*NOTE: I am NOT asking for an invite. I’m very happy to go through the normal channels (IRC, Discord, application, etc).

I think TV Chaos is probably the best current tracker for British TV? I saw that they haven’t had open signups for a number of years. Tried joining their chat and didn’t get any replies.

Basically looking to get recent seasons of British reality TV (TOWIE, Baby Steps, Love Island, etc) and having a hard time. I’m currently on IPT and TorrentLeech and it’s slim pickings. The public trackers don’t seem much better (1337z, EXTV, TorrentGalaxy). Any help would be appreciated!

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    A lot of these shows are free on their respective streaming service (ITVX for Love Island for example), are you not able to use a VPN to access them?

    • jordank1977@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’ll have to try again. Originally I tried with Mullvad (prior to the port-forwarding implosion) and ITVX kept throwing errors. I wonder if it had issues with my device’s timezone as another matey mentioned? I’m on Windscribe now so might try that.

      • doleo@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        ExpressVPN works for me, from outside the UK. This is without changing system time on any of my devices; Tv, laptop, mobile. You do have to carefully select with UK server you use, some of them have been blacklisted.

  • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I use Smart DNS Proxy on my media PC to access British TV streaming channels. It has been working flawlessly for me for years, watching BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, 4 On Demand etc accessing from Canada. You may also have to set your windows system time to a UK timezone too - I think BBC in particular can sometimes detect you otherwise. You don’t necessarily have to change your entire PC DNS settings as they recommend - you can set a specific browser to use their DNS and just use that for TV.

      • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        BT4G is not a tracker, AFAIK they just run a DHT crawler and index torrents they find in their search database.

        There are a few sites like that, not sure if any of them have compatibility with Prowlarr / Jackett. Implementing wouldn’t be that straightforward e.g. just because a DHT crawler finds an infohash it doesn’t mean it is “new” content, just something new to add into its own database. Your Prowlarr / Jackett would keep notifying you ever time it finds a new torrent hash for the same thing you already downloaded.

  • innercitadel@lemmy.nzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    There is some British stuff on Usenet (e.g. nzbGeek) but yeah in general I have concluded that British TV doesn’t have broad appeal and so it is hard to find even if willing to purchase.

    You could also try using a VPN with the BBC iPlayer app. I’ve done this before.

    There is also the acorn TV app which is a paid streaming service, $8 a month, and probably the best option if you’re really into regularly watching British TV as there isn’t really a great alternative option.