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With nothing to watch on TV on Saturday nights, I often turn to public television and watch one of the funniest comedys I have ever seen "Keeping Up Appearances." I love this show, and was wondering if anyone else had the pleasure of watching it. I also was wondering what our friends across the pond thought of this show.
Mike
 
Have you been hiding in the woods?

Hyacinth is a trip....I have all her videos....

everyone knows someone like her...

next to this one I also like "Are You Being Served?"
 
Love me some Hyacinth BooooKay. I also love As Time Goes By and Are You Being Served and lately The Vicar of Dibley. But my all time fave British Comedy is Absolutely Fabulous. Pats and Eddy just love em.
 
A Saturday night tradition...

I've been watching Hyacinth for years and years. Even though I have seen each episode over and over, I never grow tired of Hyacinth's foibles.

Joe
 
oh yes your worship,

You’ll have to come to one of my candlelight suppers, a small group of discerning friends with the right socio-economic balance.

Or perhaps my outdoors-indoors luxury barbeque with finger buffet.
 
I'll take the nautical light refreshments!

Don't forget to enjoy the riparian entertainment! Just don't fall in!

'and lately The Vicar of Dibley'

Oh, Gerry's a smash. I love the one where she meets the man she's going to marry, get's it all screwed up when she sees him with his sister (thinks it's his g'friend), and sings 'It Shoulda Been Me' when she imagines their wedding!

The ending jokes are always a big favorite.

Chuck

 
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service, IIRC) is a private company and non-profit. Public television is 'viewer supported' in that its operating expenses aren't paid for by traditional advertizing like on regular broadcast or cable television stations. They also don't get government $$.

However, a particular company may choose to sponsor a certain show, and they're given thanks before and/or after the show ('brought to you through the courtesy of' or some such wording, with a little more thrown in). That's a commercial IMHO.

Here's a link to their website:

Chuck

http://www.pbs.org/
 
Theo, in the U.S., public television is a network of commercial-free stations that are funded by the public and by government grants. The other type of TV is called commercial TV, these stations pay for their programming through commercial advertisements, and are owned and operated by commercial corporations and networks (NBC, CBS etc).

Today, brief commercials are shown between programs even on public TV. This is to help defray the costs of operation (public and government support is always changing from year to year, and budget shortfalls for public TV are common).
 
So, "TV" in the first message of this thread is to be understood as "commercial TV" and they don't broadcast the British comedies? I think we have a similar situation here in the Netherlands. (I'm not sure, because I rarely watch commercial television: not my type of programmes.)
 
British programs are shown on public TV here in the states. I've never heard of one being shown on commercial TV.

For some shows (e.g. Mr. Bean), additional scenes were filmed and added to the original BBC episodes, to fill in the additional broadcast time (due to public TV's commercial-free format). When Mr. Bean was released on DVD, the producers decided not to include this
 
Sorry, ran into the quote bug again...

For some shows (e.g. Mr. Bean), additional scenes were filmed and added to the original BBC episodes, to fill in the additional broadcast time (due to public TV's commercial-free format). When Mr. Bean was released on DVD, the producers decided not to include this 'extra' footage that was added for American broadcasts. This upset a lot of people, because a number of very funny bits were lost by not including it.
 
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRichard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Vicar is coming for tea and light refreshments.....don't you have a more religious tie?
 
Add me to the list of Keeping Up Appearances Fans.

A couple of other British comedies that I've seen and liked on PBS that weren't mentioned above are:

Waiting For God, a comedy that takes place in a retirement community.

To The Manor Born. This is about a woman whose family has had the big English estate for generations. When her husband dies, she has to sell out. The buyer is rich, but his wealth is the vulgar New Money. The two constantly clash.
 
This might or might not be of interest, but my understanding is that British comedies are not (or at least once were not) a "standard" part of PBS. It was something picked up by the individual stations. (At least, that was the claim one station made while doing heavy fund raising during their British comedy time slot!)
 
At least as far as I can remember (back to the late 1960's) PBS stations have always shown a lot of British programs, e.g. I remember watching Monty Python's Flying Circus on KCET in Los Angeles during the early 1970's.

As for the 'quote bug', it's happened on most of posts that contain a quote mark: the posting function chops off everything past that point. I've mentioned it in other threads.
 
A more recent comedy discovery I made is the The IT Crowd. This comedy was made in recent years, and features the IT department of a huge British company. I'm not sure if it airs on any PBS station...I quit watching broadcast TV long before this comedy came out. (I live in a very difficult reception area. Analog was marginal, digital appears to be nearly impossible.)

The IT Crowd has a number of interesting characters, including a computer geek (who does things like e-mailing the fire department to come and put out a fire), and an IT department manager who knows next to nothing about computers.

Link to Wikipedia about this show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd
 
"At least as far as I can remember (back to the late 1960's) PBS stations have always shown a lot of British programs, e.g. I remember watching Monty Python's Flying Circus on KCET in Los Angeles during the early 1970's."

It is pretty standard, regardless of where/how the programs are acquired. The only exceptions I've noticed are with smaller stations, which presumably don't have the resources.
 
The Young Ones

Does anyone else like The Young Ones? Of course, it is not on PBS but was on MTV back in the 80's. Rik Mayall was one of the stars.

It was so offensive it was funny. Hard to find on TV anymore, I've resorted to watching clips on Youtube.

My favorite part is "it's a telescope, with a mouse in it!".

 
I love Hyacinth

and don't forget "Our Rose".

"The Viccar of Digby" was another of my favorites, but our local PBS station doesn't carry it any longer.
 
Not So Fond of Hyacinth...

...I grew up with a female relative whose behaviour bore a pretty fair resemblance to some of Hyacinth's, and so the show is not that enjoyable for me - that stuff isn't a damn bit funny in real life. I do, however, very much enjoy Vicar of Dibley, Are You Being Served?, and To the Manor Born.

My biggest favourite is probably Waiting for God, which once insprired one of my late partner's better wisecracks. We were watching the show one Saturday night, and that episode had Diana Trent (Stephanie Cole) tearing a strip off some idiot who was treating her as a sterotypical old lady. I said to Wilson: "Wow, I hope I'm like that when I get old!" To which he said, "Hell, you're like that NOW."
 
The IT crowd

Having seent hat but BOY it looks good!

"Are you being served?" must be my favorite UK comedy. Keeping up appearances is fun, but how many times can Hyacinth make a fool of herself?

Waiting for God is also cool :)

Hunter
 
Love it too when Hyacinth chats with Sheridan via telephone.

Love how it is implied/inferred that he is a poofster.

Now how's THAT for a stereotype? Raised by a domineering mother and a weak (or absent) father. LOL
 

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