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Hello

Everybody

So what kind of new topic are

Are you going to talk about today

Well

I thought today that we could talk about something

That british people do every single day that she spent almost ten years of their life

Doing it

I don't know sleeping no watching tv

Uh tv isn't

So

So fashioned now in the people generally younger generation just watch stuff on their computer

On the internet

They do 啊

But still among british families is quite common

That's a parent mmal dad ad a chilchilhood

Ask what's on the books tonight

What's on the box

A box here is tv set isn't

Yeah

Ye'a call it teliyeah

So we'll say what's on telltonight

Ah

What's on the box tonight

Teally is just short for television

Yeah

Um and so perhaps

Today we're going to dive into the history of tv

And some of the tv channels

Ls the

The u

And also also some of the types of tv shows

Sounds great all right

So first of all tv was invented in nineteen twenty ties

Right Yeah

It was invented actually in the uk

It was invented in nineteen twenty six

But they didn't actually have regular tv book costs until nineteen thirty six

Nineteen thirty six

对

But then after that a few years

After that

That was the second world war

Yep

How did that affect

I would imagine that really affected the tv industry

It did they just simply closed it

They closed it down

Television broadcast actually stopped from nineteen forty nine nine tesed it to for the second war

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二战期间就整个的电视播放都停了

And then after the war

Well

There's a famous store

Uh

Some people say it's not true

But i like to think it is that's when the television came back on on air

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After the war

After the war

So it came back on air in nineteen

Forty six

After seven years

The first words ar were as i was saying before we was so rudeinterrupted

As i was saying when we were so rudely interrupted

Ah 就是so basically broadcater is saying the war

The second world war has interrupted

They're brocated

Yeah

这也算是典型的英式的这种比较冷的笑话了

Yeah

And what they did was they continue to show the same cartoon

That they started to show in nineteen forty six

They just carriit it on in nineteen

Forty six

As if nothing happened as like that kind of spirit of people had not be defeated

Or it's will past the stiff up a lip

Which we took on on a previous epsode

Yeah

这种英式的精神触变不惊

喜怒不形于色的精

Tion not wthat ing much motion

Tion not getting affected by motion

Okay

So when did most of the british families by their first tvpp that was in nineteen fifty three

Three

It was the year of the queen's coronation

And the first time they showed it on television our queen's coronation

这是女王的加冕礼

Is the day that she officially became the queen

Yeah

Yeh so my mom for example

She was very very small

Then yeshe still the members

When my grandparents bought their first tv set

And she watched the coonation with her whole family just to watch the ceremony

Yeyeah

That was one of the first ever big events

That was broadcasted ah there in the uk

Well i know there many channels by how many main channels are there in the uk

Well

There were five touristrial channels

Um so that means they're not satellite or cable

There five main channels 啊

就是有限非卫星的这个五个主要的牌

Guess there's bbcbbc one

Bbc two

Those are public

Bbc is paid for by the government

No

It's paid via tv licenses

Oh

So essentially

These bbc one and bb entoo you can pach it even if you don't pay any extra

No

And they don't show any advertising

Oh No

Advertising

No Okay

So y're paid for by atv licenses

That every everyone with atv must pay once a year

哦

Which is a reminder

If you are in the uk

If you live in the uk

And you buy atv set you have to pay for the tv license

Yep

If you don't

Then you'll be fined

如果不买这个tv license 是会罚款的

Yeah

So apart from bbc

You also have itvitv

And then channel four isn't it channel four and channel five

I guess these are a little bit like our cc tv series

有

有点像中国的中央电视台的这些

But nowadays with digital tv was cable tv

There are so many other choices

Oh Yeah

The five main tv channels have their own sub channels

So you do have bbc free

Bbc four

And you have itv two

As well there all all buy digital

Oh

And this you have to pay extra

You don't have to pay extra for some of them others you do um it's same here and so now

Let's move on to different types of shows you see

I guess it's pretty much the same as in china

But let's see some of these genrus

看一下电视节目的类型

First you have a lot of comedy

Yeah

Comedy or sicomcomes very popopular in the ukt come

This is situation

Comedy 情景喜剧

The one you can hear laughters

Yeah

I think this is one thing in china

I guess when people watch english speaking shows a lot more people watch american shows

But there are so many good english comedy

Oh Yeah

There are lots of very famous english cometies

Many of our listeners probably know mister bean 先生

Hhandrowen kinson

Yeah

But he's actually mister bean is not actually that popular in the uk

More people know him for his other sitcocom black ator yeah

Black adther

This we would highly recommend this show

This has four series 就四g

And this is like a jokey version of british history 是一个恶搞英国历史的剧

憨豆先生的扮演者rowhen ackinson

He's an amazing comedian yeespecially

When he actually speaks

Yeah

He's very famous for comedy um and black adter is definitely a comedy classic

I think every british person knows that yeah

And the quite a few more

But i think that might be fuenough ppisde yeah

Exactly

When people think of british tv show

They also think of things like dounton appy

Oh Yeah

The period drama

Period drama 有点像从古装剧or 时tury

So period drama is usually set in what perienth

Nineteen century

Yeah

Or sometimes m the early twenty of century

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They're very very popular

You can see lots of them on bbc

And also itv as well so as you say downababis a very famous example of that

And most of the period dramas are about people who are arasstcrats very well dressed

Very well mannered

And the stories about their family yeah

And also just other dramas as well so example adaptations of famous books are very popular

Exactly because you have a lot of classic literature yeah

So things like jane austin

Like ax

Christie

Shirlow

Holes

很多名著改编的这种drama yeah

And also some from foreign office as well like lame is rob 惨世界baswhich was very ite mdraramah

So those are some of the dramas period

Drammdrammcomedy

But you also have soap ubreas

Oh Yeah

They very very different lote from chinese soap fors it face out you

I don't think we really have soap uperas by that definition not in the same way in china

They lost maybe about forty episodes

Yeah

And but is soap opthas last for years

And they have different stories and also different sttors and actresses in so so operas

There's just not very serious tv shows

Yeah

They go on forever

Yeah

And i think they're called soap as is because in the very beginning

They were mainly targeting femme audidices

Ces especially housewives

So when they're doing house were cooking cleaning

They will be watching this so yeah

They're all about everyday life

So you have e standers

敦敦区人

Ldonso 区人

Done standards and then coronation street

Jamin jah a another

I remember watching coronation street

Yeah

Ah of the most famous ah partly

Because it's one of the longest

It started in nineteen

Sixty

Sixty well hhalf a century

Over half a century long

And it's still going on

It is still going on

Well i remember trying to watch coronation street

I can't keep up

Because they're simply too many people

I have to keep asking my friends

And saying what happened to this person

What happened to this person

Yeah

I said you have to watch every single one

So those

Those are stories street

You also have a lot of the reality show

Acquiz shows

有很多真人秀或者是去这种答题的竞技的这种节目

Yeah

Reality shows are things like like glother um

And that very popuone

That became quite popular around the world was the great british bke off big off is that just baking competition yeah

就是homebay 大赛

It bepeople watch that ah

It became very very popular

It became very popular in america

Became very popular in euo

Thing It's

Because it's quite slow yeah

And it's nothing really happens very much well

It is about baking so

But it's a baking competition so you are lot people like it

Because it is quite relaxing um

And also dancing shows

Singing dancing

These hyo shows

Oh Yeah

For example

Strictly come dancing was quite popular strictly come dancing

This is a dancing show

That invites celebrities

Famous people to dance with profefeononal daners

Yeyeah

Another thing that british tv producers are very good at making is documenties yeah

纪录片especially major documentaries

So for example

Some of you might have heard or some of you might seen his documentes

A man called the david attimbra

You do see david atteburgh in many documenaries yeah

And the thing is he's over ninety years old

But he's been on british television now for over sixty years

I would say that is a career yeah

He started in the nineteen

Nineteen fifb bb documentarno matter of it's history or nature

Because it's such high produproduvalue ue ce in in louou's tv pics

I recommended big cats that's a documentary by bbc

And it's very always very good quality language

Very two good free ality

And also just beautiful to watch as well lost these documentartake about two or three years to make just just eepisodes yeah

Um

But india

And let's talk about the current situation of tv

Like i said in the very beginning younger generation

Don't really watch tv that much anymore

Everyone watches things on the internet

On their devices

Oh Yeah

Many people know stream am from provider such as netflix

Or they watch tv shows

Eye player like bbci player um

Stream 是在线观看

Watch online directly

I think the days are gone

Where you had to wait for the next episode

Yeah

Nowadays you can just binge watch tv series

The one thing i have to say about british tv production is that even though a lot of the british tv series they're really good

But each season is so short

Well actually is serious

Not a season

There are not called season 不叫一季的吗

Season is american english

We call them series uh for american tv shows

Usually a season is like at least thirteen to sometimes twenty only twenty

Twenty five episodes

But for british tv shows one series is only three perhaps five or six episodes

Yeah

There only very very shoshows

Hopefully they can make them longer so hopefully

Today we 'give new some ideidea about tv in the u uh

If there are any british tv shows that you particularly like all that you have watched and would like to recommend

Please let us know in the comment section

Yeah

We can't wait to see all of your recommendations

Remember you're also helping your fellow learners to find good resources

So until next time

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