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Snooker taking over televising of BBC2's GW on Friday nights
Gloves n Wellies
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Hi there am new to the site. Recently I have missed a couple of episodes of BBC2's GW tv programme on Friday nights at 8.30pm due to Snooker taking over the time slot and way beyond that. I watch GW programmes via Sky satellite. I don't have the option of play and record with Sky but checked the BBC Player to be informed it is for UK residents only. BBC GW is a great gardening tv programme.!!! I live outside the UK and any suggestions on how I can catch up with missed episodes would be a great help...
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Sport messes up many other genres as well. I suspect broadcasting rights take up a massive chunk of the budget.I wish they'd just be done with it and shove it all on a sports channel. You could try via a proxy server.
Download Hola from cnet.com if you have Firefox as your browser (or are willing to download that too). It blocks your ISP address, so you can access BBC iPlayer in order to watch GW.
Not that I would know anything about that.
Hola is one of the most popular free proxy agents. You don't need Firefox to use Hola to connect to sites via their proxy servers, it is available on other platforms. The website you are accessing will see the Proxy server address as your Public IP address.
e.g. in Chrome: settingsextensionsget more extensions.
See hola.org for other platforms
I don't condone the use of proxies to obfuscate your location to bypass copyright controls.
The Snooker always knocks GW off the screen at finals weekend. Later on there'll be Wimbledon taking precedence over gardening. Just be thankful the Olympics are only every 4 years.
Beechgrove Garden - BBC Scotland in the week and national BBC2 on Sunday mornings - tends not to be replaced by sport so look out for that.
There was no episode broadcast. You did not miss anything. This was planned way in advance and they did not make an episode for last week. Monty warned you about it. But it was a heck of a world championship though. (My first year in the country I thought my husband was watching snooker just to annoy me. By the end of that year, I was a fan and now I watch more than he does.)
G n R, I watch lots of gardening programs on YouTube
some helpful person will put it up there, I also watch beachgrove on iPlayer and how to be a gardener with Titchmarsh on YouTube 
Hope you can watch at your leisure!
Well, Monty didnt tell me. Someone at work surprised me by saying there are far too many gardening programmes on TV really!!! I hate snooker, football, tennis, Wimbledon, strawberries, yes, Tennis NO, rather be outside gardening.!!!