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Q: What recent foreign TV shows are most popular in China right now?

11 years 24 weeks ago in  Arts & Entertainment - China

 
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None of the good ones... Let me know if you know any Chinese friends who like "绝命毒师", I want to meet them.

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I couldn't tell you whats popular cause most of my Chinese friends don't watch foreign TV.....at least not new shows cause they don't know they exist.

 

For me personally, I really like "Homeland" right now. The 2nd season just started.  You'd have to watch it from the first season though and watch every episode to be able to follow the story line.

 

I also like "Breaking Bad" although I guess that's not really that new.

 

I haven't watched it yet but I keep seeing ads in American media for a new show called "Revolution".  It looks like it might be good. 

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Growing Pains is a timeless classic here

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All of my roommates and I watch " The big Bang Theory".  We started to watch it last semester, now we still watch it.   I also watch " Mrs Brown's Boys", but I can't follow  what they say. It's difficult to understand the accent. One of the British accents.

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Although not a recent show, all of my Chinese friends(as limited as that may be) seem to think that Friends is the greatest foreign t.v. show ever. 

 

What's up with that? crying

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Yeah it's huge in China even though it's a classic. I guess it's huge in America too, or at least it use to be.

 

In Beijing I've even seen a Friends coffee shop using a theme from the tv show lol. 

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Not really a "new" show. But my girlfriend really enjoys "Gossip Girl"

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  There's a hotel in Yangshuo called Faulty Towers if I remember correctly. They show Faulty Towers all the time in their bar. Now THAT is good taste.

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I my last 5 years of stay in China..so far I have not switch ON my Television..I am using my television just to play DVDs...for rest of the thing..internet is OK..

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Agreed.  I don't even have a TV in my apartment now.  I just use the internet for anything I want to watch. 

 

I went back to my home country recently though, it was a bit of a culture shock seeing all the commercials I've missed out on.  Kinda weird when I would laugh at a commercial and no one else would cause they've already seen it 1,000 times.

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You know what I've done, plugged a desk top computer into my TV. Great for watching TV shows and playing games. That way I can just use my laptop for work without clogging up my hard drive with hundreds of TV shows and psx games.

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Not sure about what's popular in China at the mo, but if you can buy/downlod the following then you should: The Wire, The Shield, Sopranos.......oldies but goodies

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Lots of people like Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Nikita, Revenge, Gossip Girl and 90210.

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The Big Bang Theory, How I met your mother, Two and a half man

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Off topic here but does anyone ever stream tv/movies from alluc.org? If so, is it safe, seems too good to be true, masses of stuff on there and reasonable quality on the ones I checked this afternoon!

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