Nothing good on TV

Vermilion wrote:

NickSCFC wrote:All the good stuff moved to Netflix, Amazon and Now TV.

I don't use any of those as my connection simply isn't fast enough to stream them at a decent resolution (and i can't afford fibre).

A lot of the big shows (such as Game of Thrones and the like) i watch on disc, though sadly, i don't think Stranger Things will ever come out on a physical format (even though other netflix shows such as The Crown, Daredevil, and 13 Reasons Why have all had disc releases).

I was in the same boat a few years ago and got into Game of Thrones via Blu-ray a few years back. I was always into movies but was never able to get into TV series. Having access to recent American TV shows on demand changed that.

Since I upgraded my broadband I joined Now TV to catch the latest series, I now have running subscriptions to Amazon, Netflix and Now TV.

I have nephews who don't watch British TV at all, they're into YouTube and Netflix and, unsurprisingly, have developed American accents along with their school friends they chat to on Minecraft.

Here's a pretty good article on how American media is becoming rapidly dominant and how this is influencing culture (like kids now saying "warder" instead of water )

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/ ... e-whatever

Ah well, at least they're not speaking like the mongs in Coronation Street anymore, every cloud.

NickSCFC wrote:Here's a pretty good article on how American media is becoming rapidly dominant and how this is influencing culture (like kids now saying "warder" instead of water )

It's actually even more noticeable when it comes to music.

Most music videos (especially by UK artists) are filmed in America, or have an american theme of some kind. It's quite bizarre really when there are so many better locations to make a music video closer to home, especially since many of these videos are just some random beach, a graffiti covered back street, some random desert location, or an LA storm drain.

still wrote:Watching The Bridge 4, Handmade’s Tale, Montelbano plus others. There’s loads of stuff on terrestrial. No idea why people need Sky, Netflix etc.

Probably to watch things that aren't available on terrestrial channels...?

Vermilion wrote:It's quite bizarre really when there are so many better locations to make a music video closer to home, especially since many of these videos are just some random beach, a graffiti covered back street, some random desert location, or an LA storm drain.

Yeah, California seems to have become the modern world's capital of culture.

Hollywood - Universal, Fox, WB, Sony Pictures
Silicon Valley - Netflix, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Apple
Santa Monica - EA, Activision, Naughty Dog, Sony SM

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

still wrote:Watching The Bridge 4, Handmade’s Tale, Montelbano plus others. There’s loads of stuff on terrestrial. No idea why people need Sky, Netflix etc.

Probably to watch things that aren't available on terrestrial channels...?

Yes but, pay?.....

NickSCFC wrote:I have nephews who don't watch British TV at all, they're into YouTube and Netflix and, unsurprisingly, have developed American accents along with their school friends they chat to on Minecraft.

My little nephew's Dad has a Scottish accent, his Mum has a Northern Irish accent, they live in England, and you say kids are picking up American accents these days too? Looking forward to hearing what abomination of an accent he's going to have when he gets a bit older

Garth wrote:My little nephew's Dad has a Scottish accent, his Mum has a Northern Irish accent, they live in England, and you say kids are picking up American accents these days too? Looking forward to hearing what abomination of an accent he's going to have when he gets a bit older

Sounds like the Irish are half way there already


https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r ... 1?mode=amp

https://m.independent.ie/lifestyle/iris ... 18389.html

Apart from football, regular TV is just basically background noise now for mr. All the stuff I watch regularly is done on streaming services or downloaded if there's a delay in broadcasting between the US and over here. Struggling to think of the last time I went out of my way to sit down and watch something broadcast on TV that wasn't sport.

still wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

still wrote:Watching The Bridge 4, Handmade’s Tale, Montelbano plus others. There’s loads of stuff on terrestrial. No idea why people need Sky, Netflix etc.

Probably to watch things that aren't available on terrestrial channels...?

Yes but, pay?.....

You have no idea why people pay for a service? Have you ever bought anything before?

NickSCFC wrote:Westworld
Game of Thrones
True Detective
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things

TV has never been better.

You like Sci-Fi so give The Expanse a try as I think you'll enjoy it a lot .
Also try Travellers and 12 Monkeys as they're also excellent.

still wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

still wrote:Watching The Bridge 4, Handmade’s Tale, Montelbano plus others. There’s loads of stuff on terrestrial. No idea why people need Sky, Netflix etc.

Probably to watch things that aren't available on terrestrial channels...?

Yes but, pay?.....

Yes? I happily pay for Netflix, WWE Network, UFC Fight Pass (sometimes) and Now TV because they've got a ton of gooseberry fool I want to watch. I don't pay for a TV license because I barely ever watch terrestrial.

still wrote:Watching The Bridge 4, Handmade’s Tale, Montelbano plus others. There’s loads of stuff on terrestrial. No idea why people need Sky, Netflix etc.

For choice and also when you want it without having to record. There is very little I watch on terrestrial TV and until the new series of Humans and The Handmaiden's Tale started, I wasn't currently watching anything outside of Amazon and Netflix.

I have experienced the choice overload with TV, games and films but I try to look at it positively - I'm never going to run out of something to watch and play. And fomo in this case is of course silly since it'll apply to everyone. Impossible to watch everything.

We live in a world where we generally have too much.

We have the internet at our fingertips. Netflix, Spotify, libraries of everything. Youtube, wikipedia. Whatever we want.

Our tellies have film channels, sport channels, history channels, every channel under the sun.

Yet, we're becoming more and more bored, our attention spans are quite terrible and we cannot stand to have nothing to do for 5 minutes.

Sometimes when I'm in a public place and waiting for something I try to force myself to not look at my phone straight away. Have a look around the room. I'm in a bar, who's got there eye on who, is the bartended stressed out, is someone looking over at me?

I know if i don't force myself to do this, I'll just pull out my phone and look at a pretty picture from natgeo on instagram, and then i'll check my facebook, then i'll text a random whatsapp group chat and before I know it my friend who went to the toilet (and probably did the same thing in the loo) is back.

Now if the conversation continues to involve the using of the mobile phone when the friend is back from the loo, then its gotten seriously bad and you both need to look hard at each other and rethink your lives.

I don't know what i'm getting at but the modern world has absolutely destroyed our attention spans and social skills. Me included.

TLDR

Curls wrote:We live in a world where we generally have too much.

We have the internet at our fingertips. Netflix, Spotify, libraries of everything. Youtube, wikipedia. Whatever we want.

Our tellies have film channels, sport channels, history channels, every channel under the sun.

Yet, we're becoming more and more bored, our attention spans are quite terrible and we cannot stand to have nothing to do for 5 minutes.

Sometimes when I'm in a public place and waiting for something I try to force myself to not look at my phone straight away. Have a look around the room. I'm in a bar, who's got there eye on who, is the bartended stressed out, is someone looking over at me?

I know if i don't force myself to do this, I'll just pull out my phone and look at a pretty picture from natgeo on instagram, and then i'll check my facebook, then i'll text a random whatsapp group chat and before I know it my friend who went to the toilet (and probably did the same thing in the loo) is back.

Now if the conversation continues to involve the using of the mobile phone when the friend is back from the loo, then its gotten seriously bad and you both need to look hard at each other and rethink your lives.

I don't know what i'm getting at but the modern world has absolutely destroyed our attention spans and social skills. Me included.

Spot on.

DML wrote:TLDR

I agree with Curls. I sometimes try and force myself not to look at my phone. My attention span is quite atrocious these days as well.

Mafro wrote:

still wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

still wrote:Watching The Bridge 4, Handmade’s Tale, Montelbano plus others. There’s loads of stuff on terrestrial. No idea why people need Sky, Netflix etc.

Probably to watch things that aren't available on terrestrial channels...?

Yes but, pay?.....

Yes? I happily pay for Netflix, WWE Network, UFC Fight Pass (sometimes) and Now TV because they've got a ton of gooseberry fool I want to watch. I don't pay for a TV license because I barely ever watch terrestrial.

The great thing about these services as opposed to the likes of Sky, Virgin and BT TV is that you're free to dip in and out as often as you like.

I tend to rotate between Amazon, Netflix and NowTV every few months depending on what new shows you want.

The 12 month subscription and box installation really is an outdated concept now.