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Loved both those shows!

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Specifically taking me out of context doesn't help you because we both know there are endless examples of crap British TV. Name me one recent British show you feel should have been on the air here.

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I've watched one episode each of those two. Line of Duty was a bit of a humdrum police drama of which there are about a zillion on TV already, Happy Valley was good, I'll give you that but I couldn't summon up the concentration to watch it.

Never saw it but according to the internet it only lasted 12 episodes.

That show sucked. Even Saving Hope is better than that dross.

My problem with a lot of British TV dramas is you can tell a lot of the actors are classically trained and then they try and pretend to be working class or whatever and don't pull it off. So it all comes over a bit wooden.

I thought you were going to say Peaky Blinders frankly. But it is on in Canada on the Super Channel if you can be bothered to get it.

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Anyway apparently there are about 3,000 episodes of Emmerdale for me to catch up on. I better warm up my proxy.

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I quoted that because it was a reference to me, one I found inexplicable as I hadn't mentioned British, or indeed, Estonian, television, only Canadian.

I think you're missing my point, I say that Canadian television is awful not by comparison with any other television output but in absolute terms. The constant advertisements alone are sufficient to make cleaning out the chicken coop an attractive alternative to watching it. I attribute the popularity of quilting in Canada to the quality of the television programming.

If a program of merit is taken from another country then chopping 12 random minutes out of the hour for the adverts is sufficient to ruin that program. Similarly, broadcasting the episodes of a series out of order is problematic for quality programming but doesn't really make any difference to Canadian shows because the audience just wants voices and images, not necessarily a plot.

I don't say that any British programming "should" be shown here. We're abroad, we come knowing it's a cultural wasteland, it's not the duty of the local television companies to pander to us. However, an example of a British program that in terms of drama, excitement, wit and production quality stands head and shoulders above the local fare is Escape to the Country.

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So four paragraphs to tell me you don't own a DVR. Who watches ads anymore?

And I don't get the comment about TV episodes being shown out of order. Such as?

You could say the same about British TV, what's the metric?

:lol: But anyway, I think that's on BBC Canada, don't know because I haven't got it anymore.

I think my only real gripe with Canadian TV is that too many HD channels are still in SD.

I want to see how this pick-and-pay thing works out later in the year.

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I'm not sure it's worth giving examplesSee, I was right. :lol:
:confused:
It was written as a 6 part series. It worked out so well a further series was commissioned.
It won awards including International Emmy Award for best drama series.
Of course it did. That's why it ran for ten seasons. Duh:lol:
That was good too. Three series so far and another on the way. :thumbup:
But there you go you see. It's only on if you can be bothered to get it because it's on a Premium service and not a normal TV channel. Thanks for giving an example of a good Brit show not on CBC, Global, CTV etc ;)

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How does the DVR put back in the minutes taken out for the adverts? Suppose the program is Escape to the Country and a tampon advert falls at the moment of the prospective purchasers announcing their decision. How does the DVR know which house they chose; how does it put back in the missing minutes?

I don't think it really does that. The DVR may save me from suddenly being able to swim but watching a program with advert holes isn't the same as watching the program before the holes were made.

As far as the order thing goes, some programs, The Sopranos or Game of Thrones, for example, have stories that span multiple episodes; characters die and it can lessen one's enjoyment of the program to see the episode in which the character dies before ones in which that character is alive. The BBC, for example, shows the episodes in the order of the plot. Canadian stations don't respect the order, they just shove an episode in the slot for that show, which is ok if you already know the outcome but, to my mind, it's not as good as watching a series serially.

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This is something they do in the UK but can't in North America. It's why the original House of Cards is better than the Kevin Spacey remake. Having to keep the series going so long as firms will buy advertising in it robs the writers of the chance to build to, or indeed to have, a conclusion.

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We had a few months of satellite tv in our rental house and never bothered to get a subscription when we moved... Channels and channels of dross, trying to pick out something worth watching. So now we just stream and I just pay for the tv shows that I really want to watch in present time which works out at one per year, and not having satellite and just streaming makes us pretty picky about what UK tv we watch now too, given we don't watch too much tv. Facebook is pretty good for highlighting the must see's.

I'm waiting patiently for Netflix to pick up Season 6 of The Walking Dead... Hopefully in September! I could pay for it but it will be out soon..

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Or you could watch it from a number of sites like this one.
No sign-ups, no fees, no problems.

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Only an issue with BBC shows, which I almost never watch. Not really a major issue and you know full well it's not a major issue.

What are you on about? That's complete bollocks!

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I'm not saying it wasn't, I'm just saying it wasn't on for long so I never heard about it.

WTH has how long something been on the TV got to do with how good it is? Spooks was an awful TV show, it was mega dross of the first order. The fact it was on that long and only picked up for the first season here just goes to show the ratings were so bad they had to take it off the air.

But that's a far bigger problem in the UK imx, because Sky buys up a lot of stuff so you have to have Sky. The one thing I remember that always wound me up was they have NFL on Sky and then they edit the game.

Here it's OTA on CTV and the US channels have more on, that's on basic cable.

It depends really on what you're talking about. Aren't new episodes of The Big Bang Theory on Sky in the UK? Whether you like it or not it's a popular show.

And even if you want UK dross, you can get it here, e.g. Coronation Street.

I still say TV overall is better here than in the UK.

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You don't 'alf talk shite

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It seems like a major issue to me. Perhaps the example of a drama with a plot is hard to understand after years of watching TV here. Imagine it's not a drama but a sporting event. The adverts fall at the time of the goals so the goals aren't shown. You record the program and have the machine skip the adverts; you still haven't seen the goals. I'd find that bothersome. I understand that you do not and that's fine but I don't see how you can argue that it's actually better than seeing the game complete with the goals.