British Television programmes

What do you think of the new stella program on sky 1? IM not sure about it. its a bit strange, some parts are funny but some parts are odd.

Your right! I'm not sure if I like it or not yet, gonna give it another try on Friday and then decide. Do you watch 'Shameless'? I liked the eviction idea, but don't think it was worth running it over 2 nights, it could have just been done in the one episode.

I used to watch shameless in the early days but I don't watch it these days as the story lines are too silly.

I just watch it because it is alittle tounge in cheek but that's what makes it good! But you never know they maybe like that up in Manchester! (Just look at the Gallager Brothers!)

BUBBADOG14 wrote: Why are BBC1 & ITV mainly showing so many repeats recently? I'm noticing on the TV listings they are repeating programmes and films 48hrs after they are originally on. It's becoming annoying especially when they have players in this computer age where if you have missed a programme you can watch it there!!
So there is no excuse! We are paying for t.v licences so aren't we entitled to have good tv? what do you think?

Same issue, different country. We pay a monthly fee for access to a certain amount of cable networks. Our 3 major networks and public television are free. But I have noticed that also, more reruns, less new material. I think for us, it's a way to get us to upgrade to a more expensive contract with more networks.

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Ooof!!! Well,I'm here again although still a bit rough around the edges. Had a ver bad spell of poorliness which,as always,scared the living daylights out of me. Strange,because it's never ever done me any serious harm throughout the whole of my incapacity. However,British Television is generally quite good despite our constant carping that there's Nothing On The Box Again!! TV Programming has come a long way over the years because once upon a time it was a diet of Bill and Ben The flowerpot men,Welsh speaking programmes with endless images of sheep and Vets with half an arm stuck up a cow's backside.Hmmm,very inspiring for young kids,eh?

If you were lucky enough you would get Z Cars,Emergency Ward 10 or Dr Finley's Case book which was an evergreen show enjoyed greatly by my nana.Then came Perry Mason and Dr Kildare but then you would also get shows like Opportunity Knocks with Hughey Green who I believe went on to improve his career by banging Monica Rose in secret. Oh,yes, I nearly forgot about Jess Yeats,the errant preacher who was also cashiered for his own brand of dallying where dallying was strictly disallowed. Look at the image they wanted for Charlotte Church? Just because her name contained the word Church and she sang a few religious ditties the established audiences were outraged to find out that dear Charlotte wasn't particularly educating in keeping one's legs crossed.

Nowadays programming has no real limits but could you ever envisage our beloved soaps adopting strong language

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or how soon do you expect this to happen? Hopefully never!! Fortunately I do love a bit of pomp and circumstance and so enjoyed the celebrations of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. It made a refreshing change from all the doom and gloom going on in the world and it was different than enduring the monotony of British Daytime TV. Mind you,Postman Pat is OK and so are the Tellytubbies. Anyone for NOONOO?

Is TV really worth the licence fees we have to fork out each year? Perhaps some would say not but there's is much more choice now and BUBBADOG has found a fun sounding programme. This obviously means someone has found enjoyment out of one single programme and if the telly makes only the one person laugh while suffering adversity then,Yes, the fee is well worth forking out.

Just had the cable guy here to hook up our new tv. Now we get more networks, including at least 1 BBC. Usually our public television station broadcasts BBC America News and some pretty good programming, mysteries and the like. I'm excited!

Enjoy your BBC channel!! I hope you enjoy some of the british programmes you will get. We do get to see some good drama's from the BBC we forget how lucky we are sometimes!

I love the Inspector Lewis series. I'd already been getting the Downton Abbey series but needed to catch up, so I rented the dvd's and watched the first 2 seasons. The next ones don't start until January! Oh and Land Girls!

I know the olympic's is a big thing and needs many channels to show all the selection of sports, they have added quiet a few new tempory channels to help with that but to show sports over there 2 license paid channels is very bad especially when the olympic's is on these channels from 9am to 10pm every night. What if people don't want to watch any sport what are they to do? ITV,channel4 and channel 5 have other stuff on which is of a poor viewing standard and a lot of what they show is repeats of what's been shown from 48hr to a week ago. All I can say is thank goodness for SKY!

Here the Olympics is only carried by one of the major 3 free networks. They do re-air some highlights during news broadcasting on other networks. I'm not sure if any of the sports channels show any of it. I'm more of a fan of some of the more obscure sports like archery so I was up at 2 a.m. watching that!

Summer here is generally a time of a lot of reruns but it has gotten a little crazy as well. Airing the same episode of a show back to back is common and some of the programming I'm starting to know the lines by heart. I hope this fall things improve. Usually around the first part of September new shows and episodes start. And during Christmas time a lot of old classic Christmas movies are one. Those I don't mind watching over and over.

You should come to the UK as the Olympics is on all day! And you can pick what event you would like! Now I,m fed up of it.