I learned this week that, while the U.S. networks are not giving the political conventions full coverage, you can see gavel-to-gavel action on a BBC channel.

BBC Parliament -- a digital channel which transmits sessions of Parliament -- is running a feed from C-Span. So, we were able to watch some of the Republican National Convention last night. This morning, another BBC digital channel offered a playback of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech to the convention.

BBC Parliament is also available on the Web, as is the Schwarzenegger speech.