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I spotted the following on TVGuide.co.uk
Channel 4, Tuesday 8 November 22:00
My Transsexual Summer
New series. Seven transgender men and women convene at a summer retreat, where they share a mutual understanding of what it is like to be a transsexual in Britain today. In various stages of gender reassignment, members of the group share experiences and provide an insight into the problems and prejudices they face in everyday life, and build the support network they need to reach their long-term goals
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UK Television series
Will it be on BBC America?
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Nope!
http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows_az.jsp Not as yet, if at all. It might be considered too Anglo-centric for American audiences or just too sophisticated for American audiences. Easy enough to check the BBC America website.
Sophisticated?
It's difficult to conceive of using the term 'sophisticated' in the same sentence as 'reality' TV. Reality TV and transgendered contestants? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Karen J.
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I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Surreality?
One day we might actually see something that helps us rather than puts us on display. It feels like being personally scrutinized, like being in a cage. Oh fuck!
Channel 4 is not a BBC channel
... so it's unlikely to be on BBC America
It does have a web video service "4OD" - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/4od which may allow you to see the program, but it may restrict service to UK IP addresses.
I spend time in the US, and got some information on work-rounds from a techie friend. If a website rejects access from a US IP address, then it may be possible to access through a UK proxy server or VPN.
I was pointed to this website: http://helpdesk.scothosts.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=... which tells you which to use. Then you need to find a provider. http://www.expatshield.com/ offers a free UK proxy server, which I've used in the US to see BBC iPlayer. However the table reports you need a VPN for 4OD, and I've never tried that.
Hope this helps.
Actually...
I've successfully watched both BBC iPlayer, and 4od web player, using uk anonymous proxies. It's a little more complicated to do than simply downloading a software like expatshield, you have to look for a working anonymous proxy, and then assign your browser of choice to use it rather than access the internet directly.
I've also watched CBC programs this same way, except with canadian anonymous proxies. I've posted instructions on doing this in at least two blogs now, and don't really feel like repeating myself yet again. Just dig around cyclists blog, it's in a comment on one of her entries.
Abigail Drew.
Abigail Drew.
Sounds a little like my story
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/30446/reality-tv :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
One of my girlfriends
alerted me to this one. Channel 4 ia also showing a FtM story on catch-up at the moment:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-boy-who-was-born-a-gi...
Is this about lumping them together
because it makes better TV (no pun intended) or so viewers can laugh at at least one of them all the time? The subjects used for these sort of programmes tend to be rather exhibitionist and atypical of the rest of us.
I took part in the update of the George to Julia programme, and in lots of ways was rather pleased that they didn't use the clip they filmed - apparently, I was too much like a librarian - whch equated to me, that I was normal. Oh well, I'll have to settle for being a reclusive, best selling author - all I have to do now is write the best selling books - um...
Angharad
Angharad
Yes indeed
I have seen very few programmes that depict 'normal' folk because they do not make good TV. The recent 'Teenage Drag Queen' one, for example, was rather silly. There is one about a trans teen in South Durham that came closest to reality, but then it was helped by the fact that the girl was slim, young and blonde. People like me, middle-aged, overweight and ugly, do not tick the box for riveting viewing. I wrote several times in the 'Ride' series that all my character wanted was to be normal, mundane, ordinary, but as Ang says, that equates, in TV terms, to 'boring'.