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Posts Tagged ‘tv’

Vaya mala leche

Posted Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Somebody asked me the other to translate the phrase “Que mala leche que tenga ese”. So here goes…
There’s a good TV programme on \Cuatro at the moment, called Pekin Express, in which a bunch of Spanish couples have to hitch hike from Moscow to Beijing (http://www.cuatro.com/microsites/pekin-express/). Along the way they have to carry out a [...]

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Se llama copla

Posted Friday, September 26th, 2008

A fun program currently running on Canal Sur (Andalucia) is an X-Factor style program, but for Coplas. A Copla, for those of you who don’t know, is a style of sung poetry put to music, usually flamenco style - very popular down south. I’m enjoying it!
A load of young hopefuls are whittled down by a [...]

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Digital TV (TDT) is coming!

Posted Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Television digital terrestre (TDT), or digital TV, is on the way. They’ve just turned off all analog transmitters in Soria, which according to malicious gossip was chosen because they only received one channel there anyway.
We will loose analog TV channels here in the region on the 30 june 2009. Which is less then a year [...]

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The Apprentice

Posted Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I’ve been a fan of “The Apprentice” since day one. But in this final series it seems to have transformed from an interesting study in how clever(ish) young people approach business tasks, to a sort of reality Big Brother. 50% back stabbing, 25% bitching, and the rest is just faffing about without an effing clue. [...]

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