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The Great British Bake Off
2010 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 7 seasons
This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, and many of its participants, including winners, have gone on to start a career based on baking.
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> I think the aversion to subscribing to a streaming service for a single series has more to do with the recurring nature of the subscription than it does the price.
I think it's about not necessarily getting what you pay for. Shows are constantly leaving streaming platforms which is a problem if you want to watch something specific as opposed to just being happy to pay to watch whatever they feel like letting you see this week. Then they'll also silently censor content or remove entire episodes so you can't be sure if you've even watched the entirety of whatever show you intended to see if they have it at all.
They also like to reorder shows and even renumber seasons which can result in confusion and spoilers. Netflix is horrible when it comes to this. One example is the The Great British Bake Off. For some reason they insist on reordering them so that it starts with whatever the newest series is and then plays them backwards which is a pretty big problem. At the start of one series they even recap all of the winners of previous series spoiling them all for everyone watching the show on netflix.
If you just want to watch "something" by all means pay a monthly fee for a streaming service. If you want to watch a specific show and you want it to be there for you the next you want to watch it you're better off getting physical media or doing a little research and getting everything off the high seas.
Yes. I quit mindlessly watching TV long before I stopped using Reddit or reading low quality newspapers. Probably around 15 years ago? Streaming services became usable here (in Norway) a few years later and they lead to me (well, me and my wife) spending even less time watching TV. Things became a bit more structured. We usually watch the news at 1900 on the public broadcaster here in Norway (NRK), and then perhaps a movie, a documentary or a couple of episodes of some TV series.
About 3-4 days out of the week we only watch the news broadcast, and then spend time downstairs in our hobby spaces. I build electronics, 3D print stuff, program etc, and my wife does various textile projects. Some days we spend a good 4-5 hours just making stuff. Or we go for bike rides.
In fact, the only reason we still have basic TV service is because my wife likes to watch baking and sewing shows live (as they air for the first time). (Can't remember the name of these shows ... "Great British Bake-off"?). About once or twice per year I try watching movies on regular cable TV (well, IP based "cable") and I find the experience really annoying with all the commercial breaks.
Spending less time just mindlessly scrolling through reddit or low quality "news" sources also means I have more time to read books. I don't think I've read this many books per year since I was in my 20s.
I find the things that I've replaced Reddit (and other things) with far more enriching and fun. I regret not being more selective about what I spend my time on in the past. I've wasted a lot of time on things I didn't enjoy all that much.
Just one anecdote: The Roku Channel (on their free website) is streaming Seasons 1-8 of Great British Bake Off with ads. But with an adblocker, magically there are no ads.
when I'm looking up not-available-in-the-USA episodes of The Great British Bake Off? Usually Dailymotion, which even has chromecast pretty well integrated with their player.