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How often do people watch TV in your country? What TV shows are popular there? Who are the most famous actors and actresses? Which TV shows that are not from your country are famous there?

= SWEDEN =

Recent research shows that we are watching less TV nowadays and spend more time on the Internet, especially teenagers. The same goes for me as an adult (and teacher). Five years ago I spent perhaps 3-4 hours a day in front of the TV but nowadays no more than two hours a day. I believe this is due to social networking, Youtube, Internet TV etc.

Popular shows: Idol, sitcoms such as "2 1/2 men", "The Simpsons", "Family Guy" and "Scrubs". Soaps such as "OZ", "One Tree Hill", "Desperate Housewives", "House" and "Lost". We have very few successful national (Swedish) shows at the moment worth to mention.

//Jesper Isaksson, Sweden

=Brazil=

I guess Brazilians also spend less time watching TV nowadays for the same reasons you mentioned. The same thing that happend to Jesper also happened to me - I spend much longer hours on the Internet than watching TV.

WHAT IS BRAZILIAN TV FAMOUS FOR Brazilian soap operas are the most popular TV shows. They usually run for 9 months, and are produced by one TV network in particular (Rede Globo). Other networks do produce soap operas, but unsuccessfully. Soap operas are high quality shows, and the actors and actresses who appear in them are very famous in Brazil. One of the most famous Brazilian actors abroad (Rodrigo Santoro, who played Xerxes in //300//, he also played a role in //Charlie's Angels 2//)



first appeared in a soap opera. Some scenes become classical and people talk about them for weeks. One of the most famous scenes in a recent soap opera was the scene in which one the characters slapped her "friend" who was a scammer and was after her husband, with whom she actually had had an affair and was given some jewels as a gift. In this scene, the wife gets the jewels for her after spanking the other character.

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The same thing happens to 'soap opera lingo'. When a soap becomes very famous, it's not uncommon for you to see people talking as the characters do. However, this sometimes causes problems as, despite their popularity, soaps are not watched by everyone.

POPULAR SHOWS - Soap operas - Reality TV (Big Brother Brasil is the most famous one) - Sunday TV - variety shows - Sitcoms (Friends, Two and a half men, The big bang theory, The Simpsons, and Family Guy) - TV series (House, Lost, Grey's anatomy, The mentalist and others)