I have been looking round for a plugin for this site that could link up with that stations online webstream, so far not found one....
my wife watches all of her filipino TV and movies streaming on the internet! ... www . tfcnow . co (that's not incorrect, it actually ends with just .co ) hope that helps a wee bit with the homesickness. Cheers.
gosh, yeh, tell me about it ... the headphone jack (conveniently for her) is broken on her laptop so I gotta listen to the constant screaming and whinging of tagalog telenovela women! grrrrrrrrr!
I can live with Ana's programmes, and when I am at home in the Phils they keep saying change the Channel watch what you want, as if I were master of the house but I hate that, I want them to be happy, I never mind their programmes
I often have the same options when I'm there. The difficulty is that the programs I really like are all 'documentaries' . Everyone else likes to watch those quiz and game shows or the Teleseries Soaps. Those soaps have just got to be the worst programs in the world. The Japanese would be in close 2nd place on both counts. I like to watch BBC on iplayer when I'm in Philippines. (yes there is a way)
I totally wish I had known about that way when I lived in the Philippines. I was robbed of my beloved i-player for a damned year. Turned me to drink!
There are a couple of ways I am a documentary man myself and the family let me watch them but I will not hog the tele when they want to watch stuff. I used to have my full Sky UK system available in the Phils, that's what I meant by a couple of ways (I also could get access to iplayer via a VPN connection to my own servers in the old days) look up SlingBox very powerful piece of kit sadly mine died, for international use the NON high def version is recommended for bandwidth reasons.
Im afraid this one for me is a non negotiable when im in the house Its mindless noise mostly or over the top korean "drama" i did buy a lot of bbc pirates of series and the blue planet etc
over the top is certainly an accurate way to describe all these telenovelas and MMK and stuff like that. It's just constant women shouting and crying, that's about all.
really depends on who's life it is, right? Anyway, I think that the whole telenovela mega drama actually makes people more melodramatic, kinda like life imitating art!
I dont watch tv at all but will pick good series like spooks or Waking the Dead etc and of course topgear and good docs I cant abide the least worst thing thing
This is a fact, which always interested me for many years. When i finally had the chance to befriend a famous Playwriter and director in the Philippines, i simply asked him. (After he produced one of those lousy telenovelas to make some money for an art project of his) His answer was astonishing : "Naturally people which grow up with those kind of Novelas, get kind of influenced by it too, but in general the success of those shows is based upon its closeness to the "emotional status" of its viewing audience. So therefore i produce the show for them, otherwise nobody would watch it.(And he certainly would get no more contracts from the TV station and money in future) To conclude, that the shows influence those people in their behavior or that they even take the "stars" as their role models in general is a bit far out. Otherwise we most probably would run around as wild west figures or crime detectives. (Up to the nineties those were the No.1 shows in Philippine TV, and still are, just as in Europe)" He said it a bit different and with many more words, but i compressed it a little for the forum. Now, those shows do not represent our world, emotional or cultural, but we have also those Tv soaps and the people in Europe love them. Qualitywise they are the same crap, just a bit more realistic...it seems, because when i watched on after years on my visit in germany, they were as absurd as the Korean ones are right now to me. But my mother never missed an episode since. 920 years and counting on RTL...)
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