What we used to refer to as 'pay tv' has now become 'streaming', if I correctly understand. We pay for one streaming service, Britbox, at $9 per month. That won't send us into penury. R makes good use of Britbox and it does have some great shows and I mean to watch many of them. But I am a retired person and I just don't have the time.
There is an Australian gay movie or series I want to see and will be streamed but not on Britbox. I don't want to sign up for anything and I am happy to pay per view. I am quite ignorant about streaming tv. Oldest Great Niece proclaimed to us, there Auntie Andrew, your tv has Netflix. No darling child, it is just a link and we will have to pay. Darling child, let me just switch the tv to YouTube for Kids. I find there is more than enough to watch on the big screen from free to air tv and YouTube.
Britbox began quite low key here but is now advertising itself quite prominently, displaying many old tv shows, oddly though not Love Thy Neighbour. That must be cheap to buy the rights to.
Via Facebook, I came across a group for Keeping up Appearances. Hyacinth, aka Dame Patricia Routledge is just brilliant in so many ways. When she was here in Melbourne, a friend of years ago carried her in his taxi cab and said she was just the loveliest of people. True class, unlike Hyacinth.
There are a number of promotional clips I can choose from, and this is wot ya get.
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It was a very good series and has held up well over the years. Patricia Routledge was very talented and had a beautiful singing voice. She's 94 now.
ReplyDeletePatricia Routledge is 94? Oh dear. And it seems like only yesterday we watched Keeping Up Appearances... How nice to learn that she is a lovely person.
ReplyDeleteHa Mrs Bucket. That brought back memories. I am living on the entertainment from streaming these days
ReplyDeleteI loved that show. I also loved The Last of The Summer Wine.
ReplyDeleteLast of the Summer Wine is a blast from the past. It was terrific.
DeleteWe were at an auction yesterday and I saw a man that so reminded me of 'Smiler' that it just gave me a giggle.
DeleteKeeping up Appearances is so funny. I also vastly enjoyed Are You Being Served, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, and of course everything Monty Python. Best wishes to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteI did like that hyacinth's son is named Sheridan! Seems exactly right. I don't pay for anything I watch! Library DVDs or YouTube or library apps offer me plenty.
ReplyDeleteI love watching keeping up appearances. I get DVDs from the library. I like hook up streaming.
ReplyDeleteWe're in United States they have some free streaming service like Freeve, Kanopy Crackle, and more.
The two big issue I see with free ones. Newer release comes latter than the paid one. And putting up with ads.
Being retire and limited of income, it worth it.
Coffee is on.
I've seen Dame Pat interviewed and she is utterly charming and self-effacing. Hyacinth was brilliant as was her turn on detective Harriet (I think Harriet, not sure). I do have Britbox, Netflix and am gifted Acorn and Amazon Prime. I go on and off Apple for the brilliant shows. Martin Scorsese's latest is due soon.
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I don't think I have ever heard of Britbox. I am a keen watcher of Fox television but limited to about 8 channels.
ReplyDeleteGood grief, Mr. BUCKET, how she makes a us laugh. There is nothing like a good British comedy for laughter.
ReplyDeleteYou must be watching a different TV than we are as there is not much on it for us...never heard of Britbox Andrew.
Keeping Up Appearances is still on regular TV, I watched an episode last night. Or maybe it was Friday night. Not something I usually watch, but she is funny. I'd love to see reruns of Love Thy Neighbour. I have never heard of Britbox.
ReplyDeleteFirst I heard of this show but what I saw there makes me want to see it. I take it Sheridan is one of these TV character other characters, in this case his mother, talk about but whom the viewer never actually sees?
ReplyDeleteCorrect Kirk. We never saw Sheridan.
DeleteHyacinth Bucket has always been much more popular overseas than in Britain and so it clearly continues.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine life without Netflix.
Like Abba and Pink have been so much huger her than anywhere else.
DeleteI had britbox for a while but didn't use it much so cancelled. Like you say, there's a lot on YouTube and free to air.
ReplyDeleteI do love British TV though and that was a great show.
I never picked up that Sheridan was gay until now! In my defence I never watched a lot of it but it's frightening to know hyacinth didn't know either
A great series, I have it on DVD.
ReplyDeleteOne foot in the grave was another popular series around the same era.
ReplyDeleteI have a roku attached to my TV and I can stream all kinds of free channels, live TV and movies on it, without a subscription plan to anything but netflix. Due to my budget, I pay for only one stream channel at a time. Currently its netflix but I plan to change to a different one soon. I am hoping there will be some black Friday specials on stream channels and I can choose a different one. My top of house antenna does not bring in much anymore.
ReplyDeleteI loved "Keeping up appearances". Hyachinth was the best!
ReplyDeleteOne of our favorite shows! Dame Patricia must be in her 90s by now.
ReplyDeleteI try to keep our streaming services to a minimum -- no more than three or four at a time. If we want to watch something on another one we have to cancel (or suspend) one of the others.