Travel channels on digital telly ....

Jdubb

withabix wrote: »

I'm not sure why the main channels stopped doing 'travel'.

I know it was always difficult for the BBC to justify The Holiday Programme , as it erred too far towards advertising (and was nearly always top-end holidays that most of the population couldn't afford), but I thought that Departure Lounge (Nick Knowles and Simon Calder) was a good programme - only lasted one series in 2005 though.

BBC topped it off by even going as far as deleting all of the online travel content - even the links from the old travel pages to the archived pages now take you to something completely different - last time I looked for something, it took me to some yoof content about sex!

ITV's Wish You Were Here re-appeared briefly in 2008, but was ridiculous because it was filmed in a studio and just used old footage from old programmes filmed in the 70s and 80s iirc.

Sky Travel only had about ten 'programmes' - they were just re-edited every few weeks to show current offers. The 'holiday' footage was always the same.

There does seem to be room for a factual travel programme with someone like Simon Calder and Nick Knowles involved - a cross between Watchdog and Departure Lounge would probably be a good idea?

I can't stand 'Travel Channel', because it seems to be very low resolution - it must be the lowest bandwidth channel on Sky.

There is a show called Holiday Programme on Travel Channel, might even be live (???) as it has a phone-in - has Simon Calder on as well.

PS does anyone else think that Simon Calder looks like Wallace (as in Grommit) ?

Lol he really does but seriously isn't he so useful?!!!!! So sorry you went to all this trouble it was exactly what I meant, sorry I obviously wasn't clear enough, I meant those channels offering holidays for sale - yr post interesting nonetheless, tks again!