Telly in London is certainly different. To begin with, you still have to buy a license to watch television at home on your set - a whopping $245/year. This fee fundamentally underwrites the BBC, and accordingly, BBC programming must appeal to everyone. Thus there are five 'free' channels, called terrestrials, and then lots more available digitally. The BBC has four channels; shows run the gamut from
Botany: Powerful Plants to
From the Lambing Shed to
Apples: British to the Core to
Grumpy Old Holidays to
Embarrassing Bodies where experts make live diagnoses on members of the public (yuk). Reruns of
Friends occur on several channels. Due to the innate fascination of Englanders with machines, there's constant and hilarious reruns of
Top Gear. Multiple shows feature how to buy property in sunny locations outside the UK. One puzzling aspect is that on the morning news shows, the newscasters sit around and show/comment on that day's front pages.
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