Posts by: Ianpbx

How about showing 'People's Century' and 'Adolf Hitler, A Career'. The latter, being rather long, could becut into episodes.
I might also suggest 'Walking With Dinosaurs', often popular with kids, as well as adults.

I noticed that UKtvHistory were continually announcing that the latest showing (last weekend) was going to be the last chance to see it on the channel EVER AGAIN.

It's an infinitely final thing to say. What is making this so final?

Does anyone have any idea what is behind this?

Corinne3, I suggest that next time you get the mails you reply to them asking why they keep sending them to you when you are unable to watch the channel due to their stupid decision to switch off their Freeview broadcast at 6pm, and would be only too glad to watch the channel if only they made it possible.

If everyone did this, maybe they may start to feel as stupid as they are.

It sure does,

It also confirms what I've said about the arrogance of decision makers in the TV industry thinking they know best and will not be told otherwise. Hardly anyone likes background music, there are continually lots of complaints about it, especially from people with hearing problems. Yet they just continue indulging themselves. It's the same with this. They found a fancy effect to play with and will not be moved, no matter what.

I remember years ago Janet Street Porter being criticized by an audience about her presentation style when she was running "Yoof" programming. She insisted "This is what they want", yet hardly anyone was watching her stuff.

So don't you dare forget: they have a university education and know better than us.

This practice of squeezing out pictures is highly annoying all of the time, especially when you want to view something in the credits. However, doing so on this instance of Blackadder Goes Forth, together with a voice-over, just goes to show how stupid, and often arrogant, the people that are employed by TV companies, UKTV Gold being no exception, are.

I await for a response on here from UKTV management, but will not hold my breath waiting.

Mr Left-Wing of the Masses, I'll tell you what is wrong, as you have clearly missed the point. It's nothing to do with being or feeling 'more intelligent than the masses'. There are a lot of people who want an educational history channel, which UKtv History is (although even that is steadily becoming increasingly difficult to call it as such). However, the channel has ceased to broadcast after 6pm, ie AFTER daytime workers leave their work, thereby depriving them of this. Instead, we have two new channels starting at 6pm, Dave and the totally pointless and sub-down-market Virgin One.

What these people want is a return to the full schedule on Freeview, as it is available on Cable and Sky. Nothing to do with the Daily Mail, so feel free to get back to your copy of Socialist Worker.

The morons that run TV are obviously in league with the government to lower the standards of education and culture in this country. That's why school exam standards are being lowered, and why television standards are being debased. These people running the entertainment industry, including UKTV, see the USA as a Mecca of mass entertainment, a population whose lives are based around soaps, game shows, awful sitcoms, and sex. What the US has we are now being steadily spoon-fed, as part of the great cosmopolitan conspiracy of dumbing the world's population; keep them in, keep them controlled, control their demands. Profits rule! The world of Robocop awaits us.

Actually, the BBC didn't sell the programmes to UkTv because the BBC is a 50% owner of the company. The other owner is Flextech, who are in turn owned by Virgin Media. No one is saying we 'own' the programmes, merely that as we have already paid our licence fee to the BBC to make these programmes, then it is unjust to be made to pay to watch them again.

You could ask about Virgin's share of the project. However, the cost of the licence fee has rocketed over the past years, the excuse given being that the BBC need to invest in the new digital technology; so in fact, the BBC should be supplying its own programmes, paid by us, on an advert-free channel. If there are to be adverts, then they sould be there to offset the cost of maintaining the BBC channels. As it is, the BBC is being used as an agency to help boost Virginmedia's profits. This is a conflict of interest by the public service broadcaster that is paid for by compulsory public subscription, ie. the licence fee.

Leave it out mate. People are having enough trouble getting the clowns who run UKTv History to put it back on in the evenings on Freeview.

Is that the original Flying Doctors from the early 60's? And what about Whiplash, Gunsmoke and Timeslip?

It can't be any worse than the later stuff, after all.

And how about the even better Worzle Gummidge (and I don't mean the Australian one).

Yes, and I suggest you tell him to put this tired, unfunny piece of junk to bed.

Lisaloulou, I agree. This has already been raised in another section of the UKTV Gold forum, and like there, I suggest that people raise this with their MP, because it is a sneaky way of maing people pay for what they have already paid for with their licence fee. A bit like us being forced to pay VAT on fuel duty.

Catherine Tate Show - strictly 6th form humour for brain-dead sudents.

Till Death Us Do Part, please. Best sitcom ever.

Ben the Hen, I totally agree. What's all the fuss about Little Britain? Purile pap. What is so funny about sending up an incontinent old woman? What is so funny about a ridiculous gay personal secretary to the Prime Minister, who would have been quietly sacked anyway? The overrated Catherine Tate is just a tedious run of tired out characters who may be amusing on the first view, but then become a dull routine to entertain right-on students. Poor sketch writing, but then standards have fallen badly since the Seventies.

Why do UKTV Gold not show The Comedians and Till Death Us Do Part, one of the best sitcoms ever? For American sitcoms, how about The Phil Silvers Show and The Beverly Hillbillies? Unfortunately, whenever Dad's Army is shown, its nearly always, as good as they are, the same old episodes, ie. the captured German submarine crew and Mainwairings drunken cousin.

There are plenty of lesser-known old shows that could be aired, such as My Favourite Martian, Mr Ed, Armchair Theatre, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, etc. Just because a programme is in black and white is no reason to exclude it. People over forty pay for and watch TV too!

Our television executives are like horses with their blinds on. No imagination and no appreciation of what was before they were born.

My Family funny?? It's typical pantomine middle class dross of a kind that's been imported from America, and don't our TV bosses love all televion that is American. It's as funny as friends, and that's as funny as watching the bath empty. The acting is appalling, very luvvy, darling, and the plots are extremely contrived.

Keitht44, What you say is very pertinent. Under the circumstances I suggest that you write to your MP about this, as should anyone else. If you all strongly believe in what you are saying, rather than just leaving your steam to evaporate on this forum, I suggest you make your MP work for the generous allowances you are paying them, give them something important to do while their fat, greedy noses are swilling in their disgusting trough. We have indeed paid for these programmes with our licence money, and what can be more important than raising the educational standards of the nation; after all, it definitely needs it.

Actually, I accidentally discovered, while flicking through my Virginmedia cable box that UKTV is being shown by them in the evening, together with 'I, Claudius' to boot.

However, that is not the point. Many homes, due to geographical location and poor investment by the cable companies are unable to receive Virginmedia; neither do many people, like myselves, wish to pay a pretty sum for Sky's rubbish package of dross. As we are being forced into digital television by the future closure of analogue transmitters then the base limit is to obtain a Freeview box. With this box, a working man (or woman), paying their licence fee, should be entitled to a fair crack of the whip with regard to channel availability.

But no! You working men (and women), after your hard day's toil, will be subject to pap and mind rot, thanks to the likes of Dave and the even worse Virgin1. Alas, the university educated managers in charge of our broadcasting think they know what's better for us and what we all want, because they are clever and we are not. And be assured, even the way UKHistory is going, with it's mish-mash of nature documentaries and costume dramas will be led by the lead into mediocrity and oblivion.