thanks Katlaughing, I'll have a look at Miro.

What I'm hoping is that someone here knows of a freeware program
that can 'sniff out' the location of the A/V files thats being streamed
and download them direct.
I'm sure such software used to exist and has been mentioned here before.
[maybe such software has now been rendered useless by tighter rights protection technical controls..
dunno.. hope not ?]

I'm really not up to speed with the 'torrent scene'
so don't consider that as a viable alternative right now.

I just want to watch the 3 episodes that have ben broadcast
without any real consideration for alerting the audience
that the new series started amidst the jumble and confusion
of multi channel programming.