UK Dopers, is there a site like Hulu or Sling that specializes in UK shows?
Thanks!
Each major ‘terrestrial’ station has online viewing. But unfortunately they are only available to UK residents. Often you can get the shows on youtube or if they are popular enough (top gear) you can dCOUGHownload them COUGH.
neither Sling nor Hulu work in Canada. Grrrrr.
PM me.
Do ya’ll still have that TV tax thing?
I’m just saying…dumping some tea… 
Thanks!
I know that at least the BBC online player won’t work for anyone coming from outside the UK.
4od, ITV player, Sky player, for their respective networks.
Click on a link for a show and all we get is an announcement saying “Ha! That Revolution business doesn’t seem like such a smart idea now, does it, Yank?”
Okay, actually it says “Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only.”
And the Channel5 announcement is “Sorry this show is for UK audiences only.”
There are a lot of UK shows (mostly older ones) on Netflix Instant. I’ve watched the entire run of As Time Goes By there.
Yes, Netflix “Watch Instantly” is great if you like older sitcoms and some dramas:
Coupling
Red Dwarf
The Office
Monty Python (first season only so far)
Yes Minister
Yes Prime Minister
Good Life / Good Neighbors (very VERY underrated show)
Fawlty Towers
As Time Goes By
Keeping Up Appearances
Little Britain
Waiting for God
Chef
Last of the Summer Wine
Vicar of Dibley
Several miniseries such as North and South, Wives and Daughters, Daniel Deronda, Middlemarch, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, The Way Things Are Now, Bleak House, He Knew He Was Right, and others
Doctor Who (old and new)
Spooks / MI5
All Creatures Great and Small
Ballykissangel
Monarch of the Glen
Campion, Inspector Linley, Mrs. Bradley, Poirot and Miss Marple mystery series
The Avengers (with Diana Rigg, woohoo!)
Duchess of Duke Street
The ooooold versions of Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility*, Emma*, Mansfield Park
… and so on.
- Ignore these and check out the 1995 / 1996 films, with Emma Thompson and Gwyneth Paltrow, both of which are available instantly as well)
I believe it’s possible to trick a webpage into thinking you are in a country you’re not in. Our IT dept people do it often.
I have no idea how, and the IT dept is not here for a few days.
I’ve done it with a FireFox add-on called FoxyProxy. It relays your request through a proxy server. The problem is that you need a proxy address in the country you wish to view, and they appear and disappear constantly, requiring web sites that list them and other sites with configuration instructions.
Good luck!
Very nice. I have never taken advantage of that. Good to know.