Great theme tune, Bergerac.
Drama is also good for old episodes of The Bill, which are difficult to follow as it was basically a soap in its later years.
Both programmes demonstrate improvements in acting and programme making in the past 30 years.
Although John Nettles has maintained the same standard throughout.
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Just discovered a channel called Drama. It's all the 80s and early 90s stuff. If you miss Bergerac, then it's the channel for you.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
I’ve found this one. It’s not like they’re selling “the forces” or those who support them as a load of military obsessed morons stuck in the 1980s, at all.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostWhen do will “channels” as we know them cease to exist?
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostWay up towards the silly numbers on the Virgin Box is Forces TV, which seems to be the place to watch Knight Rider, the A Team, Streethawk, Airwolf and various other 80s TV shows. I watched an episode of the original Glen A Larson 'Battlestar Galactica' a few months back.
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There was a channel that popped up briefly on Freesat a year or two back that I forget the name of. Every time I saw it, it just seemed to be old concert recordings in a tiny screen window in absolutely abysmal quality - I'd guess about 240p. It made Showcase TV look like HBO.
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The Irish music channel is one station away from Sky sports (in Ireland anyway) it's the perfect place to see some of the worst music videos ever made.
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Way up towards the silly numbers on the Virgin Box is Forces TV, which seems to be the place to watch Knight Rider, the A Team, Streethawk, Airwolf and various other 80s TV shows. I watched an episode of the original Glen A Larson 'Battlestar Galactica' a few months back.
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I got a god-bothering channel (Die Neue Zeit), the last time I retuned my TV. It lasted about four months; current whereabouts unknown.
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There are subscription channels that I might pay for under certain circumstances: a cricket series in India*, a tennis tournament. I watched the Europa League semi-finals and some World Cup games on Spanish channels but do not speak the language.
Indian channels can also have some gorgeous Bollywood choreography but as per the OP, I wouldn't make an effort to go looking for it.
I don't understand the business model of cable porn when it's a click away on the web for the wankers who want it.
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The channels you don't watch ...
... but discover by accident every so often, mucking around with the remote.
On the NZ version of Freeview, there are a couple of Christian channels. Mostly they seem to have preachers, the shiny smiley kind, but now and then I stumble across a movie, and I'm reminded that there's this other world, a whole entertainment (sort of) industry with a Message. And the production values are pretty good, so it's watchable, if you don't mind limited plots ("boy meets girl and God"). Millions do watch, I suppose.
Chinese is the main minority language catered for, 3 channels available. My only clue to their bias is in the writing: the PRC has simplified characters, Taiwan doesn't. So the sub-titles for soaps and costume dramas show where they originate. The travel documentaries are the only things I can get anything out of, mountains of Yunnan etc.
There's an Indian channel that I could blob in front of for ages. Budget Bollywood, on a 24 hour loop, it seems.
The shopping channels might have undiscovered gems, but I've never watched more than 10 seconds of those. And no, I haven't found the porn.Tags: None
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