Does America air British soaps on tv?
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September 15th, 2011
Was just wondering if you guys watched British soaps. Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Eastenders…..?
Just curious.
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Unless someone has BBC America and they air them on there… no, British soaps aren’t aired on American stations. I’m sure there’s people who watch them online and on things like Netflix, but I’ve never seen any on regular cable.
BBC America doesn’t show any of the ones you’ve listed. I do watch a bit of Brit TV…Mostly “You Are What You Eat” and “Dragon’s Den” along with “Mr. Bean” & “Little Britain” for me, though.
I’ve heard of those programs, especially Eastenders, but have yet to ever see them. I didn’t know they were soaps, in fact. For some reason I thought they were weekly dramas.
@FutureMemory Yep, Eastenders is the only one I’ve heard of and I also thought it was a weekly nighttime drama
Eastenders is on 4 nights a week.
No, we have our own full slate of soaps.
Ahh, in America soaps generally only air during mid day, not evenings.
Canadian here and we get Coronation Street and Emmerdale on the CBC.
@RubyB Yes, AbFab was on PBS here, as well.
Eastenders is on Public TV here in North Carolina on Sunday nights at 11. One hour episodes.
I don’t keep up with it at all. Not my cup of tea,.
BBC America used to show Eastenders a long time ago but now it’s pretty much all Britcoms, Top Gear, Doctor Who and Gordon Ramsey
Public Television has quite a number of British shows. The laugh tracks keep me from watching the funny ones, except occasionally, but I love the detective shows and dramas. I dote on Foyle’s War and Inspector Morse and the like.
My favorite show of all time is a Brit comedy. I actually paid good money to buy the complete series on DVD…something unheard of for a pirate such as myself.
Favorite show of all times is Fawlty Towers, which I’ve purchased 3 times on DVD because when I loan it out, it never comes back
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