KCSM - 60-2
(San Mateo)

MHz network, out of DC.

Get a good strong antenna (Terk seems to have monopolized the market), and aim 
it towards San Mateo and points north. I get about 65 broadcast channels, 
overall. Maybe 20 worth watching.

--- In [email protected], Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> On WHAT broadcast stations?  I watched some of the Swedish version of 
> Wallander on Netflix.  There was a UK remake with Kenneth Branaugh on 
> PBS (KQED).
> 
> On 01/30/2013 04:30 PM, doctordumbass@... wrote:
> > Seen any of these European mystery series?
> >
> > Don Matteo (Italian)
> > Wallander (Swedish)
> > Commisario Brunetti (filmed in Italy, spoken in German, subtitled in 
> > English)
> > Maigret (French)
> > The Octopus (Italian)
> > The Young Montalbano (Italian)
> >
> > I watch them all the time, for free, on broadcast TV, here in the 
> > "illiterate" United States, bozo. :-)
> >
> > PS You are making a lot more unfounded assumptions than usual, these days - 
> > anything the matter?? Ever since I openly declared my enlightenment, you 
> > have seemed...agitated, and quick to make ridiculous claims.
> >
> > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb  wrote:
> >> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu  wrote:
> >>> On 01/30/2013 12:52 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
> >>>> "The Killing" was SO much better in its Danish original
> >>>> that it makes the American remake pale by comparison,
> >>>> and I actually *liked* the remake...for what it was.
> >>>>
> >>>> The best TV series I saw last year, "The Bridge," or
> >>>> "Bron/Broen," also from Denmark, looks as if it will
> >>>> never get an American release. Instead they are going
> >>>> to remake it. I shudder to imagine the result. Both
> >>>> of these series were *enormous* hits in the UK,
> >>>> although subtitled.
> >>>>
> >>>> The thing is, the American networks somehow believe
> >>>> that Americans are too stupid to follow even the Brit
> >>>> accents in English-language UK series (and they might
> >>>> be right), so they remake *them*, too. This one ("Utopia")
> >>>> is quite interesting, at least judging by the first
> >>>> episode that I just watched. You'd really enjoy it. A
> >>>> pity that it will probably be remade for the US market
> >>>> as well...
> >>> The American general public unless it's PBS or BBC America
> >>> can't tolerate accents much at all. So the remakes. Yup,
> >>> dumbing down for the stupid. They don't like subtitles
> >>> either so "The Killing" got a remake.
> >> People are going to think I'm being cynical when I
> >> say this, but I really don't think I am. I believe
> >> that the primary reason that subtitled movies have
> >> lost their market in the US is that many Americans,
> >> as many as 50-60%, simply can't read well enough
> >> or fast enough to enjoy a subtitled movie.
> >>
> >>> They also don't like dubbing which is kinda funny as they
> >>> denounce 1970s Italian films not knowing that all languages
> >>> including Italian got dubbed so they didn't need to stomp
> >>> carpenters on the adjacent set to stop hammering why they
> >>> shot a scene. The money is to be made on the stupid when
> >>> it comes to advertising.
> >>>
> >>> However some of the foreign languages and UK series do
> >>> wind up on Netflix.
> >> Lucky for you that they are. Some of the best UK
> >> series, not to mention Danish and Swedish, that I've
> >> seen in the past few years have still never appeared
> >> on US TV (or even on DVD/BR, according to my friends),
> >> except as remakes.
> >>
> >> The French cop series I talked about recently, "Braquo,"
> >> is headed for a remake, too, which means that Americans
> >> will miss out on some *superb* performances by the
> >> French actors.
> >>
> >> I'll bet that there hasn't even been an American release
> >> of one of the best UK series of past years, "The Shadow
> >> Line," right?
> >>
> >
> >
>


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