donw..maybe they just tell it like it is ..with no spin

I watch BBC America. I wish they would bring back Ballykissangel.

I used to love Eastenders but they took it off a couple year back. LOVE BBC news, very internationl, very informative. Many would complain that US news wasn't as world friendly but I would remind them that the US I'd bloody HUGE and there's plenty news there! Also like Ab Fab!

Interesting that BBC America includes a programmes that in the UK are/were made by and shown on competing channels. Keen fans might want to keep an eye on the BBC's 'Creative Archive' project - one day you should be able to download old TV programmes from the Internet:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pre..._archive.shtml

Oh, and if ggnga still wants to know who killed Sonya Baker (those who don't, look away now) - it was of course the MP boyfriend. I can't remember now whether the motive was the affair itself or the possibility that she had discovered something embarrassing about a tie-up with the oil company. But our plucky reporter worked it out. I always thought that 'suffering honesty' pose was too good to be true.

PatrickLondon, "BBC America includes a programmes that in the UK are/were made by and shown on competing channels" I have heard that before what are some of the shows? ALso MI-5 says at the end that BBC but it is shown on a different channel here.

In the UK, Inspectors Morse and Frost were on ITV, House Doctor is on Channel 5, "Queer Eye", Father Ted and Graham Norton on Channel 4.

Oh Patrick, now I know!! I am kind of sad it was him but I guess that left the reporter and the MP's wife free to get it on without guilt.

I still watch BBCAmerica more than any other. I now like Cold Feet and the show about a bunch of young lawyer's living in a house together, blanking out on the name.

Thank you Patrick. I do hope the show repeats someday. I would like to see it again all the way to the end.

ggnga: I think you're referring to This Life, one of the best shows to be made in recent years. According to a friend of mine who lives in the States, they did make a US version in which all swearing, smoking, excessive drinking, explicit references to sex etc were taken out. It bombed.

these two I've definitely seen:
Father Ted
The Kumars at No 42

I LOVE The Office. I had seen it in London a few years ago, and thought it was a scream. It finally made it stateside about a year, year and a half ago I think?

taking the piss is slang for making fun of someone or teasing them.

Absolutely love The Kumars at #42. It just started last month after weeks of commercials for it and it is so funny I laugh at loud.

I thought that I had replied to this thread back in July.....anyways, I love BBCA! My faves are:

House Doctor
Bargain Hunt
Cash in the Attic (too bad Allistair plays on the other team...;-()
Murder in Suburbia
Changing Rooms
Homefront in the garden
Ground force
What not to wear
Location x3
Escape to the country
Wire in the blood
Life Laundry does get to the heart of the matter....clean sweep doesn't explore why these people are pack rats and their behavior probably won't change once the house is cleaned. I saw LL on PBS a couple of weekends ago.

Tallulah, I do hope This Life is shown at a predictable time - the BBC mucked about with its scheduling at first here, so it took a while to draw in an audience, but once I found it I was glued to it. Keep on to the end of the second series: there's a terrific right hook in the middle of a wedding reception to look forward to!

It's one of my favorite channels.

Patrick: That was one of the best scenes ever! And certainly one of the best ways to end a show. Got an urge to hire them all out on DVD and have a This Life fest this weekend coming!

Tallulah:
"According to a friend of mine who lives in the States, they did make a US version in which all swearing, smoking, excessive drinking, explicit references to sex etc were taken out. It bombed."
No wonder it bombed - take out all that and there's nothing left!

Somehow I can't imagine Queer as Folk ever making it to US TV...

Kate: Do you think not....?!

It never fails to bemuse me that the Americans always feel the need to re-make perfectly good programmes and invariably they bomb. What's wrong with the originals? You know, the ones that they LIKED so much in the beginning that they bought the rights! If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I mean, Ab Fab minus drinking, smoking, drugtaking, sex? As Kate said, there's nothing left!!

Hmm... maybe they could make Queer as Folk with heterosexuals...?

PS. Before I get shouted, some of my favourite programmes are American imports!!

How about the Coupling remake with out the edginess. I couldnt believe the US version.

Patrick

Cold feet and This Life are back to back primetime on Sunday night. A great time slot for me. I too am now glued to the show.

I'm another BBC America lover - I ADORE Monarch of the Glen and it was the first series I had programed into my new DVR. Last week they re-ran the episode where Molly accepts Andrew's proposal and breaks Golly's heart - I cried - again. Another great thing is the BBC America catalog - a great place to shop for the hard to buy for Anglophile on your list. My mom was thrilled with the videos of her favorite show, AS Time Goes By, that I got her for Christmas, as well as the mugs with Henry VIII and his six wives on them - when you put a hot drink in them, the wives disappear!

Now I just wish they'd put William and Mary on BBC America - we loved seeing that show when we were in the UK, and hope it makes it onto BBCA some day.