Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Watching Television in Amman

We have been stuck inside all weekend while Amman has been pounded by rain, hail, and high winds. Luckily, Jordanian television provides plenty of good choices in English--a constant, varied selection of American TV shows and movies.

The movies are often heavily edited, and I can't figure out any rhyme or reason to the editing.  For example, sometimes a particular word will be cut out and sometimes the same word will be left in.  Some violent scenes are cut out, and others are left in.  Sometimes a kiss is deleted, and sometimes kisses stay in the movie. Sometimes the cuts are hard to detect, but things just don't quite make sense and the dialog doesn't quite match up with the part of the story that you've seen.

The commercials seem to occur at odd moments, as if they are just randomly inserted.  In addition, there are very few commercials and the same ones run over and over again; often the same commercial runs two or three times during the same commercial break.  Here is a typical TV commercial: