Kazakhstan PCV Kevin Marousek describes local television habits
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No just watch moose and squirrel
Kevin Marousek, longtime TV Barn reader, former NBC page and onetime worker bee at dick clark productions, is now serving a two-year tour of duty with the Peace Corps in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. He read TV Barn's list of the top 10 shows of 2002 and writes with a list of what he calls "the top 10 most-watched TV shows from America."
10. "Hercules" - it's on three times a day here
9. "Murder, She Wrote" - twice a day ... simply known here as "Mizz Fletcher."
8. "Austin Powers" - while not a TV show, all three movies are on TV more than anything produced locally.
7. "Santa Barbara" - yes, the long-dead daytime soap opera lives on in Kazakhstan.
6. "Sunset Beach" - yes, the long-dead daytime soap opera lives on in Kazakhstan.
5. "Passions" - while not a long dead soap opera, when "Sunset Beach" was cancelled in the states, the Russian/Kazakh public was furious. The problem was solved by slapping the Sunset Beach logo on new episodes of Passions. Despite the entirely different cast and storyline, it worked.
4. MTV - half-naked teenage girls don't just exist in my school's Christmas pageants. Christina, Britney, J Lo, Shakira, and the boys from the back street are watched a lot.
3. "Tom & Jerry" - with usually no words spoken in the cartoon, it is much loved here.
2. "Larry King Live" - translated into Russian, Larry sounds even more crazy and embittered than he does in English. Didn't think that was possible.
1. Any news program about George Bush - whether CNN, BBC, NTV (Russia) or even Telemundo (Spanish soap operas rank #11 on the list), people here see Bush as a train wreck waiting to happen, and no I didn't influence their opinion. They can't get enough of watching him self-destruct, taking US foreign policy with him.
How's that for an odd Top 10? posted by Aaron Barnhart January 03, 2003 09:52 AM More about Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Kazakhstan
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