signed
Shakespeare Omnibus Paperback • signed	Comic Tales From The Bible Paperback • signed	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories Paperback • signed	Space Elain Paperback • signed
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess	Attack Of The Sausages
My 1975 Diary Calendar	Colouring Books Paperback • signed	Scottish Falsetto Socks Annual	Tales Of Nambygate

Colouring Books: Hollywood Legends, Punk, Cult TV, Eurovision Vol 1, Eurovision Vol 2, Eurovision Best Of British & Irish, 1960s Pop, 1970s Pop, 1980s Pop,  1990s Pop, 2020s Pop, Bowie, Scottish Pop, Doctors Who, Royalty, Rom Coms