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Hey natasha and debbie great video a couple of videos back I asked you in the comments to react to "101 facts about scotland" you replied how long was the video I replied back just over 11 minutes which was completely wrong it was a typo sorry I was half asleep when I typed it the actual video I want you to react to is just over 27 minutes long it's titled 101 facts about scotland the channel name is 101 facts 😁👍🏴.
I hope I’m not “double posting” but I can’t see my previous post. Anyways, If you want to know more about London, check out Joolz Guides on YT, entertaining and full of History of London which you would miss any other way.
Thank you Brits! for 90% of the TV.. I watch as an American. IMO Your shows have better acting with people who look like and sound like "real" people! I can't stand all of the" plastic " people in American shows, and the story lines aren't much better here. There are some exceptions of course. Eastenders is my favorite soap, and Benidorm is one of my favorite comedies. Although I have so many British favorites it's hard to choose!!😊🇬🇧
@@helenagreenwood2305 Yes I do. I loved Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie. So Funny I had stumbled on that show via UA-cam. It was never shown in the states to my knowledge. I had seen the main actor in "The thin blue Line" which I loved as well. Fools and Horses I have not seen. I will have to check that one out. Thanks!
Referring to my previous comment its best not to watch it on amazon prime because alot of scenes were cut out. Ther best chance you will have to watch it is from a download online or you can watch it on youtube with a vpn. If your going to download online it check if it is ripped from amazon prime and also the date to distinguish between the uk and us version
I used to watch 'Watch With Mother' (Andy Pandy, The Flowerpot Men and The Woodentops - ran from 1952 - 1975) and 'Jackanory' (ran from 1965 - 1996) when I was little
Don't say that or they will make a programme of people painting walls and sitting watching it dry and then make another 6 similar but change something to make it different. Like all the cookery programmes, different hosts similar format.
Debbie's personality shone in this vlog 🤣🤣🤣 I love her even more now. Its only the BBC that are ad-free. There is ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and maaaaannnyyyy other channels that thrust ads about toothpaste at us 😂
They aren't totally ad free now cos there's a cookery programme on Saturday morning on BBC 1and they advertise booze, where to buy it and the cost every week. They just don't mention it, don't know how much in back handers they get.
@@dumplzbabi1514 that happens within the content of the show, rather than like ITV/C4 that "cut to the break" every 15 mins or so and then we suffer 5 mins of random ads. That's what I mean when I say 'ad-free' as BBC don't do that.
That face in the beginning, as we say I the UK like butter wouldn't melt.. NATASHA: "Debbie!!..are you playing with thos pens again!!?. DEBBIE: 😳.. No..😇. BUSTED!!!! 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹
Oh God yes. Yes prime minister is some of the best political TV gold that has ever been. It’s amazing they managed to get through any of the scrips at all without always bursting into laughter or tripping over their own words.👏🏼👏🏼
If you want a fairly easy panel show to react to, "would I lie to you?" Is a good one - essentially there are two teams of comedians who can win points on someone telling a story, and the other team guessing if it was true or a lie
Another good show with comedians is Taskmaster. It's a bit like a panel show but also not really. With a panel show there are different guests/comedians every week while with Taskmaster the whole season has the same guests.
Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. I repeat one man wrote the show on his own for 37 years. Royston Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930), usually known as Roy Clarke, is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.
He also wrote the wonderful "A Foreign Field". A comedy following a group of veterans around Normandy, starring Alec Guinness, Ed Herrmann, John Randolph, Leo McKern, Lauren Bacall, Jeanne Moreau and Geraldine Chaplin. Although it's essentially a comedy, I defy anybody to watch it without a tear welling up. There's a particular scene with Leo McKern's character recalling his experience in the Bocage which has me crying evey time.
It used to just be '8 out of 10 cats' but they did a crossover episode with a real 'game show' called Countdown for a charity one-off and it went so well they binned the original format.
One thing that wasn't mentioned, which is quite different in the UK, is the "TV pickup". This is when the National Grid (the electricity supply for the country) has to ensure that there is enough power available at certain times during a particular TV broadcast that many people in the country are watching at the same time. It usually happens during big football matches, where at half-time and full-time lots of people switch on electric kettles for cups of tea and visit the bathroom during the break (pumps for the sewage system and water supply require huge amounts of electricity when everyone is using them at the same time). It has less of an effect these days due to the different ways we watch TV, but even now, the National Grid gets advance notice of the TV schedule so that they can anticipate the load on the system to avoid blackouts. Maybe a little outside the scope of the video, but I thought it was interesting enough to mention. 🙂
Less well known is that there is also a telephone pickup effect due to popular reality shows with phone-in votes. The phone companies have to increase capacity for the 15 minutes to an hour when millions of people all dial the same number! Otherwise, the network would just be swamped and everyone would get "engaged". I worked for BT at the time and it started with Noel Edmunds' "Swap Shop" on a Saturday morning, it basically crashed the UK phone network for the first few weeks!
One of the main differences in episodes per season, is that for the UK bigger non-studio based shows, such as dramas, is how they're produced. An entire series (season) will be written, then planned then filmed in one long run. Then the episodes will be edited and sent to broadcast with ALL episodes available to the broadcaster. Sitcoms will have their entire series written before production starts, they'll then have a week of rehearsals, then film it live in studio with an audience (using real laughter track from the audience that night), then next day start the rehearsals for next episode. Most evening chat shows such as Graham Norton etc, are filmed the night previous to broadcast to keep it as current as possible. In US, most of the large drama productions are done episode by episode which increases cost and that's why there's mid-season breaks etc, so writers can catch up. It's also why a lot of good US shows suddenly start going in a weird direction that doesn't make sense.
I think Debbie finally feels comfortable doing vlogs and we are now seeing the real her. So glad to see. Love you both coz your so down to earth and not fake. Much love from Liverpool 🇬🇧
I know you're just joking but a lot of personal things have been going on and we decided to put all our attention into these videos as possible. Just having more fun with the things that bring us joy & pushing through the bad. She's a woman with many sides
The best way to understand panel shows is that they have two teams of celebrities and comedians competing against each other. The teams score points for answering questions, but in reality, nobody cares about who wins or whether they answer the questions. The questions are really just a springboard for comedians to improvise and generally mess around for our amusement. If you're watching one (like 8 out of ten cats, or the sister show 8 out of ten cats does countdown), don't worry if you don't understand the format as it's not important. Just enjoy the comedy banter. The panel show format really exploded in 1990 with a show called "Have I got news for you". Other shows worth a look are QI, Mock the Week and Would I lie to you.
There are no commercials on the BBC because they are funded by the TV license. On other channels, there are commercials, but still not to the extent there are in the US. EG - a star trek episode starts, we get the pre-title sequence, then the title sequence, then the first act.... THEN we'll get a commercial break, for 2-3 minutes, then back to the show. We'll go back to the show then get another commercial break about 15 minutes later and then the rest of the show. In the states, I remember seeing this: pre-title sequence, commercials, title sequence, commercials, first act, commercials, second act, commercials, third act, commercials, end credits. It a bit ridiculous because you can't get caught up in the show as you aren't watching the show, you're watching commercials with bits of program dropped in.
He didn't mention this, but UK has a 21:00 watershed, after which it is ok to swear on TV. Not sure this is a thing on US TV. He mentioned The Graham Norton Show, well the guests drink and swear on this, Dustin Hoffman in an early appearance is like a little schoolboy with this freedom.
Oh dear...there's always one hateful jealous person to try and bring down the mood.. we love you Natasha 😍 thank you for staying up with us.. Tiffany did your mother never teach you if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all?
"The Detectorists" This BBC series is set in the fictional small town of Danebury in northern Essex; the plot revolves around the lives, loves and metal detecting ambitions of Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club. Funny and charming series 3 series in total.
I recently binge watched The Detectorists over Christmas and it was such a great watch. I wish it could’ve continued even longer but it feels like it wrapped up really well. A great quirky homage to those people who basically time travel through the ground of our ancient country.
If you liked Fleabag, have a look at Killing Eve, if you can find it, the show-runner for the first series was Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator of Fleabag. I love your show and always look forward to your next episode.
Just found your channel recently, so this might not get read as its so late since posting. I'm a big movie and tv show watcher, but looking through my dvds, downloads, netflix and amazon, I actually mostly watch american shows, like 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, NCIS(all of them), Star Trek, Lucifer, etc, etc. But I do watch Doctor Who including the christmas special, lol. I would recommend you watch Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, as that was filmed in London, and is a great show, also I recommend Good Omens with David Tennant and Michael Sheen, it's based half in London and Half in a little English Village, so it shows a really different take on english life. The Only Panel show I ever watch is Qi, as apart from being hilarious, I always learn something interesting. Loving your videos, keep it up.
Panel shows are extremely popular here in the UK. I would say the most popular is Would I Lie to you. One person on a team tells an outlandish story and the other team has to cross examine and decide if it's true or not. The episodes you want to watch are the ones with Bob Mortimer in.
Enjoyed this reaction, we get to learn how the US tv works👍 QI is a good panel show because you learn while you laugh ( Stephen Fry the original host is a National treasure l love him ) would l lie to you is another great panel show especially when Bob Mortimer is a guest.. l vote For the Cotswolds
I think the brevity of British shows is sometimes a stylistic choice too. Fleabag was perfect as it was, making it any longer would stretch the concept out of coherence. Better to do something well than to drag it out until everyone gets bored and hates it
There are many classic programs you are missing out on, and whilst the BBC usually leads the way, other channels also have good content. For the BBC:- Line of Duty (superb) Killing Eve (superb) Doctor Foster(superb) Sherlock (F###in brilliant) Peaky Blinders (excellent, but the Brummie accent may bemuse you) these are just a few of the series in the past few years that have become beloved in the UK. For ITV:- Morse, Lewis and Endeavour, all the same story but over several decades (excellent) Panel shows:- Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, Would I lie to You? Have I got News For You? All very funny, but not for your channel reactions as the content can be very adult! I could go on but there are some Dr Who episodes to catch up on;)
Hi! We do get adverts/commercials on UK TV, but there’s no advertising on any BBC channels. So, when you watch a program on the BBC, it’ll run unbroken until the next program starts. And then, once your program’s finished, you’ve only got a minute or 2 of BBC filler footage before the next program starts. Hence, that’s why we pay for the TV license every year, as the BBC doesn’t make any money from advertising. There’s plenty of adverts/commercials on every other UK TV channel. I hope this helped. Phil.
The colour tv licence is currently £159 (about $214 or 59 cents/day). For that you get 3 main channels, a news channel, Parliament proceedings channel and 2 children's channels. In addition: over 10 radio channels and local radio stations all over the UK. There's no advertising on any of this.
There used to be a Black & White license too which was much cheaper. But I don't think it's available anymore because there are no functioning Black & White TV sets nowadays - certainly not Digital TV sets.
To clarify, in case they missed it, Absolutely Fabulous is the name of a show. They may have heard friends refer to it as AbFab. It stars Jennifer Saunders and was based off a premise in a sketch she did with Dawn French about a mother and daughter with reversed roles. Relatedly, another thing about British tv versus American is not only do the actors not all have to be gorgeous, but the characters don’t have to be likeable. I think this is in part due to the shorter seasons and differences in production.
If you think about, the UK was way ahead with having short seasons, as shows made for streaming platforms only have between 10 to 13 episodes a season because audiences like to binge them in manageable chunks
I've watched Dr Who, since it began. The day after JFK was assassinated in '63. I was very young at the time and Dr Who (the program) frightened me to death! Like many, I would watch it from behind the sofa? I still watch it today but many values and obviously production standards have changed? Sometimes, not for the better.
I haven't watched Dr Who since he stopped being William Hartnell. I haven't watched James Bond since Sean Connery. Resistant to change ? Stick-in-the-mud ? I just call it brand loyalty.......😀 (Thank God I only heard the Beatles after Pete Best got the elbow).
Hi Natasha and Debbie! RE: Colour TV licences, this goes back to the 70s when TV stations first starting transmitting in colour. A lot people still had black and white TVs so the licence fee for a back and white TV was less expensive than a colour TV. Nowadays the term is pretty much redundant but is still refered to.
B&W licenses were still available up until we switched to digital TV (around 2010?). B&W sets were all (ancient) analog sets so after digitisation they became redundant.
Another big difference is Sponsorship. You have Sponsors for the Channel, Period of the Day, Type of show, and even for the Adverts themselves . Gee Wisss We're getting them all now. Thanks America, you're No.1.
yes the BBC is free from advertisements and in my opinion is a great deal. The BBC first went live in 1936 from crystal palace with the first television broadcast ever seen.
Hiya. Great reaction. Dr Who is difficult to get your head around as its been running since 1963 and many of the episodes are completely different stories. If you can, I suggest an episode called "Blink" it's scarey in it's own right and it illustrates the quality of acting and production. Enjoy
As a child in the sixties Dr Who was frequently the highlight of the week. I and my sisters did use to hide behind the settee at the scariest bits. The basic idea was that the Doctor and his companion(s) would travel through space and time and could have adventures anywhere and anywhen.
Doctor Who is like our Star Trek its a sci fi show still going today that started in the 60's. It's more Buffy the Vampire Slayer with aliens or The Lone Ranger in space. The Doctor is a lone Time-Lord who usually travels with a human companion and saves worlds, frees people and stops alien invasions of Britain. The Doctor travels thro time and space in the Tardis, bigger on the inside than on the outside and is camouflaged as an old Police Phone Box. It's as iconic and recognisable to us Brits as the starship Enterprise. Similar to James Bond The Doctor will get mortally wounded every few years and regenerate his/her whole body allowing another actor to play the role and freshen the series. The present 13th Doctor is the first woman to play the iconic role and we are awaiting news of her successor.
Hi H Natasha & Debbie. I was surprised that Lawrence didn’t mention the David Attenborough series of nature documentaries. It's a national and international BBC favourite. It will also last best part of an hour without a break for ads,, his programmes sell so well abroad that it offsets the cost of our licence fee a bit!.
If you can get access to BBC America and it’s on the schedule, both of you would LOVE a tv programme called “All creatures great and small” (this version is a remake of a series first shown in the 70’s though) which is about a vet working in Yorkshire and is based on the books written by a real person named James Herriott, who really WAS a vet. The “true stories” portrayed in the shows are based on events that happened during his time working in the Yorkshire Dales with his two oppos, brothers Siegfried and Tristram Farnon (yes, really!) dealing with animals that you wouldn’t necessarily SEE in a veterinary building (think of animals that go mooo or snort!) The programme is essentially very British and is both heartwarming or sad, amusing or deadly serious about animal management and what is happening to our beautiful countryside. You will get to see the stunning Yorkshire Dales at its gloriest greenery and picturesque beauty in the Spring and Summer and it’s stark coldness in the depths of winter…and of course, it has animals in it! Now…the original series starred an actor called Peter Davison (he played annoying but dopey Tristram 🙄😀) who later on, starred as The Doctor in Doctor Who! Now that IS def on BBC America and is one of the highest rated programmes and there is a huge Doctor Who fan base out in the USA! Yes, in the UK, 99.99% of us, including young children, would know exactly what Doctor Who was about 😀 another programme running for 60 years (with a programme cancellation gap between years when some up and coming programme director thought it was past its best 🙄😡) - I watched it as a child and as it scared me she much, still to this day, cannot look down an Underground (meaning The Tube) railway tunnel incase a Yeti appears! 😂 as for other tv programmes - anything with Sir David Attenborough presenting…no need to explain why, the two names David…Attenborough .. (hero) says it all… enjoy British tellybox ing watching if you can!
Another great vet series (which I'm struggling to find on either DVD or online ☹ ) is One By One, about a zoo vet called Donald Turner, in real live David Taylor.
QI is a great panel show, Also if you can hold of it try The Clangers . My vote for Travel Wednesday Cotswolds, Lake District, Cornwall and Scotland. love your show :)
@@noelwarn3366 it’s being published by Unbound and while the Clangers don’t speak there were actual scripts of the words they were supposed to be saying. One package comes with a Swanee whistle so you can do the scripts yourself!
The Tv licence was originally a radio licence before TV even existed and when mono TV came along it was changed to include TV and of course, they increased the cost When colour TV came along you could get either a monochrome or colour TV licence. The colour licence inevitably cost more. The Licence was designed to not be politically biased and independent of the government.
Would you believe there were circa 6,400 black & white (monochrome) tv licences issued in 2020. Colour tv arrived in the UK in 1967 some 53 years ago. The radio licence was abolished long, long ago.
I was in Washington DC. I could not sleep one night and about 3am I switched on the TV and they were showing really old episodes of Dr Who. It was fantastic!
We had something similar to Mr Rogers over her in the UK in the 90s in the form of a lady called Auntie Mabel in the show 'Come Outside' (a show on the toddler/pre school channel Cbeebies) She owned a dog called Pippin and flew all over the UK in her own polka dot plane and to find out how things worked or where things came from such as toothpaste for instance. 'Come Outside' was my favourite Cbeebies show as a Toddler.
Before that we had a show called Play School which filled the same sort of slot. I remember we had Play School and then Jackanory (a show where celebrities would sit and read a book to children) and finally Blue Peter, a show for older children about discovery and making things, it is still going, Ah happy days
If you didn't grow up with Play School in the UK, you lost out. And it helped to the integration of different coloured people and ideas.We now have a Baroness who presented that and people who are national treasures, On commercial TV ads last for 3 mins and cut into the programme at appropriate points for 3 mins at a time
My votes for British TV shows for you to watch are The Vicar of Dibley, Ghosts, Father Brown and The Repair Shop. Just a few among many, many very good shows. Love the real Debbie, BTW!
Before we had so many TV channels there was only BBC1, BBC2 & ITV. During the Ad/commercial break on ITV shows so many people got up to put the electric kettle on to make tea that the electric power company used ITV’s schedules to make sure that there would be enough power stations on line to cope with the demand.
If you go onto UA-cam you can look for a British comedy programme (show) called Dinner Ladies, which was written and starred the late Victoria Wood, who was a genius (she played the character Bren). If you want a laugh look for Victoria Wood and the Ballad of Freda and Barry.
There are so many TV Series' I could recommend, but would highly recommend 'It's a sin'. It's based on a true story (the woman who's the centre of the real story is actually in it which is good) and it's VERY emotive.
There are times when the USA and UK sort of poach shows off each other and make their own versions like The Office. Except UK shows don't always translate as well when "Americanised" a famous British show called Red Dwarf which is a sitcom based in Sci fi about the last human being stuck on a mining ship 3 million years in deep space after an accident did not make it past a pilot episode that didn't even get aired. Americans didn't understand it and the main character who is supposed to be a lazy average looking guy with curry stains on his shirts in the American version they cast a tall hunky good looking guy.
We pay for the tv license which pays for the bbc. Other channels on normal tv such as ITV and channels 4 and 5 are free as advertisers pay to have their products shown which then pays for the programmes. BBC has no ads. If you have any form of watching programmes in your house except UA-cam then you need a tv license.
Decided that my favourite programme is the Dog House it's about Wood Green Anima Charity where they pair dogs to a new owner. Has me crying happy tears all the time. A very close second is master shefl
There isn't really a "Doctor Who", the main character of the show is just "The Doctor". The title is a joke on the fact that he never gives his real name, and just goes by "The Doctor". He's a time traveling immortal who zips around the length and breadth of time and space having adventures. The sonic screwdriver is a tool he uses that..uh...basically does whatever the plot needs it to do. The doctor doesn't tend to use direct violence to overcome villains, and he tends to brilliantly outthink them instead. And since he doesn't have any weapons ,the sonic screwdriver is his tool of the trade instead.
We didn't get Mr Rodger, because we had rod,Jane and freddy. Along with zippy and bungal, we also had shows like emu House, no 73 and blue Peter. We as it said also got sesame street which in the UK had a diffrent ending to the USA..
There are no adverts on the BBC that is what we pay the TV license. We get adverts on the commercial channels ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 plus all the sky and network channels
Another difference seeing as you alluded to it is that ALL of the TV in the UK is National. We're half the size of Florida so even the weather forecasts are the whole country
The original UK Broadcast of The Muppet Show had whole bits, sketches, and songs that were cut from the US Broadcast because of commercials. I'm glad that Disney Plus has added most of those back in.
Dr Who was first broadcast as a weekly episode during what was then quaintly called "Children's Hour" on BBC when I was in my final year at prep in London in 1963. There was a respite for some years in the 90s, I think, but it was relaunched in 2003. The programmes have shown outside the UK in every country in Europe, Australasia, North America, and South America (except Cuba and Guyana), plus 20 African and 28 Asian countries.
I literally just took my son back to uni yesterday and drove through the Cotswolds and thought of you both. No time to stop and take any photo for you unfortunately.
THE BBC licence covers over 60 channels, not just TV. and it means we have no advertisements on any of their chanels,and the reporting can be unbiased.
At the start the thing you were thinking of is Watershed which is like film ratings. Some programes can not be showen befor 9 pm due to the contents beening not sutable for a young audience.
It's got to be the Lake District (the Lakes) We used to holiday there every year when I was a kid at a village called Hawkshead. Places in the Lakes to check out: Bowness-on-windermere Keswick/Derwent water Ambleside/windermere Hawkshead/Esthwaite water Coniston Water Glenridding/Ullswater Helvellyn Grizedale Forest Just to name a few.
The TV show you are reffereing to is "8 out of 10 Cats" it's a comedy panel show hosted by Jimmy Carr, where a bunch of comedians make fun of each other and react to/make fun of statistics and opinion polls. It that would be a great show to react to! 😂
As a child, my brother loved Dr Who, I hid behind the sofa, scared!! I had to go along when he was taken to a Dr Who exhibition, I nearly ruined it refusing to walk past the daleks!! The phrase 8 out of 10 cats, is from a Whiskas cat food advert that became a mantra! (Though cats I knew were the 2 out of 10!!) I vote Cotswolds, no bias, except I was born there!!
Can't wait for travel Wednesdays 🙆♀️ Cotswolds first then the Lake District. Please take a look at The Forest of Dean too, one of my favourite places. Magical.
Yes, soap operas were once a massive part of the UK psyche. The UK's largest commercial TV channel, ITV, had a record of 24million viewers (50% of the UK population) watch a wedding in 1981. No, not the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the marriage of Ken and Deirdre in Coronation Street!
The BBC dont have adverts at all. ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and all the other channels do but they are restricted to 4 advert breaks in an hour (usually)
My favs are Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With the Stars), Great British Sewing Bee, the channel Dave, etc etc. Oh and Horrible Histories is an awesome way to learn about British History even though it was a show aimed at children. Oh and in another note, I am so glad that Debbie has found her voice. Love you guys.
When I went to NYC and watched tv at night in my hotel room. It was so jarring just how many advert breaks there were. And because we have fewer advert breaks in the UK. When I'm watching some US TV shows. I do sometimes notice the cuts where they obviously put an advert break when it was screened in the US. Also, I do find it annoying when I really enjoy watching a US TV show. But then I find out that it didn't do well in the US and got cancelled. So we don't get anyone more season's of it in the UK. British TV show recommendations: - Only Fools and Horses - Hunted - Hustle - Would I Lie To You? - Tipping Point - The Chase* - Catchphrase - Gogglebox * I believe that there has been a US version too
British comedies (sitcoms particularly) usually only have 6-10 episodes per season because they’re only written by 1-2 people who often also star in it (such as The Office, Fleabag, the Royle Family, Detectorists, Phoenix Nights, Gavin & Stacey, Fawlty Towers, League of Gentlemen/Psychoville/Inside No 9, Bottom, This Way Up, This Country, Ideal, Saxondale, Man Down, Goes Wrong Show to cite a few…) - and even if the writer(s) isn’t in it there’s usually only 1 or 2. Similarly the cast will often contribute material, or at least one will be a regular writer like Absolutely Fabulous for example. This is in contrast to the US where there’s a large anonymous and ever revolving writers’ room for most American sitcoms - these sitcoms are driven by studios not by individual writers/creators as they are in the UK. This is why U.K. shows often end early - the writer thinks they’ve done enough with the premise / characters and decides to end the show, even if it’s wildly successful. In the US because the writer(s) isn’t the driver / owner of the show, the studios will keep a series going beyond its natural life if it’s making money - like Big Bang Theory say. Plus another reason for 21+ episodes is so after 2 seasons you can air at least one episode a week all year, therefore you can sell it for syndication in other networks. This used to be a thing anyway. An American-British hybrid is Ted Lasso as it has writer-performers including some of the American cast like Jason Sudeikis and British cast like Brett Goldstein - in addition to having a writers’ room. So yeah with Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge literally wrote every episode herself. That’s it. Apologies for the essay but hopefully that helps!
It's a broadcast receiving licence, if you want to get live TV you must have a licence(permit). It doesn't improve reception, and we still get adverts on most channels!
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You should check out Peaky blinders. Lake District
Hey natasha and debbie great video a couple of videos back I asked you in the comments to react to "101 facts about scotland" you replied how long was the video I replied back just over 11 minutes which was completely wrong it was a typo sorry I was half asleep when I typed it the actual video I want you to react to is just over 27 minutes long it's titled 101 facts about scotland the channel name is 101 facts 😁👍🏴.
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Only Fool's And Horses! The best comedy ever.
Thank you Brits! for 90% of the TV.. I watch as an American. IMO Your shows have better acting with people who look like and sound like "real" people! I can't stand all of the" plastic " people in American shows, and the story lines aren't much better here. There are some exceptions of course. Eastenders is my favorite soap, and Benidorm is one of my favorite comedies. Although I have so many British favorites it's hard to choose!!😊🇬🇧
Do you like comedy - I love Gimme Gimme Gimme ( its a bit below the belt and very rude) and Only Fools and Horses too 🇬🇧
@@helenagreenwood2305 Yes I do. I loved Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie. So Funny I had stumbled on that show via UA-cam. It was never shown in the states to my knowledge. I had seen the main actor in "The thin blue Line" which I loved as well. Fools and Horses I have not seen. I will have to check that one out. Thanks!
Utopia is an amazing british show from 2013. I think its on amazon along with the awful american remake
Referring to my previous comment its best not to watch it on amazon prime because alot of scenes were cut out. Ther best chance you will have to watch it is from a download online or you can watch it on youtube with a vpn. If your going to download online it check if it is ripped from amazon prime and also the date to distinguish between the uk and us version
Have you watched The Inbetweeners?
I used to watch 'Watch With Mother' (Andy Pandy, The Flowerpot Men and The Woodentops - ran from 1952 - 1975) and 'Jackanory' (ran from 1965 - 1996) when I was little
I loved JACKANORY the story's about the pre historic young boy were great and Rick Mail was fantastic reading story's.
A radio ‘Soap’ is The Archers about a rural village. That has been going nearly 70 years and is currently 5 days a week.
Reality tv is the bane of the last 20 years of T.V. rather watch paint dry....! I Love you two xxx
Couldn't agree more! Reality TV is trash!
Don't say that or they will make a programme of people painting walls and sitting watching it dry and then make another 6 similar but change something to make it different. Like all the cookery programmes, different hosts similar format.
Debbie's personality shone in this vlog 🤣🤣🤣 I love her even more now.
Its only the BBC that are ad-free. There is ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and maaaaannnyyyy other channels that thrust ads about toothpaste at us 😂
They aren't totally ad free now cos there's a cookery programme on Saturday morning on BBC 1and they advertise booze, where to buy it and the cost every week. They just don't mention it, don't know how much in back handers they get.
@@dumplzbabi1514 that happens within the content of the show, rather than like ITV/C4 that "cut to the break" every 15 mins or so and then we suffer 5 mins of random ads. That's what I mean when I say 'ad-free' as BBC don't do that.
Yeah but at least we have the BBC ad free. Considering we also have streaming services now I think we can live with it.
That face in the beginning, as we say I the UK like butter wouldn't melt..
NATASHA: "Debbie!!..are you playing with thos pens again!!?.
DEBBIE: 😳.. No..😇.
BUSTED!!!!
😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹
But only about half the adverts that Americans have.
Yes Minister & Yes Primeminister are worth watching. A political comedy with incredible writing.
Oh God yes. Yes prime minister is some of the best political TV gold that has ever been. It’s amazing they managed to get through any of the scrips at all without always bursting into laughter or tripping over their own words.👏🏼👏🏼
@@danielwhyatt3278 its almost as funny as priministers questions.
boring
Hi the 9pm thing is called the watershed, where they allow swearing etc after 9pm
Thanks for reminding us!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow children should be in bed by then
If you want a fairly easy panel show to react to, "would I lie to you?" Is a good one - essentially there are two teams of comedians who can win points on someone telling a story, and the other team guessing if it was true or a lie
Another good show with comedians is Taskmaster. It's a bit like a panel show but also not really. With a panel show there are different guests/comedians every week while with Taskmaster the whole season has the same guests.
WILTY is great watch Bob Mortimer episodes for a taste of madness.
Bob Mortimer is a crazy guy who just makes me piss myself
Is it just me or does anyone else think the guy doing this video sounds like David Mitchell?🧔🏻👀🧐😂
@@caroline_scotland It’s just you. Lawrence has a slight midlands twang. Mitchell talks like a toff
Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010.
I repeat one man wrote the show on his own for 37 years.
Royston Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930), usually known as Roy Clarke, is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.
He also wrote the wonderful "A Foreign Field". A comedy following a group of veterans around Normandy, starring Alec Guinness, Ed Herrmann, John Randolph, Leo McKern, Lauren Bacall, Jeanne Moreau and Geraldine Chaplin.
Although it's essentially a comedy, I defy anybody to watch it without a tear welling up. There's a particular scene with Leo McKern's character recalling his experience in the Bocage which has me crying evey time.
Essential viewing if watching three old dudes rolling down a hill in a bathtub (or similar) week after week for forty years is what gets you high.
That would be "8 out of 10 cats does Countdown" extremely funny and no body cares who scores the most points.
Well Jon kind of cares and RIP for Sean
Jon does.. and so do I lol
It used to just be '8 out of 10 cats' but they did a crossover episode with a real 'game show' called Countdown for a charity one-off and it went so well they binned the original format.
@@sorscha1308 No, they didn't bin it.
Nope, Fools and horses
One thing that wasn't mentioned, which is quite different in the UK, is the "TV pickup".
This is when the National Grid (the electricity supply for the country) has to ensure that there is enough power available at certain times during a particular TV broadcast that many people in the country are watching at the same time.
It usually happens during big football matches, where at half-time and full-time lots of people switch on electric kettles for cups of tea and visit the bathroom during the break (pumps for the sewage system and water supply require huge amounts of electricity when everyone is using them at the same time).
It has less of an effect these days due to the different ways we watch TV, but even now, the National Grid gets advance notice of the TV schedule so that they can anticipate the load on the system to avoid blackouts.
Maybe a little outside the scope of the video, but I thought it was interesting enough to mention. 🙂
If I remember right there is also a "pickup" for just after 6:30, to deal with everyone putting the kettle on for a cup of tea
Less well known is that there is also a telephone pickup effect due to popular reality shows with phone-in votes. The phone companies have to increase capacity for the 15 minutes to an hour when millions of people all dial the same number! Otherwise, the network would just be swamped and everyone would get "engaged". I worked for BT at the time and it started with Noel Edmunds' "Swap Shop" on a Saturday morning, it basically crashed the UK phone network for the first few weeks!
One of the main differences in episodes per season, is that for the UK bigger non-studio based shows, such as dramas, is how they're produced. An entire series (season) will be written, then planned then filmed in one long run. Then the episodes will be edited and sent to broadcast with ALL episodes available to the broadcaster. Sitcoms will have their entire series written before production starts, they'll then have a week of rehearsals, then film it live in studio with an audience (using real laughter track from the audience that night), then next day start the rehearsals for next episode. Most evening chat shows such as Graham Norton etc, are filmed the night previous to broadcast to keep it as current as possible.
In US, most of the large drama productions are done episode by episode which increases cost and that's why there's mid-season breaks etc, so writers can catch up. It's also why a lot of good US shows suddenly start going in a weird direction that doesn't make sense.
Is Debbie on speed? For about a week she has been loud, funny and giving Natasha a run for her money in the lives and vids. I love it.😁😁😁❤❤❤❤❤
Ha! Nope just being herself!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Maybe put 'Debbie on Speed' on the BFF level? (Joke! Don't do it!!!)
I think Debbie finally feels comfortable doing vlogs and we are now seeing the real her. So glad to see. Love you both coz your so down to earth and not fake. Much love from Liverpool 🇬🇧
I know you're just joking but a lot of personal things have been going on and we decided to put all our attention into these videos as possible. Just having more fun with the things that bring us joy & pushing through the bad. She's a woman with many sides
So nice to see Debbie having a laugh with you natasha, I thought at first debbie was quite, you both are fun guys to watch,xx
QI is a wonderful panel show that is both funny and educational. I love it!
Favourite British TV shows: Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister. Morecambe & Wise, The two Ronnies.
The best way to understand panel shows is that they have two teams of celebrities and comedians competing against each other. The teams score points for answering questions, but in reality, nobody cares about who wins or whether they answer the questions. The questions are really just a springboard for comedians to improvise and generally mess around for our amusement. If you're watching one (like 8 out of ten cats, or the sister show 8 out of ten cats does countdown), don't worry if you don't understand the format as it's not important. Just enjoy the comedy banter. The panel show format really exploded in 1990 with a show called "Have I got news for you". Other shows worth a look are QI, Mock the Week and Would I lie to you.
Would I lie to you, yes.
There are no commercials on the BBC because they are funded by the TV license. On other channels, there are commercials, but still not to the extent there are in the US.
EG - a star trek episode starts, we get the pre-title sequence, then the title sequence, then the first act.... THEN we'll get a commercial break, for 2-3 minutes, then back to the show. We'll go back to the show then get another commercial break about 15 minutes later and then the rest of the show.
In the states, I remember seeing this: pre-title sequence, commercials, title sequence, commercials, first act, commercials, second act, commercials, third act, commercials, end credits.
It a bit ridiculous because you can't get caught up in the show as you aren't watching the show, you're watching commercials with bits of program dropped in.
There are in fact loads of commercials/adverts on BBC, they advertiser their own programs all the time.
@@jasonyoung7705 True, but only between programmes, not in the middle.
The other thing that gets me is the amount of time they replay the same bit after the advert. Like you forgot what you saw before the break😂
He didn't mention this, but UK has a 21:00 watershed, after which it is ok to swear on TV. Not sure this is a thing on US TV.
He mentioned The Graham Norton Show, well the guests drink and swear on this, Dustin Hoffman in an early appearance is like a little schoolboy with this freedom.
Have i got news for you - Not just one of the best panel shows , but one of the best shows of any type on UK TV.
‘ 2 doors down ‘ is a hilarious comedy, ‘keeping up appearances’ and ‘one foot in the grave’ are classic comedies that are fantastic.
The reason he specified colour TV is that there used to be several different licences, radio only - Black & white TV and colour TV.
Oh dear...there's always one hateful jealous person to try and bring down the mood.. we love you Natasha 😍 thank you for staying up with us.. Tiffany did your mother never teach you if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all?
She's blocked and don't worry about it, I'm certainly not. I enjoyed staying up and chatting with you all!
"The Detectorists" This BBC series is set in the fictional small town of Danebury in northern Essex; the plot revolves around the lives, loves and metal detecting ambitions of Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club. Funny and charming series 3 series in total.
That was a fab series
This is such a good recommendation. It is such a quiet and slow show. The acting and dialogue comes to the fore. Great recommendation.
one of the only series that I have watched several times over, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook are phenomenal together.
I recently binge watched The Detectorists over Christmas and it was such a great watch. I wish it could’ve continued even longer but it feels like it wrapped up really well. A great quirky homage to those people who basically time travel through the ground of our ancient country.
If you liked Fleabag, have a look at Killing Eve, if you can find it, the show-runner for the first series was Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator of Fleabag. I love your show and always look forward to your next episode.
We've been watching it since day 1! 😃❤
If you like them both, try Crashing. If you like that, try Game Face.
@@sorscha1308 we love Crashing!!
We might not have had Mr Rogers but I did grow up with the Banana Splits. That was a fun show!
That WAS a mad mad show😂
I actually thought that was an American show. But I loved it anyway! "...4 bananas make a bunch and so do many more!" Classic kids TV.
It's great seeing Debbie's personality come out more, she seems like a very fun person to be around 😁
Just found your channel recently, so this might not get read as its so late since posting. I'm a big movie and tv show watcher, but looking through my dvds, downloads, netflix and amazon, I actually mostly watch american shows, like 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Lone Star, NCIS(all of them), Star Trek, Lucifer, etc, etc.
But I do watch Doctor Who including the christmas special, lol.
I would recommend you watch Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, as that was filmed in London, and is a great show, also I recommend Good Omens with David Tennant and Michael Sheen, it's based half in London and Half in a little English Village, so it shows a really different take on english life. The Only Panel show I ever watch is Qi, as apart from being hilarious, I always learn something interesting.
Loving your videos, keep it up.
Panel shows are extremely popular here in the UK. I would say the most popular is Would I Lie to you. One person on a team tells an outlandish story and the other team has to cross examine and decide if it's true or not. The episodes you want to watch are the ones with Bob Mortimer in.
Enjoyed this reaction, we get to learn how the US tv works👍 QI is a good panel show because you learn while you laugh ( Stephen Fry the original host is a National treasure l love him ) would l lie to you is another great panel show especially when Bob Mortimer is a guest.. l vote For the Cotswolds
Sure vote against your Elvis loving girl.. just joking with you 😉
Yes. Bob Mortimer WILTY. I'm liking everyone's comments so hopefully they'll react to it.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow you do have impeccable taste In music but that don’t get you a free ride on everything 💕
QI truly is absolute comedy and educational gold.
We are going to do both videos, asking you guys which you want to see first ❤
I think the brevity of British shows is sometimes a stylistic choice too. Fleabag was perfect as it was, making it any longer would stretch the concept out of coherence. Better to do something well than to drag it out until everyone gets bored and hates it
There are many classic programs you are missing out on, and whilst the BBC usually leads the way, other channels also have good content.
For the BBC:- Line of Duty (superb) Killing Eve (superb) Doctor Foster(superb) Sherlock (F###in brilliant) Peaky Blinders (excellent, but the Brummie accent may bemuse you) these are just a few of the series in the past few years that have become beloved in the UK.
For ITV:- Morse, Lewis and Endeavour, all the same story but over several decades (excellent)
Panel shows:- Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, Would I lie to You? Have I got News For You? All very funny, but not for your channel reactions as the content can be very adult!
I could go on but there are some Dr Who episodes to catch up on;)
he didn't mention it by name but Mock the Week is an example of comedic panel show
Hi!
We do get adverts/commercials on UK TV, but there’s no advertising on any BBC channels. So, when you watch a program on the BBC, it’ll run unbroken until the next program starts. And then, once your program’s finished, you’ve only got a minute or 2 of BBC filler footage before the next program starts. Hence, that’s why we pay for the TV license every year, as the BBC doesn’t make any money from advertising. There’s plenty of adverts/commercials on every other UK TV channel.
I hope this helped.
Phil.
The colour tv licence is currently £159 (about $214 or 59 cents/day). For that you get 3 main channels, a news channel, Parliament proceedings channel and 2 children's channels. In addition: over 10 radio channels and local radio stations all over the UK. There's no advertising on any of this.
There used to be a Black & White license too which was much cheaper. But I don't think it's available anymore because there are no functioning Black & White TV sets nowadays - certainly not Digital TV sets.
Hinge and Bracket.Long forgotten but much loved.When drag was a genteel art.
natasha and debbie we love you, who cares about the haters, YOUR EPIC never forget that, awesome couple
We honestly don't even pay attention anymore. Just block them and never think twice
Good for you .
Only fools & horses is worth a watch, absolutely fabulous, David Attenborough, Mitchell & Webb, open all hours, to nabe but a few!
To clarify, in case they missed it, Absolutely Fabulous is the name of a show. They may have heard friends refer to it as AbFab. It stars Jennifer Saunders and was based off a premise in a sketch she did with Dawn French about a mother and daughter with reversed roles.
Relatedly, another thing about British tv versus American is not only do the actors not all have to be gorgeous, but the characters don’t have to be likeable. I think this is in part due to the shorter seasons and differences in production.
If you think about, the UK was way ahead with having short seasons, as shows made for streaming platforms only have between 10 to 13 episodes a season because audiences like to binge them in manageable chunks
I've watched Dr Who, since it began. The day after JFK was assassinated in '63. I was very young at the time and Dr Who (the program) frightened me to death! Like many, I would watch it from behind the sofa? I still watch it today but many values and obviously production standards have changed? Sometimes, not for the better.
I haven't watched Dr Who since he stopped being William Hartnell.
I haven't watched James Bond since Sean Connery.
Resistant to change ? Stick-in-the-mud ?
I just call it brand loyalty.......😀
(Thank God I only heard the Beatles after Pete Best got the elbow).
Hi Natasha and Debbie! RE: Colour TV licences, this goes back to the 70s when TV stations first starting transmitting in colour. A lot people still had black and white TVs so the licence fee for a back and white TV was less expensive than a colour TV. Nowadays the term is pretty much redundant but is still refered to.
B&W licenses were still available up until we switched to digital TV (around 2010?). B&W sets were all (ancient) analog sets so after digitisation they became redundant.
Another big difference is Sponsorship. You have Sponsors for the Channel, Period of the Day, Type of show, and even for the Adverts themselves . Gee Wisss We're getting them all now. Thanks America, you're No.1.
yes the BBC is free from advertisements and in my opinion is a great deal. The BBC first went live in 1936 from crystal palace with the first television broadcast ever seen.
Hiya. Great reaction. Dr Who is difficult to get your head around as its been running since 1963 and many of the episodes are completely different stories. If you can, I suggest an episode called "Blink" it's scarey in it's own right and it illustrates the quality of acting and production. Enjoy
As a child in the sixties Dr Who was frequently the highlight of the week. I and my sisters did use to hide behind the settee at the scariest bits. The basic idea was that the Doctor and his companion(s) would travel through space and time and could have adventures anywhere and anywhen.
For Travel Wednesdays, my vote goes to the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire Moors. I'm biased because I live in Yorkshire 😉
Couldn't agree more. However, watching "All Creatures Great and Small" will give them a wonderful insight into those areas (I'm a Tyke too).
T'int called Gods own country f'nowt.
I would vote the Lake District, only because I love the Lake District and I live in the Cotswolds. Sorry Debbie. Love you both equally though.
Doctor Who is like our Star Trek its a sci fi show still going today that started in the 60's. It's more Buffy the Vampire Slayer with aliens or The Lone Ranger in space. The Doctor is a lone Time-Lord who usually travels with a human companion and saves worlds, frees people and stops alien invasions of Britain.
The Doctor travels thro time and space in the Tardis, bigger on the inside than on the outside and is camouflaged as an old Police Phone Box. It's as iconic and recognisable to us Brits as the starship Enterprise.
Similar to James Bond The Doctor will get mortally wounded every few years and regenerate his/her whole body allowing another actor to play the role and freshen the series. The present 13th Doctor is the first woman to play the iconic role and we are awaiting news of her successor.
Hi H
Natasha & Debbie. I was surprised that Lawrence didn’t mention the David Attenborough series of nature documentaries. It's a national and international BBC favourite. It will also last best part of an hour without a break for ads,, his programmes sell so well abroad that it offsets the cost of our licence fee a bit!.
He mentioned Planet Earth.
If you can get access to BBC America and it’s on the schedule, both of you would LOVE a tv programme called “All creatures great and small” (this version is a remake of a series first shown in the 70’s though) which is about a vet working in Yorkshire and is based on the books written by a real person named James Herriott, who really WAS a vet. The “true stories” portrayed in the shows are based on events that happened during his time working in the Yorkshire Dales with his two oppos, brothers Siegfried and Tristram Farnon (yes, really!) dealing with animals that you wouldn’t necessarily SEE in a veterinary building (think of animals that go mooo or snort!) The programme is essentially very British and is both heartwarming or sad, amusing or deadly serious about animal management and what is happening to our beautiful countryside. You will get to see the stunning Yorkshire Dales at its gloriest greenery and picturesque beauty in the Spring and Summer and it’s stark coldness in the depths of winter…and of course, it has animals in it! Now…the original series starred an actor called Peter Davison (he played annoying but dopey Tristram 🙄😀) who later on, starred as The Doctor in Doctor Who! Now that IS def on BBC America and is one of the highest rated programmes and there is a huge Doctor Who fan base out in the USA! Yes, in the UK, 99.99% of us, including young children, would know exactly what Doctor Who was about 😀 another programme running for 60 years (with a programme cancellation gap between years when some up and coming programme director thought it was past its best 🙄😡) - I watched it as a child and as it scared me she much, still to this day, cannot look down an Underground (meaning The Tube) railway tunnel incase a Yeti appears! 😂 as for other tv programmes - anything with Sir David Attenborough presenting…no need to explain why, the two names David…Attenborough .. (hero) says it all… enjoy British tellybox ing watching if you can!
James Herriot was a pen name, for James Alfred Wight.
Another great vet series (which I'm struggling to find on either DVD or online ☹ ) is One By One, about a zoo vet called Donald Turner, in real live David Taylor.
QI is a great panel show, Also if you can hold of it try The Clangers . My vote for Travel Wednesday Cotswolds, Lake District, Cornwall and Scotland. love your show :)
Noel - Did you know they are publishing a book of the Clangers scripts? Really!
@@ianpark1805 Well, I just have to get that. I need something that will challenge the brain. lol!
@@noelwarn3366 it’s being published by Unbound and while the Clangers don’t speak there were actual scripts of the words they were supposed to be saying. One package comes with a Swanee whistle so you can do the scripts yourself!
@@ianpark1805 but then how do you do the soup dragon?
@@Spiklething - with the utmost respect.
The Tv licence was originally a radio licence before TV even existed and when mono TV came along it was changed to include TV and of course, they increased the cost When colour TV came along you could get either a monochrome or colour TV licence. The colour licence inevitably cost more. The Licence was designed to not be politically biased and independent of the government.
Would you believe there were circa 6,400 black & white (monochrome) tv licences issued in 2020. Colour tv arrived in the UK in 1967 some 53 years ago. The radio licence was abolished long, long ago.
Haven't had a TV Licence in over 12 years.
Don't miss TV one bit.
I was in Washington DC. I could not sleep one night and about 3am I switched on the TV and they were showing really old episodes of Dr Who. It was fantastic!
We had something similar to Mr Rogers over her in the UK in the 90s in the form of a lady called Auntie Mabel in the show 'Come Outside' (a show on the toddler/pre school channel Cbeebies) She owned a dog called Pippin and flew all over the UK in her own polka dot plane and to find out how things worked or where things came from such as toothpaste for instance. 'Come Outside' was my favourite Cbeebies show as a Toddler.
Before that we had a show called Play School which filled the same sort of slot. I remember we had Play School and then Jackanory (a show where celebrities would sit and read a book to children) and finally Blue Peter, a show for older children about discovery and making things, it is still going, Ah happy days
If you didn't grow up with Play School in the UK, you lost out. And it helped to the integration of different coloured people and ideas.We now have a Baroness who presented that and people who are national treasures, On commercial TV ads last for 3 mins and cut into the programme at appropriate points for 3 mins at a time
My votes for British TV shows for you to watch are The Vicar of Dibley, Ghosts, Father Brown and The Repair Shop. Just a few among many, many very good shows. Love the real Debbie, BTW!
Before we had so many TV channels there was only BBC1, BBC2 & ITV. During the Ad/commercial break on ITV shows so many people got up to put the electric kettle on to make tea that the electric power company used ITV’s schedules to make sure that there would be enough power stations on line to cope with the demand.
If you go onto UA-cam you can look for a British comedy programme (show) called Dinner Ladies, which was written and starred the late Victoria Wood, who was a genius (she played the character Bren). If you want a laugh look for Victoria Wood and the Ballad of Freda and Barry.
Women's Weakly has never been the same since.
Debbie losing her shyness is a thing.🤗💜
Debbie isn't shy. She just talks more times than others. Believe me, she's not shy 😂
There are so many TV Series' I could recommend, but would highly recommend 'It's a sin'. It's based on a true story (the woman who's the centre of the real story is actually in it which is good) and it's VERY emotive.
There are times when the USA and UK sort of poach shows off each other and make their own versions like The Office. Except UK shows don't always translate as well when "Americanised" a famous British show called Red Dwarf which is a sitcom based in Sci fi about the last human being stuck on a mining ship 3 million years in deep space after an accident did not make it past a pilot episode that didn't even get aired. Americans didn't understand it and the main character who is supposed to be a lazy average looking guy with curry stains on his shirts in the American version they cast a tall hunky good looking guy.
I vote for lake district and you also mentioned peak district, that's a place that exists too, you're correct on the name.
Thanks!
Hi, I recently found your channel and I’m loving the content. Much love from Scotland and all the best to you both in 2022 🏴
Thank you so much 💓
We pay for the tv license which pays for the bbc. Other channels on normal tv such as ITV and channels 4 and 5 are free as advertisers pay to have their products shown which then pays for the programmes. BBC has no ads. If you have any form of watching programmes in your house except UA-cam then you need a tv license.
Went to states once and couldn’t watch tv, ads were absolutely brutal. Love how sport here has no ads during it
One difference I still reckon is true is that you call it TV and we still call it television, telly, or even the goggle box.
Interesting!!!
Yes I mentioned the Peak District its fabulous
Decided that my favourite programme is the Dog House it's about Wood Green Anima Charity where they pair dogs to a new owner. Has me crying happy tears all the time. A very close second is master shefl
I cried happy tears watching Noel Fitzpatrick the super vet
There isn't really a "Doctor Who", the main character of the show is just "The Doctor". The title is a joke on the fact that he never gives his real name, and just goes by "The Doctor". He's a time traveling immortal who zips around the length and breadth of time and space having adventures.
The sonic screwdriver is a tool he uses that..uh...basically does whatever the plot needs it to do. The doctor doesn't tend to use direct violence to overcome villains, and he tends to brilliantly outthink them instead. And since he doesn't have any weapons ,the sonic screwdriver is his tool of the trade instead.
We didn't get Mr Rodger, because we had rod,Jane and freddy. Along with zippy and bungal, we also had shows like emu House, no 73 and blue Peter. We as it said also got sesame street which in the UK had a diffrent ending to the USA..
We had TIZWAS, could you emagion TIZWAS in the US.
There are no adverts on the BBC that is what we pay the TV license. We get adverts on the commercial channels ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5 plus all the sky and network channels
Another difference seeing as you alluded to it is that ALL of the TV in the UK is National. We're half the size of Florida so even the weather forecasts are the whole country
The original UK Broadcast of The Muppet Show had whole bits, sketches, and songs that were cut from the US Broadcast because of commercials. I'm glad that Disney Plus has added most of those back in.
There are no adverts on BBC channels, but there are commercials on the other Channels, such as ITV, channel 4 & channel 5.
New to this channel but I love it. I burst into laughter at the sarcasm regarding our lack of commercials😭 Your reactions to that felt so British😂
In honour of Debbie being so funny on this video, I vote Cotswolds!
Dr Who was first broadcast as a weekly episode during what was then quaintly called "Children's Hour" on BBC when I was in my final year at prep in London in 1963. There was a respite for some years in the 90s, I think, but it was relaunched in 2003. The programmes have shown outside the UK in every country in Europe, Australasia, North America, and South America (except Cuba and Guyana), plus 20 African and 28 Asian countries.
I literally just took my son back to uni yesterday and drove through the Cotswolds and thought of you both. No time to stop and take any photo for you unfortunately.
THE BBC licence covers over 60 channels, not just TV. and it means we have no advertisements on any of their chanels,and the reporting can be unbiased.
Sounds great!
At the start the thing you were thinking of is Watershed which is like film ratings. Some programes can not be showen befor 9 pm due to the contents beening not sutable for a young audience.
It's got to be the Lake District (the Lakes) We used to holiday there every year when I was a kid at a village called Hawkshead.
Places in the Lakes to check out:
Bowness-on-windermere
Keswick/Derwent water
Ambleside/windermere
Hawkshead/Esthwaite water
Coniston Water
Glenridding/Ullswater
Helvellyn
Grizedale Forest
Just to name a few.
I'm surprised about the panel show issue. America created What's My Line which I consider the best panel show ever.
Great video! I’m glad I can still stream my favorite UK panel shows here - Would I Lie To You and QI 📺
The TV show you are reffereing to is "8 out of 10 Cats" it's a comedy panel show hosted by Jimmy Carr, where a bunch of comedians make fun of each other and react to/make fun of statistics and opinion polls. It that would be a great show to react to! 😂
Only the BBC has no commercials. The independent channels do have commercials because they are not funded through the TV licenses as the BBC is.
I'm so glad you treat your dog as number 1, that's how they should be treated ❤️🇬🇧
As a child, my brother loved Dr Who, I hid behind the sofa, scared!! I had to go along when he was taken to a Dr Who exhibition, I nearly ruined it refusing to walk past the daleks!!
The phrase 8 out of 10 cats, is from a Whiskas cat food advert that became a mantra! (Though cats I knew were the 2 out of 10!!)
I vote Cotswolds, no bias, except I was born there!!
Can't wait for travel Wednesdays 🙆♀️ Cotswolds first then the Lake District. Please take a look at The Forest of Dean too, one of my favourite places. Magical.
Yes, soap operas were once a massive part of the UK psyche. The UK's largest commercial TV channel, ITV, had a record of 24million viewers (50% of the UK population) watch a wedding in 1981. No, not the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the marriage of Ken and Deirdre in Coronation Street!
My favourite british tv shows are Merlin, dr who, being human
The BBC dont have adverts at all. ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and all the other channels do but they are restricted to 4 advert breaks in an hour (usually)
My favs are Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With the Stars), Great British Sewing Bee, the channel Dave, etc etc. Oh and Horrible Histories is an awesome way to learn about British History even though it was a show aimed at children.
Oh and in another note, I am so glad that Debbie has found her voice. Love you guys.
The lake district, hands down, Cotswolds are pretty but the lakes are beautiful!!!
When I went to NYC and watched tv at night in my hotel room. It was so jarring just how many advert breaks there were. And because we have fewer advert breaks in the UK. When I'm watching some US TV shows. I do sometimes notice the cuts where they obviously put an advert break when it was screened in the US.
Also, I do find it annoying when I really enjoy watching a US TV show. But then I find out that it didn't do well in the US and got cancelled. So we don't get anyone more season's of it in the UK.
British TV show recommendations:
- Only Fools and Horses
- Hunted
- Hustle
- Would I Lie To You?
- Tipping Point
- The Chase*
- Catchphrase
- Gogglebox
* I believe that there has been a US version too
I'd add :
Jonathan Creek to this list too
The great thing about living in Ireland is we get the Uk networks and Ireland’s networks RTÉ and TG4
Mock the week, is a good example of a panel show with comedians, take a look
British comedies (sitcoms particularly) usually only have 6-10 episodes per season because they’re only written by 1-2 people who often also star in it (such as The Office, Fleabag, the Royle Family, Detectorists, Phoenix Nights, Gavin & Stacey, Fawlty Towers, League of Gentlemen/Psychoville/Inside No 9, Bottom, This Way Up, This Country, Ideal, Saxondale, Man Down, Goes Wrong Show to cite a few…) - and even if the writer(s) isn’t in it there’s usually only 1 or 2. Similarly the cast will often contribute material, or at least one will be a regular writer like Absolutely Fabulous for example.
This is in contrast to the US where there’s a large anonymous and ever revolving writers’ room for most American sitcoms - these sitcoms are driven by studios not by individual writers/creators as they are in the UK. This is why U.K. shows often end early - the writer thinks they’ve done enough with the premise / characters and decides to end the show, even if it’s wildly successful. In the US because the writer(s) isn’t the driver / owner of the show, the studios will keep a series going beyond its natural life if it’s making money - like Big Bang Theory say. Plus another reason for 21+ episodes is so after 2 seasons you can air at least one episode a week all year, therefore you can sell it for syndication in other networks. This used to be a thing anyway.
An American-British hybrid is Ted Lasso as it has writer-performers including some of the American cast like Jason Sudeikis and British cast like Brett Goldstein - in addition to having a writers’ room.
So yeah with Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge literally wrote every episode herself. That’s it. Apologies for the essay but hopefully that helps!
It's a broadcast receiving licence, if you want to get live TV you must have a licence(permit). It doesn't improve reception, and we still get adverts on most channels!
Coronation Street is the longest running soap opera in the world. Over 60 years.
Firefly was one of my favourite shows, but it got cancelled.