Drat.

[dianec42]

Headlines to get your hopes up, waaaayyyy up: BBC to show comedy via broadband.

A reading of the actual article reveals the sad truth: "BBC to trial ONE crap comedy show you've never heard of and wouldn't want to watch, on broadband because even with like seven TV channels they can't justify kicking anything else off air to make room for this dog".

Sigh. *pines for proper British TV*

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[blipvert.livejournal.com]

Not sure about recent British television, but I'll happily take the BBC's entire output from the 1970s. Just stick it all on as many DVDs as necessary (hmm, 87648 hours at ~6 hours/DVD, sure that's doable) and I'll just sit and watch them over and over. Oh heaven.

I pine for the days when one could still listen to the BBC World Service on good old fashioned short wave radio in North America. They still broadcast to Central and South America, Europe, most of Asia, of course, just not the two continents (North America and Australia) having a majority of English speaking people. Because obviously we'd prefer to fork over a major appendage plus a monthly fee for XM radio. Bastards.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

You can listen to the BBC World Service online at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I forgot to add that if you have digital cable service, your cable company might carry BBC America (http://www.bbcamerica.com), which carries a variety of British Sitcoms, but they only carry a couple of the older ones (Monty Python, and they just added Benny Hill).

If you live in the Boston area, Channel 2 carries BBC World service as part of their "secondary audio program" (most stereo TVs can listen to it).

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

BBC America is SO not the same. (Although the recent What Not To Wear-a-thon was mildly amusing.)

I want Graham Norton saying "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!" I want Jonathan Ross. I want They Think It's All Over and Never Mind The Buzzcocks and ITV coverage of the F1 races and Adam Hart-Davis explaining what the Romans and Vistorians did for us.

Most of the stuff they would show on BBC America, we already have on DVD. I want the weird stuff.

I want the Sky One show "Brainiac" where every week they had supermodels using a different high explosive to blow stuff up. I want 17 different re-run channels of equally proper British TV in case I don't like what's on the Beeb right now. And dammit, I want BBC coverage of the Olympics with non-stupid commentators and no adverts!

I even miss the adverts. Am I pathetic or what?

Sorry, as you can probably guess I've had this conversation a few times recently...

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

I didn't get where I am today without pining for great 1970s British sitcoms.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Headlines to get your hopes up, waaaayyyy up: BBC to show comedy via broadband.

A earlier this year, I heard on the radio that the BBC was interested in exploring how to use something like BitTorrent for distributing programming online.