On the buses
Nov 26th 2011 | 8:29 pm
#16
On the road again.
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From: On Top of the World
Re: On the buses
About the only half decent stuff now are endless repeats of some of the best of the old sit-coms.
......but the thought of endless repeats of Strictly Crap and X
My Skybox would definitely go in the bin before I turned suicidal.
I tend to watch mostly Spanish now. Their news programmes are far more interesting than ours and theres a few decent documentaries also.
Some of the other stuff is helpful to learn the lingo,..... until they start filling in with that mindless American crap.
I wonder what TV will be like when the Chinese take over the planet ?
Probably 50% political brainwashing, but maybe they'll have something more imaginative than our lot in between.
Nov 26th 2011 | 8:33 pm
#17
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From: Velez-Malaga
Re: On the buses
We have not seen English TV for more than 5 years recently we looked at the programme lists and were amazed at the old rubbish that is being put out. Made us so glad that we opted out of it, never been huge TV watchers anyway, hate soaps, do not like the celebrity stuff etc so our TV was hardly on in the UK. But we do enjoy good quality drama, good in depth series, films etc so buy DVD´s so that we can watch exactly what we want when we are the mood for it. Most nights we watch an hour or hour and half depending on what we have chosen, therefore every minute spent in front of the box is pure pleasure.
Rosemary
Rosemary
As for On the Buses, I didn't like it first time round either, nor Love Thy Neighbour - not for any pc reasons, it was just c**p. I did like Alf Garnett, though, but I preferred Dandy Nicholls playing Else, what comic timing that woman had! I can still watch endless reruns of Fawlty Towers and find it funny although I've seen it so many times I can almost recite the script word for word. Same with The Good Life.
Nov 26th 2011 | 9:24 pm
#18
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From: Costa Valencia
Re: On the buses
I hate all the so called "talent" shows and won't watch anything with Celebrity in the title, don't watch any soaps either. However there is still some good stuff on British TV, I loved Downton Abbey even if it was anything but accurate in the way it portrayed the relationships between the aristocracy and their servants - but Maggie Smith hamming it up as the Dowager Countess was priceless! BBC3 and 4 have some really good documentary series on too, I really enjoyed Indian Hill Railways (which was shown later on BBC2 I think) and they often have good music programmes on Friday nights.
As for On the Buses, I didn't like it first time round either, nor Love Thy Neighbour - not for any pc reasons, it was just c**p. I did like Alf Garnett, though, but I preferred Dandy Nicholls playing Else, what comic timing that woman had! I can still watch endless reruns of Fawlty Towers and find it funny although I've seen it so many times I can almost recite the script word for word. Same with The Good Life.
As for On the Buses, I didn't like it first time round either, nor Love Thy Neighbour - not for any pc reasons, it was just c**p. I did like Alf Garnett, though, but I preferred Dandy Nicholls playing Else, what comic timing that woman had! I can still watch endless reruns of Fawlty Towers and find it funny although I've seen it so many times I can almost recite the script word for word. Same with The Good Life.
Rosemary
Nov 26th 2011 | 9:40 pm
#19
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From: Living in a good place
Re: On the buses
I hate all the so called "talent" shows and won't watch anything with Celebrity in the title, don't watch any soaps either. However there is still some good stuff on British TV, I loved Downton Abbey even if it was anything but accurate in the way it portrayed the relationships between the aristocracy and their servants - but Maggie Smith hamming it up as the Dowager Countess was priceless! BBC3 and 4 have some really good documentary series on too, I really enjoyed Indian Hill Railways (which was shown later on BBC2 I think) and they often have good music programmes on Friday nights.
We went around the place it was filmed and there were hundreds of people there due to it's popularity. I don't understand the peoples love affair with all the talent shows, even some people I judge to be fairly normal are hooked on the dancing and ice shows etc....and why is there all this crying on TV now
They even cry when they go to view a house...even though they don't buy it
Never watch those old re-runs on Sky, except for the odd Black Adder. Spanish TV is even worse, those stupid quiz shows that go on all night and their versions of talent shows.There was a really good docu-drama on channel 4 last week about the guy who broke the enigma code, more about his personal life and how badly he was treated by the security authorities.
Here is the link for those who can watch it
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/b...odebreaker/4od
Nov 26th 2011 | 9:57 pm
#20
Ex Expat
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,140
From: West Midlands, ex Granada province
Re: On the buses
We have not seen English TV for more than 5 years recently we looked at the programme lists and were amazed at the old rubbish that is being put out. Made us so glad that we opted out of it, never been huge TV watchers anyway, hate soaps, do not like the celebrity stuff etc so our TV was hardly on in the UK. But we do enjoy good quality drama, good in depth series, films etc so buy DVD´s so that we can watch exactly what we want when we are the mood for it. Most nights we watch an hour or hour and half depending on what we have chosen, therefore every minute spent in front of the box is pure pleasure.
Rosemary
Rosemary
Nov 26th 2011 | 10:00 pm
#21
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Re: On the buses
Anybody watching PanAm on Saturday nights BBC?
Nov 26th 2011 | 10:00 pm
#22
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From: Costa Valencia
Re: On the buses
Nov 26th 2011 | 10:35 pm
#26
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From: Land of no recession
Re: On the buses
Well my Skybox and dish were exchanged for €210 this morning.
Without resurrecting an old thread my happiness factor is now 8 ish
Without resurrecting an old thread my happiness factor is now 8 ish
Nov 26th 2011 | 10:54 pm
#27
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Re: On the buses
Pan Am is OK the characters are starting to develop so it's getting a bit more interesting. Easy viewing. It's not something I would normally watch but the writer came into my pub about a year ago and told us about it so that's the reason I started to watch it
Nov 26th 2011 | 11:02 pm
#28
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From: Back home
Re: On the buses
Sky Atlantic has some good stuff on there, Boardwalk Empire is my favourite.
Pan Am is OK the characters are starting to develop so it's getting a bit more interesting. Easy viewing. It's not something I would normally watch but the writer came into my pub about a year ago and told us about it so that's the reason I started to watch it
Pan Am is OK the characters are starting to develop so it's getting a bit more interesting. Easy viewing. It's not something I would normally watch but the writer came into my pub about a year ago and told us about it so that's the reason I started to watch it
Nov 26th 2011 | 11:12 pm
#30
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From: West Midlands, ex Granada province
Re: On the buses
Got it
Any Attenborough stuff is excellent. We also have all the complete Poirot set (11 series), Ruth Rendell Mysteries boxed set, and various other boxed sets such as Walking with Dinosaurs and the like.
To Rosemary: Yes, we bought them all. (Apart from the complete Inspector Morse set, which we borrowed).
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