Another Good Channel Gone!

[notalkallstatic]

In recent years, we have lost good channels such as: TV Land, Nick (Mainly Nick @ Nite,) MTV, TLC, and many others...well now, we can add BBC America to the list of channels that have gone from great to crap.

Recently BBC America has decided to start airing ABC's Dancing With The Stars. Which was originally created by the BBC over in the UK as: Strictly Come Dancing. Instead of showing the original show on BBC America, they decided to show the American version.

Not many people are happy. In fact, no one is happy on the BBC America message board: http://discussions.bbcamerica.com/jiveforums/forum.jspa?forumID=35&start=0

BBC America states at the top of the forum: "We realize this may not be a typical move for the channel, but "Dancing with the Stars" is actually closer to the BBC family than you might think. "Dancing with the Stars" is produced by BBC Worldwide America and is based on the BBC hit show "Strictly Come Dancing.""

I don't care if BBC Worldwide America produced Dancing With The Stars, it originally didn't air on BBC 1, 2 or 3, than it should air on BBC America! If I wanted to watch American programming, I would watch it on their original networks, but I want to see British programming, so now, I have nowhere to go! I guess the BBC America that I use to know and love is now gone.

Thoughts and opinions?

 

[4dude]

No surprise......


Everything is going to crap..........

 

[MarcB]

BBC AMERICA is partially run by Discovery Networks. They're changing a lot of their networks. Discovery Health is becoming The Oprah Winfrey Network in 2009. And I think Discovery Home and Leisure is changing names/formats later this year. Not to mention other changes they've made over the past few years.

 

[JayR]

In recent years, we have lost good channels such as: TV Land, Nick (Mainly Nick @ Nite,) MTV, TLC, and many others...well now, we can add BBC America to the list of channels that have gone from great to crap.

And you're surprised? I'm not.

Most, if not all, have gone/are going to crap.

 

[Al Timiter]

No surprise......


Everything is going to crap..........

Yes!
"All Matter is constantly decaying."

 

[kms575]

In recent years, we have lost good channels such as: TV Land, Nick (Mainly Nick @ Nite,) MTV, TLC, and many others...well now, we can add BBC America to the list of channels that have gone from great to crap.

Recently BBC America has decided to start airing ABC's Dancing With The Stars. Which was originally created by the BBC over in the UK as: Strictly Come Dancing. Instead of showing the original show on BBC America, they decided to show the American version.

Not many people are happy. In fact, no one is happy on the BBC America message board: http://discussions.bbcamerica.com/jiveforums/forum.jspa?forumID=35&start=0

BBC America states at the top of the forum: "We realize this may not be a typical move for the channel, but "Dancing with the Stars" is actually closer to the BBC family than you might think. "Dancing with the Stars" is produced by BBC Worldwide America and is based on the BBC hit show "Strictly Come Dancing.""

I don't care if BBC Worldwide America produced Dancing With The Stars, it originally didn't air on BBC 1, 2 or 3, than it should air on BBC America! If I wanted to watch American programming, I would watch it on their original networks, but I want to see British programming, so now, I have nowhere to go! I guess the BBC America that I use to know and love is now gone.

Thoughts and opinions?

I totally agree with you, very sad indeed. However, as someone who has been in the UK recently, I can tell you that the BBC programming there is going to hell also. Way too much reality TV. You still get some great shows (Torchwood, Hotel Babylon, dramas, etc.), but not to the same extent. They are also replaying a lot of tired old comedies (Only Fools and Horses, etc.) As for ITV, total garbage.

Maybe BBC America is running out of decent stuff to import? However, i'd rather see BRITISH stuff on BBC America.

 

[azumanga]

...as someone who has been in the UK recently, I can tell you that the BBC programming there is going to hell also. Way too much reality TV. You still get some great shows (Torchwood, Hotel Babylon, dramas, etc.), but not to the same extent. They are also replaying a lot of tired old comedies (Only Fools and Horses, etc.)

And the kicker is that TV owners still have to pay an annual license to support the BBC, or risk a heavy fine. I wonder if the BBC's programming would improve if they dump the license and follow the PBS model, instead?

 

[truthsayer]

don't think some 20 something grad student thought this up do you?

 

[flytrap]

Do like I did and buy yourself an antenna and dump the cable. Most of crap on cable is just reruns of crap I've already seen over the air anyway. Why do we need to pay for a channel that plays back to back reruns of CSI or Law and Order. I can watch that stuff for free AND in true high definiton. I don't need a box, an HDTV subscription or an $40 HDMI cable. Just a plain old TV antenna. It amazes me that people have expensive plasma and LCD tv's and they are watching horrible quality analog basic cable on them, and stretching a 4:3 picture onto a widescreen and making everyone look fat. And they don't seem to notice. I cringe everytime I go to a resturant or someones house and see fat football players and bloated heads.

As for the cable channels.
AMC used to be American Movie Classics-Robocop 3 is not a classic
CMT used to have country music on it-Trick My Truck has nothing to do with country music
Remember the Nashiville Network? They quit playing music years ago, its now the "James Bond Channel"
Why do people pay a monthly fee to see "Saved by the Bell" reruns-that show sucked when it was new.
It gotten where the only thing cable is good for anymore is an occasional special or sporting event. But anything thats popular such as bowl games, olympics, Daytona or Indy 500, World Series, the Oscars etc. are absolutly free with an antenna.

 

[Stuart]

Before you know it, Clear Channel will own The BBC

Stuart

 

[tothedj]

Awhile back, i posted something titled "Is cable worth paying for?"...
Once again, another cable network decides to rerun a product that doesn't fit
what it was created for.
And our cable system has raised rates, again!

 

[Bongwater]

I cringe everytime I go to a resturant or someones house and see fat football players and bloated heads.

Even properly adjusted, EVERYBODY looks 20 pounds heavier in Hi-Def.

And don't even get me started on the facial moonscapes of people on the local TV news that are accentuated in HD, no matter how much extra makeup you put on them.

Yes, the bloody hatchets and chainsaws have more realism, yet it still can't top the frying pan on the head I get when my wife wants to watch House.

 

[DToTheJ]

Do like I did and buy yourself an antenna and dump the cable... I don't need a box, an HDTV subscription or an $40 HDMI cable. Just a plain old TV antenna.

Remember the Nashiville Network? They quit playing music years ago, its now the "James Bond Channel"

1. Go ahead and buy that antenna when it'll only be good for a year...

2. Nashville Network changed to TNN (National Network) which changed to Spike some years back...

Are you writing us from 1996?

 

[JayR]

Do like I did and buy yourself an antenna and dump the cable... I don't need a box, an HDTV subscription or an $40 HDMI cable. Just a plain old TV antenna.

Remember The Nashville Network? They quit playing music years ago, its now the "James Bond Channel"

1. Go ahead and buy that antenna when it'll only be good for a year...

2. Nashville Network changed to TNN (National Network) which changed to Spike some years back...

Are you writing us from 1996?

You missed this part from his original post:

I can watch that stuff for free AND in true high definition.

It's apparent that he has an HDTV set.

TNN started out as "The Nashville Network" before it became "The National Network" (due to the network picking up "RAW"). Unfortunately, most viewers still linked TNN with country, which led the network to change its name again, this time to Spike TV.

It amazes me that people...(stretch) a 4:3 picture onto a widescreen and (make) everyone look fat. And they don't seem to notice. I cringe everytime I go to a restaurant or someones house and see fat football players and bloated heads.

That gets me, as well.

 

[TexasTom]

Do like I did and buy yourself an antenna and dump the cable. Most of crap on cable is just reruns of crap I've already seen over the air anyway. Why do we need to pay for a channel that plays back to back reruns of CSI or Law and Order. I can watch that stuff for free AND in true high definiton. I don't need a box, an HDTV subscription or an $40 HDMI cable. Just a plain old TV antenna.
[...] But anything thats popular such as bowl games, olympics, Daytona or Indy 500, World Series, the Oscars etc. are absolutly free with an antenna.

Me too. An antenna hooked up to an HD television is one of the best entertainment deals available -- a great picture, an overwhelming majority of the most popular programming, and no monthly charges.

Each time I read another one of these threads about a cable network gone bad (TV Land, A&E, Bravo, and so very many others), I just shake my head and wonder why the folks who complain so loudly about these crap channels continue to willingly pay out the nose for the dubious privilege of getting these very same channels piped into their homes.

 

[notalkallstatic]

Each time I read another one of these threads about a cable network gone bad (TV Land, A&E, Bravo, and so very many others), I just shake my head and wonder why the folks who complain so loudly about these crap channels continue to willingly pay out the nose for the dubious privilege of getting these very same channels piped into their homes.

Well trust me, I have really thought about getting rid of cable TV. First off, since the channels are going bad. Second off, the rates. I just got a notice that my cable rates are going up...for what? Nothing!

Forget this, give me the internet, and a telephone, and I'll be okay. I have plenty of movies that I can buy on DVD, and enjoy. If I need to know the news, I will read the newspaper, or get online. If I need the weather, I will go outside or get online. Anyways, I can probably make a better weather forecast than those people on local TV.

With BBC America changing its programming (come on, this is only the start, I think we all know they will change more of their programming,) I think it's time for me to yank cable.

 

[DToTheJ]

Face it, the TV of the future is YouTube. At least you still have a choice of what you want to watch!

 

[1069_KIFR]

Would they change it to CCC? Clear Channel Corporation?
Then we can have CCC 1, CCC 2, etc......

 

[Ultimajock]

I don't care if BBC Worldwide America produced Dancing With The Stars, it originally didn't air on BBC 1, 2 or 3, than it [should not] air on BBC America!

...of course, a lot of the spy/detective/fantasy stuff BBC America has run over the years -- "The Avengers," "The Saint," "The Prisoner," "The Persuaders" -- were items that originated from member companies of ITV, not the BBC...

 

[notalkallstatic]

I don't care if BBC Worldwide America produced Dancing With The Stars, it originally didn't air on BBC 1, 2 or 3, than it [should not] air on BBC America!

...of course, a lot of the spy/detective/fantasy stuff BBC America has run over the years -- "The Avengers," "The Saint," "The Prisoner," "The Persuaders" -- were items that originated from member companies of ITV, not the BBC...

True, I mis-worded that. Sorry........

Revised: I don't care if BBC Worldwide America produced Dancing With The Stars, if it originally didn't air over in the UK, than it should not air on BBC America!