On Jun 18, 10:58 pm, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote:
G'day, mates. Got back today from a few days in Sydney and
Melbourne. My hotel rooms were equipped with TVs. Some TV-related
notes I scrawled while I wasn't out developing giant blisters on my
feet. Didn't feel I
On Jun 19, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Mark J. wrote:
SBS runs a good amount of foreign-language programming, including
during the day unsubtitled foreign newscasts. For years after they
started running ads, the programing was uninterrupted and the ads ran
between programs, similar to some
Jim Ellwanger wrote:
Kind of a schizophrenic lineup on SBS: foreign newscasts (including
The Newshour with Jim Lehrer), documentaries about aborigines,
Corner Gas, South Park, and Flight of the Conchords.
SBS is also home to Top Gear (UK and Australia) which (I believe) is
their
I was in Australia visiting a friend during the writers strike, so my choices
were a bit limited in comparison. Some U.S. reruns (I vaguely remember
catching Bones while adjusting my body clock), but I was more inclined to find
stuff I couldn't watch in the States. Besides Sydney and
