What would be your perfect tv channel?

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I was just thinking with the rebrand of TV3 and it's sister channels I thought why not start a thread and ask if you were to launch your channel what would you show on it. For me as I like westerns, 70s and 80s shows like Hawii Five o, The Streets Of Sanfrancisco, Mannix, Knight Rider, The A Team and Hill Street Blues. In the mornings I would start the channel at 7.am with say a half hour of news and paper review followed by say two old westerns from the 50s after the old movies around 10.30 am to 1.00 pm i would put in some vintage comedies like Taxi, the Odd Couple, Alf, Mork and Mindy and maybe Different Strokes. 1.30 pm I would have a half an hour news bulletin followed a block of music videos from the 70s and 80s which would run until 2.00pm to 5.00pm. From 5.00pm to 7.00pm i would start of the evening with the 70s and 80s shows mentioned above and for primetime a live football match or a good selection of action movies to finish off the night. It would be interesting to hear your ideas. The name of my channel would be channel mix.

Atlantic Dawn

Yes I do think there's a market for an 80's tv channel, I am not sure whether there's a rights issue with someone buying them up for UK viewers but none of the major shows like A-Team, Knight Rider and the others you mentioned are repeated the last couple of years.

Harry Palmr

The A-team has been reshown on Forces TV in the 600s on Freesat which I only discovered by luck (not that I was much of a fan of it back in the day). Sometimes series crop up in unexpected places.

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Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Yes I do think there's a market for an 80's tv channel, I am not sure whether there's a rights issue with someone buying them up for UK viewers but none of the major shows like A-Team, Knight Rider and the others you mentioned are repeated the last couple of years.

I think Bravo was the last channel to show the ATeam and Knight Rider. I would love to know just for fun what type of channel people would launch if the they had the resources. Just throw out your ideas for a bit of fun.

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

The A-team has been reshown on Forces TV in the 600s on Freesat which I only discovered by luck (not that I was much of a fan of it back in the day). Sometimes series crop up in unexpected places.

Is it still on my son would have loved it. I know they were shown Hogans heros and Sargent Bilko not a fan. I suppose anything war related could turn up on that channel.

Harry Palmr

It;s on next at 2 PM tomorrow, set your VCR! They are also showing Danger UXB with Anthony Andrews which was well regarded back in the day.

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

It;s on next at 2 PM tomorrow, set your VCR! They are also showing Danger UXB with Anthony Andrews which was well regarded back in the day.

Thanks for that. VCR your taking me way back now. Danger UXB I can't recall that but will keep an eye out for it.

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

It;s on next at 2 PM tomorrow, set your VCR! They are also showing Danger UXB with Anthony Andrews which was well regarded back in the day.

Thanks for that. VCR your taking me way back now. Danger UXB I can't recall that but will keep an eye out for it.

Harry Palmr

It was very good, made by Euston Films who did the likes of Van der Valk, The Sweeney, Minder, Quatermass and Reilly: Ace of Spies

Reputable Rog

I would like Mogilla Gorilla, Yogi Bear and quick draw mcgraw early morning, F Troop around 10am followed by CHiPs and maybe the Rockford Files or Columbo to ease me into the afternoon, an afternoon of Dallas followed by the Fall Guy and Batman or maybe on the buses.
The Wire, Breaking Bad or The Sopranos as the highlight of the evening.

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Reputable Rog wrote: »

I would like Mogilla Gorilla, Yogi Bear and quick draw mcgraw early morning, F Troop around 10am followed by CHiPs and maybe the Rockford Files or Columbo to ease me into the afternoon, an afternoon of Dallas followed by the Fall Guy and Batman or maybe on the buses.
The Wire, Breaking Bad or The Sopranos as the highlight of the evening.

yes a couple of good ones there to fill the schedule. If I had enough space in the schedule i would throw in Snoopy, Mr magoo, the old Daffy duck and Speedy Gonsalis. I would also stick on Dusty's Trail, The High Chaparall and maybe Mannix, Magnum PI and Automan.

medoc

Milan Nutritious Newspaper wrote: »

I think Bravo was the last channel to show the ATeam and Knight Rider. I would love to know just for fun what type of channel people would launch if the they had the resources. Just throw out your ideas for a bit of fun.

I'd launch or rather re launch Bravo. Or a Bravoesque channel like the Bravo of the late 90's with all the classic shows like The Avengers, Time Tunnel, Tour of Duty etc. Not the crap it was when Sky closed it.

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Milan Nutritious Newspaper wrote: »

yes a couple of good ones there to fill the schedule. If I had enough space in the schedule i would throw in Snoopy, Mr magoo, the old Daffy duck and Speedy Gonsalis. I would also stick on Dusty's Trail, The High Chaparall and maybe Mannix, Magnum PI and Automan.

Haha, Mr. Magoo! Haven't seen that on TV in decades! Can just vaguely remember it now.

Reputable Rog

medoc wrote: »

I'd launch or rather re launch Bravo. Or a Bravoesque channel like the Bravo of the late 90's with all the classic shows like The Avengers, Time Tunnel, Tour of Duty etc. Not the crap it was when Sky closed it.

Of course you couldn't go wrong with Minder in the afternoon or evening.

Colser

Early morning I'd like the Brady Bunch,Black Beauty ,Little House on the Prairie,The Walton's ..

Midday would be Upstairs Downstairs,Dallas,Kojak,Cannon, Some Mothers do Ave Them and a few quiz shows..

Evening would be Blind Date,Gladiators,TFI Friday,Street mate ,Bad Boys..

If I had a duvet day off work I'd watch back to back Steve Willis,Jeremy Kyle,Maury ect ...shameful I know ...

iseegirls

All those kids shows from the 90's - Round The Twist, Eerie Indiana, Pugwall, Spellbinder, The Girl From Tomorrow, Art Attack, Fun House during the afternoon.

Then in the evening, light entertainment like The Generation Game, Big Break, Gladiators

Night time would have comedies like Sunny In Philadelphia, Seinfeld, Married With Children

After midnight - Dream Team during the Hocknell years.

Colser

iseegirls wrote:

Night time would have comedies like Sunny In Philadelphia, Seinfeld, Married With Children

Totally forgot about Married with Children..that was so funny.

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iseegirls wrote: »

All those kids shows from the 90's - Round The Twist, Eerie Indiana, Pugwall, Spellbinder, The Girl From Tomorrow, Art Attack, Fun House during the afternoon.

Then in the evening, light entertainment like The Generation Game, Big Break, Gladiators

Night time would have comedies like Sunny In Philadelphia, Seinfeld, Married With Children

After midnight - Dream Team during the Hocknell years.

I think a lot of those game shows are on challenge at the moment. The comedies you mentioned were great I would put in the Golden Girls and silver spoons. Also I remember getting up early on a Saturday morning and watching Penelope pits stop,Hr puffing snuff and the Banana splits.Good old days long gone.

Reputable Rog

Milan Nutritious Newspaper wrote: »

I think a lot of those game shows are on challenge at the moment. The comedies you mentioned were great I would put in the Golden Girls and silver spoons. Also I remember getting up early on a Saturday morning and watching Penelope pits stop,Hr puffing snuff and the Banana splits.Good old days long gone.

I bought a HR Pufnstuf box set a few years ago,not a good experience. Some shows are meant to stay as memories and not be experienced again.
Could be worse I know a bloke who bought the entire box set of Dogtannion and the three muskahounds, it took him a long time to recover.

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Colser wrote: »

Early morning I'd like the Brady Bunch,Black Beauty ,Little House on the Prairie,The Walton's ..

Midday would be Upstairs Downstairs,Dallas,Kojak,Cannon, Some Mothers do Ave Them and a few quiz shows..

Evening would be Blind Date,Gladiators,TFI Friday,Street mate ,Bad Boys..

If I had a duvet day off work I'd watch back to back Steve Willis,Jeremy Kyle,Maury ect ...shameful I know ...

Ah the Brady Bunch and Black Beauty I remember watching them on a Saturday morning after Seasamee Street. Little House on the Prairie a family favourite as was the Waltons. The Waltons are currently on TG4 each day at 1.00pm. Some good schedule fillers there.

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Reputable Rog wrote: »

I bought a HR Pufnstuf box set a few years ago,not a good experience. Some shows are meant to stay as memories and not be experienced again.
Could be worse I know a bloke who bought the entire box set of Dogtannion and the three muskahounds, it took him a long time to recover.

Dogtannion and Muskahounds I do remember. The thing back then was we had so little content choice so of course any sniff of a cartoon or something American we were glued to it. I wouln'd but those two in my shedule and I definitely wouln'd buy the box sets.

lgs 4

My perfect channel is combination of Discovery World Europe ,History Channel Europe , Europe Discovery Science, and UK Gold and Dave, Yesterday Channels .

Because what people are paying for on sky is old programming, while the programming on the european versions of Discovery and History Channels is only fews weeks old or even less

That,s My Channel !

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Milan Nutritious Newspaper wrote: »

Dogtannion and Muskahounds I do remember. The thing back then was we had so little content choice so of course any sniff of a cartoon or something American we were glued to it. I wouln'd but those two in my shedule and I definitely wouln'd buy the box sets.

Now I've got that feckin theme tune in my head. Thanks!

Another cartoon from that era was The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

Often wondered why there wasnt a retro kids channel, ie show kids programs from 70s/80s/90s. Nostalgia fest. Some of the old UK ones Josseys Giants (Bryan Robson appeared in one episode), Simon and the Witch, Gruey, Johnny Briggs. God, I watched way too much TV as a kid

Harry Palmr

They just bring them back - Thunderbirds, Clangers, Thomas the Tank Engine, Danger Mouse etc!

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

They just bring them back - Thunderbirds, Clangers, Thomas the Tank Engine, Danger Mouse etc!

These are all great kiddies programmes but what would you fill the rest of the channel with and what would you call the channel?

Harry Palmr

If I were inventing a channel it would actually be quite high flown - tv is now made for idiots with little or no attention span - viewers made stupid by MTV, ad breaks and the internet. So I'd be going big on things like Connections, Shock of the New, Ireland A TV History, Ways of Seeing, Cosmos (trouble is most of that is now out of date!), John Le Carre series, I Clavdivs, Dennis Potter, and the like with cream de la creme of cinema esp the best of French, Italian, German and Japanese which terrestrial telly has largely abandoned (I grew up when you could see Chabrol, Brunel, Schlöndorff, etc late on a weekend night on BBC Two) I'd also bring back Moviedrome

_Kaiser_

Definitely 70s/80s with some 60s stuff thrown in.

Think Sky Channel back in the day.. stuff like Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian, Green Acres, The Green Hornet, The Time Tunnel, Chips, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Mission Impossible, Magnum PI etc.. and cartoons from that era at weekends (as in the old Fun Factory show Sky had on Saturday and Sunday mornings)

Throw in some classic 70s/80s movies in the evenings and some tunes from that era - sorted! You'd think it'd be cheap enough too from a rights perspective.

As for the name, basically I just want Sky Channel back

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_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Definitely 70s/80s with some 60s stuff thrown in.

Think Sky Channel back in the day.. stuff like Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian, Green Acres, The Green Hornet, The Time Tunnel, Chips, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Mission Impossible, Magnum PI etc.. and cartoons from that era at weekends (as in the old Fun Factory show Sky had on Saturday and Sunday mornings)

Throw in some classic 70s/80s movies in the evenings and some tunes from that era - sorted! You'd think it'd be cheap enough too from a rights perspective.

As for the name, basically I just want Sky Channel back

Again a channel I would definitely watch. Interesting how a lot of posters are going for the 70s ,80s and 90s. Just shows how nostalgic many of us have become and how good TV was back then.

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

If I were inventing a channel it would actually be quite high flown - tv is now made for idiots with little or no attention span - viewers made stupid by MTV, ad breaks and the internet. So I'd be going big on things like Connections, Shock of the New, Ireland A TV History, Ways of Seeing, Cosmos (trouble is most of that is now out of date!), John Le Carre series, I Clavdivs, Dennis Potter, and the like with cream de la creme of cinema esp the best of French, Italian, German and Japanese which terrestrial telly has largely abandoned (I grew up when you could see Chabrol, Brunel, Schlöndorff, etc late on a weekend night on BBC Two) I'd also bring back Moviedrome

To be honest I'm not very familiar with any of those programmes but im'sure there is an audience out tnere for such a niche channel. SKY Arts might show some of the shows you mentioned. Performance Channel used to show some great concerts from the likes of Jhonny Cash, Barry Manalowe,James Last and Frank Sinatra I used to watch it a lot until it closed down. Sky Arts is ok but for me the Performance Channel was the best.

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

If I were inventing a channel it would actually be quite high flown - tv is now made for idiots with little or no attention span - viewers made stupid by MTV, ad breaks and the internet. So I'd be going big on things like Connections, Shock of the New, Ireland A TV History, Ways of Seeing, Cosmos (trouble is most of that is now out of date!), John Le Carre series, I Clavdivs, Dennis Potter, and the like with cream de la creme of cinema esp the best of French, Italian, German and Japanese which terrestrial telly has largely abandoned (I grew up when you could see Chabrol, Brunel, Schlöndorff, etc late on a weekend night on BBC Two) I'd also bring back Moviedrome

To be honest I'm not very familiar with any of those programmes but im'sure there is an audience out tnere for such a niche channel. SKY Arts might show some of the shows you mentioned. Performance Channel used to show some great concerts from the likes of Jhonny Cash, Barry Manalowe,James Last and Frank Sinatra I used to watch it a lot until it closed down. Sky Arts is ok but for me the Performance Channel was the best.

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_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Definitely 70s/80s with some 60s stuff thrown in.

Think Sky Channel back in the day.. stuff like Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian, Green Acres, The Green Hornet, The Time Tunnel, Chips, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Mission Impossible, Magnum PI etc.. and cartoons from that era at weekends (as in the old Fun Factory show Sky had on Saturday and Sunday mornings)

Throw in some classic 70s/80s movies in the evenings and some tunes from that era - sorted! You'd think it'd be cheap enough too from a rights perspective.

As for the name, basically I just want Sky Channel back

Again a channel I would definitely watch. Interesting how a lot of posters are going for the 70s ,80s and 90s. Just shows how nostalgic many of us have become and how good TV was back then.

Colser

I can remember my mam watching The Onedin Line (think that's the spelling) and it was like her guilty pleasure to sit down in the afternoon...she also watched Bunny Carr with the old folks but I can't remember the name..7 days was a must watch for both my parents..Anyone remember Don't forget your Toothbrush?

Harry Palmr

Quicksilver was Bunny Carrs quiz show then he did Live At 3 (aka Dead at 3 in our house!) on a Monday for the almost dearly departed.

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

Quicksilver was Bunny Carrs quiz show then he did Live At 3 (aka Dead at 3 in our house!) on a Monday for the almost dearly departed.

Live at 3.... Also known as Dead by 4....

OU812

THIS

24/7/365

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mWq5B6sU0

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Colser wrote: »

I can remember my mam watching The Onedin Line (think that's the spelling) and it was like her guilty pleasure to sit down in the afternoon...she also watched Bunny Carr with the old folks but I can't remember the name..7 days was a must watch for both my parents..Anyone remember Don't forget your Toothbrush?

The Onedin Line, Poldark, and Upstairs Downstairs as was Tales Of The Unexpected. Can anyone remember a horror series in the 70s called Night Gallery as far as I know it was made by NBC.
As we had only one chanel RTE it used to be on Satutady nights around 10pm. I think Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee were the main characters. My friends babysitter used to let us stay up and watch it. I used to have nightmares after it. All the above would make an excellent channel.

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Speaking of Bunny Carr didn't he host Cross Country Quiz. That's ashow I would love to see again. Also if I was to put in some irish content I would add Wanderly Wagon, the Reoirdians, Bracken and Glenroe. Now theres a culchie for you.:D

Reputable Rog

Bring em back alive on Monday nights, Simon and Simon on Tuesday nights,I need to think about the rest of the week.

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Some of the below tv programmes could make the "perfect tv channel" if you are of a certain age

Family entertainment:

Daktari - (animal lovers)
The Monkees
The Muppett Show
Fraggle Rock
Where In The World?
Rapid Roulette
Murphy's Micro Quiz'Em
Know Your Sport!
Wish You Were Here?
SBB ina Shuí
Hall's Pictorial Weekly
Bull Island

Science & Nature:

All of David Attenborough's work
To the Waters & The Wild
Tomorrow's World
Beyond 2000

Kids TV:

Sesame Street
The Electric Company
3-2-1 Contact
Wanderly Wagon
Fortycoats & Whirligig Witch
Bosco
Dilín Ó'Deamhas
Just William
Youngline
Scratch Saturday
Borderline
Pajo's Junkbox
Let's Go
Take Hart
Vision On

Comedy Series:

Mind Your Language
Sorry!
Leave to Mrs. O'Brien
Upwardly Mobile
Three Non-Blondes
Benson
Diff'rent Strokes
Taxi
Family Ties
Family Affair (USA)
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python
Kenny Everett Television Show
Dick Emery Show
Benny Hill Show
Morecambe and Wise Show
Little and Large
Mrs Merton Show
The Royle Family
The Office
Extras
Alice
Father Ted
One Foot In The Grave
Keeping Up Appearances
Only Fools and Horses


Soap Opera/Drama Series:

The Brothers
Downton Abbey
Upstairs, Downstairs
A Woman Of Substance
Take The High Road
Crossroads
Family Affairs
Brookside
Waterloo Road
Doctors
Tolka Row
Dynasty
The Colby's
Falcon Crest
Knots Landing
Flamingo Road
Return To Eden
The Sullivans
Sons & Daughters
A Country Practice
The Young Doctors
The Flying Doctors
All Saints
The Beachcombers
E R
Trapper John MD
Nurse
St. Elsewhere
Chicago Hope


American Series:
Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Starsky & Hutch
Switch
Hagan
Matt Houston
Hart to Hart
McGyver
Midnight Caller
Matlock
The Street of San Francisco
Perry Mason
Ironside
The Twilight Zone
Tales From the Dark Side
Mickey Spillane's "Mike Hammer"
The Equaliser
Hill Street Blues
NYPD Blue
The Fugitive
Melrose Place
Ally McBeal
Sex and the City
Seinfeld
The Golden Girls
Cheers!
Frasier


British series:
Tales Of The Unexpected
Bergerac
The Royal
Heartbeat
Minder
The Sweeney
Howards' Way
Taggart


Music shows:
Non Stop Pop!
Megamix
MT USA
Finding Fax Future
MTV Unplugged
Top Of The Pops (Weekly Charts & Christmas/New Year's editions)
Top Of The Pops 2

Sports on TV:
Sports Stadium
Superstars
Grandstand
World of Sport
Sportsnight
Sportscene
Mid-Week Sport
The Big Match
The Premiership
The Sunday Game

News & Current Affairs:

World In Motion
The Cook Report
Panorama
Primetime
Tonight with Vincent Browne
Pat Kenny Tonight
Claire Byrne Live
Today Tonight
The Frontline
Frontline (1970's pre-cursor to Today Tonight)
Seven Days
Scannal
Public Account
Marketplace
Mart & Market
Landmark

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That's a brialliant schedule the OP but together. It brings back some great memories of some programmes which I had forgotten such as Daktari. Frontline, Where in the World and although we weren't farmers we would watch Mart and Market and Landmark just before the news at six. It just shows you how straved we were of channel choice back then. Thre is is a couple of other shows I would add that I remember such as the Hardy Boyzs, the Famous Five, Wurzel Gummage. There are one or two American shows I liked Trapper John MD I think it was set in a hospital, The greatest American Hero, Grizzly Adams, and my favourite Hill Street Blues.

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That's a brialliant schedule the OP but together. It brings back some great memories of some programmes which I had forgotten such as Daktari. Frontline, Where in the World and although we weren't farmers we would watch Mart and Market and Landmark just before the news at six. It just shows you how straved we were of channel choice back then. Thre is is a couple of other shows I would add that I remember such as tne Hardy Boyzs, the Famous Five, Wurzel Gummage. There are one or two American shows I liked Trapper John MD I think it was set in a hospital, The greatest American Hero, Grizzly Adams, and my favourite Hill Street Blues.