A stupid question about Singapore :)

[MamanFlo]

Hello mumsnetters of the world

I might follow DH in Singapore in 2008. Just read a thread about it, and it's seems fab

just a question I was wondering... Can you get british TV down there ? I am a real fan of Channel 4 and BBC2

thanks a lot mumsnetters

Don't think so. My Dad and stepmum are out there and often moan about the rubbish TV. You can get BBC World or something which shows Doctors and old episodes of stuff like Midsomer Murders. Most of the TV is random Asian stuff or the American channels.

Mind you, the lifestyle out there more than makes up for a lack of Channel 4!!

No - no BBC or Channel 4!

The TV in Asia generally is not great - when we were there it was a channel called Star World which did show things like Friends, Law & Order etc.

I used to get my Mum to record ER for me and would bring back on video. Obv that is all easier now with recordable DVDs etc.

It is 5 years since we were there though so it may have changed.

Just checked the website - StarTV - and they are showing Grays Anatomy, One Tree Hill etc.

There is also movie channel.

Social life in Asia pretty good and babysitting easy with maids etc so you may not miss TV as much as you think.

Erf, it's already 18 months since I am deprived of it in France (where actually you CAN get sky with a satellite dish, but never got to get it myself). Actually I hadn't thought of the cheap baby sitter option :D

BTW how are nannys down there ?

flo, aka telly addict :D

Hello, I'm in Singapore. TV generally rubbish (and very American), we have cable and it has a channel on it called BBC Prime which until recently had Eastenders.

I subscribed to it thinking I would really watch it but the programmes are not great or very current.

The terrestrial channels sometimes have SuperNanny or some Jamie Oliver, Nigella cooking programme, oh and I think they ran The Office recently.

If you have young children, like I do, you will miss CBeebies, I've been getting DVDs from Amazon.

They don't have nannies the way we would have nannies in the UK. A lot of people ehre have a full-time live-in helper who often does everything from cooking, cleaning to childcare and sometimes grocery shopping. Fulltime live-in help is cheap, you pay the equivalent of about £250 a month and about half of that goes to the helper and half to the government as a levy.

Hope this helps