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Topic History of: BBC has not created a new hit show in 5 years
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Green Man	As much as I hate Starmer and the rest of the ratbags in Parliament, I can't blame Starmer for closing down the terrestrial signal. More and more people do watch stream platforms and when younger people leave the nest they probably make sure their Netflix and Prime accounts are all up to date, rather than taking out a licence they don't need. When new channels are launched on Freeview they broadcast over IPTV which means you need the Internet not a FTA signal. If you are a casual sports fan the pub is the place to be to watch the matches. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2028066/keir-s...g#Echobox=1742200154
robbiex	Watching broadcast tv via firesticks or now tv is a pain, you have to go in and out of apps such as iplayer, my5, and itvx etc, and other channels like Aljazeera, together, gbnews etc are not available, along with dozens of other channels.
JK2006	Wolf Hall is the best TV in years.
Green Man	Freeview has a good 5 years or so before the signals close for 5G. There are numerous ways to watch TV via broadband like Roku, Firesticks or Kodi boxes but I have not seen the latter for years. I wonder if Freesat will replace Freeview nationally, then you still have to a find landlord who is not a twat about dishes. Where I live Freeview is very unstable hence another reason why I don't watch TV. I don't like subscribing to TV, I have spent way too much in the past on that even when I owned a pub. You do need a commercial subscription which soon adds up throughout the year. I also needed a PRS licence which was £400 a year. I knew a few landlords who tried to find little illegal loopholes but the landlords were soon fined when they didn't have proper subscriptions for SKY TV. It's just another tax. I did hire a Blues Brother tribute act, but they had to stop it because they were threatened with legal action from the John Belushi estate.
Rich	Your Netflix point Robbie matches my own experience. I was able to view it for a period through a family member doing the password sharing option, until they closed that route. Was I bothered? Not one bit. In the couple of years I'd had it available to watch the only thing I actually watched on it was old episodes of Mr Bean from the 1990s and nothing else at all. On Freeview, I read a couple of weeks ago that there are now doubts about its medium to long term viability and that it could be shelved at some point. That would clearly be bad news for a lot of people. One thing about the BBC that disappoints with such a vast historical programme archive is that they don't place far more of it on their iPlayer online. The Dr.Who archive of every available episode from the first seven doctors 1963 to 1989 that landed there this time last year proves it can be done, and I'd imagine it has proved quite successful.