Having been in the Ukraine for a little over a week now I thought it would be a good idea to report on my experiences of Ukrainian Television. Whilst the vast majority is in Ukrianian, be that originally or dubbed over English films (Die Hard is particularly funny) there are a few which aren't. They are instead in Russian with Ukrainian subtitles. There is of course a sole exception, the TV channel English Club, which is mainly in English or when not has English Subtitles.
I actually discovered that this channel is based in Dnipro and they often look for native English speakers to appear on it! (finally the chance I've been waiting for to launch my own TV career and become famous in the Ukraine!) However there seams to be a large amount of it that is devoted to advertising different products that the English Club seam to offer. Despite this it is still a welcome relief.
Speaking (typing, whatever it's the same thing) of great adverts, a particular favourite has to be the dubbing of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button with very deep Russian accents and Cyrillic names. Quality TV if ever there has been such a thing.
As a result of all this it has lead to me either watching the news and having no idea what's going on, watching футбал TВ or "football TV", where the universal language of football transcends all lack of knowledge of Russian, and finally simply not watching TV...which is a very good option too.
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