TV!!!

I usually don´t watch a lot of TV but since I´ve being in Spain the amount of tv I watch has definitely increased. Usually it has become a habit because while we are at dinner the tv is usually on channel 1. We watch the news, and a lot of those times the news is followed by a movie. My host family is very big on movies and I usually watch them too. It´s interesting to see that all the movies they play are for the most part not Spanish movies, which i thought would be the opposite for one reason or the other.

There´s this show we were watching the other day based on The Golden Girls or something like that my senora was telling me about, which i actually found pretty funny. I think this happens a lot everywhere not only from America to Spain but viceversa, and worldwide. Producers try to immitate shows from other places because they think it´s going to be a big hit and sometimes it is, sometimes it is not. For example I know some of the Latin award shows that they transmit in the US ( I don´t know if you´re familiar with Univision: It´s like the main Hispanic channel)are sometimes copied from the MTV Music Awards, etc. And sometimes it makes me a little upset because since I´m bilingual and I´m into both cultures, I feel like they don´t have creativity of their own to come up with something great. And I´m like I already saw this escenary or this act in some American Award Show.

Going back to Spanish TV, I feel like everytime i turn the tv on there´s nothing interesting to watch except for sports, news or very random shows. I actually want to watch a Spanish series but i always end up going for the American channels. I spent hours yesterday watching Disney channel because nothing else interested me. The other nigth i was watching Fear Factor, which I loved because I never see this show in the US. I think it´s discontinued or something. But i gladly appreciated the fact that I could watch it here. I also have a very bad habit of changing the language of the movies and the American shows to English :( I feel like I appreciate them more in English because translating stuff can change the meaning a little bit. Maybe I´m turning the TV on in very bad times but what can I do. Maybe another reason why I change the languages, which actually just came to my head, is because subconciously they make me feel more like at home. It´s a way to feel closer to my other world...