New Freeview Channel: Really
We’re shortly to see a new Freeview channel appear, and for once it’s not a shopping channel or a Babestation service. Really!
TV company UKTV already offers Dave and Yesterday on Freeview, and it has just announced that it will soon be adding ‘Really‘ to the lineup.
Really will join the Freeview lineup from the 2nd of August 2011 on Freeview Channel 20, replacing Dave Ja Vue.
If you’re not familiar with the TV channel Really, it’s been broadcasting on the Sky and Virgin platforms for a while. It’s billed as a “lifestyle channel”, and according to the blurb, the station is aimed at predominately young women (so more of a Davina than a Dave?). The channel claims to offer honest, outrageous and fun programming, with a mix of UK TV series and imported American shows, including a high percentage of reality / real-life TV shows. Really’s slogan? “You couldn’t make it up”!
A look at recent shows on the channel reveals that Really offers the likes of Tough Love, Bizarre ER, Snog Marry Avoid, Faking it, How to Find a Husband, Medical Emergency, Bridezilla, Truth at Ten and Spendaholics.
You can expect to see Really replacing the timeshift channel Dave Ja Vue from the beginning of August 2011.
cant wait to see this channel at last a channel thats not shopping or babestation lets see when it starts! we should have a channel like hallmark i really enjoy watching drama stuff and true films
yes about time a new channel, it’s going to be on channel 20
where channel one used to be and start 2 august,i think replace all
+1 channels with new channels it’s much better
I agree. About time we had some proper programming. Also agree about dropping the +1 channels and replacing with proper channels. I’d like to see the True Movies, Men and Movies, Movies for Men and the CBS channels coming to Freeview. My children like watching the Pop, Tiny Pop, Pop Girl and Kix channels so lets have tehm while we’re about it.
With analogue stopping this year and next year will this free up space on the transmitter to enable all these channels to make it to Freeview?
we need one of the big boys like BBC to buy up another mux (6 already) after the shutdown of analog. don’t think it would happen but in theory there would be enough space for another 5 mux. that could create at least 25 to 30 channels, at a decent bit rate. lets hope really keeps its really good bit rate of 4mb and doesn’t drop quality to make space for yet more garbage channels.
I think it’s a shame actually, as “Dave Ja Vu” was such an imaginative name compared to Dave+1.
I actually get quite a lot of use from +1 channels, either to expand recording options when too many programmes clash, or to watch something I had over looked in the schedules – you realise there;s something on, but you have missed the beginning, but you can still catch up properly because there’s the +1 option.
If any replacements are only going to show dross such as appears to be planned for Really, I’d rather just have +1 channels!
i thought it would of been replacing a shopping channel i mean nine shopping channels on freeview come-on take some of but keep really and dave ja vue
Yes….yippy……horray…..a new channel,and like others have said,not another shopping channel….great.
Some say it is gonna replace Dave ja vu on channel 25 but Really is going on channel 20!!!!
Oh and the lunch date,according to ads on Dave is 2nd August this yr!
I’m extremely underwhelmed by this news – more repeats of repeats of repeats, endless adverts at intervals too frequent to allow the transmission of anything but threadbare repetitions and mindless dreck, shopping for useless, cheap and nasty products, blatant pornography and generally a surfeit of the worst sort of chav vulgarity: That is increasingly what Freeview peddles.
There’s nothing worthwhile, for anyone with even half a brain, on all of the bandwidth available, apart from the original terrestrial stations, along with the new digital BBC stable, the Channel 4 digital stable, ITV 1 and possibly including some of ITV’s digital stable, then ‘Sky News’ and the foreign news channels ‘Russia Today’ and ‘Al Jazeera’ (and I’ll even include ‘Five’ ‘Quest’ ‘Dave’ and ‘Yesterday’ because they do show decent programmes sometimes). That’s only about 20 different TV channels out of so many more that are just the worst junk imaginable, and it is only the 4 BBC channels and the two foreign news channels out of even those which don’t have their programmes increasingly fragmented by unendurably repetitive ads – ads which on most commercial channels have now gone beyond the point at which the brain simply switches off, faced as it is with relentless interruptions to its attentiveness.
In other words, even if a good programme happens to be scheduled (presumably by accident) on one of these commercial channels, it is promptly sliced and diced and served up in an indigestible presentational mess, a bit of substance being included merely in order to provide a little mental roughage to bulk out the disgusting pap of the loud and hectoring salesmen who are force-feeding the audience their muck, and trying to make them swallow whatever line they are peddling. One might imagine there are a plentiful number of flies and maggots for this attractive purpose, crawling all over the ordure that Freeview mainly serves up for the British public. We are being conned, hook, line and sinker.
To be fair, it must be admitted that even the once-independent and largely ad-free Internet is now well on the way to being managed for chiefly political and commercial ends. The joke is that, as the technology of television accomplishes the wonders of Widescreen, Flatscreen, HD, 3D, Interactivity and Web-connectivity, all of that now almost limitless bandwidth is conveying to us ever less content of any value – via the breathtakingly accomplished technology which now sits in practically every home, we are receiving mostly rubbish. If ever Marshal Macluhan had wished for the perfect demonstration and vindication of his warning prophecy of this medium becoming the message, then here it is in its perfection: More and more technology giving us next to nothing that is worth having, or, if worth having, then in any case far better provided by cinema, theatre, novels or any of the other arts, sports or myriad of other activities available for our enjoyment and improvement.
And what people really want (even if some of them don’t realise it yet) is to also be able to put a record of these more involving activities and cultural interests, which are their own personal pursuits, on to the screen of their own TV at home, for themselves. Once this totally personal programming becomes possible the insulting and entirely cynical manipulation of audiences by such an excuse for a TV service as Freeview will be a thing of the past, and the population will have been freed from the utter passivity and banality of what is by now little more than an intrusive advertising hoarding set up in our living rooms.
Freeview was always a stopgap service, anyway, designed as an interim sop to those who would naturally have objected to losing the public service element of broadcasting they were forced to pay for through the TV licence fee. Freesat likewise and all other platforms including Sky are going against the nature of the medium as it has developed: The potential for the future development of television is shown, ironically but entirely predictably, by the growth of Kindle and other such electronic readers and increasingly book-like portable electronic pads: People fundamentally and, when opportunity presents, actively reject all ‘job lot’ presentations of entertainment and information. All such inconveniently and annoyingly packaged products are not long for this new digital age. They will soon be destroyed by their inability to actually serve and satisfy the public, as opposed to merely indulging a few selected and thus very stereotyped marketing sectors of the potential audience.
The likes of Freeview was, after all, just a cynical re-branding exercise designed to dress-up an obsolescent programme-delivery service in shiny new digital clothes. The whole exercise has proved as farcically inadequate to any real purpose as that useless robot-baby that fronted the ‘switchover’ propaganda ads. The trouble with robotic, mindless, non-sentient solutions to the problems of development, of course, is that they are incapable of the development they seem to promise. All we got out of this whole cynical exercise was to find ourselves comprehensively exploited by a whole new pack of spivs gouging us for expensive re-tuning, aerial-erecting and electronic-box-buying. And all for what? Why, only for us to be able to indulge for a few more years the pathetic illusion that nothing in broadcasting would really change! The cute and cuddly tin bastard born of the union between the old terrestrial broadcasters and the vulgar new digital services was a mule, an evolutionary dead-end.
So ‘please do not adjust your picture’ – as the emergency station announcement used to say during a broadcast malfunction in the old days – but not, I’m afraid, because ‘normal service will be resumed as soon as possible,’ since the commercial interference which now passes for programming is not susceptible of improvement. All you can do is to dispose of your TV and all the boxes attached to it like so many life-support machines keeping someone in a Persistent Vegetative State. Admit it: television is dead, and it is time for you to grow up and get on with your life without it.
Dave ja vu is now only being broadcasted between 2am and 4am!
WOW!…..Philip Davies you have got some BIG issues with television,in particular freeview!!Turn it off unplug it and throw you tv
What about Other religious Programmes? eg God’s TV etc. available from SKY, have seen BT has got only one ie DayStar TV!