During dinner, we watched a program that had gossip about celebrities as well as news about the world. The most recent story just on the show was about how Michelle Obama's wardrobe is starting a trend all around the world. I saw similar stories about her in the United States before coming to Spain. Just like in the United States, the host was an attractive female with long hair and a very nice fitting red dress, who is very outgoing and playful. The backgrounds of the set are bright, colorful and very attention grabbing.
I think the previous show was a Spanish talk show similar to Jerry Springer in the United States. It had women trying to figure out who the fathers of their babies were. There was lots of yelling/screaming, physical fighting, crying and tension, just like in talk shows in the United States. Within 2 minutes, the women may have dropped the word “puta” at least five or six times, haha. Again, this comes down to the lack of censorship inSpanish media. Nobody is afraid of offending anyone. If the women trying to figure out their babies’ daddies were in English, I think half the conversation would have been bleeped out. The Spanish show we are watching now is asking people a certain series of questions and giving them a Lie-Detector test, which is how Jerry Springer figured out whether the fathersof the babies cheated on thewives or not and vice versa.
A difference I did see between talk shows in the United States and in Spain is that Spanish television seems to be more relaxed and less formal. Although serious shows do exist on Spanish television, the talk shows have hosts dancing, singing, talking on their cell phones while on air and doing whatever else they pleased. It seems that the Spanish hosts really don’t care what they do or what the talk about. They do not worry about being politically correct as in the United States. In the United States, everybody fears being politically incorrect in chance of being sued, losing viewership or receiving negative reviews. I also saw Spain’s MTV version of College Spring Break and students going crazy while on vacation.
Something odd that I noticed was that all the commercials have people and announcers speaking Spanish, but all the background songs are in English! This was the same for one of the gossip/news programs because it played English songs while airing clips of the Principes de Asturias. Of all the authors, doctors, journalists and what not who won, the fútbol players still received a lot more air time than the king, queen, prince or princess who were there handing out the awards.
My Señora loves the serious political debates on television as well as English movies on televsion all throughout Saturdays and Sundays. She keeps telling me how bad Latin American telenovelas and movies are, though.
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