Showing posts with label TV TALENT SHOWS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV TALENT SHOWS. Show all posts
WATCHING TV IN CHINA
I love watching Chinese TV. It may not be as outright wacky as Japanese tele, but sometimes I'm flicking through the channels and I'll come across something so incredibly weird that you probably wouldn't believe it. So I've now positioned a camera by the box so that I can record some of this stuff. Take this clip I just took. It's from a Chinese variety/talent show. I think it's a bearcub boxing bout, but they kinda look like anteaters. Mistreating animals in this way is outlawed in most other countries, but in China they broadcast it on national TV!
CHINA'S ENGRISH-SPEAKING CONTEST
Forget Britain's Got Talent, X-Factor, and America's Next Top Model. The ONLY TV talent show worth watching is China's English Speaking Contest. I'm totally hooked! Thousands of young people enter the competition to find the most fluent orator in the land. My favourite bit is when the contestants come on stage, introduce themselves, and recite an inspirational quote or a statement (see above).
The undisputed star so far is Shi Yupeng. He's the camp guy who comes on at 1:45 and overuses overblown gesticulation and hyperbole (watch his speech here). It all gets pretty emotive, especially in the debate part of the contest. Last year's winner, Wang Liansi, stole the show by calling her opponents "bananas" - not as in "crazy" but as in "yellow on the outside, white on the inside" - displaying a knowledge of racial slurs beyond that of even native English speakers.
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