thewayne | Dangerous streaming TV channel....

Acorn TV has a streaming service: $8 a month or $80 a year. Available for Apple TV, Roku, Android Fire, and Chromecast. Described as Netflix for people who like British TV....

I love Doc Martin and Pie In The Sky, and last week I borrowed Set 1 of Midsomer Murders, our uni library has a complete run! Turns out that Set 1 is not Series 1, which really made me mad, it's mostly season 3, IIRC. Set 5 contains the pilot and season 1. So we watched set 1, enjoyed it, I returned it yesterday and borrowed set 5.

I have Doc Martin 1-7, season 8 is the latest available as far as I know, and the last I checked I can get it for about $25 on Ebay. Pie In The Sky is more elusive, but about the same price on Ebay. MUCH more expensive on Amazon!

And Acorn.tv has all three series....

So yeah, probably going to add another streaming service for at least a couple of months. I need to finish Doc Martin 7 first and figure out what comedies Acorn.tv has that might be interesting.

And that's the web url: Acorn.tv.

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Acorn. Don't they have rights on Da Vinci's Inquest/Da Vinci's City Hall, too?

...and apparently, the answer is "not anymore".

Aside from seemingly every British murder mystery ever, there were two comedy shows that I'd be interested in: QI, which I absolutely love, and something I'd never heard of called Whites, set in a kitchen, starring Allen Davies from QI. And I could finish off Pie in the Sky and Doc Martin, so I think getting it for a couple of months would work well and then acquire the two single seasons for Pie and Doc later.

Bummer about DaVinci! A friend of mine in England is trying to find Supernatural on streaming, currently without success.

Note that Acorn has some seasons of QI some of the time. Friends got into watching the show, and then the list of seasons changed & they weren't able to re-watch all of them.

In tangentially related news, our local PBS station offers online access to all the shows they broadcast, if you support them for at least $X/year. Which is very tempting, as On Demand only carries a handful of shows, a couple of episodes at a time -- and not Masterpiece Mystery.

I should check that out. Last time that I did, their GUI was horrible.

Note: I haven't tried it; I just know that it exists.

I have a feeling that what I want is too esoteric/niche that I can't get it from NM or Phx PBS.

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