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Old September 20th, 2007, 06:33 PM   #1
 
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Being called Dave myself, this seems a little more random than it should do.

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UKTV G2 is to be relaunched as Dave next month, focusing on a younger male audience.
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The name is based on the idea that "everyone knows a bloke called Dave".
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This, for our European, American and other members, is the channel in Britain which has pretty much constant repeats of Top Gear, though they have been cropped down, and have advert breaks.

Seems a pretty...different choice of channel name, but at least now those without Sky will be able to watch more Top Gear.
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Old September 20th, 2007, 07:58 PM   #2
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What a stupid name change :/
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WTF wow uk tv is becoming more crap per day. Really thinking of taking my virgin media box off now as don't watch any tv now.
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i watch G2 quite a lot, when i'm not watching Mythbusters on Discovery. stupid name for a channel imo, but if TG stays i don't care images/smilies/smile.gif
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i watch G2 quite a lot, when i'm not watching Mythbusters on Discovery. stupid name for a channel imo, but if TG stays i don't care images/smilies/smile.gif
Pretty much what I watch images/smilies/lol.gif. Either Top Gear on UKTV G2, or Mythbusters. Or maybe How Its Made.
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Or maybe How Its Made.
how its made kick so much ass!! images/smilies/lol.gif

started watching the old series of Robot Wars on challenge now, i remember i was in the audience when that was filmed, when i was 11
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They are also putting "Dave" on Freeview which is good news.
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That is good news because I don't have Sky images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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Calling a TV station Dave?


Errr... right.
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i watch G2 quite a lot, when i'm not watching Mythbusters on Discovery. stupid name for a channel imo, but if TG stays i don't care images/smilies/smile.gif
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Pretty much what I watch images/smilies/lol.gif. Either Top Gear on UKTV G2, or Mythbusters. Or maybe How Its Made.
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how its made kick so much ass!! images/smilies/lol.gif

started watching the old series of Robot Wars on challenge now, i remember i was in the audience when that was filmed, when i was 11
Is it me, or do we all have the same taste in TV images/smilies/tongue.gif
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It's a continuation of the trend started with Nintendo Wii.
I'm not joking... people are tired of "cool acronyms" and they simply don't remember "cool" things like "TIGER TV" or "G CORE VENOM VIPER FORCE"... it's so 90's images/smilies/wink.gif
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this is great! we all have similar tastes in TV, and we get to blame Nintendo for the silly name change. can it get much better images/smilies/biggrin.gif

btw what about Police, Camera, Action on ITV4? god i love that too. there are some idiots on our roads images/smilies/lol.gif
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this is great! we all have similar tastes in TV, and we get to blame Nintendo for the silly name change. can it get much better images/smilies/biggrin.gif

btw what about Police, Camera, Action on ITV4? god i love that too. there are some idiots on our roads images/smilies/lol.gif
Road Wars is better on Sky Three.
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Road Wars is better on Sky Three.
i don't get Sky three images/smilies/cry.gif. i've got Virgin Media XL (all channels), but no sky channels at all. and our TV aerial is about 3 inches long so i don't get it on my freeview box either images/smilies/sad.gif
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Er, I believe we do. They know about us. Somehow...
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Please tell me thats a joke? Dirty Jobs is 100x better. How its made could be cool, maybe, but its just sooo boring, i hate the narrator
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yeah it's not that great images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
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