Try the various PBS channels for good news and in-depth analysis, as well as other good stuff. Want some grosser-than-UK-comedy? - try South Park. Learn to appreciate Baseball.... After a while, you won't miss that strange stuff from overseas at all ... and you'll actually know what your fellow Americans are talking about at the water cooler

Could be worse! When I moved here is was endless reruns of Are You Being Served & Keeping Up Apperances.

Or Family Guy... that show is hilarious!!!

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There's a lot of UK stuff on 'Sundance' channel (Shameless and good Brit movies)

Ovation TV channel also has some good stuff.

thats on PBS lol.

I was starting a new WIKI article on television (pal vs. ntsc, cable vs. satellite, slingbox, etc). I started to come up with a list of British television programs currently shown on American television, but I need some help. Let me know if you have any other shows you've seen on American TV (not counting BBC America)

PBS Sprout (Kids):
Thomas the Train
Fireman Sam
The Hoobs
Teletubbies

PBS:
EastEnders
Masterpiece Mystery (Inspector Morse, Foyles War, etc)
Red Dwarf
Doctor Who
Fawlty Towers

A&E
Spooks (MI-5)

SciFi
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Who

Showtime
Secret Diary of a Call Girl

BBC America
(big list)

I`ve been living in the US for over nine years. I work in the IT industry and a few years back when I was looking for a good UK TV solution, there was no such thing as slingboxes or many of the streaming services which have popped up recently.

My solution was to build a tower pc system which is plugged in the loft space of my parents house, which runs some open source software called mythtv (http://www.mythtv.com). Basically it acts as a DVR and is plugged directly in the external arier via a DVB card. I also hooked up SKY to the same card to give me a sky feed. Basically programs get recorded on the mythtv system which they automatically compresses them down to a managable size (100MB) and those mpeg files get automatically copied to my Tivo here in the US. Generally I get all the regulars EastEnders, Doctor Who etc etc witin an hour, ready to watch (after transcoding).

Not a simple solution, but very doable.

Does Thomas the Train count. isnt it an american re-make of the British Thomas the Tank Engine? with the fat controller replaced by Sir Topham Hat?

We just moved over from Indiana to Long Beach and its fab - very friendly and relaxed and a great beach, I feel very lucky.
I am here on an L2, my hubby is based at JFK working for Airbus.

loads of torrent sites and threads on how to use them...plenty of threads on p2p streaming of tele too...

bbc america is a bit rubbish, but they have some good stuff...and pbs can be really good

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no only do I hate Sweet stuff chocolate included (inherited from Mum, I only know this cos one of my boys is the same) but I have inherited a dislike of tv from my dad, I wasn't that into when I left home, I had a joke when people talked about TV in the 90's I haven't watch TV from 86 to 96 I was OUT, which is pretty much true, so when my dad died in Dec 2003 I didn't know what to do with my time, so we bought Sky Plus (too old to go OUT) great move cos by May 2004 I was pregant with twins pregancy from hell not going there again, but I did catch up with programs, but 3 nearly four weeks into living in the US watched nothing all the way through apart from 2 Doctor Whos which I have already seen...

TheBox definitely has space for more subscribers now I just checked. I religiously download some stuff from there (soaps etc which are free) and also other stuff when I'm bored which isn't free. I do watch BBCA and PBS quite a lot too - but I don't watch that much US TV - drives me a bit insane

I have a similar setup using software from "SageTV". Not free/open source, but cheap and well supported. They recently added 'placeshifting' features ('slingbox' functionality) and I had my bro in UK watching US TV live (his wife is hooked on "Ugly Betty" and wants to see episodes ahead of the UK schedule - this desire for overseas TV works both ways, I guess....)

I am 'frustrated' by US TV, in that, it's hard to find stuff amongst the several HUNDRED channels I have from my cable provider, but I have to say there is a tremendous variety. Now that I have HD and a nice big LCD screen, I'm hooked on the various 'Nature' and 'Discovery' shows, of which there are plenty. I have access to at least 5 PBS stations, all of which have good news, good analysis, good nature shows, and a smattering of British comedy (enough to satisfy my appetite for it).

I also love the fact that on any given day I can see Star Trek original, Next Gen, and Voyager ... and with my DVR, I can skip all commercials.

What I've discovered is ... you have to give the US shows a chance. My girlfriend was a big fan of Roseanne; I reluctantly watched it in protest, and eventually learned to love it. Same applied to dozens of shows over the years. My current favorite is 'Malcolm in the Middle', which is being re-run on my local stations.

Coming to terms with US TV may be the secret to coming to terms with life here I just get a few DVDs sent over once a year for the best shows (like Early Doors, the Office, etc).