Freeview Recommendations

[stavros]

Yeah, well, you support Spurs and take Smash Hits seriously, I'm glad we disagree

Actually I've never bought Smash Hits and it stopped being published a few weeks ago. However Channel 4 haven't taken upon themselves to fill several hours a week of schedualing with repeated coverage of the now defunct work which anyone who might be interested in it would have on DVD anyway.

Re. Freeview, it also enables you to watch daily highlights on ITV2 each summer of the world's biggest annual sporting event, the Tour De France and live coverage at the weekends, rather than the solitary hour a week of highlights which ITV relegates to the early hours.

 

[Maggot]

More4 sundays at 9: Father Ted followed by Curb Your Enthusaism

BBC3 Tuesdays at 10.30 Ideal: comedy with Johhny Vegas as a dope dealer. Apart from that BBC3 is a bit rubbish: the channel where you're never more than an hour away from Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

You think Snuff Box was influenced by Seinfeld?!!? Or Friends?

(I'm thinking the latter.)

Stavros thinks everything is a rip off of Seinfeld, even stuff which it has nothing in common with.

 

[Part 2]

More4 tonight 10.10pm The Return....well worth watching.

 

[ChrisFilter]

<rewrites Xmas card list>

<spreads fish paste on the back of dub's radiators>

 

[stavros]

Stavros thinks everything is a rip off of Seinfeld, even stuff which it has nothing in common with

Not true. I merely think Friends is and am utterly and totally disgusted with how it gets flogged to death several times over in the UK and Seinfeld never got the chance it so deserved. Friends is the only show I've ever said ripped off Seinfeld; a group of moderately-successful 20/30 somethings in New York City go about their lives with most of the action taking place in an apartment or the local cafe. Not hard to put two and two together.

 

[TeeJay]

I highly doubt there's anything that good on, but does anyone have any programme recommendations for freeview channels? Since I got my box last night, I seem to have been glued to Beauty and the Geek

BBC Three and BBC Four have some really great stuff from time to time. BBC News24 is useful if you miss the news. E4 and E4+1 have some cool music videos in the morning.

Freeview also gets you 1xtra and BBC6 Music radio channels.

Here's a pretty good TV listings site: http://www.onthebox.com

 

[rosa]

There was a very bizarre cartoon sketch show on BBC3 on Monday night called Cubby Couch.Very similar to Monkey Dust.Featured a jealous hamster among other things.Fantastic stuff.

 

[hot air baboon]

.....this may have been around for years but just caught on to a "classic" film channel Talking Pictures TV

TV Schedule for Talking Pictures TV Programmes

- show a real quirky range of stuff - including alot of 50/60's British films -even dating back to the 30's - that your not going to see on any other channel any time soon - makes a change from re-runs of Carry On films :

eg Aug 22-28

Spare the Rod 1961. Drama. Director: Leslie Norman. Stars Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen & Donald Pleasence. A new teacher arrives at an East London school to find that his modern education methods are not welcome.

Jigsaw 1962. Directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner. A woman is murdered and it’s up to Detective Fellows to sift through the clues and solve the ‘Jigsaw’. Great shots of Brighton in the 60s.

 

[isvicthere?]

Ten year bump!

 

[hot air baboon]

 

[danny la rouge]

.....this may have been around for years but just caught on to a "classic" film channel Talking Pictures TV

TV Schedule for Talking Pictures TV Programmes

- show a real quirky range of stuff - including alot of 50/60's British films -even dating back to the 30's - that your not going to see on any other channel any time soon - makes a change from re-runs of Carry On films :

eg Aug 22-28

Spare the Rod 1961. Drama. Director: Leslie Norman. Stars Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen & Donald Pleasence. A new teacher arrives at an East London school to find that his modern education methods are not welcome.

Jigsaw 1962. Directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner. A woman is murdered and it’s up to Detective Fellows to sift through the clues and solve the ‘Jigsaw’. Great shots of Brighton in the 60s.

I was looking forward to it, but we seemingly don't get it here.

 

[hot air baboon]

......started on Sept 2015 apparently......channel 81 Freeview....try re-tuning your "box" or something....?

Talking Pictures TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[danny la rouge]

......started on Sept 2015 apparently......channel 81 Freeview....try re-tuning your "box" or something....?

Talking Pictures TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yeah, I tried that. That's why I felt able to say that we apparently don't get it here.

 

[danny la rouge]

Just checked an online availability checker website. It says this:




I don't have HD.