Anyone else in the UK no longer able to watch Bob Ross?
This is an outrage!
Posted Apr 23, 2020, 1:25 PM UTC
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Yes, they disabled it (thanks BBC!): if you can go and pay for a VPN service, you can watch them anywhere else.
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But that defeats the point of it being accessible and free, like Bob wanted
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It does, but sadly the world doesn't as nice as it should be :(
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What do you mean by thanks BBC? What did they do! Bastards
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They started to broadcast Bob Ross videos, and likely (not confirmed, but the timing is very precise) this is why the Bob Ross channel become unavailable in the UK which was freely available before this Monday. And BBC4 started this programme this week.
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Ah no that sucks....VPN time!
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On which service? Netflix?
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YouTube
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I'm in the uk and am able to find episodes of the joy of painting on this guys channel Ressam BOB
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Cheers
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On YouTube? Yep! Apparently BBC4 have started airing it so I'd been wondering if they'd gotten exclusive rights to it? Either way it's so wrong! Bob would want to be accessible to everyone!
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The BBC are desperate for anything to keep going. It’s such a wrong move because as you say, Bob would want it to be accessible for everyone, for free.
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Yes! They just got geo locked last week strangely
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Oh my god, now you've bought my attention to it and I've checked, you're right! This was going to be my source of entertainment over the next week's and now I'm lost.
It’s such a shame
Is there somewhere else where we could access all his videos?
Supposedly BBC IPlayer
It looks like they're releasing an episode per day and they've got three up so far. This is ridiculous, I had episodes saved I wanted to try and they were in the later seasons.
Netflix has some. Twitch streams bob on weekends or holidays. (https://twitch.tv/bobross)
Thank you. I'll definitely check those out.