Eliot's Travels

TV

We watch some TV here. Unlike France or Spain where the TV stations dub foreign shows, Holland does not bother. They simply provide subtitles in Dutch and leave the original language intact. It's nice because we can watch a little TV at night if we want to veg out - mostly Law & Order, 24, Greys Anatomy, Will & Grace, CSI, and American movies. There are other random shows on TV: Ophrah, Dr. Phil, Murder She Wrote, Jag, Judging Amy and ER. Mostly, we watch Animal Planet (AP) - our favorite shows are Big Cat Diaries, Meerkat Manor, and the animal police shows. Eliot likes Monkey Business - actually the advertisement for it.

We get English childrens shows on BBC (C BeeBees) - Arthur, Tweenies, Underground Ernie. We haven't seen Thomas at all and Bob the Builder only a few times. The Bob characters have British accents - they sound pretty funny to us! Foreign children shows are dubbed into Dutch (Dora in English and Dutch, Arthur, Bob de Bouwer, Sesamstraat). Nickelodeon has its own channel here with Nick Jr shows at odd times (early).

posted by Whitney @ 3:31 AM