Television

How to save the Romanian tourist industry: Don’t tell anyone it’s raining

by Craig Turp September 9, 2009 Media

 Radu Moraru, a would-be shock-jock who hosts a nightly chat show on the Romanian TV channel B1, last night came up with perhaps the most brilliantly simple way to save the Romanian tourist industry: don’t tell the whole truth. His guest was Elena Udrea, Romania’s Minister of Tourism, hence the tourism theme. Moraru suggested that many [...]

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Mutu Time

by Craig Turp March 27, 2009 Media

 It’s a ritual we are now highly familiar with. An international football match approaches. (For the record we detest international football. It gets in the way of the real thing, club football. International football is by and large watched by provincial wankers with no decent team of their own to support. There. It’s off our chests). [...]

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Romanian TV News Cliches

by Craig Turp February 24, 2009 Media

 Ever noticed (those of you who watch and understand Romanian TV news that is) how many stock phrases there are? How many cliches? There are some subjects where you simply know exactly what kind of thing the presenter will say. Here are a just a few we’ve been collecting (with apologies for any spelling/grammatical errors. [...]

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Madonna in Bucharest. An offer we can refuse

by Craig Turp February 24, 2009 Bucharest

 Tickets to the much heralded Madonna concert in Bucharest, to be held in Parcul Izvor on August 26th, went on sale yesterday. Not general sale, of course. Oh no. Only for clients of Vodafone. (We know all this because we got SMS Spam from Vodafone telling us). So there’s one reason we do not want [...]

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Pope in ‘Catholic’ Shock

by Craig Turp February 10, 2009 Media

 Just when we had begun to think Adevarul was living up to (its own) hype as the only decent newspaper in Romania (or at least trying to be), it publishes this news story: Cronica Carcotasilor is a rip-off of the Italian show Striscia la notizie. Like anybody who has seen both shows didn’t know that. [...]

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Top Romanian pop stars set to compete for honour of finishing 14th in Eurovision Song Contest

by Craig Turp January 30, 2009 Media

 The cream of Romanian pop and rock will tomorrow compete for the prestigious honour of representing Romania at May’s Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. Twelve acts, chosen this week after two, tight semi-finals, will do battle for the right to go to Moscow and finish 14th, before returning home to recriminations about a lack of [...]

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OTV Kills Obama

by Craig Turp January 23, 2009 Media

 The viewing figures are in. The return of Magda made OTV the most watched channel on Romanian television this week. Obama? Who he. It’s Magda the people want. Well, here she is… Now, we used to hate OTV. Really. It was known in our house as the shouting channel, because all people ever did on [...]

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