Read Kompas-Kehidupan Sunday

Since I was so free yesterday, I flipped thru’ the newspaper in the hope of finding some interesting articles… Yes, indeed I found an article which was very intriguing but disturbing at the same time…I was totally disagree with wad is written there…
The title of that article was ”Selamat berpisah Film Serial Hollywod” which can be translated as “Good Bye Hollywood Series”….The first Line that followed sounds sumthing like this, “Gradually, the Hollywood TV Series begin to disappear because they are less favoured compared to the Local programmes…” Singggg….
That sentence alone makes me frown and read in such a disbelief…How can u actually compare Indonesian Sinetron like Tersanjung, etc etc (I dun actually noe a lot of titles coz I’m just lack in interest in them) to US TV Series like Desperate Housewives, Lost and The OC..?? From the title only, u can guess which will sell better, rite??
The theme of Indonesian Sinetrons never deviate from these: teenage life story (gangs n clique, bimbo girls n a girl that’s always bullied, and most of the time involves stupid love story --> I like love story, I just hate how they are presented in Sinetron…yukk!), weird creatures, ghost, witches, genie, etc (with all the ugly costumes, really sickening!) and comedy. Basically that’s all. Can’t they find some interesting theme and make it into a good show before start comparing with US…and maybe Taiwan, Japan n Korea?
Another thing that was raised in the article was that American Idol which absorbs millions of spectators all around the world is said to get poor rating among Indonesian viewers… Hey, before saying this, shouldn’t they evaluate first…? FYI, here, American Idol is shown at 11 pm at nite…That’s the starting time….If we include the result show…dunno wad time it will end… I’m one of the Idol shows fan, including American Idol of course. But the fact is I’m deprived of such shows since I came back to Indo due to the unreasonable showing time. (Okay maybe my family sleep rather early, like ard 11, but still…). This is not just for American Idol, coz other US series like Despo Housewives n CSI are also shown ard the same time. Maybe for the latter 2 series, it’s understandably due to censorship n stuff, but wad abt American Idol, anything to censor??NO!
Besides, I’m sure that the TV company have bought those shows at quite a high price, so, why don’t they show it at the prime time 1700-2100…I’m sure it will worth more of their money. Some ppl who have cable TV will surely turn away from our local channels to the cable TV for these US shows due the more reasonable showing time and that explains everything…
One more thing that makes that article unacceptable for me is… they mention that Friends series….(for Friends fans, myself included, prepare urself) are unsuitable here due to the cultural difference, the idea of ppl of diff gender staying together cannot be accepted here… HELLO! Excuse me…That’s called crapping up an excuse to support ur view (so artificial -->just like wad the GP tutors always say). Maybe they should try doing a survey before writing that down…
But at least that article still mentions that ASIAN shows are more popular…of course, Japan, Korea n Taiwanese shows are still popular…because they are mostly good.
I noe I sound v one-sided, but who cares, this is not a GP essay, this is my blog… I just wanna voice my disagreement…Give me my Hollywood series!!