It seems that all us expats won't be allowed to watch the 'delights' of Britains Got Talent or You've Been Framed... OK so I'm being flippant now but there is a load of great back catalogue stuff like Rising Damp, Brideshead Revisted and Cracker that I'd like to watch. Plus there is some exciting new stuff like The Dame Edna Treatment and a few new dramas which might be worth a look.
The ITV Forum is full of comments from irate expats from around the globe who are being starved of their favourite shows. At least you used to be able to get clips of the shows like Corrie prior to the new service being launched but even those now are restricted. Apparently it's something to do with copyright law. Hmmm. Well, it's not stopping them showing Tycoon on a dedicated website (the ITV video player seems to work just fine for this). Problem is I dont want to watch Tycoon. Maybe nobody else does either which is probably why they have opened it up to us expats ?
Anyway, the BBC launch their own service called iPlayer in the next month or so. I wonder if that will have the same restrictions ? Hopefully not as they have already announced plans to have links to YouTube and other distribution partners such as MSN and MySpace. Hopefully that might appease Mrs B a little (although Eastenders is a poor substitute for Corrie in her eyes). Still she might be able to get Strictly Come Dancing (like I said earlier, no accounting for taste).
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