Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writiing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Category: Television
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If you’re looking for comedy on the two local English language TV channels, you have to be fairly resourceful. With Friends having ended, I believe the only comedy show in prime time is “Living for Lydia”, which is produced in Singapore and stars Hong Kong’s very own Lydia Shum (“Fei Fei”). I’m sure it’s rib-ticklingly…
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TVB has been advertising ‘Shrek’ for some time. Fair enough, it’s a good family film and it did very well at the box office. So, what time did they show it? Early evening so kids could watch it? No, it was in that well-known family viewing timeslot of 9.30 – 11.30 in the evening. What’s…
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Some time back, Cable TV used to re-broadcast the four local terrestrial TV channels. Then they stopped doing so, presumably because they didn’t have any spare capacity. Now they have converted their network to digital and have vast capacity, and recently they started carrying the channels (TVB Pearl & Jade and ATV World & Home)…
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TVB Pearl are showing “The Office” Christmas Special just after midnight on Friday, but of course, no details are available on the TVB website or in the Sunday paper. What’s that all about, then? As it happens, I recently managed to watch it on a plane, and I have no doubt that I’ll buy it…
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The third programme in the ‘Boss Swap’ series was undoubtedly the most interesting, mainly because it actually had a point. The formula so far has been to take bosses working in broadly similar industries but with contrasting management styles and see how they cope in a different environment. This time they took it a stage…
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Giles is complaining about Hong Kong TV. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel, and I have to agree with him that although we should consider ourselves fairly lucky with the choice of foreign-made programmes that are shown on local TV, the way they are presented seems to be getting increasingly irritating. The latest innovation…
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With less than a week to go until the start of the Premier League season, there still appears to be no information available about Cable TV’s coverage. The TV listing in yesterday’s Post Magazine show games being shown by ESPN & Star Sports, but clearly that isn’t going to happen. The Cable TV website says…
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The first programme in the Boss Swap series (shown second by ATV) was less dramatic, but almost equally pointless. The story so far seems to be that people get very upset when you suggest that you should change the way you run your business, though it clearly makes things more difficult when they deliberately choose…
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ATV World are showing the Channel 4 series “Boss Swap” that was aired in the UK at the start of this year. As with “Wife Swap” (not yet shown in Hong Kong), the concept is to find two quite different people and get them to swap lives for a short time. As the name implies,…
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I’m still finding ‘The Apprentice’ fairly compulsive viewing. Last week (episode nine) the teams were given the task of selling modern art, and this week they had to run a fleet of pedicabs in New York City for one day.
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