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Why do we pay a TV tax?
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'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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Nice_Username wrote: »Just one? OK - Life.
Your turn. Give us a high-quality US import.
Bilko - having said that it was made 50 years ago :eek: oh and The Simpsons.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
name some programs
Heroes.
Best show on TV at the moment, and on the beeb.
As for "American Rubbish" on other channels, Flash-Forward is good, Sons of Anarchy is strangely addictive, NCIS and CSI are both good, Desperate Houeswives, etc etc etc.....in fact there's a lot great series around at the moment.
The West Wing was probably the best TV series of the last 30 years, Boston Legal was pretty damn good as well.
I've seen some great documentaries on BBC, their news coverage is pretty good, Top Gear is amazing, but their fictional/drama TV series are absolutely dire.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
High quality imports: Anything on HBO to start...0
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leveller2911 wrote: »
The BBC needs to concentrate on specific programming and not trying to compete with the likes of Sky etc on paying crazy money to celebs,the likes of Jonathon Woss is/was never worth the money he was paid and at the end of the day the Corporation couldn't sustain this.In paying wages like this they had no option but to drum down the quality elsewhere.
I aggree but most of the quality programs made in this country are made by the BBC and I personal like to see a bit of homegrown programming over American imports0 -
What particular programs
True Blood and Hung are both HBO productions, and both good shows.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Heroes.
Best show on TV at the moment, and on the beeb.
As for "American Rubbish" on other channels, Flash-Forward is good, Sons of Anarchy is strangely addictive, NCIS and CSI are both good, Desperate Houeswives, etc etc etc.....in fact there's a lot great series around at the moment.
The West Wing was probably the best TV series of the last 30 years, Boston Legal was pretty damn good as well.
I've seen some great documentaries on BBC, their news coverage is pretty good, Top Gear is amazing, but their fictional/drama TV series are absolutely dire.
I like some of them programs to and agree it would be harsh to call them rubbish but not many on Sky. Without Sky a lot would end up on free channels anyway but without the BBC we would lose a lot of good programs.0 -
TBH I now spend most of my TV time watching channels like Quest,Yesterday etc but even they seem to be plagued by repeats.As for BBC about all I watch is the occaisional docu,Antiques roadshow,Question time,paxman and Mastercrafts with Mony Don.Apart from that I don't bother too much.0
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »True Blood and Hung are both HBO productions, and both good shows.
Arent they on free to air channels0
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