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dgsyd1

Jul 21st 2009 6:40 am

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Originally Posted by Kate2112 (Post 7771181)

I really miss British TV. I only get BBCA which rarely has any decent shows. I long for the day when you can catch up on BBCIPlayer and for the other channels too. I have cable and am amazed how often there is nothing worth watching.

Have you tried FilmOn Kate?

Kate2112

Jul 21st 2009 6:54 am

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Originally Posted by dgsyd1 (Post 7771681)

Have you tried FilmOn Kate?

I haven't but I will as soon as I get home - Thank you very much!

Walkingman

Jul 21st 2009 7:10 am

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Originally Posted by cindyabs (Post 7771433)

Alas I knew him well. :(

Alas? Yeah he was an annoying bugger, wasn't he?

cindyabs

Jul 21st 2009 8:47 am

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Originally Posted by Walkingman (Post 7771785)

Alas? Yeah he was an annoying bugger, wasn't he?

Twas

scrubbedexpat091

Jul 21st 2009 4:00 pm

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Originally Posted by bevinva (Post 7767905)

I've said it before but I was amazed that Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, and Little House on the Praire were adult shows here. They were shown in kids hours in the UK, they also show my age.:lol:

I used to watch all those shows as a kid, in re-runs though during the 80's.

newshoney

Jul 21st 2009 7:18 pm

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Hi - excuse the impertinence of an occasional visitor - but seriously guys you have little to complain about. At least you get HBO (Sopranos, The Wire, etc.). You could be in Canada... where the only refuge from really DREADFUL TV is US programming via satellite/cable.

As for the "excellence" of British TV... it's much harder to find quality stuff on today's low-budget-farm-it-out-to-an-indie-employing-cheap-teenagers terrestrial channels.

dgsyd1

Jul 22nd 2009 4:14 am

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Originally Posted by newshoney (Post 7773183)

Speaking for myself, I wasn't really talking about the "excellence" of British TV. I was saying that, British TV isn't as bad as some seem to think it is, and US TV isn't as good as some seem to think it is. They've both produced some great television, and they've both produced some utter crap.

nethead

Jul 22nd 2009 4:36 am

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Originally Posted by dgsyd1 (Post 7771681)

Have you tried FilmOn Kate?

I wish they'd hurry up with making it Mac friendly.

Juswus

Jul 22nd 2009 5:08 am

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Originally Posted by newshoney (Post 7773183)

ahhh, but we don't. Or rather we don't unless we pay tons extra for HBO :(

frrussre

Jul 22nd 2009 10:15 am

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Originally Posted by dgsyd1 (Post 7774438)

USA TV, very good at shoot bang fire, glitzy & high tech spy.

UK TV, very good at drama, thriller, comedy & "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy" QUALITY.

Of course, Brits do have James Bond, the ultimate, high tech spy/agent.

Don't get me started, Only Fools & Horses. Quality supreme.
Reg. Frank

ldobson

Jul 28th 2009 4:36 am

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I think its pretty simple, there is a false perception in England, that American TV is 'all that and more', probably for a couple of reasons

1.) In the past American cable companies always had hundreds of channels, while us Brits had much less; People were mistaken in to the thinking that quantity over quality was better.

2.) The American shows which were imported, were popular because they were American (exactly the same reason people drink Budweister in the UK) not to mention some of the popular shows such as The Simpsons and Friends were at least half decent. Not too much of the crap which makes up for 80% of American TV was ever imported.

As I watch, Sky, Freeview and Comcast all side by side and compare the listings, it is disturbing how simular the channel line-ups are now, Multitudes of American programming on every sky channel, and American 'rip offs' of British shows on Comcast.

Ray	Jul 28th 2009 4:42 am

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Originally Posted by frrussre (Post 7775412)

And birds with big tits

tigerbaywarrior

Jul 28th 2009 6:06 am

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Originally Posted by cindyabs (Post 7767983)

Bill Bryson has mentioned in several of his books that Cagney and Lacey seemed to follow him around in the UK.

He did remark on getting a kick out of a Welsh program in Welsh that would go on and on in Wlesh until a phrase like "dirty weekend" popped out in English, :D

I think that would be 'Pobl a Cwm'
:thumbup:

cindyabs

Jul 28th 2009 10:27 pm

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Originally Posted by tigerbaywarrior (Post 7792053)

I think that would be 'Pobl a Cwm'
:thumbup:

That describes the sound effects, :D

tonrob

Jul 28th 2009 10:50 pm

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Originally Posted by dgsyd1 (Post 7771681)

Have you tried FilmOn Kate?

FilmOn Kate.... is that one of the porn channels? ;)

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