I have intensely studied Spanish television for the past week and half, and I now present my detailed report and analysis of Spanish daytime television to the cybercommunity:
1. Yellow Journalism runs rampant. I'm talking six or seven TV shows all in the style of Hard Copy or Entertainment Tonight. The "reporters" on this show do nothing more than run after famous people and tell their secrets. It's disconcerting to watch, if not oddly mesmerizing.
2. There is nothing wrong with female nudity. Boobies are everywhere.
3. If it works in another country, maybe it'll work here, too. Two of the most watched shows in Spain are "The House of your dreams" (a scary reality show so like Big Brother that it should indeed be called Big Brother), and Fear Factor. This is not to say that the Spanish copies from us, as they had the television show Big Brother long before we did, but there does seem to be a liberal amount of idea swapping.
4. These folk like their news. Be it celebrity news, sports news, news about the country, or global news, a Spanish pastime is gathering around in a circle and screaming obscenities at each other for different points of view. Half the time while I'm watching these shows I'm vaguely wondering if some of the participants are going to come to blows. I've seen people kicked off news shows for being too violent. People being kicked off news shows. We're not talking the WWF. News shows.
Sunday, June 06, 2004
True Confessions of a Spanish Television Junkie
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