hello we are Joel & Lia and today's video is all about TV channels in the UK
so let's get going let's talk about the channels we watch if you have to pay to
watch them yeah who pays for a TV licence why young people
aren't watching telly anymore all these lots of things, lets talk about it so
traditionally analog TV in the UK was made up of five channels wasn't it, when we were younger.
I remember that do you remember when there was actually no remote you had to go up and press
yeah and there was only 5. One, two, three four and five these are the channels that everyone knows yeah so
you've got BBC One on channel 1 BBC Two on channel 2 ITV which used to be channel 3 yeah, still ITV1
though I think it's called Oh ITV1 yeah because they've now got my ITV2, ITV3
ITV4. Oh gosh, it's like a family tree isn't it. and then you'd have what would that be channel 4
channel 4 on channel 4 and then channel 5 on channel 5 which is a really bad channel it
would be slightly fuzzy I remember like all the other channels would be crisp
and then channel 5 was a bit fuzzy yeah it'd be like Oh fine what's on Channel
five yeah, it's like the last pick. Oh definitely and nowadays I doubt
many people watch Channel five no in fact one of my friend who's an actress got
a gig on a Channel five show she's still... who's seen it? No one. Sorry!
but obviously nowadays is not analog TV we have satellite cable whatever you
call it so there's hundreds of different channels but if we try to stick to like
the main ones in this video do you think? yeah yeah because obviously everyone's got like
Sky or Netflix or we're gonna tell you about them in this video
Keep watching! Stay tuned. Ad break! well that's one thing that the BBC does that no other
companies do so let's talk about this first BBC so the BBC stands for the
British Broadcasting Corporation yeah or the Beeb as we like to call it in London.
yeah oh you working at the beeb?
oh I just did a sitcom with the beeb, yeah it's a
really like wanky thing to say. anyway so the beeb don't have adverts on
their entire network if you want to call it on their Channel and that's because
everybody in the UK who watches TV pays a TV licence so that's right we pay
a license to watch TV id you own a TV you have to have a
license if you don't own a TV you still have to pay a license because you might
have a laptop and that laptop will allow you to play catch-up tele like BBC iPlayer for
example yeah on-demand iPlayer any of these things
that allow you to watch catch-up you have to pay TV licence exactly which I
know there's some people probably think that's a bit weird if you're not used to
it obviously we're used to it I think it stands at about £150.50 per
year but I think it's great because I cannot stand adverts ad breaks I'm so
impatient I think most people in our generation are cannot stand waiting to
watch something you want to watch now and in most places don't people just use the
ad break to make a cup of tea or to go and do something, go to the loo
and that's the great thing about BBC you know you're not gonna get
an advert if you're watching a TV show if it's a half an hour soap like my
grandma's always watches EastEnders which is like a British soap and there's no
adverts, amazing! it's great whereas if you watch Coronation Street which is a
soap on ITV there will be an advert slap-bang in the middle which some
people like because like you said it allows them to get up go make a cup of tea or
go to the toilet and sit down but I'm like if you can't sit down and watch
something for more than 15 minutes then you've got a problem! yeah you gotta problem! On that note with the
adverts being on some networks and not on others, it's also reflective in
like the production values of the show so for instance ITV which was channel 3
traditionally on a normal telly would have a bigger budget be able to pay their
actors more be able to spend more money on making their show look great yeah
that the BBC would yeah it's like a well-known fact amongst actors and
producers and people that work in the industry that the BBC don't have a lot of
money to spend on their projects, yeah so if you're an actor in an ITV drama
you're gonna get paid a lot more than if you're an actor in a BBC drama yeah but
that said BBC do- their dramas are actually quite big scale
though you wouldn't be able to notice the difference between a BBC drama and an
ITV in terms of production value, would you? yeah and as well as that I just
thought about a BBC drama that had a great budget and that's because it was
BBC America like The Musketeers was BBC America, amazing budget so much money spent on these
amazing dramas period dramas and so many of the
shows we've recommended to you guys to watch whether it's for like listening to
accents or like learning language and the BBC, I think they do it best
personally and I think they combine with other companies as well to get
those big budgets so I know channel 4 sometimes work with BBC in order to do
like for example Miranda a BBC comedy, yeah that was shown on BBC but if you
get the DVD it's got a little four in the corner because I think Channel four
helped produce it and I think that's how they get more money behind it because they pair up
that's really cool, that's amazing. So yeah you've heard some of
these other names you've got channel 4 they're like probably as big as ITV if
not bigger. I think nowadays they are I didn't think they used to be but channel 4 has
blown up huge, some great dramas on there I believe like channel 4 also own like
the Box Network which is like e4, more4 4music, there's so many like
siblings if it was like a family tree there's so many little like frogs coming
off it and they've all got their sort of niche whether it's music comedy
yeah so there's so much going on and do
you know what most people now in the UK they just have Sky which is similar to
cable yeah which is like it's like a box that has
loads of TV channels on it do you have Sky? No I used to have Sky.
Not anymore what's the other one? Freeview.
is another one Virgin Media have their own version as well of Sky I think it's
just called Virgin yeah so Virgin you get loads of TV channels
you get like 500 channels I swear most of us watch like five of
them oh definitely and I don't think I'd pay for Sky anymore because Freeview
often comes free with a TV with a smart TV a smart TV and with online obviously
Netflix nowadays £5.99 a month, you can't argue with it. but
even you the other day were saying that you were thinking of stopping your
Netflix thing yeah cuz do you know what, I do watch Netflix
sometimes but I don't watch it enough to justify you're probably gonna think she is
so tight with money but it's only six pounds a month but I probably watch it
like once yeah so I may as well just go to cinema and watch a film, that's true and
I've not binged watched a series in ages coz I don't have time, I just don't have
time. Always working, always hustlin'. Hustler! But for example going back to BBC yeah BBC have
loads of different channels BBC Two tends to be where BBC trial new programmes
if they don't quite trust that it's gonna be really popular on BBC One cuz
BBC One is where everyone wants to be their main audience yeah so you'll find
lots of... for example the Great British Bake Off when it was on BBC it's now
been bought by Channel 4 which is a whole other topic
that started on BBC Two because BBC were like "hmmm it might not be very
successful so let's put on BBC Two" and then it moved to BBC One coz they were like wow everyone
loves this. I can't believe the bake-off was once on BBC Two, that's mental isn't it. then it got bought
for like 25 million pounds by Channel 4 because BBC couldn't afford that price
yeah which is again another sort of downside of a publicly funded body
is that, they lost out on a really great programme and often you see
like I don't know whether The Voice was once a BBC thing
or was it ITV now who have The Voice but I think it did used to be on BBC The Voice UK it did because I
remember X-Factor used to be on at the same time as The Voice on BBC and it
was like a big clash between who was gonna get the most views yeah and you
know 'views schmooze' Zoella gets more views than BBC and The Voice, so TVs dying
It's like "oh my god there's three million people tuning into The Voice" and it's like well...cool, there are so many more people online
there's a gamer that has 12 million views right now well because also we find that
we've recommended some shows to you guys that aren't in the UK and then you can't
access it because BBC or ITV or Channel 4 don't let people from outside the UK
watch whereas online Netflix YouTube anyone can watch it except if you're in
China, so that's the great thing about the internet, and we have to deal with that with like NBC yeah
Comedy Central we can't watch on YouTube there's loads of stuff on YouTube you
can't watch do you remember when you were finally able to access SNL you were so happy! I loved it! coz you got all the episodes.
it was so good I'm so glad that we've got access ... well we don't on mainstream media
that's the thing, SNL isn't on our TVs it's just I've got a way to access it online now
yeah and that's why I think TV is dying a bit because we want everything now
yeah and I think viewers everywhere want to be able to watch something when
they want to watch it there's no point saying to a millennial oh it's on at
9:00 p.m. on a Saturday, we'll be like no I'll watch it when I want to watch it! How funny, that people used to like
make sure they're home at 7:00pm so they can sit and watch that drama you're like I
want to binge watch 10 episodes of this tonight! Immediately.
with my food delivered to my house or I want to get halfway through an episode and go right
pause and then go and do something else and then come back to it and it's in exactly the same place
we're so spoiled, aren't we? so spoiled and so many
young people just don't have TVs yeah... actually I do, I was gunna say I don't but I do! and that's because everyone
has a laptop who needs a TV? yeah it's true and you've got Joel & Lia, why do you
need TV? Honestly please let us know in the comments below if you've ever
thought shall I watch TV right now or should I go and watch YouTube? and
specifically us on YouTube! I just want to know yeah so you better all say yes
yes I do that and let us know if this video has been helpful for
you because we did want to make something about like TV in the UK
how the channels work what channels what, and we'd love to see like an
American equivalent if anyone's made one, let us know we'd love to watch that, and let us know if there's any
other ideas cuz we like talking about these things that are so obvious to us
that might not be to you yeah for example TV channels English money or
British housing like we love these things so let us know if there are any
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