The channels you don't watch ...

[jwdd27]

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.

[Patrick Thistle]

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.

[Crusoe]

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.

cf. Movies4Men (safe link).

[3 Colours Red]

When do will “channels” as we know them cease to exist?

Something like Pluto TV shows that a more traditional style of broadcasting could be sustainable as a streaming platform.

[Hot Pepsi]

When do will “channels” as we know them cease to exist?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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.

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.

[3 Colours Red]

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.

[elguapo4]

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.

[Patrick Thistle]

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.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

BT sport

[Stumpy Pepys]

I got a god-bothering channel (Die Neue Zeit), the last time I retuned my TV. It lasted about four months; current whereabouts unknown.

[Satchmo Distel]

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.

[tee rex]

... 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.