Which of the five analogue channels do you watch the most?

Channel 5 or Five, does not really matter ,it is the same thing.

Yes, ITV or ITV 1 is what I am referring to but I always call it ITV.

Well I am surprised that no one watches channel 5 much, plus Channel 4 and ITV are about the same. I thought ITV would be more popular, because of coronation street.

BBC One
I watch this for News, Drama, Comedy, and Daytime Shows

Channel 4
I watch this for Documentaries, US Drama, Comedy and Afternoon Shows

BBC One. Doctor Who.

BBCs One & Two also provide various biting comedy output that I like (Have I Got News For You, QI, Mock The Week).

I think I must watch Five about once every 50-billion years.



Or, as those of us who speak non-American English would say: program me /program mes

Can we stop the nit picking please, it says on the forum rules about taking the P out of peoples spelling. It don't matter how you spell it, we use mixed American and british english over here anyway. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=program*2+0&dict=A

You always get one, can we now please keep this on topic. Thank You.

i watch c4 mostly - BB, deal or no deal, friday night project, c4 news, paul ogrady/richard and judy etc

i watch itv a bit, occasionally for corrie and emmerdal and usually for local/national news

watch bbc and five sometimes also

On average, these are the programmes I usually watch on the 5 main channels (depending on when I'm at home, of course):

BBC ONE

BBC One O'Clock News
North West Today
Neighbours
Outtake TV

BBC TWO

The Weakest Link

ITV

ITV Evening News
Granada Reports
This Morning
Loose Women
Family Fortunes
Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

CHANNEL 4

Deal or No Deal
The Paul O'Grady Show
Richard & Judy

FIVE

The Wright Stuff
Brainteaser

As you can see, I watch ITV more than the other channels. I usually prefer to watch ITV News if I can, but if I'm in at lunchtime, I usually watch BBC News because the ITV Lunchtime News clashes with Neighbours. I tend to choose ITV for Saturday night programmes rather than BBC ONE.

I watch STV the most and Ch 4 second

actually, io do believe that the ITC reffered to it as channel five when running thebid of the ten-year license to channel five broadcasting limited, making 'five' just a brand, and channel five the official name, with the bid contract winners just using the 'correct' name as their brand before, and a variation later. the current company is still naming itself 'channel 5 broadcasting ltd'.

come to think of it, it's been 10 years, this year, have they bn re-newed, and for how long for?

c4 is very different to itv plc's channel three, in my opinion.

I agree, the word is indeed programme . I don't understand why the US spelling is used on here so much.

I think if I was putting my viewing preference in order I would say BBC1, Channel 4, BBC2, ITV & Five.

The instigator is that darm Start Menu, asking us to go to 'Programs', every other language gets their version of the interface, I think, so why do they insist on maintaining the Americanisms in our English version?

EDIT: I'm moaning about operating systems that insist on maintaining Americanism, and just highlighting why I think the mistake was made. The emotions were aimed at computer terminology, not at the post. Also it isn't just 'programs', there are also 'favorites', and 'network neighborhood', they are wrong (in non-American English). I also suspect that the only reason computer programs (shudders) are spelt the American English way, is because of U.S. operating systems influencing English spelling, and an initially wrong (in England) standard, being so widely used, it became a correct convention.

According to my Oxford Concise the noun and verb "program" is used in computing contexts-- in all Anglophone countries (including the UK).

In the UK, the noun and verb "programme" is used in all other contexts--including TV programmes.

The spellings of "programmer", "programming" and "programmed" are universal.

The increasing use of Americanisms is probably down to American-English spell-checkers installed in Word etc. Having said that, supposedly UK-English spellcheckers don't recognise half of British spellings or words You can't beat the Oxford Concise dictionary... well it's good enough for Countdown anyway

Rob, shut up. It's spelt correctly in the start menu. For someone who insists that your posts have to include at least one set of quotation marks and other over the top grammar that simply isn't needed, you sure don't know what your on about.

Both spellings are correct, it's based on how you use the word. It's either TV Programme or a Computer Program. I think the previous posted also pointed this out.