Beyond like Island and Big Brother,there’s a whole globe full of unique and often mundane reality television. Here’s what one writer learned about countries from their tellyThanks to the loosening up of pesky regulations, British holidaymakers will be able to watch some UK TV abroad. No more missed episodes of Corrie, and no need to record your football team’s failures for consumption at a later date. As liberating as that is,it also means there is no need for a half-hearted attempt at watching the local TV – and that is a shame. When you gaze hard enough, you can find some bland but revealing fare.
Renters is the best demonstrate about the travails of New Zealand property management companies you will ever see. All just, and it is humdrum. Very humdrum. “One in three New Zealanders lives in rented accommodation,” is how a boring voiceover pitches the intro to every episode. The more lively plot arcs concern illegal soundproof panelling. It is so hypnotically, defiantly ordinary that if they showed it in Norway it would be Slow TV.
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Source: guardian.co.uk