UK and USA : what is on TV ?

[f-e]

I don't normally watch a lot of TV, but with the lockdown last year I realised the TV was shit. So i bought a Nvidia Shield android streaming box and pay £80 a year subscription for an app which is great. Any sport, sky, bt, amazon, movies, series etc, example saw the new bond film a day after it came out.
Mare of Easttown
Ted Lasso
Warrior Nun
A Discovery of Witches

The Kodi box. Banned in many countries, and that's before the software goes on it. My friend has one with the usual US and UK portals, and one with hundreds of Iranian channels.
You can download kodi to your PC. It's a legit file manager where allowed. It's the add-ons that make it interesting.



GMT On god, outnumbered. A soap I could actual watch and enjoy. If I had to go mainstream. There is years of it. I had forgotten that one. Surely a girl would like that.

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

The Freak Brothers, it is faithful to the original art of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip of the 1960's, it's all about weed.

 

[Cuddles]

Extras is Ricky Gervais. A fake behind the scenes working on films as an extra. They have A list celebrities playing caracatures (sp?) Of themselves. It's cringe TV at it's best.

Outnumbered is a family sitcom, which sounds dull as fuck I know, but it's really not. I don't think I've laughed at anything as much ever. It's mainly unscripted and looks at the way kids see things and the things they say that you wish they wouldn't.

I see that Samantha Bond is in outnumbered and she´s a pretty good actress I guess. I´ll see if I can catch it on otr sometime, thanks.
Extras sounds kinda interesting too.

 

[Cuddles]

I don't normally watch a lot of TV, but with the lockdown last year I realised the TV was shit. So i bought a Nvidia Shield android streaming box and pay £80 a year subscription for an app which is great. Any sport, sky, bt, amazon, movies, series etc, example saw the new bond film a day after it came out.
Mare of Easttown
Ted Lasso
Warrior Nun
A Discovery of Witches

never heard of this before but then again I´m anything but techie savvy, lol. 80 quid a year? How much is an ordinary TV license these days?

 

[St. Phatty]

I hear the Super Bowl is on TV.

You just have to figure out how to make the TV work.

FVCK NBC, CBS, and whoever #3 is that have the football exclusive.

They sell ads based on the number of eye-balls, but they avoid the 20 or 40 million that want to watch on the Internet.

Ad supported like Pro Surfing webcasts. They are not running a charity, they like money just as much as NBC.

Why don't the 3 big TV stations let the Super Bowl air on the Internet ?

They must be scared of people pirating the signal.

But nobody pirates the surf webcasts - there's no incentive to.

Someone could re-broadcast the Super Bowl, and strip out the Big 3 ads, and put in their own ads.

 

[moose eater]

"57 channels, there ain't nuthin' on..."

 

[armedoldhippy]

"57 channels, there ain't nuthin' on..."

what was the line in the Pink Floyd song? "65 channels of shit on the TV to choose from..."

 

[armedoldhippy]

The Freak Brothers, it is faithful to the original art of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip of the 1960's, it's all about weed.

the art is excellent, but i want to see them animate his previous comic books, along with the Fat Freddies Cat books. my mother loved those...Wonder Warthog as well. sometimes i wonder about Mom...

 

[Cuddles]

what was the line in the Pink Floyd song? "65 channels of shit on the TV to choose from..."

very true where I live but I get fewer channels

 

[gizmo666]

The Freak Brothers, it is faithful to the original art of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip of the 1960's, it's all about weed.

absoluetly brilliant
but i prefered the comics myself

Young Sheldon
i know what your gonna think but i binged on this its funny as hell

 

[moose eater]

what was the line in the Pink Floyd song? "65 channels of shit on the TV to choose from..."

I believe the lyrics I posted were from a Bruce Springsteen tune;

​​​​​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

The Pink Floyd reference does't ring any bells for me...

 

[f-e]

Beside poirot I would have to say the Sherlock programs are worth a watch. Then, if you like that BBC standard viewing, The Bodyguard got a lot of interest, but more on target would be Line of Duty, which has the viewers off gogglebox on the edge of their seats, with their heads spinning around. One woman is even taking notes to keep up.
You have watched gogglebox right? It's a program watching people watching TV. It doesn't get any better than that lol. Only Line of Duty gets the awards though. They were on a sub over christmas, where a procession of killers were killing killers to stop the truth being traced back. I saw it on gogglebox.

Line of Duty has been going a while now. Bodyguard was a short series. Sherlock are stand alone stories iirc

 

[Switcher56]

I believe the lyrics I posted were from a Bruce Springsteen tune;

​​​​​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

The Pink Floyd reference does't ring any bells for me...

For what it's worth Moose, I never heard Bruce's song but... remember Pink Floyd's reference. Mind you in all fairness, I never liked Bruce not did I care much for his music. Therefore...

 

[Switcher56]

very true where I live but I get fewer channels

Anyone remember the day of 3/4 channels? Life was much simpler back then. Now we have 300+ channels of shit to choose from, which doesn't include streaming!

 

[GMT]

I remember watching the launch of Chanel 4, with the first edition of countdown.

 

[f-e]

BBC1
BBC2
ITV (independent=adverts)

Then we got a 4th. The cleverly named 'channel 4' (more adverts)

Later, we got a 5th. Guess what it was called. (more adverts. Only the BBC don't have adds, because we need a TV license to even use a TV, and that pays them)

There was no room for channel 5, so everyone's VCR needing moving elsewhere to free up space. A task channel 5 had to offer to do for everyone. Actual house visits. They must of had some money behind them..

Really it was just the 5 for ages. Ionica cabled us up so long ago, nobody remembers and it wasn't wanted. Then cable came again, and it stuck. Along with satellite.

Then the terrestrial broadcasters stepped it up again with freeview. It didn't start as free though. The early boxes took a card. Like a satellite box. Which flopped. Failed. Then was reborn as freeview. Which is intergrated into sets now. Carrying all the terrestrial channels as the analogue system that once carried 1-5 is gone. Making it simply 'digital TV'


Edit: No.. Ionica were fleeting, but not the first cable. Ionica used a phone line and dish. They did mobiles. Failed and the law bought the mobile phone infrastructure.
Redifusion? It's big black cables still found along the back of many a terrace.
Edit2: Rediffusion Cable TV in the 1930s.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Sfu...ntext=spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1E36z6B7herFJ5


And ya who woo woo wooo
A nd ya woo woo woo me off my feet baby

 

[944s2]

Beside poirot I would have to say the Sherlock programs are worth a watch. Then, if you like that BBC standard viewing, The Bodyguard got a lot of interest, but more on target would be Line of Duty, which has the viewers off gogglebox on the edge of their seats, with their heads spinning around. One woman is even taking notes to keep up.
You have watched gogglebox right? It's a program watching people watching TV. It doesn't get any better than that lol. Only Line of Duty gets the awards though. They were on a sub over christmas, where a procession of killers were killing killers to stop the truth being traced back. I saw it on gogglebox.

Line of Duty has been going a while now. Bodyguard was a short series. Sherlock are stand alone stories iirc

Just to add to fe list
I would add Idris Elba as Luther,,,,,,
roundabout series 5 now iirc and filmed in East London,,,
Bit over the top with the violence but a good show with a big budget,,

 

[Sunshineinabag]

More music.....less boob tube...please?

 

[Cuddles]

BBC1
BBC2
ITV (independent=adverts)

Then we got a 4th. The cleverly named 'channel 4' (more adverts)

Later, we got a 5th. Guess what it was called. (more adverts. Only the BBC don't have adds, because we need a TV license to even use a TV, and that pays them)

There was no room for channel 5, so everyone's VCR needing moving elsewhere to free up space. A task channel 5 had to offer to do for everyone. Actual house visits. They must of had some money behind them..

Really it was just the 5 for ages. Ionica cabled us up so long ago, nobody remembers and it wasn't wanted. Then cable came again, and it stuck. Along with satellite.

Then the terrestrial broadcasters stepped it up again with freeview. It didn't start as free though. The early boxes took a card. Like a satellite box. Which flopped. Failed. Then was reborn as freeview. Which is intergrated into sets now. Carrying all the terrestrial channels as the analogue system that once carried 1-5 is gone. Making it simply 'digital TV'


Edit: No.. Ionica were fleeting, but not the first cable. Ionica used a phone line and dish. They did mobiles. Failed and the law bought the mobile phone infrastructure.
Redifusion? It's big black cables still found along the back of many a terrace.
Edit2: Rediffusion Cable TV in the 1930s.

At least C4 does stuff on art eg the turner prize and I remember really enjoying Jarvis Cockers´Peoples Art´ series. I´ve been looking for that book but couldn´t find it when I last checked. Not knowing the authors name doesn´t help, lol .

I remember when channel 5 started and I had high hopes but it all ended in a huge dissapointment for me. They just did what all the others were doing - like starting that boring soap Hollyoaks and so on...