There are of course lots of ways to enjoy the Premiership coverage online irrespective of which country you are in. Last year I watched the Manchester derby on Indian TV in a bar in Goa. However for most British Premiership fans there’s something more enjoyable about watching it with familiar commentators from UK TV. Unfortunately […]
The BBC iPlayer has a great feature which allows you to download programs from their site instead of streaming them. This means you can store them on any device and watch them whenever you like, what’s more you don’t need an internet connection to watch them like this. It’s especially useful for people who have […]
For any parent of young children in the UK, there’s one channel that’s probably on more than any – it’s called CBeebies. It’s the channel on the BBC designed specifically for pre-schoolers and broadcasts most of the day. It’s probably no exaggeration to state that it’s probably saved a few relationships over the years too! […]
A couple of years ago the BBC started cracking down on people accessing their sites from outside the United Kingdom. The rumors were rife that they’d discovered ways to automatically detect a VPN connection and now none of them would work. The reality is that this is not quite the case, there are no accurate […]
Britbox is the latest in innovative new streaming services which for many people represents a treasure trove of British TV programmes from the last few decades. On it you’ll be sure to find a whole host of old favorites and some very new shows too from the best of the UK TV channels. Initially there’s […]
There is only one football TV show for me, and I’m using the word football in it’s European context. It is of course, the wonderful Match of the Day which for many British sports fans is an almost ubiquitous part of our childhood. It’s format has not changed that much since it first aired in […]
If you enjoy science documentaries then there’s one series that you don’t want to miss – The Planets which aired on the BBC earlier this year. Here’s the introduction from the review from the Guardian’s TV section which I think sums up the show well. Even if astronomy is not a particular interest I can […]
When I first started to spend time in the US one of the first things I used to try and figure out was where to watch British TV online. Now let’s first be straight, you can actually get many British TV programmes in America in all sorts of places. Especially in this world of online […]
If you’ve ever done any sort of international travel then you’ve probably experienced the joys of the geo-blocking. It’s the practice of restricting someones access to a website or resource based simply upon their physical location. So a typical scenario would be a British tourist, enjoying their summer holidays in Spain. They’ve got no […]
Updated August 2019 – just checking this information is up to date and valid as I’ve been in the UK for a few months (so haven’t needed to change my IP address). Can confirm that BBC iPlayer is still working well with this VPN. A couple of years ago, for the very first time the […]