Chinese TV

- Lots of drama set in classical periods (often Qing dynasty with Manchu style ponytail with shaved forhead)
- contemporary emotional soap operas
- strange game shows (one game show involved a competion of teams from China, Russia, France and Ukraine, with one of the events involving trying to get a suitcase across a pen in which there was a live bull. Yes, it charged them. No one was gored)
- strange variety/game shows - they like cheesy sound effects and lots of characters (ie words) to flash up on the screen
- at least two versions of 'Journey to the West' (you will all know the Monkey Magic version)
- CNN is very, very repeditive