DAVE, the TV channel

bobblepuzzle

Why?

captainjack

Top Gear 24/7

amiable

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

Why?

I nominate this for post of the day?

Minstrel27

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

Why?

Why not?

brummytom

Brilliant channel, except for Top Gear. Whose Line, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, QI, Not Going Out, Would I Lie To You, Peep Show, Bottom (and Alan Partridge! God I forgot that)... great

Hazys

Because

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5jpVbEL0jc

Sonics2k

Best channel available imo

Metallitroll

steve mcmanaman on partridge, Bravo! what happened?

Kimono-Girl

we watch it quite a bit, the older mock the weeks are funnier!

Gunsfortoys

The amount of stupid, idiotic ads and unfunny sponsor sequences is shocking.

Shryke

QI and Mock the Week are fantastic. Watch them all the time.

Glico Man

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

The amount of stupid, idiotic ads and unfunny sponsor sequences is shocking.

Hmmmm, it's good but it's not a hen. :pac:

Gunsfortoys

aaronh007 wrote: »

Hmmmm, it's good but it's not a hen. :pac:

They aren't as bad as the jacobs creek ones.

Ricardo G

Aoifey!

I love DAVE, ya can't go wrong with Mock The Week and QI.

mike65

Just be fearful of a DTT Channel here called Dara, non-stop repeats of Drive, Bachelors Walk, Killinaskully, The Panel and Challanging Times.

W.Shakes-Beer

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nibtrix

aaronh007 wrote: »

Hmmmm, it's good but it's not a hen. :pac:

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

They aren't as bad as the jacobs creek ones.

The new Open University ones are painful...

--LOS--

QI

nuff said

Son Of A Vidic

OP - what are your views?

Yakult

I only like it because it shares my name.

Flyin Finn Motorsport

Sonics2k wrote: »

Best channel available imo

As long as they keep showing the world Rally Championship Im Happy

Metallitroll

Davey ravey mash and gravy, Bravo for the no-show

roast

Lots of ads, with Jeremy Clarkson sh!teing on about nothing every now and again.

Sisko

Its not great but when every other channel is showing nothing but crime dramas for women over and over and over again, there's little else on TV if your a bloke who doesn't like sports.

TBH when I really wanna watch 'tv' I use the net to watch what I want, when I want. But when I wanna just chill in the living room for a bit I end up watching Dave or the news.

All the rest of the tv is dominated by womens shows.

enda1

Because sometimes its nice to put on some mindless crap after a long stressful day in work. And not everyone is up to date with the latest episode in series 78 of Top Gear.

Forest Master

Terrible channel - made for your typical "lad" and pseudo intellectual. Hate every programme on it.

JohnathanM

Yakult wrote: »

I only like it because it shares my name.

Alright, Rodney?

phasers

I love Dave, great for a Sunday afternoon. Though I wish it would deviate a bit more from quizcom/ Top Gear reruns and show more quality comedy.

folan

Forest Master wrote: »

Terrible channel - made for your typical "lad" and pseudo intellectual. Hate every programme on it.

thats me.

Must watch more Dave so. Sounds like my cup of tea.

QI? Red Dwarf?

Horra!

amiable

Forest Master wrote: »

Terrible channel - made for your typical "lad" and pseudo intellectual. Hate every programme on it.

Very good. I envy you

Malari

Flyin Finn Motorsport wrote: »

As long as they keep showing the world Rally Championship Im Happy

But they're not! Have to watch it on Motors TV :rolleyes: It was a good highlights show too, apart from the Dave "guest of the week", who never knows anything about rallying nor seems to be interested in anything except promoting their Dave show :pac:

Sometimes watch reruns of QI, but that's it.

Minstrel27

Flyin Finn Motorsport wrote: »

As long as they keep showing the world Rally Championship Im Happy

ESPN have the WRC now.

120_Minutes

Forest Master wrote: »

Terrible channel - made for your typical "lad" and pseudo intellectual. Hate every programme on it.

Really? Every show? All of them?

What's your high horses name?

ricero

i dont mind dave i like top gear and also it shows red dwarf

Forest Master

120_Minutes wrote: »

Really? Every show? All of them?

Yes. All sh*te.

http://uktv.co.uk/dave/homepage/sid/7500

120_Minutes wrote: »

What's your high horses name?

Why does it need to have a name? Or is that just a 'clever' way of saying I'm on my high horse?

mikom

Forest Master wrote: »

Terrible channel - made for your typical "lad" and pseudo intellectual. Hate every programme on it.

You hate "peep show".
That's all I need to know.

gandalf

I got to see Jason Byrne for free because of them so they are alright by me

Elmo

More importantly why MTV Shows (now simply MTV)?

old hippy

Sisko wrote: »

Its not great but when every other channel is showing nothing but crime dramas for women over and over and over again, there's little else on TV if your a bloke who doesn't like sports.

TBH when I really wanna watch 'tv' I use the net to watch what I want, when I want. But when I wanna just chill in the living room for a bit I end up watching Dave or the news.

All the rest of the tv is dominated by womens shows.

Elmo

old hippy wrote: »

It is true. There is very little in the line of Light Entertainment for Men. Top Gear is the male equivalent to Suzy and Susanna.

Dman001

Why does Dave exist? Simply so they could brilliantly call their Plus 1 channel Dave ja vu.

120_Minutes

Forest Master wrote: »

Yes. All sh*te.

Your opinion, not fact.

icdg

Dman001 wrote: »

Why does Dave exist? Simply so they could brilliantly call their Plus 1 channel Dave ja vu.

Its name may be daft (as are most of UKTV's channel names, although Dave is the original of the species). However, one may remember what its name was before it was Dave, the even worse, completely unpronoucable...

UKTVG2.

Try saying that out loud (sample continuity announcement: "Its for watching, not for saying").

As pay-TV channels go its not bad. True, it shows a lot of Top Gear, as even Jeremy Clarkson has lampooned. "We'll see you next week. Unless you're watching on Dave, in which case we'll see you in about sixty seconds!".

Sisko

old hippy wrote: »

Don't misunderstand me, its completely understandable as now women are the dominant TV watchers , male population moves to watching stuff online or later on at night.

Your CSI's, NSIC's, Bones, Lewises and so on and so forth , on top of your typical soaps are all dominated by female viewers. Just like top gear is dominated by male viewers.

Women love a good crime drama, and vampires they love that too.

On the basic UPC package I'm on, for most of the day, the majority of channels are filled with womens tv.

If I wanna watch good tv I generally have to turn to the internet or DVDs, the wire, the walking dead, breaking bad and so on.

I do love sci fi and star trek and stargate are still shown a lot , but feck I've seen every episode so many times >.<

Maybe this is just the UPC basic package but yeah.

Elmo

Sisko wrote: »

Maybe this is just the UPC basic package but yeah.

No you are right the typical US Criminal drama's are mainly watched my female viewers. CSI, NCIS etc.

Sky Atlantic would be a good addition to UPC's basic pack.

Its name may be daft (as are most of UKTV's channel names, although Dave is the original of the species). However, one may remember what its name was before it was Dave, the even worse, completely unpronoucable...

UKTVG2.

I was going to go down that road ICDG but avoided the temptation. But since you have said that let me just point out that the BBC own 50% of the UKTV family of channels. AKA the stupidly named channels: -

YESTERDAY DAVE WATCHed GOLD for an ALIBI
BLIGHTY this is REALLY GOOD FOOD
HOME is EDEN

Dave has also been known as UK GOLD CLASSICS, UK GOLD 2, UKG2 and UKTVG2

DarkJager

On the subject of QI am I the only one who gets absolutely bored to tears even watching five minutes of it?

James T Kirk

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLvS_w9gy8g

blastman

DarkJager wrote: »

On the subject of QI am I the only one who gets absolutely bored to tears even watching five minutes of it?

Probably..

Akrasia

mike65 wrote: »

Just be fearful of a DTT Channel here called Dara, non-stop repeats of Drive, Bachelors Walk, Killinaskully, The Panel and Challanging Times.

If it has upwardly mobile too then sign me up!

Elmo

Akrasia wrote: »

If it has upwardly mobile too then sign me up!

No that would be on ÓIR (Oh! I'd ROFL)