Ushiroyubi wrote:
haha yah. M2, so I thought, would be a lifesaver... but to no avail. They teased us then yanked the rug from under us here in NYC by pulling the station a couple of years back.
MuchMusic is trash and there really isn't much out there that I'd want to see these days anyway.
Japan is still on the ball though.
...it's the little things. :hehe:
Ah. That's really great to hear that other countries' MTV hasn't marred their programming with "Let's pretend that we're living the real life in an apartment that we'd never even consider living in w/the myriad of personalities that we're going to anyway just to get on MTV" programming. Or, YIKES, is that next???
Oh, this is a great exchange here. But . . . to go back on the topic, I think another major difference has to do with how acteurs tend appear on TV or movies in Japan. In the U.S., there are still a buncha' film actors who will probably NEVER appear on TV (i.e., Nicholson, Beatty, Sean Penn, Robert Redford, Ben Affleck, Halle Berry, Meryl Streep, et al.). Oddly enough, a good number of acteurs on TV want to break into film (case in point, the cast of Friends, who don't seem to be doing a good job of breaking through, if you ask me; Denzel Washington, though, is a great example of a TV star who successfully conquered cinematic roles).
Also . . . J-dorama tends to be shot more in studios; U.S. TV dramas go on location, as well as use sound stage. :)