I am watching Univision more often. I don’t speak Spanish, but the eye candy is unbelievable. Lots of Beautiful women who aren’t anorexic waifs (hey, I like Friends but those girls are way too thin); outrageous slapstick comedy that is funny without the dialogue (who is that short, fat guy who wears baby diapers, speaks in a whiny voice, and is surrounded by beautiful women); and people having MTV style fun without the MTV attitude. Are they targeting non-spanish speaking people?
Just flipped to Telemundo. A little lighter on the T&A, but still people having mor fun than english TV. Mana was just on. Incredible!
I don’t know… I kind of like those MTV beach party shows. Ain’t nothing wrong with those size 4 models either. Too bad it’s always Rap or that incipid Julio Iglesias Jr and Sync the Backside Boys music.
I used to regularly watch Fuera de Serie and tell my wife that I was just practicing my Spanish. I don’t think she was fooled, but at least I got to keep watching it!
They’ve got HBO en Español. I’d love to watch Univision with English subtitles. That way I could figgure out what the hell’s going on in all them damn soaps! Plus, Univision news covers a lot of what’s going on in Latin America that our press all but ignores, and my Spanish is only barely good enough to sorta keep up.
I’ve come to the conclusion that, in Spanish speaking countries, only men are allowed to watch TV. I’ve seen a thousand beyond beautiful women, and no attractive men. And I watch the soap operas, too, and you’d think those would try to appeal to women with the prospect of good-looking men.
“I was born in this town, I was raised in this town, and I’ll probably die in this town. Hell, I’ve already been hit by a car on this street, twice!”–if you recognize where this quote is from or who said it, please tell me.
I love to watch Walter the extremely effeminate psychic/astrologer on the show “Premier Impacto”. I don’t understand Spanish, but Walter is worth tuning into just to take a look at. Think a mystic Hispanic Liberace. Water shows up about quarter to six EST.
Gotta love the Latina hotties you see on Univision etc. Yowza!
Other than that, it has no value to me whatsoever, seeing as how yo no hablo espanol. I’d rather watch the bee-man on “The Simpsons” than what passes for great comedy bits on those Spanish channels.
I’m a loner, Dottie … a rebel.
It seems that the makers of Univision could expand their audience by including closed captioning in english. Most TV’s can display several channels of captioning, selectable by the watcher. Even better, they could include the translated dialog on the SAP (Secondary Audio Programming), much as HBO does for spanish speakers.
Could the reason for this be a matter of pride “Damn Gringo’s can learn spanish if they want to watch our channel.”
It seems rather stupid to exclude a majority of the potential audience for such a reason.
(By the way, before I’m flamed for being a bigot, I also feel Spanish should be included on English channels. I don’t know about the rest of the nation, but in Florida, spanish is quite prevalent.)