Channel 5 has improved quite a bit (not difficult). I see quite a lot of films and documentaries in the listings that I'd fancy watching. More than on ITV1 in fact. I just can't get Channel 5 where I live.
I do have a friend who lives on top of the hill who tapes things for me if there's something I really want to see on 5.

Channel 5 (or Five, as they seem to prefer) put on some great programmes - CSI, Law & Order, Boomtown.

They put on some dross, but there are gems in there...

I've noticed that all you Brits seem to love our American TV...see? We're not good for food, politics, or life in general, but TV we know!! Yeah!

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Yeah, most of the TV i watch just now is American - 24, six feet under, buffy... british tv sucks most of the time.



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Be fair, so does most American TV; we only get the highlights over here, you know.

For my part I hardly watch TV at all now, except for football and rugby. Oh, and Bill Oddie nature programmes. There isn't a damn thing I'd say 'oh, must watch that' about.



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I agree with Jon. I watch very little TV (except films) but the stuff I watch is probably 50-50 Brit-US. There's some good Brit stuff ('Early Doors' if you haven't seen it yet - same team as the Royle family and a similar style and 'Have Got News for You ?' has it's moments although Boris Johnson on the News Quiz (radio 4) was far funnier this week). Of the US stuff I still like 'E.R.' but missed 'Six Feet Under' last week as I was away.

Funniest stuff recently has been Radio 4. ISIHAC and the News Quiz and The Archers with Lynda Snell and the garden comp.

I think we ought to have Fforum TV. Do you think Mr Fforde would like to do the camera work?!



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Yes indeed - the best thing on British TV at the mo is Six Feet Under, which is of course American.

When did we (UK) stop making good TV comedy? I guess it was about when we stopped making the best rock music (somewhere between 1988 and 1993). Mind you, Dom Joly and Chris Morris are still pretty funny. And so are Coldplay and Radiohead.

But when it comes to radio comedy, radio 4 is still unsurpassed -- ISIHAC is the funniest thing since, erm ISIRTA, and in fact a lot funnier, and the News Quiz is just well, I mean, the only time I've ever hospitalised myself by laughing was down to the News Quiz (that was back when Barry Took was chairing. Ouch)

Bill Oddie was rather amusing in his day, too ([sings] Well, I've got a brand new Rolls Royce motorcar, and I'll give you the key...)



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I never get around to listening to radio. At least, I sometimes have it on, but always when I'm doing something else.

I did hear a very funny reduced shakespeare co thing on bbc 7, or radio 7, whatever it's called.

A month today till WOLP is out!



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