UK Television Shows (For you UK Lot)

[Sly Red]

Who's seen Kingdom (Stephen Fry) Series 1 & 2?  I loved it!  Bought the Series 1 Region 2 DVD set from Amazon UK, but they haven't released Series 2 yet.

What's new and really good on BBC and ITV lately?

We have BBC America here but it's just turned into Gordon Ramsey on at all hours saying 'F@%&'.  His time has really passed.

[no1birdman]

Hi, u can download it fom btjunkies series 2.If u are stuck i will download it for u and send it, but it will be in pal, i do not know if your dvd will play pal.

[Sly Red]

Hey Birdman, thanks . . . send me a link and I'll try to download it.  When it was on the ITV site downloads were restricted to UK IP Addresses.  I have an All Region player that can convert PAL to NTSC, so no worries there.

You may use the e-mail address in my profile if you prefer.

Red

[MagmaBabe]

SimplyRed.. do you have access to the BBC website? I don't know if that's just for the uk as well... but they show a pretty good variety of shows on their 'iplayer'
I've recently been watching a documentary on there called Wild China, which is interesting.
You might also want to try the channel 4 website...

other than that, I only really watch documentaries or programmes like My Name is Earl (and re-runs of friends, of course!)... we have way too many soaps and reality shows over here IMHO.  ooooh, they drive me crackers!


I prefer a good movie to most of the tripe offered on tv these days.

[Ian]

I thought 'Benidorm' was funny http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/comedy/benidorm/default.html
also Dom Joly's 'Complainers' along with his 'Happy Hour'


Just a few

[Sly Red]

Magma, Ian,

I'll check out all your suggestions when I get home this evening.  At the office (it's early afternoon here in Chicago) most of those types of websites are blocked.

Magma or Ian, did you see Kingdom, the Stephen Fry series?

Red

[no1birdman]

Hi,i have sent the files of btjunkie

[Razor X]

SimplyRed.. do you have access to the BBC website? I don't know if that's just for the uk as well... but they show a pretty good variety of shows on their 'iplayer'

It is only for the UK.   

[Sly Red]

You can actually buy software to fool servers into thinking you have a foreign IP address, i.e. UK or wherever you want, but I haven't been desperate enough to resort to that . . . yet.

[Jer]

On the topic of UK T.V. shows, have any of you over there watched 'Spaced'?

[MagmaBabe]

sorry Simply.. I haven't seen any episodes of 'the kingdom' 


and Fortin... I've seen spaced.. obviously a Simon Pegg fan too! He's a funny guy.
I love him in Shaun of the Dead, that's a wicked movie!

[Jer]

Yeah, I have all his movies...  I even have Spider Plant Man!  the short he did with Rowan Atkinson.  Run Fatboy is great too, but I still think Hot Fuzz was the best.

[Sly Red]

sorry Simply.. I haven't seen any episodes of 'Kingdom' 

If you're at all interested Kingdom should be available from your local DVD rental outlet.  It's a very good programme.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/rentals/B000NVI2BK/ref=rntl_dp_lc_altview

[SlickEric]

Doctor In The House, was a very funny show. 

[Sly Red]

Getting back to Last of the Summer Wine, I have many of the older episodes but I like the Howard and Marina years (Mid-nineties through early 2000's.  Also like Truly of the Yard better than Foggy.  It was running regularly on one of the Chicago PBS affiliates, but stopped several months ago.  Drat 

Red