British TV

[goodman]

Can anyone advise how to get access to UK TV. I know about downloading the BIT Torrent but that is limited. We subscribed to the Live TV which promised 3000 Channels which turned out to be a complete waste of money. Most of the stations are foreign! I do not watch a lot of TV but sometimes would like to sit down and watch something other than a waste of time reality show about plastic surgery or over weight people. OK, BBC America does have some good programmes if you like Gordon Ramsay (I think he is great) and Top Gear which seems to be repeated everyday. Please U.S, we watch all of your programmes in the UK (i.e Friends, Desperate Housewives, Roseanne, Keeping Up With The Kardashians (On E) just to name a few) can you not bring a few more from UK to US. Only Fools and Horses, Faulty Towers, and Keeping Up Appearances are only but a few, you would get used to the sense of humour!!

[Fatbrit]

Bittorrent -- thebox and uknova are the main sites for Brit telly -- private trackers.
VPN service -- watch BBC iplayer and the ITV and C4 one by using a VPN service, eg blackvpn
Slingbox technology-- get the family to sling you their Sky satellite telly from the UK.

There's also a fair amount of Brit stuff on the Netflix service. Use the streaming option (e.g. Roku box or games console) rather than waiting for DVDs to arrive.

[Bevdeforges]

Strangely enough, in the US you can often find British series on (get ready for it) "educational television" - now called Public Broadcasting over there. PBS used to be what was called "educational tv" back when I still lived in the US.

Nowadays many PBS stations run one night a week (often Saturday night) of classic British comedies, a few PBS stations were even running Eastenders (about a year behind) and on some of the PBS series, like Masterpiece Theater and their Mystery series, they show some of the better BBC series.

If you donate to your local PBS station, they'll even ask you what you'd like to see.
Cheers,
Bev

[James3214]

I'd also back 'fatbrit's suggestion. You could also use a VPN provider like Lamnia to access IPlayer and also the new Seesaw service which at the moment only offers streaming, no downloads. Just make sure you have some decent bandwidth.

[Ms B]

We tried a VPN for a while (think it was adtv) but it started to be really slow (maybe the BBC were on to us...?) My cousin lives in Holland and uses uknova, I had a look at the schedule and it looks good.

I've found PBS only to be good if you enjoy things like Keeping Up Appearances.

Also try netflicks, they have some British stuff.

[ashcroft]

we use View TV Abroad, fast excellent service and cheap!!! UK and US TV!
Good luck!

[stormgal]

Originally Posted by goodman

Can anyone advise how to get access to UK TV. I know about downloading the BIT Torrent but that is limited. We subscribed to the Live TV which promised 3000 Channels which turned out to be a complete waste of money. Most of the stations are foreign! I do not watch a lot of TV but sometimes would like to sit down and watch something other than a waste of time reality show about plastic surgery or over weight people. OK, BBC America does have some good programmes if you like Gordon Ramsay (I think he is great) and Top Gear which seems to be repeated everyday. Please U.S, we watch all of your programmes in the UK (i.e Friends, Desperate Housewives, Roseanne, Keeping Up With The Kardashians (On E) just to name a few) can you not bring a few more from UK to US. Only Fools and Horses, Faulty Towers, and Keeping Up Appearances are only but a few, you would get used to the sense of humour!!

another whinging pom. hahaha, just kidding. I thought I'd make a small joke

[theresoon]

Originally Posted by ashcroft

we use View TV Abroad, fast excellent service and cheap!!! UK and US TV!
Good luck!

Can I get that here in Cyprus and how? I need good small kids programing.

thanks

[wynco]

easy peasy - download expat shield - it is free and you can then go to tv, iplayer for all the bbc live channels and past channels. Plus itv player for all the itv channels.
Works like a dream - but only on windows - not MAC. Can use Hot spot shield for MAC to pick up the US channels however i have not been successfull on the MAC yet. The other works like a dream. good luck

[britgirl]

the bbc eye website allows you to download uk tv and watch it on your pc,but only the bbc channels,so wouldnt get some of the stuff,but may get fools and horses over xmas period.if you get a multi-region dvd player you can watch uk dvds too,thats how i watch my vicar of dibley,fools and horses etc