WTF? BBC World News isn't going to air on BBC America anymore?????

[marmar]

:wtf:

It's only going to be broadcast on PBS, or BBC World if your cable provider (a big fat "NO" on Comcast) carries it. ........ That blows.

[Overseas]

1. BBC America is very disappointing. Too much fluff

Too few news discussions and documentaries.

[bananas]

2. And Primeval is moving to Starz.

What will happen to Dr. Who and Torchwood?

[DJ13]

4. Its Torchwood thats moving to Starz

Starz's Torchwood Gets a Premiere Date

03/23/11

.. Starz's Torchwood spin-off, Torchwood: Miracle Day, now has a release date: July 8. The program follows the Torchwood team as they investigate a strange phenomenon on the planet: No one is dying. Starz has also released an official poster (scroll down, it's below).

http://www.tv.com/story/25435.html

[Zephie]

6. I bought the Starz package just to watch it

I'll pay a lot of good money to see John Barrowman, just name the price! :loveya:

[bananas]

12. Right, Primeval is on something called "Watch" and "ITV1"

Apparently those channels are only in Britain.
I read somewhere that Netflix carries Starz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval

The fifth series will have 6 episodes and will air on Watch in May 2011 and on ITV1 later in 2011.

[marmar]

3. Agreed. I like some of the shows, like Law & Order UK & Being Human......

...... but how much Top Gear and Gordon Ramsey can one person take?

[3waygeek]

9. No such thing as too much Top Gear...

However, any amount of Gordo is too much.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Now it is virtually pointless, a waste of cable space...

nt

[wtbymark]

7. JustinTV, you'll find all you need there

[madrchsod]

8. i listen to bbc overnight on my npr station....

now that`s real news and interviews.

[Overseas]

15. I have enjoyed that too.

[malaise]

10. Do you know that BBC Caribbean shut down today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2011/03/110325_lastweekofbroadcasting.shtml
<snip>
The origin of the Caribbean Service was a programme called Calling the West Indies.

The programme began in 1939 featuring West Indian troops on active service during World War Two reading letters to their families.

From 1943 to 1958, the output became a programme called Caribbean Voices, highlighting West Indian writers.

Its producers and contributors included VS Naipaul, George Lamming, Andrew Salkey and Samuel Selvon.

In 1949, We See Britain was introduced as part of the programming for the Caribbean under the management of cricketer-turned-producer Ken Ablack.

[upi402]

11. Less and less journalism = creeping information blackout

China is mandating all cell phones to have GPS trackers. Look to them as our model of authoritarianism and new world order.
:kick:

[Recursion]

13. Cameron. Budget cuts.

Lame.

[NobleCynic]

14. Did i miss something?

I thought PBS reaches a wider audience than BBC America. Am I wrong? Is this a bad thing?

[Snoutport]

16. Rupert Murdoch's pet govt in the UK has cut the BBC so serverly they had to lay off

a bunch of people and shrink their outlets.

If you can't beat the competition, then strangle it.