UK shows around the World

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harshy Founding member 27 September 2003 12:07am

Dolunay posted:

Otherwise it's hard to find British content on Turkish TV channels. I guess BBC Prime fills the void, but that's useless if you don't speak English.

BBC Prime have subtitles in other languages, check through their schedules on their text service.

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A former member 27 September 2003 12:54am

Night & Day is still being shown out there, incidentally, which also is doing very well. Still, it didn't get a reamp from someone who was high on something halfway through... :S

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Square Eyes Founding member 28 September 2003 9:03pm

I see Eastenders has been axed from BBC America due to poor ratings.

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A former member 29 September 2003 11:54am

Heh heh! What'd happen if that happened here? Oh yeah, it has! (Brookside and Crossroads anyone?)

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noggin Founding member 29 September 2003 12:39pm

Square Eyes posted:

I see Eastenders has been axed from BBC America due to poor ratings.

That is going to annoy a lot of ex-Pats...

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A former member 29 September 2003 12:43pm

Just as the axings of Crossroads and Night and Day will have, and the axing of Brookside will - assuming those are all shown abroad. I hope another channel buys Eastenders' rights from BBC Worldwide, so that ex-pats don't lose out. If the show hasn't been axed in it's native country, why should it be axed anywhere else?

TV companies take note: show it all, or don't bother starting. I can think of a few situations where the roles are reversed, and US programmes haven't been finished here...

WH

Whataday Founding member 29 September 2003 1:11pm

Digifiend posted:

If the show hasn't been axed in it's native country, why should it be axed anywhere else?

Another stupid argument.

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A former member 29 September 2003 1:19pm

BBC America as a whole probably doesn't have good ratings! It's a cable channel! Therefore low ratings is no excuse. I bet the ratings would be average here!

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Whataday Founding member 29 September 2003 1:41pm

I'd imagine EastEnders cost a lot of money for BBC America to broadcast. There's obviously not enough people watching to warrant the cost.

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A former member 29 September 2003 1:43pm

chiguy33 posted:

Most people know that the phrase "Network Television" refers to the Big Four, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and to some extent WB, and UPN.

Corin posted:

was not Monty Python shown on NBC during primetime, or am I just having a memory general protection error?

Python never aired on NBC. It was screened on many PBS station across the country.

It was also shown on MTV, which is when it really began to get "mainstream awareness" in the states.

ED

ED Founding member 29 September 2003 2:02pm

Jakarta posted:

Mr Bean the animated series is very popular internationally. I have seen it on the Disney Channel Asia, local Indonesian TV and on airlines.

It's also on CBC Television on Friday nights.

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Whataday Founding member 29 September 2003 2:20pm

ED posted:

Jakarta posted:

Mr Bean the animated series is very popular internationally. I have seen it on the Disney Channel Asia, local Indonesian TV and on airlines.

It's also on CBC Television on Friday nights.

Is it a British production though? There are a lot of foriegn-sounding names on the credits.

(September 2003)