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What 'foreign' TV shows do you watch?

By foreign I mean foreign to your current locale.

I watch Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), Kinniku Banzuke (Unbeatable Banzuke), Kunoichi (Women of Ninja Warroir), Faulty Towers, Are you being Served, and Monty Pythons Flying Circus...

Monty Python's Flying Circus, Dr. Who, and, uh, Red Dwarf, back in the day.

Monty Python's Flying Circus, Dr. Who, and, uh, Red Dwarf, back in the day.

I knew I was forgetting one...

Red Dwarf for me too...

I could never get into Dr. Who.

Pretty much all shows I watch are foreign, seeing how germany's own productions are pretty much trash.
there is like one or maybe two entertainment shows and a few documentary magazines which aren't foreign and worth watching.

I live in Canada. Almost all the shows are foreign.

Pretty much all shows I watch are foreign, seeing how germany's own productions are pretty much trash.
there is like one or maybe two entertainment shows and a few documentary magazines which aren't foreign and worth watching.

How do you feel that your taxes go towards funding the fell works of Uwe Boell?

I live in Canada. Almost all the shows are foreign.

You'd be surprised. An awful lot of "American" television is filmed in Canada, because your country offers awesome incentives to filmmakers and others, that are not offered in the US.

The Tudors (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790/) is pretty good, even if not the least bit historically accurate, but who cares when it's full of gratuitously nude hunks?

Project Runway (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437741/). Fierce hot tranny mess. That worries me, make it work. You're out, auf Wiedersehen.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/). Quite dark humour for a non-sitcom sitcom. Hilarious. If you haven't seen it, download a couple of episodes. You'll see why I like it.

Reruns of Xena - Warrior Princess (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112230/). I have a soft spot for lesbians who kick ass.

That's pretty much it at the moment. I don't watch that much TV.

Let’s see...

From the US, I’m currently watching The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and the occasional re-run of Homicide: Life In The Street, The Sopranos and Arrested Development.

From Japan, I’m watching Naruto: Shippuden and Bleach, while from Denmark I’m re-watching Lars von Trier’s Riget.

You'd be surprised. An awful lot of "American" television is filmed in Canada, because your country offers awesome incentives to filmmakers and others, that are not offered in the US.

Not enough to qualify it as Canadian film/tv.

Benny Hill

The League of Gentlemen

Kids In The Hall

Prime Minister's Question Hour. :)

I watch that show religiously.

Canada also, so I watch a fair amount of foreign US shows.

American shows/movies filmed in Canada aren't Canadian, although we do get some $$$.

Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Well, there isn't much in the way of New Zealand produced television, so almost all our TV shows are foreign made. The only one that I have watched recently is Lost, however, that is presently on a one month break while we wait for Season 4B to come through.

I don't watch TV much

What 'foreign' TV shows do you watch?

By foreign I mean foreign to your current locale.

I watch Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), Kinniku Banzuke (Unbeatable Banzuke), Kunoichi (Women of Ninja Warroir), Faulty Towers, Are you being Served, and Monty Pythons Flying Circus...

Stargate: Atlantis...um...I've watched a whole bunch of anime...

Right now nothing though. I'm not a huge watcher.

You'd be surprised. An awful lot of "American" television is filmed in Canada, because your country offers awesome incentives to filmmakers and others, that are not offered in the US.

Exactly. Stargate--something probably considered extremely American due to its heavy focus on the U.S. military--is Canadian and thus qualifies for me as foreign television.

What 'foreign' TV shows do you watch?

By foreign I mean foreign to your current locale.

I watch Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), Kinniku Banzuke (Unbeatable Banzuke), Kunoichi (Women of Ninja Warroir), Faulty Towers, Are you being Served, and Monty Pythons Flying Circus...

Hm... I´m mostly watching Japanese shows and series as of late. To name a few, ¨Fuurin Kazan¨, ¨Heyx3!¨ and ¨Domoto Kyoudai¨.

The only Foreign shows you can really get a hold of in the US that i know are Anime...

and i havent watched any in a long while, they went down hill when Cowboy Bebop ended and Trigun went off the air, they were the last and best of Good Anime...Except for Shin-Chan of course, funny as hell ;)

But i do watch alot of History Channel International, and you get alot of BBC programs there that are pretty good...

The only Foreign shows you can really get a hold of in the US that i know are Anime...

and i havent watched any in a long while, they went down hill when Cowboy Bebop ended and Trigun went off the air, they were the last and best of Good Anime...Except for Shin-Chan of course, funny as hell ;)

But i do watch alot of History Channel International, and you get alot of BBC programs there that are pretty good...

All the shows I listed are available in the U.S.

The good majority of shows we get here in Ireland are foreign, American or British mostly,

right now im watching from the states the US Office, LOST, desperate housewives and loads more, but those are the main ones

from the UK The Smoking Room in particular, but also quite a bit of other stuff


although we do have good tv over here in Ireland, especially on TG4(The Irish language (Gaelic) Channel)

All the shows I listed are available in the U.S.

Yeah, i said that i know of...I wouldnt know where to get any of those...

Though i would like to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Holy Grail ruled...

Yeah, i said that i know of...I wouldnt know where to get any of those...

Though i would like to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Holy Grail ruled...

I was just letting you know...

I watch House and Hugh Laurie is foreign. That's about it.

I was just letting you know...

I know, it sounded more hostile than was meant, lol...

I know, it sounded more hostile than was meant, lol...

Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), Kinniku Banzuke (Unbeatable Banzuke), and Kunoichi (Women of Ninja Warroir) are shown on G4
The others get occasional play on PBS

Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), Kinniku Banzuke (Unbeatable Banzuke), and Kunoichi (Women of Ninja Warroir) are shown on G4
The others get occasional play on PBS

Ah, thats why i never heard of them, We stopped getting G4 here two years ago...it had really gone downhill too though, honestly only one block of programs for Video Games...ON the VIDEO GAME Network?! crazy...

I miss XPlay though, best reviews on TV...

Ah, thats why i never heard of them, We stopped getting G4 here two years ago...

I'm sorry. :(

I know, it sounded more hostile than was meant, lol...

Awww, Dyakovo is a cuddly one. He ain´t hostile, if anything, he´s too sincere and permissive. Aren´t you, Dyakovo?
*cuddles Dyako´s tummy*

ROFL! Sorry, Dyakovo. Too much sugar at a late hour.

Awww, Dyakovo is a cuddly one. He ain´t hostile, if anything, he´s too sincere and permissive. Aren´t you, Dyakovo?
:D
*cuddles Dyako´s tummy*
Hey! That tickles!
ROFL! Sorry, Dyakovo. Too much sugar at a late hour.
NP

:D

Hey! That tickles!

NP

Thanks.:)

We use a FTA box to get all the channels we can at our house. Seems we have every foreign channel available. Mostly watch the French TV5, 2M (morocco) and the BBC.

The Tudors (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790/) is pretty good, even if not the least bit historically accurate, but who cares when it's full of gratuitously nude hunks.

I adore the Tudors, but the liberties the writers take with history really bother me. I like historical fiction because it's historical, not because it's fiction.

That said, I won't condemn anything that shows Jonathan Rhys-Meyers' ass that much. :D

Walker Texas Ranger

Yeah, i said that i know of...I wouldnt know where to get any of those...

Excuse me. You happen to be on the single most powerful tool ever created for getting stuff.

I live in Canada. Almost all the shows are foreign.

Seconded. Besides all the US TV Shows I watch and the anime, I watch Rome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_%28TV_series%29)...and that's all I can think of right now...

I watch Dr. Who occasionally. I used to watch Torchwood, but that got kind of gay for my taste. I don't watch much on TV other than the Discovery Channel(the redhead chick on MythBusters is wicked hot) and football when it's in season. And the rodeo, when I can find it.

I watch Dr. Who occasionally. I used to watch Torchwood, but that got kind of gay for my taste. I don't watch much on TV other than the Discovery Channel(the redhead chick on MythBusters is wicked hot) and football when it's in season. And the rodeo, when I can find it.

Torchwood stretched my suspension of disbelief to a breaking point, then attacked it wildly with a blunt hacksaw.

How do you feel that your taxes go towards funding the fell works of Uwe Boell?
Haha, I didn't know that, but yeah, I just read it up. It's true. Major tax breaks for filming.
Well, I never saw one of his films, so I can't really tell, but I guess this isn't the kind of cultural achievement I like to see supported...

What 'foreign' TV shows do you watch?

By foreign I mean foreign to your current locale.

I watch Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), Kinniku Banzuke (Unbeatable Banzuke), Kunoichi (Women of Ninja Warroir), Faulty Towers, Are you being Served, and Monty Pythons Flying Circus...

Monty Python FTW.

I liked those Ninja shows until I was overwhelmed with them on G4. Now I'm so sick of it I can't bear to have it on anymore.

Pretty much all shows I watch are foreign, seeing how germany's own productions are pretty much trash.
there is like one or maybe two entertainment shows and a few documentary magazines which aren't foreign and worth watching.

That. Mind you, Swiss tv show making is worse than Germany's, unless you count Uwe B.s stuff as actual movies.

I watch some British television but I'm a fairly selective TV viewer anyway because most of it isn't done that well. I like Peep Show, QI, Top Gear, Buzzcocks, Charlie Brooker, Jonathan Ross and that's about it.

Faulty Towers, Are you being Served, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Rosemary and Thyme, Black Adder, Monty Pythons Flying Circus... hey, no one else said Blake's Seven? (Some of these were quite some time ago, understand...)

Oh yeah, just send me all the Beeb I can handle!

Everything mentioned, plus the ainme Deathnote.

I'll watch El Chavo del 8 if I'm really bored. Or Chapulin Colorado. Telemundo is good when you're at peak boredom.

British comedies are fine, but they're not on t.v. here. I've seen recordings of Monty Python that were pretty funny, so I guess I'd watch that if it were on. I've seen the British version of The Office once (kinda bland, but funny), but I've never seen our version, so I can't compare.

I don't watch that much TV, and there are never any foreign shows on anyway, aside from PBS and telemundo, neither of which appeals to me.

I live in Canada. Almost all the shows are foreign.

I liked some of the Canadian shows eg. Da Vinci's Inquest being one.

I knew I was forgetting one...

Red Dwarf for me too...

I could never get into Dr. Who.


Red Dwarf is back? When, where, tell me!?

Corner Gas, I think its Canadian. Beyound Tomorrow which has a manily Austrailian cast. Do Animes count?

Much of the TV in Australia is not Australian, so I watch quite a few "foreign" shows.

Specifically speaking though, I really enjoyed Ørnen: En krimi-odyssé (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383164/) (The Eagle) from Denmark.

i used to watch benny hill, are you being served, and dr who, when they were broadcast locally and i was living where they were, in the parts of the us i was living at the various times.

none of them are now and i don't have cable so i really have no reason to turn the damd box on at all. other then once ever six moths to see that latest batch of commercials i hadn't seen before.

if i did have cable or satalite dish or something, i'd probably watch a lot of anime.

well my list should give you some idea how long ago that was. i mean benny hill was still ALIVE when i started watching it. was for at least the first couple of years that i did.

other then the tapes sent over by lionheart to the local p.b.s. station though, the only thing of other then us, canadian or japanese origen i ever got to see, were segments on the news program they had on mind extension university. that was when i was docenting at a musium that had cable and was able to watch it when there weren't any visitors to show around.

and THAT was more then a decade ago too.

needless to say, i'd LOVE to watch things from all over the world, like i get to see stills of, and the odd minuetes or so on youtube. but i still think cable costs too much. and the only reason i'll ever get it is for the p.e.g. channels and broadband, which i don't yet have also.

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Well, I watch Simpsons and Mythbusters. I live in Finland
ELÄKÖÖN SUOMI, PERKELE

House, CSI, Law and Order, Primeval, Simpsons...

That's about the only ones I currently watch regularly.

Red Dwarf is back? When, where, tell me!?

Don't know if its currently being aired...

I'll watch El Chavo del 8 if I'm really bored. Or Chapulin Colorado. Telemundo is good when you're at peak boredom.

ZOMG! El Chavo del 8 and El Chapulín Colorado!! I was such a fan when I was a little girl! Chespirito rocked!!!

What 'foreign' TV shows do you watch?

By foreign I mean foreign to your current locale.

well, being from Hawaii, 99% of tv shows are foreign to my current locale. :p

but taking into national regions...

the Sharpe's movies (Rifles, Eagle, Sword, etc...)
Various Japanese programs (Too many to list including Anime)
and whatever my sister and parents are watching when I visit them.
the ever popular Monty Python
Piglet Files
Allo Allo
and other various BBC shows.