Probably a weird question, but I have my reasons. 
Like the subject says… is the US talk show The View shown anywhere on British TV? And if so, where and when?
BTW, normally I wouldn’t think that it would be, but a glance at the schedule available here shows that our British cousins get a lot of our dreck, from crap reality shows to good stuff, so who knows, maybe The View fits in the spectrum somewhere.
God, I hope not.
What did the British ever do to us? I mean, there was that war, but that was weeks ago.
I figure the answer is “no,” because it is so US-centric. No idea how relevant John Edwards, Rahm Emmanuel, and American Idol would be to your average Blighter.
No, we don’t get The View on UK TV. We have Loose Women, which is made here to essentially the same format.
The fact that it’s US-centric wouldn’t necessarily be an obstacle: some of the lesser-viewed satellite and cable channels have shows like The Daily Show and Dancing with the Stars, and so on.
It used to be on some satellite and cable channel years back (I’m thinking Living, maybe). Definitely remember Star Jones being on it and recall Debbie Matenopoulos being replaced by Lisa Ling.
Ah, thanks guys! Appreciate the info. I just wanted to know if someone overseas would be able to watch today’s show – one of my books may be featured on it. I think the ABC website and Hulu block UK visitors.
I noticed that Loose Women seemed like a The View-type show. My condolences! I’ve been watching lots of UK television through the abovementioned site and it’s amazing how much US stuff is shown there. Even our lousy TV movies fill your airwaves, such as on the True network, which I gather is sort of like the Lifetime Movie Network over here. Don’t you guys make crap women-in-peril shows of your own? 
There’s a bajillion similar networks on the digital platforms - the audience figures must be very difficult to measure above the level of statistical noise. And yes, there’s a lot of US programming on there. 
They aren’t our dumbest channels though - there’s also bajillions of home-grown auction, bingo and “text the answer to simple question (cost £9.99) and win a toaster!” channels.
We get The View in Australia so relevance doesn’t figure into the programming in this country at least.
Of course we do – and some of them end up on True Movies. Many of them are already spoken for by other channels, though, so True seems to make do with cheap American crap, rather than the cheap home-made crap that other channels specialise in.
I don’t think you can fairly say that US TV movies fill the airwaves, though. They fill a smallish niche on the airwaves – but isn’t that the beauty of the digital broadcasting revolution? If you want to watch football all day, or police chases, or 20-year-old sitcoms, there’s a channel just for you. And if you want to watch melodramatic true-life crime dramas, you can do what it sounds like my wife’s doing, and watch True Movies.
Oh, I tell a lie – seems she’s watching Law & Order on Hallmark.
Yipe I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be insulting – I didn’t mean fill as in, 100%, I just meant, there’s an awful lot of it. The amount genuinely surprised me. Like, I’m looking at that TV Guide now, and there are lots of UK programs, certainly, but there’s also:
So I was just surprised, is all. I want all-UK, all the time! 
I’ve been meaning to open a thread on UK TV in general, so maybe i’ll do that.
When I was studying in London in college we attended a taping of Loose Women.
It was boring as hell because I had no idea what they were talking about, and no idea who the guest was.
I got so excited for Loose Women too…
Oh, don’t worry – it never even occurred to me you might be being insulting, even unintentionally.
Looking at that list, though, you might be getting a distorted impression of what we actually watch. Generally speaking, about 70–80% of the viewers are watching BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 or Channel 5 – by far the lion’s share of that going to BBC1 and ITV1, that broadcast very few US shows. All the rest of the channels get to divvy up the remaining 20% between them. Since they only get a couple of hundred thousand viewers each, at best, they have to show what they can get cheaply.
We are also lucky enough to get most of the truly excellent programming that HBO and others have been producing the past few years - The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Mad Men etc etc. Sometimes our networks don’t seem to know when to schedule them and so put them on a varying times, but they are there if you want them.
I think the main channels do have problems with them, yes. They want to show them, because they’re obviously very good, but even the most popular US series, like CSI, are lucky if they get as many as 2 million viewers, even in the best timeslots. For comparison, recent episodes of Silent Witness have had nearly 8 million. I don’t understand it myself, but there it is.
It doesn’t work in reverse though. I grew up watching the 4 terrestrial stations in the UK and absolutely loved it (except for Minder and The Bill). The great comedic stuff - A Bit of Fry and Laurie, The Fast Show, Peep Show, Armstrong & Whatshisface - either gets a short run here or nothing at all. BBC America is programmed by tools.
I watch EastEnders almost daily, but it isn’t available in the US unless you have some obscure satellite package. Which is a shame. I think it could get a respectable US audience (with some explaining of East End life and subtitles). Thank God for the internets!
I will say that a lot of documentary programmes end up on the science type channels. Usually they find an American narrator to overdub - you can tell it’s British because it’s a) really good and b) the experts are from the University of East Anglia or something. We had a docu series called “Seven Ages of Rock” that was aired on VH1, narrated by Dennis Hopper, but there was a BBC Bristol copyright at the end.
But we don’t get Horizon, Panorama, or Cutting Edge, which are all really well done documentaries.
Well, for years, Horizon was a co-production with WGBH in Boston, and was shown in the US as part of the Nova series. It seems its now a co-production with The Science Channel, so I don’t know what they do with it.
The British public demonstrates in the viewing figures it wants original UK drama programming. That’s why C4 had the seeming monopoly on US imports for so long - the BBC had to make original programming and only had the two channels (although now it has 5 adult plus 2 kids channels).
Even when the BBC finally bought The Wire it went out at 11.20pm -ism on BBC2 and drew less that half a mill. Just no where even close to mainstream for the UK.
Not to get too sidetracked, but there are still some PBS channels that show Eastenders in the U.S., and a small number of us American diehard fans who’ve been watching since the 80s.
I can’t believe The View is shown in Australia, or anywhere outside the U.S. How embarrassing.
Yeah, I watched EE from its inception on the BBC in 1985 and watched it in America on PBS from about 1988-1990. Then it was on BBC America when the station started and they had virtually no programming. Then they shifted to some deal with Dish Network… I understand PBS is like 2-3 years behind the UK.
The problem with PBS, of course, is that they might have it for a year or two and then it’s gone. That’s what happened in Austin.
This has KILLED my husband. He loved EE and about 10 years ago, it just stopped playing.
He’s such a girl, my hubby. Footballer’s Wives (or something like that) and Cell Block H (Aussie, I believe) were some of his favs. Then-- nothing. He even got hooked on the US-BET type version of Footballer’s about American Footballer’s wives (can’t remember the name of it right now) and THAT was canceled.
My poor baby. Where is he gonna get his foreign soap opera fix now?