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Subtitled Drama (typically European crime dramas on BBC4)
I've often thought we need a meeting point for fans of these dramas, not to discuss any one in particular but to announce and talk about what's coming up, which ones you enjoyed or would like to see and comparing different series.
In the past there have been series other than those on BBC4 and I missed the start because I didn't know they were onand didn't see the appropriate channel listings. You can't search for a thread igfyou don't know the title! Please announce series here on this thread but for discussion of the 'current' ones in detail please start a thread and put a link in this thread. Coming up tonight Montalbano 9pm BBC4. Not sure but probably a repeat. |
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I loved the Bridge with Saga Noren and Martin Rhodes. I did hear last year that they were making another series - does anyone know when it will be shown?
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I loved The Bridge too. Haven't we seen a second series? I may be mistaken.
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I loved The Bridge too. Haven't we seen a second series? I may be mistaken.
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The 2nd series was screened in 2013 I think. I'm sure last year I read that they were making a 3rd series but I never seen it advertised.
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A good idea as I too have missed things due to not seeing trailers, announcements etc...
I wish that there was a channel on Freeview that was a dedicated foreign language drama/film/soap opera/tv series channel. I love foreign language programmes. I've read that there are a lot of very good Turkish soap operas and dramas. I'm still waiting for BBC4 to repeat Inspector De Luca from last year as I missed some of it. |
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I loved the Bridge with Saga Noren and Martin Rhodes. I did hear last year that they were making another series - does anyone know when it will be shown?
![]() I'm not sure how it will pan out without him. I will really miss him.http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-...its-the-bridge |
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Do subtitles automatically equal quality to the point that all subbed drama can be lumped together? Quote:
I'm still waiting for BBC4 to repeat Inspector De Luca from last year as I missed some of it.
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I'm glad there's to be another series of The Bridge as I enjoyed the first two. I'm not sorry Martin won't be in it though as I really started to dislike him during the second series. Loved his incredulous look when Saga dobbed him in and he was arrested
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I really love subtitled dramas and films on BBC 4. Mostly it's something new and fresh that otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch in English on other channels.
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I'm still waiting for BBC4 to repeat Inspector De Luca from last year as I missed some of it. Similar situation with "Crimes of Passion", terribly cliched first episode but improved immensely after that. K |
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I've often thought we need a meeting point for fans of these dramas, not to discuss any one in particular but to announce and talk about what's coming up, which ones you enjoyed or would like to see and comparing different series.
In the past there have been series other than those on BBC4 and I missed the start because I didn't know they were onand didn't see the appropriate channel listings. You can't search for a thread igfyou don't know the title! Please announce series here on this thread but for discussion of the 'current' ones in detail please start a thread and put a link in this thread. Coming up tonight Montalbano 9pm BBC4. Not sure but probably a repeat. |
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Do subtitles automatically equal quality to the point that all subbed drama can be lumped together?
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Do subtitles automatically equal quality to the point that all subbed drama can be lumped together?
The above is a case in point - Pretty terrible show as is Mentalbaldo (although sun-starved Brits seem to find comfort in gazing at the villas and the beaches), Salamander, Sebastian Bergman and a couple of others I forget the name of. |
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Subtitles don't automatically make a programme good, the writing does that. And some of the Scandi stuff has some very good writing.
The Bridge was excellent, a dark noir with so many red herrings you were kept guessing all the way along. The Brits tried a redo and changed the script so it became The Tunnel, but it was never as good as the original. The Danish Killing was very good but the American version was awful. However, Steig Larsson's trilogy was originally made in Swedish with subbies, then quickly redone with Daniel Craig in English. There weren't many changes at all yet imo the Swedish version is the better one, it just seemed more like the book. |
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I'm glad there's to be another series of The Bridge as I enjoyed the first two. I'm not sorry Martin won't be in it though as I really started to dislike him during the second series. Loved his incredulous look when Saga dobbed him in and he was arrested
![]() Madness to leave such a gripping drama like that, and it won't be the same without him.
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Currently there is also 30 degrees in February and Grand Hotel on Sky Arts, with new Italian drama 1992 starting Tuesday on Sky Arts 1 10pm.
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They focus the mind. For those that get distracted or normally multi task whilst watching TV I think having to read the subtitles means you follow the plot more closely They avoid the Jamaica Inn problem ![]() And finally as has already been pointed out, for a few there's the almost fetishitic smugness that comes from having to read your film or TV - without the tedium of having to pick up an actual book. So to an extent they will mask bad drama a bit I guess, but if the plots make little sense then the language won't really matter Quote:
... to the point that all subbed drama can be lumped together?
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Just finished watching the original Hostages in Hebrew with subtitles. Much better than the US version I thought.
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Currently there is also 30 degrees in February and Grand Hotel on Sky Arts, with new Italian drama 1992 starting Tuesday on Sky Arts 1 10pm.
Sky Arts have a had a few good European/international dramas over the years. I really liked Romanzo Criminale, The Legacy, Prisoners of War, and Gran Hotel. They've also shown Israeli drama In Treatment (BeTipul), The Mysteries of Lisbon, the Italian Corleone and also the Spanish period drama Isabel. I noticed Isabel is being repeated Thursday 12.30am on Sky Arts 2 and series two of Prisoners of War is being repeated on Sky Arts 1 Thursday 3.25am. Thanks for telling us about 1992, I didn't know about it at all! |
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I've got to catch up with 30 Degrees in February, I saw the first two episodes. I don't like the husband in the wheelchair, he treats his poor wife badly!
Sky Arts have a had a few good European/international dramas over the years. I really liked Romanzo Criminale, The Legacy, Prisoners of War, and Gran Hotel. They've also shown Israeli drama In Treatment (BeTipul), The Mysteries of Lisbon, the Italian Corleone and also the Spanish period drama Isabel. I noticed Isabel is being repeated Thursday 12.30am on Sky Arts 2 and series two of Prisoners of War is being repeated on Sky Arts 1 Thursday 3.25am. Thanks for telling us about 1992, I didn't know about it at all! |
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Did Sky Arts ever show S2 of In treatment? I really enjoyed the first.
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Some time in the last few days I saw a trailer about a new historical drama from Denmark I think. The title is just a numerical year but I forget which and it didn't say when it starts. I assume it's in Danish and will be on BBC4. In the spirit of this thread (sharing info about subtitled Euro-Drama) does anyone know about this and when it's on? This Saturday we're still on Montalbano repeats but the last of a set of four: Quote:
Inspector Montalbano 4/4. A Ray of Light: A woman is attacked and robbed on her way home late at night.
Does the Danish one take over on 16th May?
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I'd really like bbc4 to show the series German tv has made of the Donna Leon books about Venetian detective Guido Brunetti
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I'm not sure how it will pan out without him. I will really miss him.
