TV

[essayel]

I don't watch it much. Too busy doing other things and also that means sitting in with Paul and Jen who biker constantly. I can't bear bickering so tend to sit in the other room where I can type in cold comfort wrapped in a blanket.

However BBC iPlayer [when working] is a boon because I can watch Torchwood when I like and also the new series that started last Monday.

Being Human is just lovely. Imagine 3 twenty-somethings, 2 boys and a girl, sharing a house. Yeah it's been done a million times from Robin's Nest to Staying In, but the difference this time is that Annie is a ghost, George is a werewolf with OCD who cleans himself and his surrounding constantly [he spends a lot of time naked in the first ten minutes] and Mitchell [grrrowwfff] a 150 year old vampire determined to go on the wagon. It's filmed in Bristol and since the boys both work in a hospital I keep expecting them to run across Guppy. It's funny, silly and bearably scary within my rather narrow limits and I reckon there's probably already a Mitchell/George fandom although I can't see it myself.

Comments

[yakalskovich]

What was I saying about the quality of British TV...

**grins widely**

Pity that the iPlayer recognises where you're from and only plays content for Brits. I get the radio broadcast (like the one about Nureyev which I listened to, upon which I was led astray on this sorta mega-tangent which has by now carried me faaaaaar out of the solar system), but not the TV content.

I would love to see that.-

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

me too, about the quality of British TV. I wanna see that show.

[celticangel76.livejournal.com]

I second Maru. I hate that the player won't let me watch. Cuz I doubt we'll get it here. Unless it's on BBC America which is apparently anti-Tivo cuz they NEVER play shows at a particular time.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

iplayer? that soudns liek it's meant for macs :(
where can igetthat though, fi it is for windows that is? and what do you mean watchig nshows whenever yo uwant. does this thing make yo udownload odler stuff and catch up with it? (ooh which reminds me. tv-liks.org is dead and gone :(
i now foud na dutchsite thogu htat lists over a thousand channelsso *think* I acn even tune in to welsh tv if i wantto.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

iPlayer is on the BBC website - www.bbc.co.uk - but it only works for machines with a United Kingdom IP address. It works a bit like Youtube. On it they post some of their programmes and keep them up for a 7 days and you can watch them online, or you can subscribe to a peer to peer networking arrangement [bad idea] and download programmes to watch offline for 30 days. They are locked to your machine so you can't export them and have a built in deleter of some kind. However, the radio shows work for everyone and some of them are really good.

Tv-links has been replaced by www.tv-life.com with an identical format and I have no idea why anyone would want to watch Welsh TV - um - unless they spoke Welsh of course.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

tv-life?
oooh ahahahaha!! haha!!! thank you!!

i was jokign about welsh tv. i was sixteen whe nwe wer on holiday in hay on wye adn m ydad was channel surfing and i heard a werid language and thoguth it wsa spanish...
well it's a p-celtic languageif i'm right (whereas irish is q-gaelicor something?)
i know afew bits here and there. but mostly can write the mand not say them out loud. i remember a diary entr ywher isaid 'we went to this fortificati nin...in a place with too man yconsonants!"