Travis and I have not really watched television since we donated ours to the El Cajon library, but here in Belgium, there is really cheap basic cable that pretty much everyone gets. Every once in a while, it has been nice to unwind, sit back with the remote, and be entertained.
There are a surprising number of American shows with Dutch subtitles here. I don't have a library card here yet, as we wait for our visa paperwork to wend its way through the intricacies of approval, so it is a shame that I don't like Friends or Sex in the City no matter what country I watch them in. I have enjoyed the BBC programming we get, both news and the miniseries Jane Eyre that I watched a couple of episodes of last Sunday.
I have had the chance to catch up on a few American music videos that I had not seen yet in the States. We got to watch the Cartoon Network show Samurai Jack dubbed in Dutch, and found that not only was it enjoyable, it was still comprehensible! But the most fun has been watching The Simpsons in English with Dutch subtitles. You can rest assured, no matter what language Ned Flanders is speaking in, he always babbles incomprehensibly-diddly.
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Back in the dark ages, when I was 10, I spent a summer in Holland and they had "Flipper" and "Batman" playing on Dutch TV. I remember learning the Flipper theme song in Dutch. And Batman was considered far too violent for children - it was broadcast after childrens' bedtime.
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