From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed 15 Jan 2003 - 16:09:45 GMT
> What makes this significant is that Britain,
> although some way behind the
> US, is the second largest net exporter of TV
> programmes globally,
Hi Vincent
I'm way off my subject here (and of course right on
your territory), but can the above really be true? I
thought that Mexican and Brazilian soaps and variety
shows like Don Francisco's "Sabado Gigante" (which
inspired Ted Rogers' "1-2-3" in the UK) were the
world's biggest TV product. If I'm wrong, I'd be
curious to know what the stats are. I seem to
remember reading somewhere a few years ago that
Veronica Castro had 'officially' become the world's
biggest star as her back catalog of soaps was being
shown in the majority of the world's countries, a
market penetration unequalled by any Anglophone
luvvie. Also I read (again that great journal
'somewhere') that Lucia Mendez can be seen at any time
on TV in virtually every country, with the exceptions
of UK, northern Europe, Australia and Canada. 'Amor
de nadie' (1991) reruns took the former Soviet Union
by storm in the mid-late-90s and other oeuvres are
regularly trotted out to fill afternoon slots all over
the world from Indonesia to Univision in the USA.
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