If like many of us you’re feeling a little closed in and isolated due to world events then here’s the perfect solution.  If you want to escape from all the depressing news, bickering and arguments about politics then I can almost guarantee that a few minutes enjoying the Pink Flamingos in the BBC’s Planet Earth […]

If you’re in Portugal for a short holiday, working trip or perhaps something more permanent then you might have discovered that it can be difficult to access English speaking TV stations.  Sure there’s lots of channels in Portugal like every where else,  but most are in native Portuguese.  Unlike many European countries, there’s usually limited […]

The ITV Hub is the website of one of the oldest commercial TV stations in the world.  ITV is the largest commercial TV station in the UK and is even the proud holder of the world’s longest running Soap – Coronation Street.  The station obviously broadcasts directly to the United Kingdom but there are certain […]

If you’ve just arrived in Cyprus to live or on holiday, you may be briefly under the impression that you can’t connect to all the UK TV sites on the internet.  For example if you try and visit the BBC iPlayer when in Cyprus, you’ll see something like this message – What happens is when […]

Updated August, 2020 All the UK TV stations broadcast the majority of their shows online. There are a few exceptions, like the odd licensed blockbuster film but usually you can watch everything live or from their archives.  However as anyone who has ever settled down to watch from outside the UK will know, the minute […]

It seems mighty unfair that just because you happen to step out of the country, that suddenly your whole web experience changes. For example the most important site to me is the BBC, I get my news reports, I watch the TV, I listen to the commentary of my local football team’s matches. There’s probably […]