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Hollyoaks and Peep Show are not on the BBC. You're thinking of Channel 4 (C4).

C4 have a TV on demand service now, which works using Bittorrent-style P2P. It is also encumbered with Microsoft DRM, and there is no support for any OS other than XP. Not even Mac. You also have to live in the UK (or use a proxy).

Incidentally the best way to get UK TV programmes is to get an account on a private Bittorrent service, UKN. No DRM at all, and torrents are moderated for quality. As a UK licence fee payer, I see the service as being very much like a large video recorder, and have no ethical qualms about using it. However, you can use it from anywhere in the world, as there is no attempt to prevent non-UK users.

> It's also only available in the US. Those of us in the UK, who are paying £130 to the BBC each year and funded many of these
> programs when they were originally made would quite like to be able to download them too, especially since the BBC Charter says
> they must do whatever they can to make their material available to the British public...

Heh - there's always http://www.uknova.com/

Similar to UK Nova. In the case of UK Nova, it caters to the UK TV market (nothing available on DVD), often obscure enough to be poorly served by the US dominated major BT trackers. So in it's case, the private-ish nature works well (limited number of accounts, pruned occasionally, which opens up slots for people to signup etc etc)... the enforced ratios and consequent blazing downloads.

I'm not sure the private tracker idea works too well with Stargate/Galactica episodes since they are always well-seeded anyway. But hey... whatever floats your boat.

http://www.uknova.com/

The BBC are doing a series on the mental differences between Men and Women called Secrets of the Sexes and to say the least , its really fascinating.

Get the Cap here.

Just because you don't watch BBC3 doesn't mean it isn't good. A lot of the BBCs best programming debuts on BBC3 - Spooks and Little Britain to name but two.

If you havent , you might want to watch The Thick of it.

Torrent here.

"Nonsense. I bet you dollars to scones that every Brit in the relevant age group just pays the TV tax without batting an eyelash. " balls, i haven't bought a license in all my years of tv watching. doesn't make the picture any better. i never even watch the tv anymore, just download stuff. oh and not crappy american stuff either, all you U.K. folks get yourselves over to uknova.com

Where can I download torrents from now?
http://www.tvtorrents.tv/
http://www.btefnet.net/
http://www.fulldls.com/
http://www.tv-swarm.com/
http://www.bi-torrent.com/
http://isohunt.com/
http://torrentspy.com/
http://thepiratebay.org/
http://uk-torrents.com/
http://torrentreactor.net/
http://filelist.org/
http://newtorrents.info/
http://demonoid.com/
http://elitetorrents.org/
http://lokitorrent.com/
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html/
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com/
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed?
2. When will SuprNova.org be back?
3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download?
4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back?
5. Where can I download torrents from now?
6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org?
7. Is BitTorrent closing?
8. Does the current situation mean I can break the channel rules in #SuprNova.org and use "!list" and "@find"?
9. You know this HTML code is very sloppy, right?
10. Where do I send additions/corrections?
11. Why has SuprNova.org closed?
12. What's happening with eXeem?
13. How do I turn off the joins/parts/quits?
14. Are there any plans to release the SuprNova.org source code?
15. What does MPAA stand for?

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed? top Yes, it has. 2. When will SuprNova.org be back? top Never as it was. If it eventually does come back up, it won't feature ANY links to torrents at all. 3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download? top Maybe, probably. However if they don't, it has nothing to do with SuprNova.org's closure. If the tracker for that particular torrent is still online and there are seeds, your file will still download. 4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back? top NO. So don't. Really, don't. 5. Where can I download torrents from now? top http://www.tvtorrents.tv
http://www.btefnet.net
http://www.fulldls.com
http://www.tv-swarm.com
http://www.bi-torrent.com
http://isohunt.com
http://torrentspy.com
http://thepiratebay.org
http://uk-torrents.com
http://torrentreactor.net
http://filelist.org
http://newtorrents.info
http://demonoid.com
http://elitetorrents.org
http://lokitorrent.com
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet
6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org? top Sloncek is the owner. I advise you leave off mailing/PMing him for now, he will be flooded with t

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed?
2. When will SuprNova.org be back?
3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download?
4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back?
5. Where can I download torrents from now?
6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org?
7. Is BitTorrent closing?
8. Does the current situation mean I can break the channel rules in #SuprNova.org and use "!list" and "@find"?
9. You know this HTML code is very sloppy, right?
10. Where do I send additions/corrections?
11. Why has SuprNova.org closed?
12. What's happening with eXeem?
13. How do I turn off the joins/parts/quits?
14. Are there any plans to release the SuprNova.org source code?
15. What does MPAA stand for?

1. Has SuprNova.org really closed? top Yes, it has. 2. When will SuprNova.org be back? top Never as it was. If it eventually does come back up, it won't feature ANY links to torrents at all. 3. What about the torrents I'm currently downloading/have queued, will they still download? top Maybe, probably. However if they don't, it has nothing to do with SuprNova.org's closure. If the tracker for that particular torrent is still online and there are seeds, your file will still download. 4. Will joining the IRC channel and spamming about some random nonsense and/or "BRING SUPRNOVA BACK UP" help at all or bring SuprNova.org back? top NO. So don't. Really, don't. 5. Where can I download torrents from now? top http://www.tvtorrents.tv
http://www.btefnet.net
http://www.fulldls.com
http://www.tv-swarm.com
http://www.bi-torrent.com
http://isohunt.com
http://torrentspy.com
http://thepiratebay.org
http://uk-torrents.com
http://torrentreactor.net
http://filelist.org
http://newtorrents.info
http://demonoid.com
http://elitetorrents.org
http://lokitorrent.com
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet 6. Who is the owner of SuprNova.org? top Sloncek is the owner. I advise you leave off mailing/PMing him for now, he will be flooded with them and this is likely to be a very emotional time for him. He has feelings too. G

5. Where can I download torrents from now?

http://www.tvtorrents.tv/
http://www.btefnet.net/
http://www.fulldls.com/
http://www.tv-swarm.com/
http://www.bi-torrent.com/
http://isohunt.com/
http://torrentspy.com/
http://thepiratebay.org/
http://uk-torrents.com/
http://torrentreactor.net/
http://filelist.org/
http://newtorrents.info/
http://demonoid.com/
http://elitetorrents.org/
http://lokitorrent.com/
http://www.lickmytaint.com/bt.html
http://www.420joint.com/bt/
http://www.torrentsearch.com/
http://www.bitconsole.com/
http://www.uknova.com/
#BT-GM on EFnet

So how long before we read about any of the above? Taking your bets right now....

Superb documentary series.. there are torrents of VCD conversions of the three episodes avaliable at www.uknova.com
To be able to download from their tracker you will need to register at UKnova (free registration), but it's well worth it to see this.

Look on Suprnova for torrents of the Top Gear episodes, regulary uploaded.

I did, but Suprnova is for-pay. While there's nothing wrong with that (though it does seem a bit suspect, since they appear to offer more than just videos of TV shows, such as games and other apps. $29.95 for a lifetime subscription to warez?), I'm not going to pay for that. I checked out UKNova from another poster, which is free, and they have a few torrents to recent Top Gear episodes. It'd be nice to have access to the Top Gear archives, but if I'm going to pay for that I'd rather pay BBC directly (because I'm sure Suprnova doesn't pay BBC).

Maybe BBC America will eventually wise up and bring over Top Gear, too. It doesn't matter that they review a number of cars that will never be available in the US (the show Fifth Gear does that as well, yet Speed TV carries the program). The reviews are highly entertaining (so much better than anything we get here from shows like Autoweek and such), and they actually run many of the cars on a race track and compare times against others they've reviewed.

This is the answer. Well, if you have broadband anyway.