German TV

I now have a working German TV, so here are some of the highlights I have found so far:

Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten- (Good Times Bad Times) seems to be some kind of German Hollyoaks, I plan on getting seriously addicted (it's something to do in the evenings, isn't it?) and then talking about the characters like they are my friends. I've only seen it twice so far, but there is romance, arguments, a money scam, a gay subplot, and so on, and so on. It looks promising!

Viva- A music channel which seems to be like The Hits, or Music Factory, whatever the free ones are called. It is extremely exciting to own a music channel, and the temptation to watch it the whole time is strong. Luckily there is not always music videos, and when programme which features some weirdo skateboarding around the studio shouting 'Yippee!' comes on, I turn it off and go and do something useful. It is quite good to watch the music videos though, seeing as they are the exact same ones trhat have been on the radio the past few weeks.

Jimmy Neutron-auf Deutsch! It was actually quite good! And it didn't have any annoying voices, unlike the Simpsons, where everyone just sounds wrong.

Michael Mittermeier- My first experience of German stand-up comedy. I found a lot of what I understood quite funny, but maybe I've just been in Germany too long.

Das Super Talent- Germany's talent. My vote is with the Swedish Juggler, he learnt German specially for the competition since he got through the first round, so not only is he juggling, with flaming toy hamsters, he was narrating in German, despite only learning the language a couple of weeks ago. And he was just so smily. I hope he got through! Also, the finalists are performing in Rostock next year, we are thinking about going. It's um... cultural...right?

The adverts- some of them are boring, obviously, and some of them are just the English versions dubbed over, but some of them are funny, and there are lots of Christmassy ones for chocolate and so on. I saw the German version of the Christmas cola advert too, I wasn't sure if they had it in Germany, but apparently they do.

I've only had a TV since Friday, and I was out most of the weekend- I promise I haven't spent the whole time watching TV! Everything just seems a lot funnier because it's all German and weird!