BBC Repeats...but good ones! (UKTV Documentary)

Member Name: janharper

Product:	UKTV Documentary
Date:	21/02/01 (144 review reads)
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Advantages: lots of variety

Disadvantages: all repeats

UK Horizons is available on digital television (Sky and Ondigital). It is basically a channel that shows BBC repeats. (This of course costs less than showing new programmes.)

The good thing about these repeats is that they are all documentary style broadcasts. Most of need to be watched more than once before you really absorb them anyway. Michael Palin must have the record for the most repeated documentary programmes on this channel. As soon as a series is finished we start yet another Palin adventure. I do enjoy these broadcasts but I must admit that even I am getting tired of the repeats. It seems as though the BBC, having established a very popular documentary series, then set about 'doing it to death'.

Apart from that particular gripe, I don't have much to complain about when it comes to UK Horizons'programming. They show a good variety of documentaries on history, politics, natural phenomena, etc.

The best offerings just recently (in my opinion) have been 'Viva las Venice' which was about an American who is trying to recreate a perfect replica of Venice in his Las Vegas casino-hotel, and 'The Tourist Trap' which documents tourists from different nations at their holiday hotels.

An excellent channel with lots of variety.

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