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Hey Tom, thanks for keeping me in mind when you hear more information on the French schedule.
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De nada.
I'm very interested by the info and come here every day anyway. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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This was something my husband and I were talking about over dinner yesterday. Do the French dub or subtitle most tv programs?
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French tend to have a really hard time accepting subtitles, which is a pity /forums/images/icons/frown.gif. On all the main Networks, everything is dubbed.
However, Jeremiah will air on a cable channel, so there's a chance that there will also be a subtitled version. But even on those small channels, subtitled programs are disppearing... Thoses channels were rating-free until recently, but this isn't the case anymore. /forums/images/icons/frown.gif
I'll try to see what they've done to the series they have aired previously. But they have not aired a lot of them, Cinefaz is a movie channel (bying series only because law forbids airing of movies on saturday night here).
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Is the channel they are planning to air Jeremiah allow for harsh language, nudity and violence? We were just curious what version of the show is getting sold abroad and how other countries deal with it.
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We are a lot more permissive over here. The kind of nudity that appears on Jeremiah can basically be seen anywere anytime here. Certainly it wouldn't be a problem at all after 8 or 9pm.
And from what I've seen (I'm only at the first quarter of the season for now) the language/violence shoud'nt be a problem either for a prime-time airing, especially on a cable Channel.
I'd be VERY surprised if we were to get the "light" version.
If that were to be the case then my guess would be that that was imposed by the US distributor.
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I guess Sweden (which is where my hubby is from) usually subtitle everything (unless it is a kids show, then they dub) and if it has questionable content, they just show it late at night. He didn't know of a channel that would be comparable to Showtime/HBO here. It has been a few years since he has gone back so things could have changed.
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It's hard to compare US TV with French TV. It is so vastly different. If only because of the respective sizes of the two countries.
However, we do have an equivalent of HBO/Showtime here, which is 'Canal +'.
As for 'Cinefaz', it is a regular cable/satellite channel. The difference with the US would be that only a few people have cable TV. Most people can only watch the 6 "Networks" (one of the 6 being Canal + which is encrypted).
That's why I was a little bit dispointed to hear that Jeremiah was going to go there. It means the show's probably going to get very little buzz, unless some kind of miracle happens.
I was hoping Canal+, which aired B5 and Crusade would by the show.
I have some contacts in press, so I'll try to generate as much buzz as I will be able to myself.
Tom,
who hopes he makes sense. It's late over here and English words are trying to escape me.
