(30-06-2022, 10:56 PM)Larry the Loafer Wrote: If you dig deep on Prime Video, you can find some ancient American TV from the 50s and 60s that is genuinely fascinating to watch from a modern perspective, and would definitely never see the light of day anywhere on linear TV channels in the UK.
The Roku Channel too, if you have a Roku box. Been watching "The Danny Thomas Show", which from what I've seen on old videos was shown in the UK on the old Lifestyle channel (not sure if it was ever shown terrestrially, certainly not listed on Genome, so the BBC never showed it at least). Though rather annoyingly they don't have the first 3 seasons, and only one random epsidoe from the fourth- I always like to follow a show from the start and work through it with its development and evolution). That show was on prime at one point, though only seasons 5-7... and in typical Prime fashion, it was taken off when I was only part way through watching it.
Funnily enough there is a market for these shows in the US and there's several channels there showing this sort of stuff.