Top Gear

The producers of Top Gear have once again drafted in a generic celebrity and two Muggles who both look as though they have spent formative parts of their career working in local radio or children's TV.

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/top-gear-episode-two-2017-review

 

Ducati featuring next week.

 

Watched the new series last night.....& I don't think it's improved in fact I think it's got worse!
It's reminding me of one of those fancy expensive shite magazines like Tatler...all style & no substance....except I have to pay what will probably be £150 for the experience

 

If you’re not watching or recording live TV, you don’t need a licence. So catch-up TV, streaming or downloading programmes after they’ve been shown or programmes available online before being shown on TV don't count.

So with no licence you can still watch:

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• On demand – including catch-up TV and on demand previews – through services like ITV Player , All4 , My5 , BT Vision/BT TV , Virgin Media , Sky Go , Now TV , Apple TV , Chromecast , Roku and Amazon Fire TV .
  
  
• On demand movies from providers like Sky, Virgin Media, BT Vision, Netflix and Amazon Instant Video .
  
  
• Recorded films and programmes either from a disc (e.g. DVD or Blu-ray) or downloaded from the internet.
  
  
• On demand internet video clips through services like YouTube.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/telling-us-you-dont-need-a-tv-licence

 

Cheers Simon but unfortunately it's still like the 1950's in my house...with free view only telly in't corner....no wifi & only me mobile to watch stuff like that on & it chews me data & sends me boz eyed lol

 

Tv licence fee , it's as bad as feckin road tax £85

 

I fear you are distributing a bit of fake news there Simon

You need to be covered by a TV Licence to

• watch or record live TV programmes on any channel
• download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up or on demand.

This applies to any provider you use and any device, including a TV, desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, games console, digital box or DVD/VHS recorder.

 

I don't mind it, it's not fantastic but it's better than most of the shit on TV, especially on a Sunday night.

I'd prefer a car show, even a second rate one to bollocksing C list celebs slowly falling over on ice.

 

I am still defending the BBC. OK TG still isn't great but I would rather the licence payers money was spent on a motoring program than spending even more on that Eastenders shite.
The licence fee is money well spent for commercial fee entertainment, regardless of what that entertainment be or who it is directed at. The licence fee also covers BBC radio. I don't listen to Radio 1/3/4 but I don't begrudge anyone the right to listen to them.

 

You don’t need a TV Licence if you:

• never watch or record programmes on any channel as they’re being shown on TV or live on an online TV service, and
• never download or watch BBC programmes on iPlayer – live, catch up or on demand.

 

But the guy from Grange Hill exiting stage left was soooo funny

 

Yeah but who doesn't turn the TV on

 

The issue I have with it is that I hardly ever watch anything on BBC, if at all & I don't listen to any of their radio channels. So the licence fee for me is v expensive for what I'm getting in return. All I would like is the option to opt out. If you had to pay for it like you do sky etc, then I wouldn't pay & I wouldn't miss it. Why should I have to pay the BBC money in order to be able to put my TV on & watch other channels that are free!

 

Do I need a TV Licence to watch subscription services like Netflix, Amazon or Now TV?
You don’t need a TV Licence if you only ever use these services to watch on demand or catch up programmes except if you’re watching BBC programmes on iPlayer.

Remember, if you watch or record live TV on any device, you need to be covered by a TV Licence.

Live TV means any programme you watch or record at the same time as it’s being shown on TV or live on an online TV service.

Don't watch lIve and you don't need a TV licence...

 

If you watch BBC iplayer you need a tv licence

 

yes i think we know that lol...

 

I don't watch that either...in fact I've just had to Google what is lol

 

Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

The BBC have been loosing around 1 million licence fee payers per year, through legitimate means - although they claim that this rate of loss has now slowed.

Also the BBC is loosing the trust of the British people and it is not held in anything like the high esteem that it once was - it is propped up by coercion, and people know it.

 

Anyway...