Originally Posted by Big D

This is the one we use - excellent site and well worth a few bux here and there!

Originally Posted by paul_TX

Weren't they shutdown by the BEEB last year? Wonder how they're getting around this now?

Originally Posted by Chopper-Chris

I find it amazing that you want to get Eastenders

Originally Posted by Russ&Jayne

http://www.eeww.org/energia/mainsite

This site will give you the latest eastenders and a lot of archive stuff if you're really sad. They also have a good range of comedy and stuff. Much less hassle than Nova. Don't forget to donate to help out. He only expects around $5 a month of you download regularly.

Originally Posted by Big D

They were indeed - he keeps changing the address and mailing it to members - there is also allegedley a loophole as long as you dont use the service in the UK or area where it is available on TV (which up to date episodes aren't!!)

Originally Posted by teresa1003

I use this site its great, no hassle with the downloads, just need realplayer which is free.

Originally Posted by Bob

It's still against the law, but then so is most of what is plonked on nova...I think they just tend to turn a blind eye when things aren't out for sale on dvd's or regulary broadcast....but the site is just as much hassle as nova or any other torrent site, and if the format is anything like it was before, those real player quality was a bit poo for anything larger than a tiny corner of a monitor.

Originally Posted by Big D

They were indeed - he keeps changing the address and mailing it to members - there is also allegedley a loophole as long as you dont use the service in the UK or area where it is available on TV (which up to date episodes aren't!!)

Originally Posted by snowbunny

..... which is what I was referring to when I said that these sites are transient. Kinda like the illegal radio stations that broadcast from boats just offshore.

Originally Posted by Big D

You said no such thing!!! Must have been a different thread....

Originally Posted by Bob

I'd ditch real player for the alternate version on the hippo, much quicker and less bloat, tiny footprint too. www.filehippo.com

Originally Posted by Big D

...I found it much less hassle than the torrent sites - which seem to take ages to download and dont always agree with my PC - agree with you about the quality though!

Originally Posted by SimpleBlood

With the increasing British Ex-pat population living in America, it amazes me that the BBC doesn't make more of it's BBC America service. Tired old re-runs of Monty Python and Benny Hill seem to fill 40% of the schedule, and the rest is disposable drama like Monarch of the Glen and My Hero.

With BBC owning the channel, and all of their programming back catalog...where is the East Enders, the Red Dwarf, Royle Family, Fools & Horses, etc. If they can show such recent shows as The Office and Little Britain, why not classics like Bottom or One Foot in the Grave?

I'm really interested in watching Eastenders. It became a staple part of my life after 40years of living in Blighty, and as sad as it may be, I do miss it. I find it very hard to believe that in the technological wizardry we have in 2006, that there is no way for me to watch it, other than the rather medieval process of getting a friend back home to tape each episode and mail the tapes over (while I save for a European compatible VCR!!)

I mean, surely there is an easier way to keep up with the shows from home?? We can put a man on the moon and create a cell phone that shows videos of dancing naked frogs...yet I can't Eastenders in the US?!

Originally Posted by blaze

Bearing in mind that I have only read one page of this thread so excuse me if someone has already said this but the reason that BBC America does not show Eastenders anymore is because the BBC were charging way too much for the rights to show it. Apparently they didn't think that it was worth paying that much for it so it was dropped despite the uproar that it created over here (with Brits and Americans apparently!)